Paint the petals of the flower using the waterbrush full of chalk.  

Paint the entire image using the chalks.  Wait until dry and add shading or highlighting with watercolor pencils. At the end of all your coloring, you can seal the chalk  either with a spray or with applying a clear embossing powder over the surface.  I applied clear embossing powder over my images and especially on my petals which were colored on the tissue paper as this also gave a lovely sheen to the tissue paper.

~Suzz

Today I want to share with you coloring on canvas paper and using canvas paper for the background paper.   The canvas paper gives a beautiful texture and makes the Copic coloring look and feel like an oil based medium when you are finished.  I was excited to use this technique with  the beautiful Sweet Peas.

Stamp your lovely Sweet Peas onto the canvas paper using a black ink that can be embossed.

Heat emboss the stamped images using clear embossing powder.

A couple of tips:

• The Copics can smear embossing powder depending on the type of embossing powder being used. I typically will only use clear embossing powder over a coloured ink.
• Also when stamping on the canvas you want to have a very well inked ink pad and a good surface. The texture on the canvas requires a firm even pressure to get a good image.

I usually color my images before I cut them out so I can see which areas I like the best.  Here are the colors I  used to color my images for the cards.

The next step was to color the flowers and leaves. I used a variety of colors for both.  The blending and shading doesn’t work as you would normally experience on cardstock. Play around with this on a scrap first to get comfortable.  I started with the lightest and added darker edges to the flowers and filled with a medium shade. After that I came back in with the lightest again to add highlights along with my trusty gel pen.

The next step is to cut out the main image:

To cut the circle and leave the flowers overflowing around the edges I used my circle cutter tool.  You can also do this by tracing a circle around the image and leaving the edges hanging over.

I place my circle cutter in the center of the image and run it from petal to petal and pick up the blade and move to the other side of the petal or leaf and continue until I have a circle around the image.

Here is the image with the circle cut but the leaves and petals not trimmed out:

Emboss the background canvas paper using the damask embossing folder. Distress the edges using the distressing tool. Be careful as the canvas will be more brittle after embossing and will tend to rip. If it does rip you can still tape it into place.

Next, smear the purple ink directly onto the canvas by pulling it across the embossed area.

Repeat with the brown dye ink across the surface.  The dye ink will absorb into the canvas and you will end up with a lighter shade of the dye ink being used. Plan on putting on a coat and waiting for it to dry to see if you want to add more ink.

The edges of the circles were distressed using the distressing tool and a green and brown dye ink. The sentiment (Flourishes – Sweet Violets)  was stamped using black ink onto a strip of canvas and cut into the banner shape.

Here is the end result:

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Suzz