One of my favourite colours of cardstock is “kraft“. It’s warm, neutral and inviting for stamps and ink. So I thought I share an easy way of incorporating kraft coloured paper into your scrapbook pages.
First I took a 5″x9″ piece of kraft cardstock, some Memento “Black Tuxedo” ink and one of my favourite Flourishes floral stamps, Sweet Nature. I began stamping my images in one corner of my cardstock and moved across the open space to ensure no large open unstamped spaces were left.
Once my stamping was complete, it looked like this…
Then I grabbed my Copic N10, “Neutral Grey No.10″ and filled in all the gaps between all of my stamped images.
Next I used my completed piece of kraft patterned paper in a layout.
I stamped a single ranunculus flower onto a piece of matching coloured cardstock to use as an accent flower. Notice I also used the Flourishes Taylor-Made Classic Keyhole die to print my journaling and title on.
Here is a close up of the kraft patterned paper I created. As a final touch, I added some additional colour to some of the smaller blooms within the paper. I used the Copic colours, Copic V15: “Mallow” from the Copic “Violet” collection and the Copic R05: “Salmon Red”. For the ornate lacy detail, I stamped one of the smaller ornate circles from the Flourishes Lace Edges stamp sets.
I hope this layout inspires you to grab your kraft cardstock and create something special today! Don’t forget, this patterned paper technique is perfect for your cards too!
Hello Everyone! It’s another Create with Me Monday using Copic Markers! Have you noticed I’m a little earlier in the month now? There has been some shuffling and now the Flourishes Copic Tutorials can be found on the second Monday of the month right here on the Flourishes Blog!
Today I’m going to be making that card we usually fear……yes, it’s the dreaded MAN CARD!!! However, Flourishes to the rescue and we have several awesome masculine sets to chose from to make the perfect Masculine card and just in time for many of you to create your Father’s Day cards!
It was a hard decision, but today I’ve chosen What a Catch (perfect for those men in our lives who love to go fishing) to colour and have used several of the Flourishes Copic Collections – Rich Brown, Olive Green, Beehive and Cool Neutrals.
Start colouring the fishing rod by laying down a base of E42
Add a little E44 along the top and bottom edges of the rod. Fishing rods are a cylindrical shape and this will make it seem more rounded and having the highlight in the middle.
Deepen the shadows with E47 under the hat area and a little along the bottom.
Always use your next lightest colour to blend.
Colour the hat with YG61 as your base.
Add YG63 on each side of the hat, rim and in the middle of the top of the hat.
Deepen the shadows with YG67.
Blend with you next lightest colours.
Colour the reel by colouring the base E40
Then add streaks of E42, E44 and E47 using the TIP of your brush nib – don’t blend!!
Colour the flies with Yr20, YR23 and YR27 from the Beehive collection. Add shadow to the ground using C1 and C3.
Next add dots of YR23 and YG63 to the shadow areas to create a pebble effect.
To create the mottle effect, dot on the ’0′ Colourless Blender. You can also add dots of C1 and C3 for more texture. This technique works better if the paper has been allowed more time to dry and the result from the Blender will be stronger.
Finish colouring your image and create your card!
Colour collections used in today’s tutorial are…..
For those of you who like to watch and learn, click the video link below!!! Thanks so much for stopping by today and happy colouring!!!
Hello Everyone and welcome back to another Flourishes Copic Tutorial! Today I thought it would be fun to show you how I would colour the Cattleyas from Flourishes’ Orchids Stamp Set! These gorgeous flowers are so elegant and delicate looking that I thought they would be perfect for a Mother’s Day card since that special day is just around the corner! Orchids come in such a wonderful array of colours that you can have fun trying all sorts of combinations, however, today I’m simply going to show you one of my favourites using the Black Cherry, Pistachio, New Leaves and Cool Neutrals Collections!
Stamp your image in Memento Tuxedo Black and use the RV91 from the Black Cherry Collection to colour in your petal. Be careful around the fluted edges using the tip of your brush nib and remember if you do go outside the line you can fix it with your Colourless Blender!
Next take RV93 and gently flick in some colour from the edges and follow the line of some of the folds to add some definition.
Add a little RV95 to darken parts of the petal that would be darker, such as the folds and near the base of the petal. Lightly flick in RV93 and RV91 until you are happy with the look of your petal!
To colour the throat of the Orchid, use RV91 to flick in from around the outer edge, don’t colour the middle at all.
Feathering is a fantastic way of blending two colours from different colour families, which is perfect for the throat of the orchids! Use Y11 from the Daffodil Collection to flick from the centre of the throat into the RV91 layer of colour.
Darken the edges by flicking in some RV93.
Darken the orchid throat even more by flicking in some RV95, but don’t go as far as the RV93 – leave yourself room to blend some more yellow.
Blend by flicking in RV93 and RV91 and then feather blend Y11 and darken the throat by flicking in some Y15.
To colour the leaves, I’ve used a combination of the Pistachio Collection, New Leaves Collection and Cool Neutrals Collection. Begin with a base of G40.
Next add some G82 to where the darker areas of the leaves would be. The Flourishes stamps usually give you great clues as to where the shadow areas would be!
Next, darken those shadow areas even more with G85.
Blend with G82 and G40. Remember whether it’s 2 or 3 colours, always blend with the NEXT lightest colour. With your leaves, blend G85 and G82 with G82 and then blend G82 and G40 with G40.
I like a lot of contrast in my images by having very light areas and very dark areas. You can darken your shadow areas with G94 (you only need a little), but I thought I would desaturate the shadows using the Cool Neutrals collection by adding some C3 – you could even add a little C5 to really add some contrast!
Finish colouring all the leaves and petals as shown and add a little B0000 from the Ice Blue Collection around the edges and complete your card!!
Today I am taking on a big project that I need to get done in a timely manner. I need about twenty eight birthday cards and I need them now! Since I don’t have a large number in hand I needed to come up with something detailed, pretty, easy, and quick. Something I could do several cards at a time. So today, my post is about setting up a card making system which allows us to create many cards with a little thought and preparation. I decided that each card will have the same basic format. These are the items that I choose to use.
I used the Flourishes Custom Tailor-Made Keyhole die for every card, I used glossy white card stock, cutting a strip 3″ by 8.5, this allowed me to make two Keyhole die cuts from each strip. Since I was mass producing these cards I did the glossy cuts all at the same time. If you have a friend that has the same set you can cut your work time in half! I choose a variety of Flourishes images that fit, amazing just how many of our sets have images that fit perfectly in the dies. I used some treasured, but retired, images and found a plethora of images that would easily work with this concept. My color choices were based on card stock on hand and the Ranger reinkers and Distressed pads.
I stamped each image using a Versamark Watermark Stamp pad, I then embossed them with white embossing powder. To prep my card stock, I did use the Strap n Tap Printing Pouch. This takes the static off the paper so your embossing powder sticks only where you want it to!
I placed one drop of the color reinker I was using on each card and then used the Ranger Foam ink pad and handles to distribute the ink. Then I buffed the embossed image to reveal the white embossing. I found working with the reinkers made this portion of the process easy.
I also dyed the white seam binding using my small misters. I adding a drop or two of reinker and diluting it with water, and then spritzing the cut seam binding. I then heat set and dried it with the embossing tool. What you get is a perfect color match every time….You have got to love those reinkers and a little water. So, I have to admit, my fingers were really inky, but it is all water soluble so no tell-tale stains here. I worked directly on the Scor Pal Stay Put Craft Mat, it was a dream to clean up between colors and everything stayed in its place while I was working.
To add some more depth and detail I used embossing folders, and after embossing them I spread a light coat of the Ranger Distress pad to the basic card stock I had chosen. Each of the embossing folders that I used can be found in the Flourishes store.
I used a variety of embossing folders and after I had embossed, used the actual distress ink pad directly on the paper to add some color to the raised portion of my card front. Pearls, bling, Candi, and bows were the crowning jewels in each of the cards. Pop dots gave me the dimension I needed.
And…..here are a few of the cards in various stages of completion.
Here are the six cards! You can see on one of the cards, I used black and not white embossing powder for a little more dramatic effect!
Thanks for your visit today. I hope you enjoyed the process in a step by step fashion.
Today’s Create With Me Monday post is all about the fabulous Letraset Aquamarkers that are new to the Flourishes store. Have you seen them? If you love to color, then let me assure you…you’re gonna want them!
Aquamarkers are a pigment-ink, water-based twin tip marker. They have a fine nib on one end for detail work and a brush nib on the other end. Because they are pigmented inks, they are vibrant, light-fast, and adic-free. Yet you can watercolor with them because they are water-based. To watercolor with them, you’ll either want to use a watercolor paintbrush, a water brush, or the Blender marker from Letraset. Flourishes carries the Blender marker, and it is what I recommend using for the most controlled watercoloring (aka: less messy!).
PLEASE NOTE: If you use watercolor markers, you will need a permanent ink. I used Staz-On for my project but since this is a solvent based ink, it’s very, very important to clean your stamp immediately. Over time, solvent inks and solvent cleaners can break down and ruin the polymer on your stamps. You can also try Versafine or Brilliance inks as well — just heat set both before you start since they are both pigment instead of solvent based inks.
My first card was made using Flourishes Pears set. I stamped the pears on watercolor paper using Staz-On ink. Staz-on is the best ink to use with the Aquamarkers. I used the following Aquamarkers on the image:
