As many of you know, I'm lucky enough to be a freelance demonstrator for Letraset. (Lucky mare or what?! LOL).
I recently made a few cards using their Aquamarker pens and want to share the results with you here. The stamp is from the designer John Byars for DoCrafts. Papers are all from my scrap paper stacks and all embellishments are from my stash.
I used different colourways for each of the little boys in my images and for the bubbles I applied some Glossy Accents to give the bubbles a bit of shine and depth.
You can click on the images to get a more detailed look at the colouring/watercolouring techniques I've used.
I've applied the base colour to these dungarees from the pen using a damp paint brush pen and then used the same colour pen directly onto the image to add a more defined, darker/shadow area, which I then blended in to prevent too much of a harsh line.
Again I've used the same technique used on this card as the one above.
I applied my colour to the dungarees on this card with a damp paint brush. By using this method, you get a much more subtle effect. More akin to traditionally watercolouring an image. I then applied another layer of the same colour to darken the shadow areas.
For this next card, I applied the colour to the card and then, using the blender pen 'washed' the colour into the image. This gives a much more intense colour.
Using the black Aquamarker which I have diluted right down, I created a shadowed area at his feet.
I hope to get a YouTube video made in the next couple of weeks to show you how to use the Letraset Aquamarkers using the techniques above. I'll keep you posted!
Showing posts with label Cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cards. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Letraset Aquamarkers
Labels:
Aquamarkers,
Bakers Twine,
boy,
butterflies,
Button,
Cards,
Colouring,
DoCrafts,
image,
Letraset,
Ribbon,
Rubber stamping,
water
Saturday, 16 April 2011
PaperPlay Challenges
This week's PaperPlay Challenge is sponsored by
and we have to follow this photo to gain our inspiration...
I chose to use Kenny's Rock Chick as the image on my card and, using the colours and glitz in the photo, came up with this card.
She has her red hair, matching red guitar and is wearing a very sparkly black outfit.
Creative Ingredients:
White square card - BasicGrey Boxer paper - red iPhoto frame - Stickles glitter glue - Thickers alphas - organza ribbon - Flatback gems - Letraset Promarkers
who are offering our winner their choice of 5 images. We are also offering the Top 3 winners 2 images each.
and we have to follow this photo to gain our inspiration...
I chose to use Kenny's Rock Chick as the image on my card and, using the colours and glitz in the photo, came up with this card.
She has her red hair, matching red guitar and is wearing a very sparkly black outfit.
Creative Ingredients:
White square card - BasicGrey Boxer paper - red iPhoto frame - Stickles glitter glue - Thickers alphas - organza ribbon - Flatback gems - Letraset Promarkers
Labels:
Cards,
Letraset,
PaperPlay Challenge Blog,
Promarkers,
Ribbon,
Stickles,
Thickers
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Promarker creations
Seeing as I forgot to take my photos away with me to scrap last weekend I enjoyed a VERY chilled session or two just colouring in, using big girl colouring pens of course AKA Letraset Promarkers.
I adore my Promarker pens and believe these have brought to life some lovely stamps that I would not normally have used (thanks Kirsty for letting me use your stamps, perhaps you can confirm who the manufacturers are so that I can afford them due credit!) I love how different the same image can look depending on the colours you choose to colour her in.
These are my creations (you can click on them for a larger picture to see the detail of the colouring/blending if you like)...
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper & ribbon - Making Memories tag - Hero Arts greeting stamp - Memento inkpad - Sarah Kay (I think) girl image)
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper - Twill - Making Memories tag - Hero Arts greeting stamp - Memento inkpad - Sarah Kay (I think) girl image - Ticket stamp)
This skater boy has 'distressed/grungy' clothing. I achieved this look by roughly colouring my finished image with the blender pen.
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper - Memento & QuickQuotes inkpads - Unknown stamp manufacturer - Tim Holtz ticket - Ribbon - Cuttlebug Herringbone embossing folder)
(Promarkers - Memento & QuickQuotes inkpads - Unknown stamp manufacturer - Ribbon - Cuttlebug embossing folder)
I adore my Promarker pens and believe these have brought to life some lovely stamps that I would not normally have used (thanks Kirsty for letting me use your stamps, perhaps you can confirm who the manufacturers are so that I can afford them due credit!) I love how different the same image can look depending on the colours you choose to colour her in.
These are my creations (you can click on them for a larger picture to see the detail of the colouring/blending if you like)...
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper & ribbon - Making Memories tag - Hero Arts greeting stamp - Memento inkpad - Sarah Kay (I think) girl image)
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper - Twill - Making Memories tag - Hero Arts greeting stamp - Memento inkpad - Sarah Kay (I think) girl image - Ticket stamp)
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper - Martha Stewart butterfly & flower punch - Stampin'Up leaf punch - Memento inkpad - Sarah Kay (I think) girl image -Inkssentials white pen)
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper & ribbon - Prima flowers - Kirsty Wiseman greeting circle - Memento & QuickQuotes inkpads - unknown stamp manufacturer)
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper - Kirsty Wiseman greeting circle - Memento & QuickQuotes inkpads - Unknown stamp manufacturer - Inkssentials white pen - Button)
This skater boy has 'distressed/grungy' clothing. I achieved this look by roughly colouring my finished image with the blender pen.
(Promarkers - BasicGrey paper - Memento & QuickQuotes inkpads - Unknown stamp manufacturer - Tim Holtz ticket - Ribbon - Cuttlebug Herringbone embossing folder)
(Promarkers - Memento & QuickQuotes inkpads - Unknown stamp manufacturer - Ribbon - Cuttlebug embossing folder)
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Cards,
Kirsty Wiseman,
Letraset,
Martha Stewart,
Promarkers,
Ribbon,
Tim Holtz
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Congratulations!
I made this recently to congratulate two lovely people on their engagement.
I am in love with everything BasicGrey and couldn't resist the vintage / shabby chic look of this Capella, distressed around the edges and then inked and torn, matched with ivory lace, ribbon, pins and flowers. The sentiment, which I printed out onto Letraset SAFMAT, is kept simple.
For those who've never used SAFMAT before, you simply run it through your printer (I use an Epson inkjet but have previously used it on a Hewlett Packard). Allow it to dry thoroughly then cut it out and rub it on to your project. It leaves a gentle matt effect, but looks great as it allows the background image to show through. You can click on the photo above for a better view of the applied SAFMAT .
Creative Materials:
Cream cardstock - BasicGrey Capella paper - Lace - Ribbon - Pins - Flowers; Prima - Leaves; Stampin' Up punch - Sentiment printed onto Letraset Safmat - Inkpad; QuickQuotes
I am in love with everything BasicGrey and couldn't resist the vintage / shabby chic look of this Capella, distressed around the edges and then inked and torn, matched with ivory lace, ribbon, pins and flowers. The sentiment, which I printed out onto Letraset SAFMAT, is kept simple.
For those who've never used SAFMAT before, you simply run it through your printer (I use an Epson inkjet but have previously used it on a Hewlett Packard). Allow it to dry thoroughly then cut it out and rub it on to your project. It leaves a gentle matt effect, but looks great as it allows the background image to show through. You can click on the photo above for a better view of the applied SAFMAT .
Creative Materials:
Cream cardstock - BasicGrey Capella paper - Lace - Ribbon - Pins - Flowers; Prima - Leaves; Stampin' Up punch - Sentiment printed onto Letraset Safmat - Inkpad; QuickQuotes
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Cards,
Engagement,
Lace,
Letraset,
Pins,
Prima,
QuickQuotes,
Ribbon,
Safmat,
Stampin'Up
Thursday, 17 March 2011
PaperPlay Challenges - Embossing
If it's Thursday then it's challenge time again over at the PaperPlay Challenge Blog This time we'd like to see your creations made using EMBOSSING. You can choose to either dry emboss or heat emboss, it's entirely up to you!
We're kindly sponsored this week by MELJENSDESIGNS who gave us some really cute images to work with. They're offering up 4 images to one lucky winner who joins us this week.
My cats image was printed out and is coloured using Promarkers. I chose to dry emboss a heart cut on my Big Shot using a Sizzix Heart die and the Cuttlebug Heart Blocks embossing folder. The card is backed by a lovely, vintage looking piece of BasicGrey Capella paper which I inked the edges of using a QuickQuotes inkpad. Flowers are from Prima. and it's finished with a couple of journalling spots cut from cardstock, lettered with alphas from Making Memories and tied with some gorgeous pale green/blue lace.
The perfect card for my parent's 53rd wedding anniversary at the end of this month.
We're kindly sponsored this week by MELJENSDESIGNS who gave us some really cute images to work with. They're offering up 4 images to one lucky winner who joins us this week.
My cats image was printed out and is coloured using Promarkers. I chose to dry emboss a heart cut on my Big Shot using a Sizzix Heart die and the Cuttlebug Heart Blocks embossing folder. The card is backed by a lovely, vintage looking piece of BasicGrey Capella paper which I inked the edges of using a QuickQuotes inkpad. Flowers are from Prima. and it's finished with a couple of journalling spots cut from cardstock, lettered with alphas from Making Memories and tied with some gorgeous pale green/blue lace.
The perfect card for my parent's 53rd wedding anniversary at the end of this month.
Labels:
Anniversary,
BasicGrey,
Cards,
Cuttlebug,
Dad,
Making Memories,
Mum,
PaperPlay Challenge Blog,
Prima,
Promarkers,
Quick Quotes,
Sizzix
Sunday, 13 March 2011
Kirsty Wiseman's Buglet girls
I'm very fortunate to do some design work for Kirsty Wiseman who has produced some lovely new characters called Buglets. So far there are 4 digi stamps available from her shop HERE with more to follow shortly.
They come as digital uncoloured images which you can import into your digital imaging software program to colour in or, as I've done, print them out onto card using my Epson inkjet printer and colour them in using LETRASET PROMARKERS (or big girl's colouring pens!)
So, without further ado, here are my 4 buglets lovingly created into 12 birthday cards.
Lila Bug:
They come as digital uncoloured images which you can import into your digital imaging software program to colour in or, as I've done, print them out onto card using my Epson inkjet printer and colour them in using LETRASET PROMARKERS (or big girl's colouring pens!)
So, without further ado, here are my 4 buglets lovingly created into 12 birthday cards.
Lila Bug:
Mima Bug:
Petit Bug:
Nina Bug:
So now you've seen just how gorgeous these girls are when brought to life and how totally different they look depening on your colour choice, what's stopping you popping over to KIRSTY'S SHOP and treating yourself to some too? Remember, you only need to pay once and the image will be forwarded straight back to you. You then have that image for life and can print out as many copies as you like. How's that for the bargain price of £1.50 each
Labels:
Cards,
Kirsty Wiseman,
Letraset,
Promarkers
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Birthday card for an old person!
I'm not good at making cards for old people, but a friend of ours is celebrating a birthday today, so I thought I'd make the effort!!!!!
Happy Birthday Kevan ;-) (Wish me luck when we deliver this cheeky little creation later, won't you?)
The images are freebies from Create with TLC that I've combined together to make my greeting.
Creative Ingredients:
Cream A5 Card - Backing paper: BasicGrey 'Max & Whiskers' - Image; Create with TLC - Promarkers - Patty's Pretties from Kirsty Wiseman - String - Glossy Accents
Happy Birthday Kevan ;-) (Wish me luck when we deliver this cheeky little creation later, won't you?)
The images are freebies from Create with TLC that I've combined together to make my greeting.
Creative Ingredients:
Cream A5 Card - Backing paper: BasicGrey 'Max & Whiskers' - Image; Create with TLC - Promarkers - Patty's Pretties from Kirsty Wiseman - String - Glossy Accents
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Cards,
Create with TLC,
Glossy Accents,
Kirsty Wiseman,
Promarkers
Sunday, 27 February 2011
3rd Birthday wishes to Lily
My neighbour's grandaughter is 3 today. Can't believe that the years have gone by so quickly. One year they were parents to 2 grown up daughters and within the space of 12 months were grandparents to TWO grandchildren.
Well, today it's Michelle's daughter, Lily's 3rd birthday. I knew the date was coming up soon, but when Michelle answered my question on Facebook that it was TODAY I had to get my carcass out of bed and make a card for a gorgeous little girl.
And this is what I came up with while drinking my coffee whilst enjoying the peace of the rest of the family having a lay in.
The dragon digi image is from Doodle Palace and I've printed him onto photographic paper then coloured him in using Promarkers. Now, I've found that Promarkers dry pretty darned quickly on photo paper, but I still got to show high and low lights on him. The icing that he's got smeared round his greedy chops is glittered, because we all know that EVERY little girl loves sparkle, don't we?
Wishing Lily a wonderful 3rd birthday! xxx
Creative ingredients:
15cmx15cm pearlescent white cardstock - Doodle Palace digi image - Promarkers - Stickles - Thickers letters & number - Ribbon - Papertrail paper
Well, today it's Michelle's daughter, Lily's 3rd birthday. I knew the date was coming up soon, but when Michelle answered my question on Facebook that it was TODAY I had to get my carcass out of bed and make a card for a gorgeous little girl.
And this is what I came up with while drinking my coffee whilst enjoying the peace of the rest of the family having a lay in.
The dragon digi image is from Doodle Palace and I've printed him onto photographic paper then coloured him in using Promarkers. Now, I've found that Promarkers dry pretty darned quickly on photo paper, but I still got to show high and low lights on him. The icing that he's got smeared round his greedy chops is glittered, because we all know that EVERY little girl loves sparkle, don't we?
Wishing Lily a wonderful 3rd birthday! xxx
Creative ingredients:
15cmx15cm pearlescent white cardstock - Doodle Palace digi image - Promarkers - Stickles - Thickers letters & number - Ribbon - Papertrail paper
Labels:
Birthday,
Cards,
Doodle Palace,
Papertrail,
Promarkers,
Stickles,
Thickers
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Happy (belatedly blogged) Birthday, Susan
Only a few days late posting this card for our lovely friend Susan. It was made and hand delivered on time (I promise!) but I never got round to tweaking the pic and uploading it through the week.
I'd like to enter this into the Ribbon Girl Challenge to make a project using the colours Cream, Pink and Brown.
Creative Ingredients:
Brown checked paper: BasicGrey - Pink & Cream paper/cardstock; scraps - Photograph; I took that! - Alphas; Making Memories - Flowers: Prima - Leaves; Woodware punch - Brads - Ribbon - Gems
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Birthday,
Brads,
Cards,
Gems,
Making Memories,
Photography,
Prima,
Ribbon,
Woodware
Monday, 21 February 2011
Tweaked cards R us!
I made a quick card a week or so ago (at VERY SHORT NOTICE... GARY!!!) but couldn't get it across to Guernsey in time for Valentines Day (ordered Friday, needed by Monday) so I've changed and tweaked it a bit to become a for a card for his wife's birthday instead.
Hopefully Jules will love it. If she doesn't then it wasn't me that made it! ;-)
Creative Ingredients:
Cream A5 Cardstock - Paper; BasicGrey - Punch; Stampin' Up Bird/branch & Martha Stewart Butterfly - Flower; Prima - Stamp - Tim Holtz - Brad - Pins - Ribbon - White pen; Inkssentials
Hopefully Jules will love it. If she doesn't then it wasn't me that made it! ;-)
Creative Ingredients:
Cream A5 Cardstock - Paper; BasicGrey - Punch; Stampin' Up Bird/branch & Martha Stewart Butterfly - Flower; Prima - Stamp - Tim Holtz - Brad - Pins - Ribbon - White pen; Inkssentials
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Birthday,
Brads,
Cards,
Inkssentials,
Martha Stewart,
Pins,
Prima,
Ribbon,
Stampin'Up,
Tim Holtz Stamps
Sunday, 20 February 2011
Daring Cardmakers
Daring Cardmakers challenge this week is around the subject of 'Steampunk"; a term I'd never heard of until Friday when it popped up in my blogwatch. So I had to Google the term to find out how to interpret it 'Rosie Stylee'.
Well it seems that there are lots of free images out there in the Steampunk era so I nabbed two and printed them out on to some cream cardstock which I inked the edges of to add a little vintage look. The greeting I created myself in PS using two different fonts to go with the lady holding her binoculars 'seeing the bright future ahead' that the light bulb invention in the other image would bring. Clever eh? HAHA!
This card is available for sale. Please see my "Cards for Sale" page for details.
Creative Ingredients:
Cream 5"x7" cardstock - BasicGrey Capella papers - Images free from the internet - Ribbon - Glossy Accents - Inkpad; QuickQuotes
Well it seems that there are lots of free images out there in the Steampunk era so I nabbed two and printed them out on to some cream cardstock which I inked the edges of to add a little vintage look. The greeting I created myself in PS using two different fonts to go with the lady holding her binoculars 'seeing the bright future ahead' that the light bulb invention in the other image would bring. Clever eh? HAHA!
This card is available for sale. Please see my "Cards for Sale" page for details.
Creative Ingredients:
Cream 5"x7" cardstock - BasicGrey Capella papers - Images free from the internet - Ribbon - Glossy Accents - Inkpad; QuickQuotes
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Cards,
Daring Card Makers,
Glossy Accents,
Quick Quotes,
Ribbon
Inspired by a photograph
This card was made during some 'me time'. Not for anyone or for anything in particular. It all started when I printed a photo out that I'd taken quite a while back to test my new printer. Bits and bobs were added until I as pleased and realised that I needed to stop before I totally cluttered it up!
Creative Ingredients:
Cream cardstock - Photograph - Butterfly: Prima - Stamps: Inkadinkadoo - Flower: Prima - Leaf punch - Woodware - Glossy Accents - Scroll; Delish Designs - Gems - Button - Crackle Accents - Ribbon - Inkpads; Versafine & Quick Quotes
Creative Ingredients:
Cream cardstock - Photograph - Butterfly: Prima - Stamps: Inkadinkadoo - Flower: Prima - Leaf punch - Woodware - Glossy Accents - Scroll; Delish Designs - Gems - Button - Crackle Accents - Ribbon - Inkpads; Versafine & Quick Quotes
Labels:
Button,
Cards,
Crackle Accents,
DeLish Designs,
Gems,
Glossy Accents,
Inkadinkadoo,
Prima,
Quick Quotes,
Ribbon,
Versafine,
Woodware
Saturday, 19 February 2011
BasicGrey Challenge 38 - Sketch
It's been a while since I played along with BasicGrey Challenges, even though they are my FAVE EVER paper manufacturer!|
They've got a sketch this week to inspire the creativity within; and inspire it did!
They've got a sketch this week to inspire the creativity within; and inspire it did!
Papers used are from the Kyoshi range... aren't they beautiful?
Creative Ingredients:
Papers: BasicGrey Kyoshi - Stamp: Tim Holtz - Flowers: Prima; Bird; Stampin' Up punch; Leaf punch; Woodware; Ink: Versafine & Quick Quotes - Brads - Ribbon
Labels:
BasicGrey Challenges,
Brads,
Cards,
Prima,
Quick Quotes,
Ribbon,
Stampin'Up,
Tim Holtz Stamps,
Versafine,
Woodware
Friday, 18 February 2011
Cards update
February's a pretty busy month as far as birthdays goes. Mine was on 2nd.
This lovely lady celebrated a special one on 8th.
This one flew over to Belgium to this lovely lady.
And this one stayed at home to go to South Shields to the lovely Jane who I had the pleasure of meeting when I went to London to cook with Ainsley Harriott.
Bring on the lighter nights is all I can say as night time, 'flash' photography is doing my doofers in!
Materials:
BasicGrey Paper - Tim Holtz on the Edge House Die - Tim Holtz sentiment stamp - Ribbon - Fiskars Scallop scissors - Computer generated sentiments - Thickers numbers - Making Memories alpha stickers - Prima flowers - pins - Martha Stewart butterfly punch - brads - corrugated cardboard - Stickles glitter glue
This lovely lady celebrated a special one on 8th.
This one flew over to Belgium to this lovely lady.
And this one stayed at home to go to South Shields to the lovely Jane who I had the pleasure of meeting when I went to London to cook with Ainsley Harriott.
Bring on the lighter nights is all I can say as night time, 'flash' photography is doing my doofers in!
Materials:
BasicGrey Paper - Tim Holtz on the Edge House Die - Tim Holtz sentiment stamp - Ribbon - Fiskars Scallop scissors - Computer generated sentiments - Thickers numbers - Making Memories alpha stickers - Prima flowers - pins - Martha Stewart butterfly punch - brads - corrugated cardboard - Stickles glitter glue
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Cards,
Fiskars,
Making Memories,
Martha Stewart,
Prima,
Stickles,
Thickers,
Tim Holtz
Thursday, 17 February 2011
PaperPlay Challenges - Add Shine
Hi folks, and welcome to my first DT project post for PaperPlay Challenges. This week we had some fab images to work with, courtesy of Just Some Lines.
I chose to make a nice, easy, simple card for this one. Nothing fancy schmancy, just a little something in the card line to give to a little one. My 'SHINE' comes from two directions; The shiny gold cardstock that I used and the glossy accents for the little girl's rose, hair bobbles, shiny shoes and the dog's healthy wet nose.
Please take time to go over to PaperPlay Challenges to see the amazing work of the other DT members.
Materials:
Gold cardstock - Image from Just Some Lines - Coloured using Promarkers - Sentiment; computer generated - ribbon; Ribbon Mad
I chose to make a nice, easy, simple card for this one. Nothing fancy schmancy, just a little something in the card line to give to a little one. My 'SHINE' comes from two directions; The shiny gold cardstock that I used and the glossy accents for the little girl's rose, hair bobbles, shiny shoes and the dog's healthy wet nose.
Please take time to go over to PaperPlay Challenges to see the amazing work of the other DT members.
Materials:
Gold cardstock - Image from Just Some Lines - Coloured using Promarkers - Sentiment; computer generated - ribbon; Ribbon Mad
Labels:
Cards,
Just Some Lines,
PaperPlay Challenge Blog,
Promarkers,
Ribbon Mad
Monday, 31 January 2011
Kathy's Waffle Sketch File
Jan / Feb 2011 - Triangles & Circles.
Ok, I've just realised when typing up this post to go with Kathy's sketch that I didn't include triangles; instead using circles for my bunting! Sorry to be so dim Kathy!!!!
Materials:
White pearlescent cardstock - Prima Flowers - Brad - Papers: Prima & (turquiose) offcut from scraps - Rub on: BasicGrey - Alphas; Making Memories - LOVE diecut pressie from Rebekah Montague - Inkpad; QuickQuotes
Ok, I've just realised when typing up this post to go with Kathy's sketch that I didn't include triangles; instead using circles for my bunting! Sorry to be so dim Kathy!!!!
Materials:
White pearlescent cardstock - Prima Flowers - Brad - Papers: Prima & (turquiose) offcut from scraps - Rub on: BasicGrey - Alphas; Making Memories - LOVE diecut pressie from Rebekah Montague - Inkpad; QuickQuotes
Labels:
BasicGrey,
Brads,
Cards,
Making Memories,
Prima
BasicGrey cards
I was sent a load of stash recently from a very lovely friend of mine as she knows how much I love BasicGrey (Thanks Steph!)
These cards, chocolate bar and mini clipboard were made from only 2 sheets of 12x12 patterned paper. Love the vintage/shabby chic look and feel of them.
Sneaky peek...
Sneaky peek...
Sneaky peek...
A5 card
A5 card
Materials used:
BasicGrey paper - 'Bingo' clipboard - Ribbon - Lace - Prima flowers - Martha Stewart Butterfly punch - Corrugated cardboard - Brads - Pins - Tim Holtz stamps -
These cards, chocolate bar and mini clipboard were made from only 2 sheets of 12x12 patterned paper. Love the vintage/shabby chic look and feel of them.
Sneaky peek...
Sneaky peek...
Sneaky peek...
A5 card
A5 card
Materials used:
BasicGrey paper - 'Bingo' clipboard - Ribbon - Lace - Prima flowers - Martha Stewart Butterfly punch - Corrugated cardboard - Brads - Pins - Tim Holtz stamps -
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