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Tuesday with Wendy, July 16th

7/20/2019

 
The cards from the last Tuesday with Wendy class were so WONDERFUL!!!! 
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The first card that Wendy designed was inspired from this stamp from Hero Arts, Border Messages as well as this stencil from The Crafter's Workshop, Script Dots 
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To make the card: 
  • ​Start out with 2 colors of Colorburst, Wendy chose a purple and a blue. Squirt out a FEW PARTICLES onto your silicone craft mat. Spritz the particles with water and then smoosh a small piece of white watercolor paper (If your watercolor paper has a torn/deckled edge, that's even better!!) onto the surface of the silicone craft mat. This will pick up the color from the mat onto your watercolor paper. Heat-set the colors with a heat-gun so the paper is COMPLETELY dry.
  • Next, put on some gloves! Put some fresh bleach into a mini-mister. Place your Stencil on top of the paper you just decorated with Colorburst. Now spritz your Bleach Mini-Mister on top of the stencil/paper. When you do this, you will SLOWLY see the circles appear and they will be a slightly lighter color than the rest of the colorized paper. **The reason why this works: The pigment of the Colorburst actually DISAPPEARS when bleach is applied to it, removing the colorburst from the paper** 
  • Now, stamp the sentiment, "Thank you" with Versafine Clair, Nocturne ink onto white card stock. Rip the paper above and below the sentiment so it creates a rough edge. Then take a purple ink pad (Wendy used the Distress Ink Wilted Violet) and rub the ink pad along the ripped edge of the paper, giving the sentiment a nice, vibrant border above and below. 
  • Adhere your sentiment to the front of your colorized background using double-sided tape or Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive. Mount this onto a piece of black paper and mount it all onto a piece of light blue card stock as your card base. 
I love how vibrant this card is!! What a fun and creative idea!! 
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The next card that Wendy created was inspired from this embossing folder from Cuttlebug, Mary Ann Embossing Folder as well as this die-cut from Memory Box, Scribble Frond Background 
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To make the card: 
  • Start out with a piece of the Maid 'O Metal Goldtone decorator foil. Cut foil in half so you can cut your die-cut leaf frond out of the gold decorator foil. Now take ALL 3 PIECES of the decorator foil and put them in your embossing folder and run it through your Home Die-cut Machine. This will texturize the goldtone foil as well as the foil leaf. 
  • Then,  use a piece of handmade textured paper and a piece of gold/cream ribbon and layer the pieces to create a fun design on your ivory card base.
  • Place the leaf-frond on the front of the card and use Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to adhere the leaf design to the front of the card. 
I love how elegant this card is... and the tone-on-tone with the metallics looks SO BEAUTIFUL!!! 
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The last card that Wendy created was inspired from 2 Fred Mullett designs.. Fish Skin and Bluegill 
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To make the card: 
  • ​Start with a piece of white card stock. Use Prismacolor colored pencils to run some color HORIZONTALLY across the card. Wendy chose greens, yellows, and blues. Then, once you have put some color down, take some Gamsol (mineral spirits) onto a piece of paper towel and using your finger, rub the paper towel across the colored pencil HORIZONTALLY on the card stock. When you apply the Gamsol to the color, the colors blend together and become very vibrant!! 
  • Next, stamp your fish stamp (the Bluegill fish) a couple times on top of the Prismacolor Pencil background. **CREATE A MASK by stamping your fish out onto a piece of copy paper, fussy-cut the fish image out and place it ON TOP of the fish you just stamped. You will need to create 2 fish masks so you can cover up both of the fish you stamped out** 
  • Once you have laid your fish masks in place, stamp your Fish Skin stamp on TOP of the fish. What happens is the masks block-off the fish stamps you stamped out earlier. When you remove the masks, you are left with the Fish Skin stamp as the background and the fish images as the forefront. 
  • Apply a coat of Detail Clear embossing powder to your stamped images and heat-set it with a heat gun.
  • Once you have heat-set your image, take a piece of fine mesh ribbon (Wendy chose a piece of light green mesh ribbon) and used double-sided tape on the FRONT of the card to hold the mesh in place. Wendy also put some tape on the backside of the image to make the ribbon wrap around and adhere to the back as well. 
  • Then take your Versamark ink pad (the clear ink pad for embossing) and press it across the entire front  of the card, including across the mesh ribbon. Then cover the entire front of the card with a layer of Detail Clear embossing powder. Heat-set the image with a heat-gun. 
  • Finally, mount the image onto a piece of dark green card stock and then onto a light  green card base. 
I LOVE the vibrancy of this card!!!! And the mesh inclusion is just SO FUN! 
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Thank you to EVERYONE who attended the last class... we had a whopping 49 students attend!!! 

If you have any questions about the cards or techniques, feel free to give us a call at the store 360-647-9663 or send us an email at stampadoodle@gmail.com 

Doodle Ideas and MORE!

6/8/2019

 
This last week for Demo, we had to have a *quick* last minute change due to someone feeling under the weather... so it was Wendy's turn to come up with an idea on the fly!! 

​Check out these ideas!! 
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I love what Wendy creates when she is in her Element!!! 

So this first idea is really clever... Wendy wanted to create a fun art piece. She started with the 140 lb. Cold Press Watercolor Paper
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Wendy took a large kitchen platter and traced a circle onto her piece of watercolor paper. 

THEN Wendy went online and found a public domain image of a Raven and printed it off A FEW TIMES. 

Wendy cut out the Raven first... 
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  • I love this idea using the ORIGINAL SHAPES as her stencils so she new how to create the bird shape! 
  • When you cut out the RAVEN ONLY you end up with a basic stencil! (for a sturdier stencil, you can print your image onto card stock). Wendy TRACED THE RAVEN so she got the basic bird shape in the middle of her circle. 
  • Next, Wendy cut out a wing of the Raven, laid it down in the middle of her Raven tracing, and traced the wing
  • Then, Wendy cut out the other wing shapes, laid them down, and traced them. She did the same with the beak. 
  • Wendy ended up with a line drawing of the bird shape...  THEN she filled the shape with doodles!!! 
  • Wendy used one of her FAVORITE doodle pens, the Black Glaze Pen 
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I love how she created her own branch and filled the space with some "woodgrain" shapes and then filled the other negative spaces with small dots, geometric shapes, swirls, and MORE!! 
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Just look at the detail!! What a FUN concept!! 
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The other idea that Wendy had was making an Interactive Card in a NEW WAY 
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Wendy started out by stamping her Stampscapes Pine Tree Stamp along the bottom edge of her card. She created the background using her Picket Fence Blending Brushes and circle for masking off the moon. Wendy likes to use Distress Inks for creating this effect because the colors blend BEAUTIFULLY together. 
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To glaze the image, Wendy used Versamark Ink and Detail Clear embossing powder.

Wendy taught the "glazing" technique from a past Tuesday with Wendy class and you can find the step-by-step up tutorial in this previous blog post: https://www.stampadoodle.com/stampadoodle-blog/tuesday-with-wendy-may-21st
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Wendy created a gate-fold card and placed the glazed piece at the TOP of the card so that when you lift up the flap you see a gate fold hidden underneath!! 

I love how Wendy used these Tree Line die-cuts from Memory Box and CUT THEM IN HALF so that half of the tree lines are on the left gate fold and half of them are on the right gate fold. 

She arranged the layers so that the trees on the RIGHT overlap the trees on the left. 
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On the inside of the card she placed this Oval Tree Frame that I love SO MUCH!! Perfect place for writing a sentiment!! 
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What a fun card idea!! (And a great card for men! Hunting, camping, fishing.. the themes are endless!!) 
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Stop by and see us for FREE Wednesday Demo!! It is offered every Wednesday from Noon to 1pm here at the store in the Atrium. 

You don't need to sign up for Demo, you can just stop by and learn something new!!! 

See you soon!

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Watercolor Techniques

5/3/2019

 
When watercoloring, there are SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO. And as Bekah said, it's a RABBIT HOLE you can go down!! 

At Demo, Bekah focused on just a few techniques to help you get started!! 
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First off, many people feel overwhelmed by all the choices of paper you can use!! 

You can use COLD PRESS (which is usually heavy-weight and has TEXTURE) 
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Or you can use HOT PRESS (also heavy weight with a SMOOTH finish) 
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To start,  Bekah used this Penny Black Daisy Stamp, Radiant. This stamp already looks like it should be watercolored, which makes it easier to make the "watercolor effect" when stamping this image. 
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Bekah started by just inking the stamp with 2 colors of Distress Ink, Mustard Seed and Mowed Lawn. By just stamping with the 2 colors on the Penny Black stamp you are able to retain all the detail of the stamp in the 2 colors you ink your stamp with. 
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Next, Bekah showed us this fun idea:
  • She used the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform to stamp the image. She applied Distress Inks (Mustard Seed and Mowed Lawn) to her stamp and stamped the image.
  • THEN  she "spritzed" the paper to move the inks. This activates the ink to make it spread out a little bit.
  • Then, Bekah inked the stamp AGAIN and stamped the image a second time (when you use the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform it lands in the same spot!). She used a heat-gun and heat-set the image.
  • Finally, Bekah stamped the image a third time, with  this time with clear Versamark Ink  and used Detail Clear embossing powder and heat-set the embossed image.
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We also LOVE to use Tombow Markers to do Watercoloring!! 

You can color DIRECTLY onto your rubber stamp and then SPRITZ THE STAMP with water and stamp your image!! 

I love this technique because it just involves taking your time to color the image and then it looks like a PERFECT WATERCOLOR and requires very little effort for such a wonderful effect!! 
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Along the same idea... you can color your rubber stamp with Tombow Markers AND THEN SPRITZ THE PAPER and stamp the image... though you want to use a SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER because the more water you use the more definition you lose of the image!! 

You can see here, Bekah went back in with the yellow Tombow Marker to add some lines of definition. 
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Did you know you can also STAMP WITH COLORBURST?!?!!? This creates a GORGEOUS effect.. 
  • Squeeze some ColorBurst particles onto your Craft Mat and spritz with water until the inks are activated
  • Stamp your rubber stamp into the ink that is floating on the craft mat
  • Stamp your image onto watercolor paper 
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When it comes to ColorBurst, you can just squeeze some out on your Craft Mat and activate the inks. When you do a Mono-Print you get this really cool splatter effect!!! 
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When you stamp INTO the activated inks, you get the color of the ink but you don't have as much control of WHERE the ink goes...

Here, Bekah stamped the Penny Black Stamp, Bunches for You and you can see how AMAZING this image turned out!! It looks just like Batik! 
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Bekah was explaining that often when she watercolors "skin tones" that is is extremely difficult to match colors!!! 

Bekah showed us how she uses Watercolor Pencils and COLORS ON PAPER FIRST, adds a little bit of water to blend the colors on the paper, THEN PAINTS HER IMAGE using the palette that is on the paper!!! 

I thought that was SUCH A CLEVER IDEA because then she could create the skin tone that she actually wants.. .and once she achieves the color she can paint the skin tone correctly. 

Bekah said to acheive "white" skin tone she used HOT PINK and TAN colors blended together. I love this image she was working on... Berry Fairy by Penny Black!!  
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THERE ARE SO MANY watercoloring ideas!!! Whether you are stamping and trying to achieve the Watercolor Look or trying to create an unusual color to watercolor with... there is always something new to learn!! 

If you have any questions, feel free to call us!!
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