Stamp Spotlight - Ballerina with Watercoloring Continued

Hi everyone, its Katie here for this week's Stamp Spotlight.  Along with featuring this really cute stamp set, I will also be addressing the use of watercolor pencils again.  But let's take a look at this set called Ballerina.  Out of all the sets of ballet stamps I looked at this one spoke to me and I knew that I had to have it.  As a mother of three boys, I didn't need this set for me, but fortunately for me I have lots of friends with very cute little girls.  This set contains 13 images and retails for only $9.99.

Like I mentioned, I am going to continue to look at the use of watercolor pencils as well as watercoloring with your ink pads.  Here is a photo of the items I used with ONE EXCEPTION:  In the photo, I have the Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad which worked great for last weeks tutorial, but it bleeds too much when using water.  I exchanged that ink with  Versafine Black Onyx Ink for this week's coloring.

• Dye based ink of your choice
• Waterproof ink of your choice ( I used......)
• Ballerina stamp set
• Pink Mulberry Paper
• Basic Grey Urban Prairie
• Waterbrush
• Watercolor Pencils

Last week I used a blender pen and a waterbrush, but I applied my watercolor pencils to my stamped image first and then essential spread/blended the colors over the image.

This week, I wanted to add dye based inks to the mix as well featuring the "opposite" method of applying color to my stamped image - ink to waterbrush and then to paper.

For those of you who have ink pads that are connected all you have to do is squeeze the ink pad together when its closed and you will end up with ink on the lid.  From there you will apply your waterbrush to the ink on the lid and start coloring your image.

For those of you who have ink pads where the lids come off you can touch your ink pad to your lid or grab an old CD and tap your ink pad to the CD and you will get the same transference of ink.

And just like last week, I wanted to do a sample and see what the colors would like like on my example cardstock and watercoloring paper.

When using the watercolor pencils, its the same method.  Just apply the waterbrush to the tip of the pencil until you can see the color on the waterbrush.

Here is an example of of both ink pads and watercolor pencils.  Not too terribly different except that the watercolor paper seemed to keep a slightly more intense color.

In this picture, I started coloring with the watercolor pencils - you can definitely see the actual color on the brush tip.

Another component to the watercolor pencil is that you can get a pretty thick color paste onto the tip of the waterbrush from the watercolor pencil.  It completely depends on how much water is on the tip of the waterbrush.  If you wanted less intensity add more water.  If  there is too much water, just dab on a paper towel or pinch with your fingers.

Next:

Here is a picture using my ink pads with the waterbrush.  You can definitely see a difference in the look of the two images.

Here I have a side by side of each.

One more note that I didn't mention above.  When cleaning off your waterbrush all you have to do is use a spare piece of paper and essential color the color right out.  You can see that it just disappears as you go.

Here I've added a picture of a different waterbrush I own.  It has a wider and flatter tip and is great for large areas and in this case, I used it to color the edges of my card base.

And here, I used it to create a brushed/colored look around the border of my stamped image.  I started at the edge and brushed inward.  Just a nice subtle touch and addition of color.

 

Now, for the fun part.  Lori has some neat colors of mulberry paper at Clear Dollar Stamps and I thought it would look so cute with my cards.

Mulberry is meant to be torn, but what I did first was run it through my cuttlebug and used my oval nestability to cut out an oval and then I took my waterbrush and got the edges (a nice even border) very wet.  The I just tore the edges away for that perfectly soft fringed look.

Here is my finished card - perfect for that little ballerina or want to be ballerina!

Recipe: Cardstock: GP White, Papertrey ink White, Basic Grey Urban Prairie, Pink Mulberry Paper, Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, Close to my Heart Hollyhock, Stamps: Ballerina (Clear Dollar Stamps) Other: Oval Nestabilities, Watercolor brush and ink, SU! Ticket Punch, Kaisercraft Pearls

For this card, I used the word stamp to create my own background and use lavender as my main color.  I used my long rectangle nestabilities to cut out my ballet slippers.  The "happy birthday" is a sentiment from my Lamppost Expressions stamp set and then added just a bit of stickles for a little extra bling on the crown.

Recipe: White, amethyst (Close to my Heart), Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, Amethyst, Black (Close to my Heart), Stamps: Ballerina, Lamppost Expressions (Clear Dollar Stamps), Other:  Circle and Oval Nestabilities, Waterbrush, Watercolor Pencils

Now for my last card for the day. I used white mulberry paper for my background and since its slightly transparent, I love how the dark pink cardstock shades the mulberry paper into looking like a light pink.  Again, I cut the mulberry paper with my paper cutter and then added water to the edges to get the softer look.  But... I also used some chocolate mulberry paper to create the oval scallops around the ballet slippers.  This stuff cuts great with the nesties.

Thanks to everyone who visits and I hope you enjoyed it!  I have to admit that I really enjoyed using the waterbrush in the manner above and will definitely continue with this method.  I hope you give it try if its new too you and as always, I'll take any tips/tricks/hints that you might have to share.

Have a wonderful day.

This is Katie signing off for Clearly iStamp Blog.

Comments

[Cheap Jordans]

Seeing the blog should leave some comments, I think that is a polite to blog host, and thank you for sharing!

[Mary NSC]

O How PRETTY!!! PRETTY PRETTY! PRETTY!!!

[Norine]

so pretty and thanks for the video loved it
Hugs
Norine

[Gina]

Thanks for all the great info! Your card looks great.

[Stacy Twinshappy SCS]

These are so sweet and girly. Great tutorial. I have been eyeing this set. Might have to get it soon.

[Lori McCroskey]

Love all of these cards....beautiful as always!

[Judy]

Again ... What a GREAT tutorial!! I LOVE your cards ... so pretty ... and the hints for using the mulberry will come in handy!!

I do have a quick question this time ... is an aqua painter the same type of tool as the water brush you used?

Thanks again for the ongoing inspiration and education!! :)

Judy
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[Candyf]

Another great tutorial and I see that you decided to use the mulberry paper! I'm sure it was a treat using this set since you have 3 boys running around your house.

Candy

[Becky Sorensen]

Looks great Katie. Thanks for sharing.