Grow Your Own Way

Sandi MacIver – Papercraft artist – Grow Your Own Way

Hey there – welcome back. I love to garden and I’m impatiently awaiting springs arrival to get my hands in that lovely dirt (we still have snow although it’s melting quickly). Until that happens, I’ll have to be content to color my flowers, LOL.

I tripped over these stamps while cruising the Simon Says Stamp site a few weeks back and had to have them – LOOK – FLOWERS!  haha.  I have a big love affair with the Impression Obsessions stamp collection.  Their stamps are fun, quirky, and some times a tad sarcastic (just like me!) haha.  For today’s CAS card  (clean and simple) I used two stamps, the floral image is “garden” and the sentiment is “Grow Your Own Way“.

 

I decided to knock the dust of my Zig Markers for today’s project – have not loved on them for some time, so we have a BRIGHT in your face CAS card today.  What’s your favorite coloring medium?  watercolor pens/pencils, aqua painter, colored pencils?  Would love to hear!

 

Tips and Tricks for the “Grow Your Own Way” card:

• I started by using VersaFine Onyx Black  to stamp the images onto the Ranger Watercolor Paper with my Misti Stampin Tool – LOVE my Misti, just in case I need to stamp a second time, and perfect for lining things up too.
• VersaFine Onyx Black Ink is waterproof and I knew I was going to use my Zig Markers to colour with.
• I started by painting most of the image with my Zig markers and then used a water brush to blend and pull out the colour.
• Colours used:  81, 84, 44, 48, 42, 33 – 22, 23, 20, 27 – 50, 52, 60, 65, 63 – pretty much a light and a dark for each colour and for the sunflower I added orange and brown.
• I used turquoise and light green on the word “grow”.
• Once my image was dry, I did a little highlighting with a Ranger white gel pen, it really pops on those bright colours.
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Impression Obsession Cling Stamp… [ SSS ] Impression Obsession Cling Stamp GROW… [ SSS ] Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink… [ SSS ] Zig CLEAN COLOR 36 SET Real Brush… [ SSS ] Zig CLEAN COLOR 48 SET Real Brush… [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials WHITE OPAQUE PEN… [ SSS ] Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ] Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials… [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp BIG MOMMA FOAM TAPE… [ SSS ] Buttons Galore and More Sparkletz… [ SSS ]