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Post by freeatlast on Oct 26, 2018 11:06:16 GMT
Welcome to the last Friday of the month and my last challenge. Do you reach for white card stock every time you want to stamp an image? I know it's a habit for me. Today we are going to challenge that by stamping and coloring an image on kraft card stock. To color the image, you can use inks, watercolors, colored pencils or markers. Here are some Youtube videos to help with the various mediums: Colored pencils: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmfwkTtrxAWatercolor pencils or Copic markers www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPxOuC-B6AWatercolor www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3dQp3Jptd8One tip for you from me - try out your colors on a scrap piece of kraft paper. They may take on a different hue due to the kraft. The colors I ended up using on my card were not my first choice. And I did use Copics for my card.  CARDtober Challenge #26 by Pat Doyle, on Flickr |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 26, 2018 11:53:08 GMT
This is a gorgeous card, freeatlast! I would her have thought of colouring on kraft, but now I want to try it. Thank you for the links to get me started. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 26, 2018 14:44:05 GMT
That is a lovely card, freeatlast, and the videos are very helpful. I have never done anything like this before.
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Post by GiantsFan on Oct 26, 2018 15:50:18 GMT
Great challenge. I love using Kraft.
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Post by joblackford on Oct 26, 2018 19:52:54 GMT
Great challenge! I am definitely guilty of always using white cardstock. Luckily I have a good stack of nice kraft I inherited, and I think I will take inspiration from your gorgeous Christmas card and try out my poinsettia stamp again, but with markers this time. I might even try out using a white gel pen to add highlights - something I've been meaning to do. And maybe starting with kraft will give it a more finished look than the plain white so I can get away with doing less  |
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Post by JaneB on Oct 27, 2018 7:33:01 GMT
freeatlast oh that is a stunning card! Gorgeous. I have seen colouring done on kraft and I always think it's looks brilliant. I've never tried printing colour on kraft although I've meant to; perhaps I'll give it a try!
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Post by joblackford on Oct 27, 2018 16:29:02 GMT
I did a very quick stamp and color just to try out the concept and I like it! I'm going to have to unmount this old rubber stamp because I need to be able to restamp it in my Tiny Tim (did a lot of filling in missed bits with a black fineliner) but the coloring was pretty quick and fun, so I could make a lot of this card easily. I didn't have to guts to add any white highlights yet - afraid I would ruin it... Next time I might mount the kraft panel on a background, but for a quick one layer card this worked well. Thanks for the challenge!  Cardtober challenge day 26: stamp and color on kraft by jo.blackford, on Flickr |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 29, 2018 18:39:03 GMT
joblackford, that is a beautiful card. It seems we are going for poinsettia stamps. Anyway, that is what I chose, without even thinking that was what freeatlast had used for the sample. I usually try to avoid being a blatant copy, but not this time. I stamped and colored the image on Friday, but I did not have time to finish it till yesterday evening. I used prills for the center of the flower, and Wink of Stella on the die cuts. I'm not sure I like the white die cuts. I think I should have done them in a dark green or something. This was a good challenge, though. It got me to try something I had never done before.  |
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Post by freeatlast on Oct 29, 2018 23:04:20 GMT
joblackford and scrapnnana, thanks for playing along. It's like we were all channeling our poinsettia and holly vibe! Both cards are lovely and festive! I'm glad you enjoyed coloring on kraft and hope you'll add it to your technique bag of tricks in the future.
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Post by joblackford on Oct 30, 2018 1:12:40 GMT
Haha  that's so funny that we all did a variation on the same thing! |
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Post by JaneB on Oct 31, 2018 20:24:21 GMT
I couldn't find a poinsettia or i would have used one too! Your cards are all better than mine...I did do all this by hand, on the graphic tablet. A bit of cheating with tracing the outlines and still I couldn't draw a straight line!  |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 31, 2018 21:49:38 GMT
I'm impressed! I can't use a graphics tablet to save me. I think it's very cute!
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that's so funny that we all did a variation on the same thing!