Coloured Pencils and Odourless Solvent cards

Hi Everyone,

I'm sharon and I am dying to show you a really cool technique for colouring in stamps that I recently learnt!! Here it is...

You will need -

• Colour Pencils (I prefer Prisma)


• Odourless Solvent (Available from Art supply stores)


• Paper stubs
  

Directions -

To begin with, stamp your image using a dye based ink pad and leave to dry thoroughly. Using the colour pencils, colour in your image. Shade the image as you go for greater affect. You may also like to colour certain areas with more than one colour to get a deeper effect.

Starting with the lightest colours first, dip a paper stub into the solvent and colour over your image with it. You will notice that the pencil lead seems to melt as it blends.

Colour in the background lightly then again using the paper stub to blend the colours together to create a watercolour effect. Finally add some glitter to small sections and/or dimensional magic to highlight certain areas such as the rushes.

Pretty isn't it?!?