Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
Hello Lovely. It's time for another Color Throwdown card. Today's card had many phases before it was completed. Let's just say this is nowhere near where I started when I played with this color combo. Maybe I'll do a bonus post this week and to show the other design ideas I went through. I really love the end result.
The colors for Color Throwdown #505 are - pink, teal and gray. If you would like to learn more about the Color Throwdown you should check out their blog. New colors are posted every week.
For this week's card, I did some ink smooshing with my Distress Oxide Inks. I used Hickory Smoke, Broken China, and Spun Sugar. I started by smooshing them on to my Ranger Craft Mat, then spritzed them with water. I used the standard Tim Holtz technique of dipping the paper in the puddles and drying with the heat gun in between layers. When I do this technique I almost always use Strathmore Mixed Media Paper rather than watercolor paper, it's just my preferred paper. Once I had a panel I was happy with I dried it one last time and cut it with my trusty stitched rectangle die from Simon Says Stamp.
I used an MFT tag die to create the white tag and added a gray brad before layering it onto the inked panel. I cut "Hello" from white cardstock using the small Simon Says Stamp Hello die, inked with Hickory Smoke ink and adhered it to the tag. I used the Circle Loops die from Simon Says Stamp to cut a couple of circles from pink cardstock and added them to the tag in a way so that they would hang off. Then I cut a flower using the Sizzix Simple Flowers die, inked it with Hickory Smoke ink, slipped a pale pink brad into the center and added it to complete the tag design. I matted the panel with matching gray paper and used a gob of foam tape to add the completed panel to a white card base.
Thanks for swinging by today. I hope you'll consider challenging yourself with new colors this week.
The colors for Color Throwdown #505 are - pink, teal and gray. If you would like to learn more about the Color Throwdown you should check out their blog. New colors are posted every week.
For this week's card, I did some ink smooshing with my Distress Oxide Inks. I used Hickory Smoke, Broken China, and Spun Sugar. I started by smooshing them on to my Ranger Craft Mat, then spritzed them with water. I used the standard Tim Holtz technique of dipping the paper in the puddles and drying with the heat gun in between layers. When I do this technique I almost always use Strathmore Mixed Media Paper rather than watercolor paper, it's just my preferred paper. Once I had a panel I was happy with I dried it one last time and cut it with my trusty stitched rectangle die from Simon Says Stamp.
I used an MFT tag die to create the white tag and added a gray brad before layering it onto the inked panel. I cut "Hello" from white cardstock using the small Simon Says Stamp Hello die, inked with Hickory Smoke ink and adhered it to the tag. I used the Circle Loops die from Simon Says Stamp to cut a couple of circles from pink cardstock and added them to the tag in a way so that they would hang off. Then I cut a flower using the Sizzix Simple Flowers die, inked it with Hickory Smoke ink, slipped a pale pink brad into the center and added it to complete the tag design. I matted the panel with matching gray paper and used a gob of foam tape to add the completed panel to a white card base.
Thanks for swinging by today. I hope you'll consider challenging yourself with new colors this week.
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