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Stamping/Crafting Fests! => Older Fests => AIR 2016 PreFest Challenges => Topic started by: Far North on June 09, 2016, 07:26:53 PM
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Hi all!
This summer's AIR warm-up challenge takes in consideration Artsy Inkers busy schedules and their desire for a relaxing pace. With this in mind time limits for this challenge are being pushed aside and the ending time is pushed back until Monday at midnight. So if you didn't think you would not have time to play this one...please give it another thought. Check back for details on Friday after noon.
See you then!...Jan
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Slow down and smell the roses with AIR16 Vintage WC
Many folks like to think of summer as a relaxed pace. So I have decided to slow down this event’s warm-up activity by extending it over 3 days. The playing time is also relaxed so you can play with this challenge as much as you desire with no time limit.
CHALLENGE OPEN: It will open at noon on Friday 6/10/16 and will close at midnight your time on Monday 6/13/16.
Background: Heather Telford, watercolor artist presented a weekly tutorial at Splitcoaststampers on Vintage Stamping at the beginning of May. Here is a link to that tutorial. (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/vintagewatercolor/?utm_medium=Email&utmsource=ExactTarget&utm_campaign.)
Today Heather is completing a week-long series (Monday-Friday) on vintage watercoloring for Penny Black. Here is Monday's link to her blog. (https://cards.heathertelford.com/2016/06/06/vintage-tulips/)
Throughout the week Heather demonstrated twists on color combos and methods of using the colors so you may want to check each posting.
Challenge: The focus of this challenge is to play with water based colors and techniques to find your personal favorite combinations. Share your results on a card front in the gallery with the Key word: AIR16 Vintage WC along with a description of what you tried.
RAK –each player with be entered into a random drawing for each gallery post. A RAK will be sent to the selected player.
To keep the focus on exploring vintage watercolor I ask that you do not combine this challenge with others.
I would love to have a discussion here of your experience with this challenge. Also please speak up if any questions arise. But do know I am experiencing extreme trouble with my server internet connection this week. Tech support may not be available to check my connection until Monday. So please help each other with any questions that may arise.
Happy creative play!...Jan
PS...other resources for using of the Elegant Writer:
How To Use the Elegant Writer Calligraphy Marker with Artist Karlyn Holman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBe6bG6ouZo)
Gallery Examples-Search "elegant writer" in Artsy Inkers Gallery.
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I love your choice of challenge for this. I had seen the SCS tutorial and it was so pretty! I did not check her blog every day, but I did see some of the cards this week. I want to take a closer look at these and then decide what images I would like to work with.
I hope you do not have too many more internet issues Jan!
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Jan, I also saw Heather's card and loved it. I pinned it and watched her video and Karen Holman's incredible video. Then I bought a set of black Elegant Writers. I tried them once, and I just couldn't get them to bleed the way they did in the videos. I was able to scribble some ink onto a tile I use for that purpose and pick up the color with a wet paint brush. That worked very well, but it just wasn't the same. That's when I went back and watched the videos a second time.
I think that Heather used the pen over or very near the stamped lines and then bled it out with the wet paint brush. I had just put it down wherever and expected it to all to bleed out. I was surprised to see the original line was still so dark black.
One tip that Karen mentioned somewhere in her video was that the nice thing about these pens is that the water sets them so you can go back once they are dry and use other watercolors without reactivating them. For that reason, she lightly mists her work with water and lets it dry so that the lines she did not touch with water will also be set. Very cool!
Another tip from Karen's video: Blotting the wet ink is what brings out those lavender and pink tones. Mine bled out blue until I blotted it with a paper towel.
I definitely want to try this again. I love, love, love the look they give.
Daria
ETA: You link to Heather's blog didn't work for me.
Heather's Blog (https://cards.heathertelford.com/)
Her Vintage Posts (https://cards.heathertelford.com/?s=vintage)
Her Posts with works using Speedball Elegant Writer (https://cards.heathertelford.com/tag/speedball-elegant-writer/)
djc
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Thanks Heidi and Daria for sharing your enthusiasm for the vintage watercolor and trying another experimentation! Daria I also appreciate your correction for Heather's link...my internet is causing me big issues but I was able to also update the challenge post as well as the links to her work with the Elegant Writer. Your tips are also most helpful!
One tip I saw on splitcoast was in a comment on Heather's tutorial:
"I also have the Elegant Designer pen, but my favorite is the Marvy 1122 LePlume ll #45 sepia that does exactly the same thing only it leaves a softer brown color instead of black after it bleeds out green then pink. I though I would share that for those who may not know. 😊
Del | Fri May 6, 2016 at 9:32 AM"
Also several splitcoast stamper's work with inspiration from Heather's tutorial can be found here. (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=26575)
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I am glad to hear that the Marvy sepia marker will work. I am pretty sure I have that somewhere! I hope so!
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So cool Heidi that you may have the Marvy Marker!...It would be fun to see the results!
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Love the look, hope to check out the links later when I have more time :)
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Ohh I love this technique I have not tried it but I am looking forward to I bought some water color pencils at aldi a couple weeks ago that I will try for this technique :-)
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Here (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2684#top_display_media) is my entry for this challenge.
Unfortunately, my Marvy sepia marker had dried out. I did have other brown and black water based markers and I just used them. I did leave many details of how I made my card in the gallery. I used the technique from the video, although I did see another technique on a blog post that I think would be really pretty too.
Thanks so much for offering this challenge. This technique is far easier than I thought it would be and because of that I may have never tried it if you did not offer it here!
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Heidi your card is awesome! I love how this technique uses faded colors instead of the traditional dark and masculine colors. It gives a whole new feel to vintage cards. So glad you jumped in and gave it a try! Thanks for playing.
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I didn't have the pen or marker. So I stamped in vintage photo distress ink. Added water color pencil lightly.
Pulled in ink color with the water to give it a vintage look.
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I didn't have that elegant writer thing either. So I used distress inks, distress markers, and water to make the card front look vintage. Here (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2689#top_display_media) is the card that I made for this challenge.
Thank you for hosting and this was a fun challenge.
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I definitely don't think you need the Elegant writer to try this technique. I think most black water based markers will blend out into different colors. I think the black soot distress marker might not, but I used Tombow and Memento markers and they both separated easily into their component colors.
Just in case anyone is hesitating to try this because they don't have specific materials, I think you should give it a try with what you have :)
Jan, I think this technique does make a feminine distress look.
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I am definitely going to try this one. I did a test with one of my stamps and it came out pretty, but it needs background and such. So I am going to do it again. I do have the Elegant writer markers. 4 colors of them! I will use them on something now! yay! lol
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Sorry I continue with Internet connection problems and can't post as much as much as usual.
Wow all the gallery posts are looking great...terrific results no matter how you adapt the technique.
I agree DI products are one of the few water based inks that are designed not to wick into base colors...so experiment with others.
I found this to be a really loose and relaxing technique.
Happy playtime!
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I just posted a posted a card sample (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2703&message_id=055b5bf7656557f0f3b066105ace4473&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock) for this challenge[/url]. I found it to be a fun and relaxing technique. This Warm-up challenge is open to Monday at midnight.
Thanks for stopping in!...Jan
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This looks like such a cool technique! But I just can't get it to work the way I want it, LOL. I am on try number 374.... not really... but I can't get the look I wanT.
I am not giving up yet!
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Kathy if you can describe what you are having issues with perhaps someone will have a tip that will help.
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Hmm.. well 1. I think I chose the wrong stamps the two times I tried it. 2. I tried spritzing it as I liked her reeds that she spritzed. The first one, I spritzed the stamp before stamping and just got a big blob. The second.... and more, I stamped, then spritzed. I get a big puddle of mess no matter how tiny I tried to spritz.
I am going to try again with a different stamp/stamps and see what happens! I think I need to put the mister away and try with a paintbrush hehehe. Maybe I am too heavy handed with my mister!
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Kathy, I did not try the mini mister, I used the waterbrush, and just traced over every stamped line. It just worked, I couldn't believe it! So maybe just try the brush. :0)
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Well I finally got one I liked! The process is in the posted picture.
Lighthouse Vintage (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2709&message_id=cd8bc9555f81038e0a2ff435519b889a&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock)
I figured I would post a pic of my fails so y'all could see what I meant. The spritzer technique did not work for me!
Fails (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2708&message_id=047cc69d338f48458a0d9ac0d0238081&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock)
I really like the look of this so I may keep trying with different stamps and such.
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I managed to get in some crafty time yesterday and made 4 cards for this challenge. I had a lot of fun with this technique and I did a bit of experimenting. And I'm in the group that doesn't have an Elegant Writer and I don't think I have any water based markers.
For the first card, I started by inking the watercolor paper before stamping. Instead of using watercolor pencils, I used my koi watercolors.
Flower Trio (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2713&message_id=5e3a323735b8819cfc78f4304b6e68a2&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock)
For the second card, I didn't ink the paper first and then I didn't like how white it was. So I ended up inking it after stamping, watercoloring, and adding the script stamp. But it washed out script stamping and I had to redo that.
Flower (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2712&message_id=36a218767c4b0aaa6c574788c43b315c&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock)
For the third card, I wanted to try something different. I picked a collage stamp. This sucker took 3 tries to get right. The first time, I stamped it without using my Misti and realized afterwards that I was going to want to restamp it to bring back some of the detail after watercoloring. The second time, I didn't use any adhesive to hold it in place on the Misti and when I started watercoloring, it shifted. So when I restamped, it wasn't in the right spot. Third time was the charm.
Postage Stamp (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2710&message_id=7c57cb9f89942b47fc9105352cec87df&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock)
For the last card, I wanted to move away from the browns. So I inked the paper with DI in Spun Sugar and Shabby Shutters, and I stamped with DI in Shabby Shutters and Hickory Smoke.
Dress Maker (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2711&message_id=ebc6d802cdf3e4a4592b6e541cfb9f08&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock)
Thanks for a great challenge. I really had fun playing with this.
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Here are more details of what I did on my gallery sample:
I worked on the smooth side of Strathmore WC paper since I want to retain some of the crispness of stamping.
I used a green, purple-blue and brown tombow markers on mine. They all blending easily with a brush...but do not provide extra colors like the black Elegant Writer. I only used the elegant markers in areas where I could pull the color to like a dime-sized space as in a large center of a flower. I would wet with brush , spread and blot and repeat...sometime more twice. Katlyn said only the black EW breaks to other colors. My black Tombow gives a black- blue wash...but no pink.
I used permanent fine line micron pens where I did not want small black lines or dots to blend. For me it took consider time deciding how much to blend various areas and I finally decided to have a few close-up areas with stronger colored areas. I often reached out for my scrap paper when I wanted to try-out different approaches with the color.
Thanks everyone for playing!...In the future I hope to see even more vintage items in gallery.
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I posted a Vintage Watercolor Thank You (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=2714#top_display_media) card just in time!
I had fun playing with this technique. I basically followed the Splitcoast tutorial. I lost control of my waterbrush a few times, ha! There are areas where I had too much water and lost some stamped details, but overall I'm happy with it. I made 3 sentiment tags trying to get one I liked!
Thank you, Jan, for this fun challenge!
Now I will go back and catch up reading through the previous posts and visit the gallery. Phew!
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I can't believe it! I finished a card. It's not the best by far; I need to practice a lot. I almost threw this image away. I did a terrible job of coloring it. Then I thought about Karlyn Holman's video and how she colored in the background with the Elegant Writer watercoloring. I decided t give it a try since I was going to throw the darn thing in the garbage anyway. What's the harm in practicing? I thought that the image looked better with the background. Then I decided to add some green and brown to the leaves and branches. Maybe I should have left well enough alone. The leaves that had too much black on the edges looked better (less obvious) before I added the green. Sigh. Anyway, I decided to finish a card and post it. At least you can see that I've begun to learn this technique. This card is absolutely nothing like what I was aiming for, but it still looks vintage.
OK. That's it with the warnings and excuses. Here's the card (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?pid=2715&message_id=52d2483df7de6ed8b5720a067da50edd&message_icon=info#cpgMessageBlock).
Jan, thank you for this challenge. As I mentioned before, I'd already seen and loved the videos you linked. Now I've watched them a few times, and I need to watch them again. It's that same old problem I always have--a heavy hand. Hmmm. Maybe I should add some darker green to those leaves so the black would blend in???
Daria
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I just added Forest Green Distress Ink (with water) to the leaves. I think that helped. Here's Take 2 (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=89&pid=2716#top_display_media).
djc
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Wow, everyone just did such a great job, with fun variations, for this challenge! I really enjoyed looking at them all in the gallery this morning!
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WoW, I am amazed once again by the talent of Artsy Inkers :smitten: Such beautiful work fills the gallery for the beginning of AIR16. I am very happy to close this challenge with a random drawing and not have to make a selection myself. So I did the drawing and winner is.....
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:angel:
:smitten:
:D Congratulations..................SWlady/Kathy
Thanks all for playing!
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Yay, congrats Kathy!
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Yay me! hehehe.
Thanks Jan!
I agree, all the posts are awesome. I haven't commented on all of them yet but I will!
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Congrats, Kathy!!!
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Jan I received your package yesterday. Thanks so much! It is some awesome background stamps that I know I will use! Thanks again for hosting!
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Glad you liked you liked your surprise Kathy...Enjoy!!
Thanks again for playing!