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Stamp N Dash Roll-on Watercolor challenge---Closed
Far North:
Welcome back to Stamp N Dash! Roll-on watercolor challenge Open Tuesday 7/2/14 to Wed 7/10/14 midnight Sadie’s time.
Tools/supplies: brayer, white cardstock, water spritzer bottle, water reactive inks. Best would be multiple-color ink pads such as Kaleidacolor or Ranger’s Big and Juicy pads.
Technique: Cut some white card stock into A2 size pieces. Ink up brayer with multiple colors of ink. Mist brayer and roll onto paper. Generally one inking of the brayer will not cover the entire card with ink. Dry the ink before adding more.
As always with Stamp N Dash challenges there is a lot of flexibility. If you do not have the tools or supplies suggested you are welcome to adapt and test out your alternatives.
The Challenge: Create a card using some paper you created with this technique. Please post your work in the gallery album for this challenge by the deadline. Also post comments about your experience below. Thanks for considering playing and experiencing this fun and easy technique.
For inspiration I posted 2 samples from my WSW14 entries in the gallery and there is a new card on my blog that uses this technique for my new Mixed Media Card Challenge http://farnorthdesigns.blogspot.com/2014/07/tagging-nature.html.
My experience: When making these backgrounds I like to leave some of the empty space white to give the eye a pausing space from the vibrant color. But it is all up to you-- roll on the ink and see what happens! Some bright pieces you may enjoy more after you use it on a card with a lot of stamping in black ink. Also you may choose to use parts of the paper for dye cuts, smaller focal images or sentiments. Remember the trick of toning down the brightness or unifying the colors by adding 1 color over top of the entire piece. Don’t be afraid to brush on a bit of color where you feel it really needs it or wet a saturated inked area and dab off some of the color. After all isn’t that what artists do? Whatever look makes you happy is BEST!
SWLady:
OOO I love it! Looks like fun! Hopefully I will have time to try this when we return from our road trip ;-)
Christinmay:
This looks like a great technique! And it's lovely to see some challenges popping up. Thanks, Jan. I very recently bought a brayer, so am itching for chances to use it.
Craft Nerd:
What a cool technique. I'll have to give it a try this weekend. Thanks for hosting, Jan.
howdyheidi:
I can't wait to try this! My brayer is really underused.
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