Honey Bee Stamps: Cheerful Love Blog Hop
Today I am part of the Honey Bee Stamp Blog Hop. You should have arrived here from the talented Kelley Kohout.
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The Honey Bee Stamps Cheerful Love Release is now available in the STORE. To celebrate the new release, we are having a two day blog hop called Cheerful Love. So please hop along with us both days to be inspired!
Be sure to visit each blog and leave a comment to be entered to win!!! We will be giving away two $50 gift cards to the Honey Bee Stamps store, one from each day. The winners will be posted on the Honey Bee blog Tuesday, February 27th.
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I love the translucent look of watercolors. I have been wanting to use dictionary pages for my backgrounds, but I can’t print them on watercolor paper. My printer jams every time. And then I discovered Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground. It is not new, but it is new to me. It can be used on any surface to prepare it to take watercolors. I look forward to using it over acrylics in my mixed media. It comes in both transparent and titanium white and is currently on sale at Amazon. I have links at the bottom of the page for both.
I copied a page, from my old college dictionary, onto plain copy paper. I thinly spread the Watercolor Ground over the page using a Dina Wakley Brush. I used the white because I wanted the print to be slightly muted. It needs to cure for 24-78 hours. I am somewhat impatient, so 24 hours worked for me. LOL! Be sure to wash your brush immediately.
Once it had cured, I tested my Distress Inks and a black Speedball Elegant writer on the surface. On the left is the untreated paper. It sunk into the paper immediately and was unmovable. On the right it acted more like true watercolor paper. The colors did tend to stay much lighter, due to the white background, but they moved freely and even allowed me to lift unwanted color. I will test the transparent ground in another post and let you see the difference. The Speedball writer is an unusual marker. It changes to some very interesting colors when water is added to it. I did an entire picture with just this marker and Vintage Photo Distress Ink. You can see it here.
I laid out the stamp, from the Penny The Platypus stamp set, and a sentiment, from the Cheerful Sentiments stamp set, inside a rectangle die. When I was happy with the placement I removed the stamps and ran it through my die cutting machine.
The copy paper is thin so I adhered it to some cardstock with Tim Holtz Collage Medium and a Tim Holtz collage brush. As Tim says, “It has a drying time of NOW.” Did I mention that I am impatient when I am working? LOL
I lined both stamps up in my MISTI. You don’t have to use a stamping tool but I tend to stamp crooked and I didn’t want to start over. I used Ranger’s Archival Black ink because it is waterproof. Even though the paper had texture it was easy to stamp on.
When I had finished coloring the figure I just felt that it needed something more so I cut a mask from some Inkadinkado Masking Paper using my Cutter Bee Scissors, masked the figure, and added some leaves and flowers from the Penny The Platypus set. I did two extra leaves on some treated scraps for Penny to hold.
The flowers were watercolored and I added some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink around the figure as well. I grounded it with cast shadows in shades of brown. I pulled out my Prismacolor Colored Pencils to darken some of the shadows. It shaded a little differently on the ground texture than I was used to so I will test that out as well in a future post.
To finish the card I blended some Vintage Photo around the edges using a Mini Ink Blending Tool. I darkened the eyes and nostrils and outlined the tail and feet with a black Sakura Gelly Roll Pen. I adhered the panel to some dark patterned paper from Carta Bella’s “Old World Travel” paper, using Scotch Foam Tape, and adhered it all to a #110 Neenah Classic Crest cardstock card base with a Kokuyo Dot Tape Liner.
To see more of my tutorials from this new release you can click on each picture below!
The next stop on the hop is Carly Minner.
Here is the Blog Hop lineup for Day 1 (February 23rd) if you have come directly here and want to start at the beginning:
Honey Bee Stamps
Emily Midgett
Kelley Kohout
Jo Ann Danchik (you are here)
Carly Minner
Carrie Bryant
Carol Hintermeier
Ilda Dias
Don’t forget to leave a comment below and on each blog to be eligible for the prizes!
Be sure to visit the Honey Bee Stamp blog tomorrow for Day Two (February 24th) of the Blog Hop. Thanks for stopping by!
Joyfully, Jo Ann
Supplies used:
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