Let’s Get Hopping Round #20 Colouring Techniques

Welcome to this months Let’s Get Hopping Blog Hop, our theme is Colouring Techniques.

Please hop along with all the talented Demonstrator’s for loads of inspiration.

My favourite colouring tools are the Stampin Blends, I totally love them, before the blends  I tended to not venture into much colouring but the blends changed me!  

I’m using the Family and Friends stamp set to make cards for my boys.  The beauty of this set is you can make an image of the person you are sending your card to.

  Selection of items used.

I actually started with my youngest boy who lives for X-Box so him holding his headphones seemed like the perfect pose.

I stamped with Memento Ink and coloured him in.  While doing this I remembered the blends need a bit of playing with to achieve a nice clean edge as they tend to bleed out a bit, this is totally normal but you need to anticipate how far the Ink will go and this takes a bit of practice.  I decided to show a technique that makes your colouring a little easier.  

For my next card it was my older sons turn, he is studying sport at college so seems to be in T-Shirts and jeans/shorts constantly.  I added out pet dog Cookie to the card to balance it out.  I used memento ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder, this gives you a little edge which helps control the bleeding. 

I’ve made a video on the clear embossing technique.

Please hop along you won’t regret it!  Just click the next button to hop on  to Teresa Brown

Product List

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes

[131527]

£6.00

Family & Friends Photopolymer Stamp Set

[148698]

£16.00

Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[148544]

£8.50

Night Of Navy Light Stampin' Blends Marker

[144036]

£4.25

Basic Black Dark Stampin' Blends

[147941]

£4.25

Bronze Stampin' Blends Marker

[144607]

£4.25

Ivory Stampin' Blends Marker

[144606]

£4.25

Daffodil Delight Light Stampin' Blends Marker

[144586]

£4.25

Smoky Slate Light Stampin' Blends Marker

[145054]

£4.25

Light Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Marker

[147031]

£4.25

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109130]

£4.75

Stampin' Pierce Mat

[126199]

£4.50

Cherry Cobbler Light Stampin' Blends Marker

[144576]

£4.25