Friday, March 26, 2021

Crocus with no-line coloring

 Hi friends! I hope you are well! The sun is shining and Simon Says Stamp has a new release called All the Feels

Simon Says Stamp All The Feels

All The Feels is full of fantastic stamps, dies, stencils, paper products and sequins, perfect for spring and summer crafting. You can see the full release here. My parcel didn't make it here in time - I just got a notification for it arriving at the start of next week - so I am unfortunately missing the release blog hop. Don't miss today's and tomorrow's blog hop to celebrate the new release. 

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Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

I am very happy to have one of the stamps that I designed turned into a wood mounted stamp, namely the Thoughtful Flower. I don't have that stamp yet, so I used the one on the Thoughtful Flowers set instead. I am also happy to have designed two of the background stamp from All The Feels, namely the Halftone Background and the Halftone Circle Background

For today's tutorial I used a combination of watercoloring with Distress Ink and colored pencils, to do no-line coloring on the flower.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

Sometimes I start with a plain paper, sometimes I like to work on a tinted surface and today I did the latter. Press Speckled Egg and Tumbled Glass on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and place watercolor paper into the ink.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Ink with Distress Ink and Distress Oxide ink.

Continue with Distress Oxide inks, but don't cover all the background.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp. Stamp the crocus with Distress Ink.

The purple crocus flower was inked with Mowed Lawn, Dusty Concord and Wilted Violet. Mist a couple of times with water before stamping. The yellow flower was inked with Fossilized Amber and Mowed Lawn.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp. Watercolor the flowers with Distress Ink.

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet and mist once with water. Pick up with a paint brush. By varying the amount of water, you can get lots of tones from one ink pad. Paint the flowers and let the colors run into and blend with each other on the paper. 

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp. Add color with colored pencils.

I wanted to add a little more definition to my flowers and decided to use colored pencils too. I used Faber-Castel Polychromos pencils. Add shading and details.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

Next, I did one of my favorite things, namely added highlights and white lines with a white gel pen. I also stamped grass around the flower using Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness. The grass and the butterflies also come from the Thoughtful Flowers set

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp. Splatter with Scribble Sticks.

For more texture, dip Scribble Sticks in water and flick a paint brush against the tip, to create splatters. I used green, blue, orange and yellow shades.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp. Stamp with Simon Says Stamp Old Letter.

I stamped sentiments with Bunny Blessings, Inside Friendship Messages and Follow the Rainbows. The Old Letter Background was stamped with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink on the yellow card, a both Mustard Seed and Antique Linen for the purple card.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp. Yellow crocus.

I turned the yellow crocus into an Easter card, but it would work for many themes. Both card got a sprinkling of sequins.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

Here you can see the texture from the background ink, script stamping and splatters. The card was mounted on green and yellow Simon Says Stamp cardstock.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

If you look closely, you can see the difference between the opaque Oxide ink and the transparent inks.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

This is a fun coloring technique, combining the transparent ink watercoloring and the colored pencils.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

I love the look of this sentiment.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

In the grassy area, I added extra splatters.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

When I went outside to photograph these cards, the crocuses in the garden was flowering. When I checked a few days ago, they were tiny. So I just had to take a photo of the card together with actual purple flowers.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

The sentiments were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Leaf Green ink.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

The butterfly was colored in the same way as the flower.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

I mounted this panel on two shades of purple cardstock and used purple/pink sequins.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

My favorite part of this card, is the blue splatters on the flower. The bright blue spots looks so nice against the purple flower.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

I added some grass with colored pencils too.

Layers of ink - Crocus in Watercolor and Pencil Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flower stamp.

We had two little groups of crocuses in the garden. I hope the deer will not eat them, but they might since crocuses are like sweets for them.

Don't miss the inspiration in today's All The Feels blog hop.




Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by here today! I will see you again tomorrow.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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