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. 

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. 

Please note: this post has are affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I love the look of this sentiment.

In the grassy area, I added extra splatters.

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.

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

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

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

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

I added some grass with colored pencils too.

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

Supplies:

* Please note: the links are affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.