Happy New Year (and another video tutorial)

Happy New Year to All! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and a slightly sober New Year's Eve. :)

I was fortunate enough to have my stepdaughter up for a week over the Christmas break. It was lovely to spend time with her and to have her share in some family activities with Darryl and Alex (as well as all of the rellies over Christmas and Boxing Day). One day we drove up to Maleny (in the hinterland mountain range of the Sunshine Coast) and we had a wonderful lunch at a little vineyard called Flame Hill Vineyard. We had this amazing Charcuterie platter that had various sliced cold meats, pickled vegetables, chicken liver pate, meat terrine and an assortment of relishes/pickles etc and breads. YUM! I was also introduced to two wines Summersalt and Wild Child - DOUBLE YUM!

I'm happy to report that I have finally finished my second video tutorial. This is about a technique called Black Magic which uses white inked stamped images that are then coloured with coloured pencils. If you want to find out more you will have to go to YouTube to see more. Once again, though, I must apologise for being long winded, the tutorial covers two videos - one showing the stamping process (though I also go through stamping and masking techniques) and the other going through the colouring technique and construction of the card. I'm going to have to work through making things more simple. I think it stems back to my time as a teacher when I worked in 30 minute blocks of tuition.









Links to my videos are below:

Black Magic technique (Part 1)

Black Magic technique (Part 2)

I learned this technique for a commission I've just finished for Practical Publishing. It gives a lovely result with the colours against the black cardstock.

I hope you enjoy it.

Bye for now,
Janelle

Inktense colouring for Mother's Day

Hello to all. 

A belated Happy Mother's Day to everyone. I had a lovely weekend (I'm greedy - I don't just have a single day! :) ) On the Saturday, my husband took us to the Gold Coast's Jupiter's Casino and we saw the stage show "The Ultimate Vegas Show" which was very well done; and then we followed it up with dinner. On the Sunday, my son gave me a gorgeous little snow globe and a poem he'd written himself; and I had a day of lazing around and being pampered. The next day, I followed up with lunch with one of my sisters and my Mum. Thoroughly cool!!!

I'm posting the Mother's Day card I made for my mum, that is very similar to a card I made as part of one of my commissions for Simply Cards.

I stamped with a Dylusions stamp set "Fancy Florals" and then coloured with my Inktense pencils. To finish off, I went mad with some green sequins and a bow with two shades of twine. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and is a nice departure from the standard "Happy Mother's Day" one. (The real truth was that my craft room was temporarily blocked off and that was the closest stamp set I could access. ha!)

I wanted the colours to be big and vibrant and, going with the style of the stamps, not realistic at all - so I only did some slight shading in the background. I tried to get an even finish with the water brushing, but on waterpaper that is naturally slightly rough, it's very difficult to get perfect.

Anyway, I'm off to do some shaped cards now, so I'll post again soon.

Bye,

Janelle