Colour and Texture - Art Journal page with Deb

Hello Off the Rails fans, 

Deb here with another art journal page and I am using the fabulous February moodboard - 

Colour and Texture.  Dont you just love the bright colours?

First off I gathered my supplies, paying particular attention to the colour and texture prompts.  

Prima, Kaisercraft, Art C, Dylusions and Heidi Swapp provided the colour. 

The texture was provided by the chipboard by Dusty Attic and the Butter Muslin picked up from Sprotlight.  I also used a Kaisercraft Script stamp.

I covered my journal page with a light cover of gesso and then stuck the muslin on top of that using Matte Gel Medium.  Whilst still wet I cut apart the chipboard and laid that onto the muslin.  

When that was dry I applied a thin coat of white gesso.  

Then the fun started.  Starting at the top of the page I went to work with the water colours using plenty of water and plenty of colour.  I made sure that colour also got on the gessoed chipboard.  The colouring of the page took ages to do as I wanted really bright colours so had to add a lot of watercolour - drying between the layers.  In the end I feel it was totally worth it.  

Tip - keep a piece of paper towel close by to mop up the excess water when the page gets too wet.

Once the colour was to my liking and all dry, I took the script stamp and black ink and randomly stamped on the background, including the chipboard.  I then added some clear crackle paste through a Dusty Attic fishnet stencil (you cant see this :( ) before taking the Kaisercraft and Art C paints and adding blobs of colour randomly.  To finish the colour component I splattered the White Linen Dylusions, Gold Heidi Shine and a black paint pen.  I added some colourful sequins as well.

The page was finished with my title "Colour your life outside the lines".

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you enjoyed my journal page and I am looking forward to seeing your creations.

Water Colour Technique with Narelle

A couple of days ago, as part of the mid month reveal, you saw a card I did that contained a watercolur technique.  This is the card in case you didn't see it.

I have done a colour dropping watercolour technique on this card. This is not your normal way of watercolouring, so I thought a tutorial on how to do it would be useful. Here is the step by step to how you do it.

Select an image which has a large area or largish sections. It is easier to control the colour variance in larger sections. 

Stamp your image onto waterolour paper using Versamark ink. Then heat emboss it using white embossing powder.

Get  your colours ready that you are going to use. Open your ink pad and drop some colour from your reinker onto the lid. I used Cherry Cobbler and Crushed Curry for the rose, and Tranquil Tide and Garden Green for the leaves.

Grab an Aqua Pen and fill one section of the image with water. It is best to have one aqua pen for plain water and one for each colour you are going to use.

Then using another aqua pen, pick up some ink from the drop of ink on the lid of the ink pad and touch the water. The colour will transfer and spread. Don't touch the water again just let the colour do its thing. 

Grab another aqua pen and repeat the process with another colour. This time, touch the water droplet from the other end.

You can get some amazing colour combinations depending on the colours you have chosen. Mine turned an orange colour where the two colours blended.

Repeat the process until all the image is coloured. Leave it aside to dry. Don't try to force it dry by using a heat tool as this will move the colours around and blend them too much. You may end up with a single colour image rather than the variegated look.

Because I wasn't very careful or perhaps very good, at keeping the water within the embossed  lines, I did get some bleed out side of the image. So I fussy cut the rose and leaves out before I adhered them to my card,

This is such a fun technique, and I can see it being truly spectacular on some other stamps, like the Magical Mermaid stamp.

Don't forget that this month I am sponsoring the Red Mood Board challenge.

So make sure you have a go and enter.

Thanks for dropping by.

Have a great day.

Cheers,

Narelle