Something Saturday - Watercolour Pencils on Black

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Hi there Creators Today I'm showing off how you can make the watercolour pencils really pop on a black background. when you use them this way you don't add water or anything else, just simply use them as pencils. This is the first card I made before the video: I've used the Celebratory Sips Suite (see links below) for both of these cards Then I made this one up in the video, and finished it off after, by adding some greenery around the bottom, the sayings and I wanted to create a graduated background paper to kind of give a sunset appearance, so to to that I've brushed darker colours onto the Pumpkin Pie cardstock to deepen it nearer the bottom. Here is a list of the products I used: Celebratory Sips Collection (I recommend getting the whole lot 'cos it's worth it!) but if you don't want it all, then, then in fact the only part I used here is: Cheers & Sips Stamp set Watercolour Pencils Assortment 1 Watercolour Pencils Assortment 2 If you missed the vid...

Something Saturday - Night Sky Pastels

 Hi there Creators,

Continuing on our Pastels journey, I have "night sky" pastels to show you this week, I was amazed at how well the pastels show up on dark cardstock.

Here are the cards I made up....

Night Sky Pastels, Stampin' Up!, Home & Garden Bundle

this first one I made up with a black background, and really wanted it to be looking out of a window (this is when I wish I had Window Flower Box dies)  however I used the exceedingly useful Stitched Rectangle dies instead😃, as I wanted it to look like the inside of a shed I've "hung" a few tools off the window sill (courtesy of the Home & Garden bundle) and used the Brick & Mortar 3D embossing folder for the wall.


Night Sky Pastels, Stampin' Up!, Evergreen Elegance
then this is the card I made up in the video (couple of photos as I couldn't make up my mind which was better 🤣), Here is the link to the products I used in this one: What Heather Used

Night Sky Pastels, Stampin' Up!, Evergreen Elegance
So, down to the nitty gritty, how do you do this?

Take a dark coloured cardstock (I used Night of Navy in the video), then lightly grate pastels onto it (I used a serrated knife to scrape mine), which creates a dust of colour on your card, I used Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana and a bit of Night of Navy (not sure that one showed up on this, but it works on the black).

Take a piece of baking paper, and carefully cover the dust, press it down well into your card (I used my bone scorer) try not to move it as you do this or you end up with it smudging.

Take some hairspray, and spray this over the card (this will set the pastel in place, otherwise it will wipe off) let it dry then decorate your card however you wish.

Check out the video here:


 I hope this inspires you to create!

God Bless love

Heather xox


 

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