Markers & Pencils Are Ink

Products used for this card:  Early Espresso ink pad - to color the Heart & Home Designer Series woodgrain Paper for layer one; Daffodil Delight cardstock, card base and ink; Water Color Pencil in green; Daffodil ribbon; Brushed Brass Butterflies; glue dots; multipurpose glue.  I used a clear block and silicone craft sheet as a palette for the marker/pencil ink. (Click or tap on each to go to my online store).

 
Today I'll be showing you how using the Stampin' Write Markers (water base) and Water Color Pencils as your ink. If you are a beginner and do not have many supplies yet, these markers and pencils will be a good way to start building up your colors.  There is no need to own every color of ink all at once. 

   2022 In-Colors: Tahitian Tide, Sweet Sorbet, Orchid Oasis, Parakeet Parade,  Starry Sky - available May 3 2022 - April 30 2024)

You can purchase a 5 pkg every spring of the new In-Colors, which are shades of the major color families.  In-Colors last 2 years.  Also, each color family has a set of Stampin' Write Markers.  

Products used on this card are Granny Apple Green cardstock; Heart & Home stamp; Heart & Home Designer Series Paper; Highland Heather Ink, Parakeet Parade Marker (available May 3, 2022 - April 30, 2024.); Basic White Cardstock, Ribbon. (Click on the link on the word "products" to bring you to my online store.)

Don't get these mixed up with the Blends, which are the alcohol based markers. You cannot use them in the way that I am explaining.  Their use is for another post.

The markers can be used as if they were liquid ink.

First, the obvious, you can use a marker to color in an image. Stamp your image with Black Stazon ink - which doesn't run into another color - then use your marker to add color. 

Next, you can use the marker as though it was ink.   Rub the wide end (on its side) across your acrylic block, loading up the block with a spot of color. Once this puddle of color is here, you can:

1. Use it as liquid ink, and load it onto the water brush. Paint an image with it or paint it directly onto the stamp; OR

2. Put the stamp into the puddle of ink, then stamp with it; OR

3. Color right on the stamp with the wide end of the marker, then stamp your image onto the cardstock.

These examples will produce a water color look on your cardstock

Water Color Pencils can be used:

1. As color pencils, as they are designed for; OR

2.  After you color an image, take a water brush, add a drop of water and spread it around on top of the colored area, and watch it become a water color look; OR

3.  Color with the pencil on a wet spot on the cardstock and it will also turn into water coloring. OR

4. Color directly onto a stamp that has been wet with a spritzer or with the water brush. Again you will see that the pencil becomes instant ink.

For the image shown in this photo, I scribbled on the small flower stamp Heart & Home, with the wide end of the Stamp & Write marker, Fresh Freesia, approximately where the flowers are. Do not take time to get your ink on exactly, but just scribble on it.  Scribble on the parts where the leaves are with the Parrot Parade (green)  and add one other color, such as Tahitian Tide (light blue). The process is to make a quick squiggle of color.  Add a quick brush of water with your water painter. Stamp immediately onto white cardstock.  

Do not dry off the stamp.  With the Water Color Pencil, scribble on the stamp again, first where the flowers are, next where the leaves are and then stamp.   You will see that each image is different, as it depends on the amount of ink from the marker, and from the pencil and the amount of water.  Each is so unique.   

Now you have the choice: either swipe the water painter on the image, and swirl around the color that has dried on the image to fill it in or leave as is.  

I have done similar with Daffodil Yellow, Granny Apple Green and a spot of Polished Pink.  

For each card add a layer that brings attention to the image, then mount on a color of cardstock that matches the colors used in the image.

There are so many varieties of colors and techniques that you can blend with markers and pencils, and with each print being different, you'll enjoy making many of these for sets of cards. 

I'd love to see what you choose to put together for your version of this card. Please post a photo or send it to me in messenger.  Head over to Card Connoisseur on Face Book and post your card there too.   Note that this blog address spells CardConnoissuer a little differently that the word is spelled on the Face Book Page.

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Thanks for stopping by.  Keep sharing what you love with others, as we "cheer up the world, one card at a time"!  Be blessed!  Sb