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    Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts
    Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts
    Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts
    Ebook148 pages40 minutes

    Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts

    By Keri Lee Sereika

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    Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts contains 13 creative projects and demonstrates step by step more than 16 ways to use many of the hottest coloring products on the market today. From tutorials on applying color to a stamped image using alcohol ink markers, colored pencils, and watercolors, to a fresh look at how to use heat embossing, inks, and chalks, to discussing how or when to apply glitter and more, crafters will be challenged to use products that otherwise may have seemed too complicated. In addition to all the projects and tutorials, Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts is packed with tips and tricks, variations, and inspirational ideas, giving crafters the ability to stretch their wings and create like they've never thought possible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnies
    Release dateDec 1, 2014
    ISBN9781573675321
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    Coloring Techniques for Paper Crafts - Keri Lee Sereika

    Alcohol Ink Markers

    Color is a means of exerting direct influence on the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another purposively to cause vibrations in the soul.

    —Wassily Kandinsky

    Still one of the hottest techniques for coloring stamped images, alcohol ink markers are now readily available from many different manufacturers. Each manufacturer has a slightly different marker body and/or brush or tips on their markers, but the basic steps to applying color to a stamped image remain the same.

    Along with alcohol ink markers you will need two additional items to learn how to color stamped images—a non-solvent-based ink pad and smooth-surface cardstock. A high quality, dye-based detail ink will allow you to stamp a crisp, clean impression that will dry quickly without the use of a heat tool to fully set it. A good smooth-surface cardstock with tightly woven fibers is key to blending colors well. Because the ink formula in alcohol ink markers can affect the ink of the stamped image, causing it to bleed, run or smudge while being colored, take time to test the ink and cardstock combinations you plan on using prior to beginning your project.

    You Will Need:

    •Stampin’ Up! white cardstock

    •Scrap paper

    •Stampin’ Up! stamp sets: By the Tide, Fabulous Four

    •Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko Memento ink pads: rich cocoa, summer sky

    •Copic® markers: R11, R14, R27

    •Copic® Colorless Blender

    •Craft sponge

    As you can see in the materials photo, I have already created my palette and chosen the light, medium and dark shades of red and pink that work best for my image. Note: If you are just beginning, sometimes it is best to start with an image that has a sense of shading already there and use it as a guide when applying your color.

    1. Begin by stamping your image onto smooth cardstock. Allow ink to dry completely. Begin to apply color starting with the lightest color (Photo 1).

    2. Apply color using small circular motions until the paper is fully saturated through to the back side. Fully saturating the paper will help when you begin to blend in the deeper, darker colors (Photo 2).

    3. Having a Colorless Blender on hand is a helpful tool for fixing where you might color outside the lines. Simply place the edge of the Colorless Blender onto the stamped panel and push the color back toward the stamped image outer lines. Think of it this way, the Colorless Blender doesn’t blend the colors; it really acts more like an eraser or a pusher of color (Photo 3).

    4. Prior to applying the additional layers of color, I prefer to loosen all of the caps on the markers of the color set I will be working with. This allows me to easily pick up and blend with the lighter colors as soon as I am done adding in my deeper, darker layers (Photo 4).

    5. Apply the medium-tone color to the shaded portions of the image, overlapping just a bit into the more open areas of the image (Photo 5).

    6. Using the lightest color that had been used as the base color, go in and soften the lines by blending over the edges of the medium tone, again using that small circular motion to blend (Photo 6).

    7. Finally, apply the darkest color to the deepest shaded

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