Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
This past weekend, I took time off from cardmaking to watercolor some of the images from the Penny Black Mimi at Play set with Distress ink pads and markers. I find that I need to color the images several times before I’m happy with my results!
I paired Mimi with a sentiment from the Friendship set and a die-cut window. To cut out that area between her toy horse and the rocker, I cut off the rocker, cut out the paper, and then reattached the rocker with dimensional tape. 🙂
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I took a short break from coloring to create a paper-pieced card using one of the images from Penny Black’s Blooming Garden stamp set paired with a sentiment from the Friendship set.
Once I had created the flowers, I referred to the handouts from Summer Card Camp 2011 to find a color palette that would work with the yellow and orange. I’m not quite ready for fall, but I definitely do like fall colors. I stamped the blue cardstock with the Letter Background stamp in Versamark ink to add a little texture.
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Have you met Mindy? She’s Mimi’s sister and a relatively new addition to the Penny Black family.  I wanted to practice my Copic coloring, so I stamped and heat embossed the adorable Mindy image. And I couldn’t resist getting the Mimi at Play set just for the “Sending Hugs” sentiment that seemed like a perfect fit.
Copics – hair: Y23, Y 26, E33, E27; bear: E21, E31, E33; pants +scarf: R20, R24, R27; tunic: B00, B02, YR31, YR15; shoes: E57, E59; face: Roo, R02
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I’m sharing another masculine card today using the Penny Black Tuning Up stamp set. In addition to computer programming (the theme of this card), my husband also likes to fiddle with old cars, so I couldn’t resist stamping this image for another Father’s Day card!
I watercolored with both Distress Ink pads and with Memento markers. For the red car exterior, I simply colored with the Memento marker, as my first attempt to watercolor it resulted in a mess! I also used my Copic C2 for some of the grill work and engine interior, as I wanted a lighter gray. This watercoloring is addictive!
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This past weekend I had an opportunity to color stamped images, including some from the Penny Black “Mimi Safari” stamp set. For this card I watercolored with a variety of Distress Ink pad inks.
At the suggestion of Elizabeth Allan, I added a little bit of Ink Potion #9 to the water into which I dipped my brush (I did not add water to the water brush, instead I just used it like a regular brush). I created a sentiment for the “photo border” on my computer and die cut it with the InstaFrame from My Favorite Things. The blue background in the “photo” was created with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. After much research, I discovered that a combination of Tattered Rose and Tea Dye works well for skin tones. I had initially tried Vintage Linen, which made Mimi look rather lifeless!
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