Coloring With Ink Blending

 Ink blending with Atelier Inks is such a quick way to add color to images! 

I love when small stamp sets go a long way! The Here for You Stamp Set is a mini set with the most gorgeous floral image and small sentiments. I stamped the image with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink and heat embossed it with Crystal Clear Fine Detail Embossing Powder. I used Marilyn Red Atelier Ink and Goddess Green Atelier Inks to blend color onto the image and cut it out with my scissors. I masked off the edges of a card and added a bit of Black Glitz Glitter Gel over a polka dot stencil and popped up my flower on top. 

I stamped a sentiment from the Here for You Stamp Set with Juicy Watermark Embossing Ink and heat embossed it with Arctic White Fine Detail Embossing Powder. I trimmed the sentiment out into a strip and added it to the card with foam tape. That's it! Thanks for joining me!

Basic Starter Watercoloring with Guest Designer Melinda

Happy hump day beautiful people! Today I’m going to share a card technique that I love because the painting is pretty quick and simple. This one will be great for those of you learning to watercolor.

* Cut card base 4x9 inches and top piece at 3 3/4x 8 3/4 inches
* Take the Pondie stencil and some texture paste and smear across the center of your top piece. Set aside to dry while you make the rest of the card.
* Cut 6 1/2 x 8 inch piece of watercolor paper and lay down the large floral and the leaves in the lower left corner of your paper. Stamp the flower with My Jam Purple and the leaves in Trinity Teal. The bud I stamped the top in purple and the lower part with the teal. Flip your paper and repeat the stamping. If you have a stamp positioner leave your stamps in position. If you don’t, no worries you’ll just skip a step.
* Smear some Peacock Blue, My Jam Purple, Trinity Teal and Goddess Green Atelier inks on your craft mat or a plate like I used. Wet the whole flower with your water brush, pick up bits of blue and purple, dab them randomly and just let the ink flow and do it’s thing. Paint the leaves with teal and green.
* After you color everything let it dry. Repeat the stamping process to bring back the detail. Skip this if you don’t have a positioner.
* Move your stamps to the lower right corner and repeat the above steps.
* Stamp the centers of the large flower in black and use a black pen for your bud. Add some white gel pen  highlights.
* Fussy cut everything out and set aside the extra flower and bud. I used all my leaves.
* I used a slim line frame to frame my center and arranged the flowers and leaves until I was happy with the look. I popped one  of the large flowers at each corner and glued everything else to the top panel. I needed a birthday card so I used this sentiment, that like the frame was kicking around on my desk.

I hope you’ll give this technique a try. It’s great for playing around with and getting a feel for watercolors. Have a great rest of the week and be well!

Stencil Watercoloring - Guest Designer Judy

Hello, it's Judy here, and I'm so happy and honored to be guest designing for Ink On 3 today. I have a fun technique for you. It's watercoloring on a stencil. Here is my card.

I began by stenciling the image from the Floral Stencil with Ink On 3 Fadeout No-Line Coloring Ink. Then I watercolored over the image.

I used Ink On 3 Atelier Inks in My Jam Purple, Peacock Blue, Goddess Green, Bee Sting Yellow, Twiggy Brown and Marilyn Red. These inks lend themselves beautifully to watercoloring. The blending and reaction with water is amazing.

Next I used the Leafy Forest Stencil on some watercolor paper to create an accent for my card. I used the Atelier Inks in My Jam Purple and Peacock Blue. Then I cut the Floral Stencil image on an angle  and inserted the Leafy Forest Stencil strip between the 2 halves. The greeting is from the Dogwood Flower Stamp Set.

This is a super fun technique I hope you will try it. You can use almost any stencil, depending on whether you want a focal image or an over all background.

Until next time, here's celebrating your Creative Muse!!!

Masculine Koi Pond Card

Hi Crafty Friends! It's Cheryl with the Creative Team here to show you how I made some cards for the important men in my life, the cards read "Happy Father's Day", but change up the sentiments and these cards can be used for any occasion!

I made the card in portrait and landscape orientation! Which one do you prefer?

First I created a 5.5"x 4.25" card base using white card stock. Then I used a rectangle die to cut out a panel that's slightly smaller than the card base. Next, I used distress oxide ink in Tumbled Glass and a blending tool to add a light blue background to the lower right hand corner of the card. Place the Wavy stencil over the light blue background and with a blending tool and Peacock Blue Atelier Ink, blend in the atelier ink concentrating on the lower right hand corner and lightly bring in the color towards the center of the card to create an ombre look.

From the Koi Pond stamp set, stamp out the Koi images of your choice using Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink, color with your choice of coloring medium and then fussy cut. For the Lily Pads, I first stamped the largest lily pad stamp using the Goddess Green Atelier Ink, then I used the Peacock Blue on the next layer, and Marigold Orange on the last layer. The Atelier Inks worked so well when layered! Fussy cut the lily pads.

Then I die cut some flags for the sentiments, for a perfectly coordinated sentiment flag, I die cut white card stock and applied Peacock Blue Atelier ink with a blending tool. I stamped the sentiments with embossing ink, used Arctic White Ultra Fine Embossing Powder and heat set.

Adhere the panel with the stenciled waves onto the card base. Then position the fussy cut images, and sentiment flags onto the card front as shown in the picture above. Trim off any excess of the sentiment flags that extends beyond the Koi. Adhere the fussy cut images and sentiment flags onto the card and there you have it!

Copic Colors Used: 

Reds: R29, R27, R24, R22

Oranges: YR27, YR68, YR14, YR12 

Products used:

Koi Pond 4x6 Clear Stamp

Atelier Inks - Peacock Blue

Atelier Inks - Goddess Green

Atelier Inks - Marigold Orange

Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink

Wavy 6x6 Stencil

Arctic White Ultra Fine Embossing Powder

BeYOUtiful Friend

Hi everyone! It’s Jeannie (InsideoutJeans) on the blog today with Ink on 3’s stamp set named BeYOUtiful stamp set. This is one of the newest stamp sets that is part of the BeYOUtiful Waters bundle. If you know me, I love any kind of florals and this is no exception. 

I stamped out the main floral image (which is really large!) using Ink on 3's Fadeout Ink. Since this ink is used for no-line coloring, I was able to add the leaves and additional florals without needing to mask. I wanted to create a corner of florals using the BeYOUtiful stamp set. 

I went ahead and colored everything in using alcohol markers (colors listed below). Originally, the florals were going to be in the bottom right hand corner of the card but I decide to flip it around so the card panel read horizontally and the florals ended up in the bottom left corner. 

I pulled out my Goddess Green Atelier Ink and ink blended in the top right hand corner. I didn't want to be too heavy handed and wanted a soft ink blend. I decided to use the new Wavy stencil to add a bit of interest to the background. I just went over the area I already blended with additional ink along with the stencil and it added a subtle interest to the background. I wanted to add a bit of balance so I added a little bit of the Goddess Green Atelier Ink to the bottom left hand corner as well. 

For the sentiment, I was able to pick and choose my own sentiment and stamped it using Ink on 3's Blackout Ink. To finish off the card, I used some embellishments to surround the sentiment and added a bit to the remaining white space. 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you get inspired to create. Come back again soon for more inspiration and ideas! Happy Crafting! 

→ SUPPLIES USED ← 

Items marked with an asterisk (*) were provided by a store or the manufacturer for review and use. All other items were personally purchased. Affiliate links may be used at no cost to you. 

STAMP SET(S):
*Ink on 3 - BeYOUtiful: https://bit.ly/2Ug0bKy

STENCILS: *Ink on 3 - Wavy: https://bit.ly/2Ug131A

INK:
*Ink on 3 - Fadeout Ink:  http://bit.ly/2RulfMP *Ink on 3 - Blackout Hybrid Ink: http://bit.ly/2YAStuf *Ink on 3 - Goddess Green Atelier Ink Pad : http://bit.ly/3aXAZzk

COLORING: Copic Sketch - R20: http://shrsl.com/1f3o5  Copic Sketch - R22: http://shrsl.com/1iznz  Copic Sketch - R24: http://shrsl.com/1ah3c   Copic Sketch - R27: http://shrsl.com/17ydv   Copic Sketch - YG01: https://shrsl.com/2bikp 

Copic Sketch - YG13: http://shrsl.com/1ah3f 

Copic Sketch - YG17: http://shrsl.com/1erwt  Copic Sketch - YG67: http://shrsl.com/1ah3h Copic Sketch - E25: http://shrsl.com/172a2  Copic Sketch - E27: http://shrsl.com/1erwo  Copic Sketch - E29: http://shrsl.com/172a5 

Fox and Bunny Hugs - New Release

Hi everyone! It’s Jeannie (InsideoutJeans) on the blog today with Ink on 3’s stamp set named Fox and Bunny Hugs stamp set along with the Leafy Forest stencil. These two are part of the new release and there's a bundle on sale right now, which you can find here. 

Also, today is the last day for the 25% sale that Ink on 3 is having in conjunction with the Spread Joy, Not Germs blog hop. Use the code: SPREADJOYNOTGERMS for 25% on the Ink on 3 site. 

I have a video for these two cards but generally for both my cards, I decided to use Atelier Inks re-inkers mixed with some shimmer paste, specifically Goddess Green and Bee Sting Yellow with the Leafy Forest stencil. I had leftovers of the shimmer paste mixture so I added the excess a second card. 

I colored up the Fox and Bunny Hugs main image stamped in the Blackout ink and Fadeout ink so I could do a normal coloring and no-line coloring. I wanted to create two different looks for the cards. 

If you're interested in all the steps for how these cards came together, come by the YouTube channel for the full process video HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you get inspired to create. Come back again soon for more inspiration and ideas! Happy Crafting! 

Quick But Bright You're Special card with Erica

Hi guys!

Erica back on the Inkon3 blog today with a quick but very bright card! I have used a new-to-me stamp set, Bunny Hugs, and I used the Atelier Inks to add colour.

To start with, I heat embossed the tree trunk in Gold Rush embossing powder. I used the Juicy pad to stamp it up before sprinkling the embossing powder very generously over the panel. This is water colour paper, Canson XL, that's been cut down to 4.25"x5.5".

After adding some colour to the actual tree trunk, with the help of the Twiggy Brown ink pad as I don't have the re-inker yet, I got the canopy part of the tree very wet and added colour to it by dabbing a paint brush filled with ink in it. Doing it this way, I feel, adds a bit of texture and you get that lovely natural spreading of the colour.

From left to right I have used Bee Sting Yellow, Marigold Orange, Marilyn Red, Peacock Blue and Goddess Green.

To make sure the canopy was dry, before I stamped up the leaves, I used my heat gun on the panel to set the colours. With the help of the MISTI, I then stamped the leaves with Blackout Ink until they were nice and solid. I also added a sentiment 'You're Special' from the Bunny Hugs set, under the tree.

I love a bit of heat embossing and a splash of colour for a quick card! What do you think?

If you are in the Phoenix area this weekend, Jan 18-20th, and are attending Creativation, make sure to stop by the Inkon3 and the Picket Fence Studios booths as I, and the rest of the teams, will be demoing the Atelier inks there! You will get to see these in action and try them out for yourself too!

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you found this inspiring and will give it a go yourself. Oh, I made a video too! It's over on my YouTube channel if you wanted to have a look.

Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

PS If you do attend Creativation, make sure to some up and say hello!

Atelier Inks & Big Bold Magnolias

Hi everyone! It’s Jeannie (InsideoutJeans) on the blog today with featuring Ink on 3's new Atelier inks! The card I'm featuring today was entirely colored using the new Atelier inks plus the beloved Blackout hybrid ink.

Here's a little summary of the inks and what they can do:

• Artist Grade Quality
• Specialty, Water Reactive, Fusion Ink, Acid-free and archival
• Water coloring (remains bright even after dry)
• Stamping, Blending, Embossing
• Color Layering
• Artistic, Bright, Crisp Impressions,
• Alcohol / Copic Marker friendly (air dry or heat set)
• Full coverage on solid stamp images
• Fun effects - After inking surface, spritz with water.
• Buttery Smooth - Create beautiful blended backgrounds, using a blending tool or brush.
• Blend over stencils.
• Works on most paper surfaces.

For my card today, I'm using the inks alongside the Big Bold Magnolias stamp set, which were stamped out using Blackout hybrid ink. I'm only using THREE colors to color up this entire card: Marilyn Red, Bee Sting Yellow, and Goddess Green. I decided to use the re-inkers because I wanted to watercolor.

I started off with the background and painted an ombre using Marilyn Red and Bee Sting Yellow. The two colors blended together to create a smooth ombre look without any grittiness or chalkiness. I was especially shocked by how vibrant the yellow was! 

Next, I went ahead and used the three colors (Marilyn Red, Bee Sting Yellow, and Goddess Green) to color in the floral images. I'm definitely not a pro at watercoloring, but these were really easy to use.I found that the lack of water spots really played a role in these inks. I have a tendency to end up with random spots that dried but the inks were super forgiving. 

I wanted to use a sentiment from the Heels to You stamp set. For the die cut words, I actually used the Bee Sting ink pad and covered a piece of white cardstock and then die cut the words "Beautiful" and "Friend" from the Heels to You coordinating die set.   You can really see the vibrancy of the yellow from the ink pad! 

I added a few embellishments to the card and that finished up the card. I'm loving how I can use the same medium to color up an entire card. Have you checked out the inks yet? My first impression is that they are pretty amazing! 

If you want to see them in action, head over to the Inkon3 YouTube channel.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back again soon for some more inspiration and ideas! Happy Crafting!