Watercolored Lotus

I've got a pretty lotus card from InkOn3 to share with you today! I did more shimmer watercoloring - it's my current obsession! 

I planned to watercolor the new Lotus Stamp Set, so I knew I would do some heat embossing. I love having a black outline, so I stamped my lotus image with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink onto watercolor cardstock and quickly sprinkled on Crystal Clear Embossing Powder and heat set the image. 

I watercolored the lotus using shimmer watercolors, but you can use whatever you have! Once my image was colored I trimmed it out with scissors. 

I wanted a background that would coordinate with my stamped image. I masked a quarter of an inch off of each side of a piece of white cardstock and placed the new Curls Stencil over the top. I used My Jam Purple and Peacock Blue Atelier Inks to ink up the stencil. 

I finished the card by stamping a sentiment from the Lotus Stamp Set with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink and popped it up near the center of the card! Hope you have a great day! 

Rainbow Atelier Ink Watercolor

I just LOVE to watercolor with InkOn3 Atelier Inks! They are bright and vibrant and move so well in water! 

I used 8 colors of Atelier Ink on my rainbow background - all except Shark Tooth White, Twiggy Brown, and Paint it Black. I stamped a geometric background, but you could certainly use a ruler and a marker and draw your own background. I stamped first with Juicy Clear Embossing Ink and then with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink and heat embossed with Crystal Clear Ultra Fine Embossing Powder. 

I smooshed my Atelier Ink Pads onto my work surface and used a wet brush to add color to each area of my background. I tried my best not to put the same color next to each other and to evenly space out each color. Once my background was painted and dry I took clean water and flicked it onto my background and picked it up with an Ink Off Cloth. I repeated this three times to intensify the lift effect. 

I didn't want to cover up a lot of my pretty background, so I added a few die cut sentiments and covered the large "hello" with Liquid Pixie Dust so that it would stand out. And that's it! I hope you give this technique a try! 

Clean and Simple Atelier Ink Watercolor

Hi, it's Lynnea! I *almost* made a one layer card using InkOn3 Atelier Inks as watercolors ... and then I couldn't help myself and added a layer! *face palm* Maybe one of these days! 

This card is so simple and you can switch up the sentiment to make any kind of card! I stamped the pitcher, stem, flower, and sentiment from the Posies Stamp Set using both Juicy Watermark and Embossing Ink and Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink. I had to stamp the pieces separately and I wasn't sure I could work quickly enough to use just the Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink, so I stamped first with the Juicy Watermark and Embossing Ink. Once all of the images were stamped I heat embossed them with Crystal Clear Embossing Ink. 

I used Sweet Petunia Pink and Marylin Red Atelier Inks to watercolor the flower, Goddess Green for the stem, and Trinity Teal for the pitcher. I needed ground my "scene" so I watered down some Twiggy Brown Atelier Ink and added a line of ink under the pitcher. Once the ink was dry I went over everything with Liquid Pixie Dust. I trimmed down the panel just a bit and popped it up onto a white card base. And that's it! See you soon! 

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!

Ink Smooshed Rainbow Christmas Card

Can't stop won't stop with the rainbow Christmas cards! I used some Atelier Inks from InkOn3 to create a smooshy rainbow background for this punny card! 

I would like to start an official petition to bring back ink smooshing! Haha! It's one of my favorite techniques. It's effortless and easy to blend colors for an organic looking background. I pressed some Bee Sting Atelier Ink onto my work surface. I use a glass mat, but a piece of plastic packaging would work, too! I sprayed the ink once or twice with water and then used an old stamp pocket ( again, a piece of plastic would work just fine! ) and picked up some of the ink and pressed it onto a piece of watercolor cardstock. I repeated the process with Trinity Teal Atelier Ink and Sweet Petunia Atelier Ink, The colors mixed together giving me a rainbow background! 

I added a spritz of water to a drop of Shark Tooth White Atelier Re-Inker and used a paint brush to spatter some paint onto my background. I used Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink to stamp the adorable images and color them with Copic Markers. I trimmed out the images and added them to the smooshy background with foam tape. 

I wanted this card to shimmer and shine, so I added a good and healthy coat of Liquid Pixie Dust to the peas and the earth. That's all! I hope you try this smooshing tutorial! 

Faux Watercolored Backgrounds with the Mirror Image Stamp

Hi! You guys know I'm all about easy cards that pack a punch, right?! Today I'm going to show you a super quick way to add a faux watercolor background to your cards using the Mirror Image Stamp from InkOn3!

I really like to show products being used in different ways. The Mirror Image Stamp is intended to be used for ... well ... mirror image stamping! Haha! I decided to take the stamp and twist it and use it to create a full background. I used Atelier Inks because I love how vibrant they are and how they move with water. I used a stamp positioner for this technique and I highly recommend one. It made it a lot easier!

I positioned the Mirror Image Stamp so that it would stamp in the center of a piece of A2 sized watercolor cardstock and used all of the rainbow colors of Atelier Inks for my four backgrounds! I used Marilyn Red, Marigold Orange, Bee Sting Yellow, Goddess Green, Peacock Blue, and My Jam Purple. I just inked up the Mirror Image Stamp with three different colors of Atelier Ink and sprayed it with water and stamped it onto my watercolor cardstock for the faux watercolor look! I love it!

I dried each panel with a heat tool and added some bold white heat embossed images to the front. I love the big floral image in the new BeYOUtiful stamp set! It's big and bold and perfect for being the center piece on a card! I lined up the flower, some leaves, and the sentiment from the BeYOUtiful Stamp Set and stamped them with Juicy Watermark Ink and heat embossed them with Arctic White Fine Detail Embossing Powder. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the set!

You definitely want to check out my process video above! This technique is so easy! I finished off the cards by adding a quick coating of Liquid Pixie Dust to the flowers and that's it! Clean and simple and quick and easy faux watercolored backgrounds with the Mirror Image Stamp and Atelier Inks. I hope you love them!

Hello Magnolia Friendship Card

Hello Friends, Ilda here and happy Friday!

Today I am sharing a card featuring the BIG BOLD MAGNOLIAS Stamp set, that I previously had colored for the last Kathy Raccosin's coloring challenge. I love participating in her challenges because I end up with a ton of colored pieces ready to go on a card.

CARD DETAILS

So to begin, I stamped out the images first onto Bristol paper using BLACKOUT INK. I then colored the images in with Karin Brush Marker Pro Brushpens that were new to me and I wanted to test them out. Once the water coloring was dry I went back to add some pencil detailing. I then place the colored images back into the stamp positioner and re-inked the images using JUICY INK this time. 

Next, I sprinkled GOLD RUSH EMB. PWD. over the panel and then heat set the lines in. As you can see some of the BLACKOUT INK is still showing through some areas, but that didn't bother me as it looks like a shadow line. Please note, when you watercolors the paper will warp a little so linning it back may not be perfect unless you use non-waterbased media. I then die cut each flower up using the BIG BOLD MAGNOLIAS coordinating dies and glued them on to a strip of cardstock that I had added the same gold embossing using the LEAFY FOREST STENCIL.

To finish, I die cut, stacked and glued together the Hello from the DOGWOOD coordinating die set. Before adhering it all to the card base I diluted some of the red I used on the flower and added splatters onto the card front.

I hope you have been inspired by this Magnolia Friendship Card. 

Thank you for stopping by 😊

Until next time... Happy Crafting 👋

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Rainbow Stripes Watercolor with Atelier Re-Inker

Rainbows just make me so happy! Especially when they're bright and vibrant and mixed with beautiful white flowers! I used Atelier Ink Re-Inkers from InkOn3 along with the Posies Stamp Set for today's card - and I have to say - I really like it!

I love using re-inkers to add rich, vibrant color and the Atelier Inks are gorgeously pigmented! I wanted to have some simple chunky stripes, so I decided to just free hand them! 

I added a few drops of Marilyn Red, Marigold Orange, Bee Sting Yellow, Goddess Green, Peacock Blue, and My Jam Purple Re-Inkers to my work surface and used a bit of water and a 1/2" flat watercolor brush to add stripes to a piece of watercolor cardstock. I tried to keep the stripes pretty even, but in the end I think the fact that they all look a little wonky is great! It gives the background character! Haha! I keep a bit of Liquid Pixie Dust in a Small Fine Tip Watercolor Brush and I brushed some over each stripe. If I had thought ahead properly I would have mixed a drop of Liquid Pixie Dust into each puddle of Atelier Re-Inker before I painted - but I didn't. Oh well! 

I stamped my image from the Posies Stamp Set with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink by combining the vase, stem, and flower onto heavy weight white cardstock. I colored the image quickly with Copic Markers and trimmed it out. I snapped a photo of the Copics that I used or you can see the coloring in action in the video above! Of course I needed a bit more shimmer, so I covered the image with Liquid Pixie Dust. 

I finished the card by stamping a sentiment from the Posies Stamp Set with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink and adding the image with foam tape. I hope you like it! There's just something so striking about a vibrant rainbow background with a simple white flower. See you soon!

No Line Emboss Resist Technique

I have to be honest - I didn't know if today's project would work when I started making my card. In theory ... it should work - but you know how that goes! I'm calling it No Line Resist and it's SO easy! I used InkOn3 Fadeout No Line Ink and an assortment of Atelier Inks for my card!

This technique is so easy and I love the results! And you can replicate this with any stamp set in your stash!

Let's start! I used the tiny little images in the Fox & Bunny Hugs stamp set and the Forever Friends stamp set to create my background. I love using the little images in stamp sets and bringing them to life! I chose a bunch of small images and mounted them all together in a cluster on my acrylic block. I used InkOn3 Fadeout No Line Ink and repeatedly stamped the cluster of stamps until my whole background was covered.

When I use Fadeout No Line Ink for watercoloring I love how the ink grabs and traps my color making no line coloring simple and easy. My idea was to use that property of the Fadeout Ink for an entire background. In theory it should work - and it did! After my background was stamped with the Fadeout Ink I smooshed some Atelier Ink onto my work surface. I didn't want the colors to get too muddy, so I decided to use just Marilyn Red, Bee Sting Yellow, and Peacock Blue and let the colors mix to form the rest of the colors of the rainbow. I used plenty of water to the color would move and blend and look! See how the stamped images are darker! It's a tone on tone look that was so easy to do! The Fadeout Ink grabbed the Atelier Ink as I colored and trapped it leaving a darker concentration of color and the background images just pop!

Once my background was dry I put a little puddle of Liquid Pixie Dust onto my work surface and flicked on some dots of glitter all over the background.

I stamped the image from the Forever Friends stamp set with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink and watercolored it with Atelier Inks. I thought about using Fadeout Ink to color the image, but I thought the black out line would stand out more against the pretty background. I used a Small Fine Tip Watercolor Brush and a few colors of Atelier Ink - Marigold Orange, Twiggy Brown, and Paint It Black. I just smooshed some ink onto my work surface and picked it up with the Fine Tip Watercolor Brush. And these inks clean right up with an Ink Off Cloth!

I stamped a sentiment from the Forever Friends stamp set with Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink onto a die cut shape and added my image on top. A good coat of Liquid Pixie dust finishes off the card! I hope you'll give this resist technique using Fadeout No Line Ink a try!

Sparkly Faux Enamel Die Cuts

Hello everyone, Kassi here..

It's no secret, I love doing no-line coloring, and keeping my cards CAS... but I also like including elements that make it pop... Just a little something to add a bit of sparkle or dimension...

One of my recent favorites is sparkly faux enamel die cuts.... They are beautiful, customizable, and look fabulous without adding much bulk.... which means you can keep your cards easy to mail, while still having some sparkle and dimension!

 Let's take a closer look at how this card is made, and I'll show you how easy it is to make sparkly faux enamel sentiments....  

Atelier Inks: Colorful Splatter Card

Hello Crafty Friends! It's Cheryl here to show you how to get messy with Inkon3's Atelier Inks to make a colorful splatter card!

Pre-Prep: 
- Card base: cut out a sheet of white card stock that is 8"x8.5", then fold in half for a 4"x8.5" card.
- Cut a piece of Water color paper 4"x 8.5".
- On Watercolor paper-stamp and fussy cut five of the little mouse with a present from the Dance and Twirl Stamp set.
- Put a few drops of Atelier Inks Water Color/Re-inker in a watercolor palette, add a few drops of water to dilute the ink. I used the following colors: Peacock Blue, Goddess Green, Bee Sting Yellow, Marigold Orange, and Marilyn Red.
- Die cut small black banner, for the "Happy Birthday" sentiment.

Directions:

On the 4"x8.5" watercolor paper, use a large watercolor brush that is slightly damp and brush get a 2"x2" area wet on the far left center. With a smaller wet brush, drop the Peacock Blue ink into the wet area of the paper until the you get your desired color saturation. To add the next color, use the large damp brush again and brush out another 2"x2" area, starting from right to left, leaving a little room between the two colors. Next drop in the Goddess Green ink into the uncolored wet area, and use your paintbrush to pull the green ink into the blue ink. Repeat these steps with the next colors. The color order I used was: Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red.

To add small splatters of color, dip the small brush into the Peacock Blue ink, aiming the brush tip at the 4"x8.5" watercolor paper, tap the brush on the side of your hand. When doing this make sure the area is easy to clean and that you've cleared your area of anything you're not worried about getting splatters on! It can get messy! Repeat the process with the other colors. Don't forget to wipe down the area after you're done! :P

Next watercolor the five little mice with the present. I colored the bows with each of the colors I used for the background. While the mouse and present are white, I used a very watered down Atelier Ink - Paint it Black to add some shading details to the mouse. I used a watered down Atelier Ink - Peacock Blue for the shading of the present. I watered down the Marilyn Red to color in the Mouse's ears.

On the small black banner, using an embossing ink, stamp the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from the Dance and Twirl stamp set. Then sprinkle Arctic White Embossing powder over the sentiment and tap off any excess powder. Heat set the embossing powder.

Now we're ready to assemble the card! Adhere the 4"x8.5" water colored paper onto the card base. Then adhere each of the mice to match the background color. Add some skinny washi tape on the top and bottom of the card. I left a little bit of room on the bottom so that I can center the black banner over it. Lastly, adhere the black banner to the far right of the card.

I hope you like this card! I really love seeing how the watercolor take shape when dropping colors onto slightly damp paper!

Inkon3 Products Used:
Peacock Blue Re-Inker
Goddess Green Re-Inker
Bee Sting Yellow Re-Inker
Marigold Orange Re-Inker
Marilyn Red Re-Inker
Paint it Black - Atelier Ink
Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink 
Dance and Twirl Stamp Set
Arctic White Ultra-Fine Embossing Powder