We're doing a Book Study as a group on
NGS, using
Nancy Curry's book "Texture Effects for Rubber Stamping". This week we are looking at her projects " Illumination" and "The Key Point". In these projects, Nancy makes a watercolor wash with a large foam brush and watercolor crayons, then removes some of the background wash with dry rubber stamps. Check out her book for the gorgeous creations she made.
I don't have watercolor crayons, but do have some watercolor paints. First, moistened a foam paint brush, then spread some blue watercolor paint along the bottom edge, sprayed with more water to moisten the paint, then brushed it over coated card stock.
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Quickly, while the paint was still wet, stamped dry rubber stamps in to the paint to remove some of the paint, to create light images.
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For the next step, Nancy colored her rubber stamps with the same watercolor crayon. Not having the crayons, I colored my stamps with the same watercolor paint used to make the background. Squirted the paint on to a bit of paper towel and sponged iton to my stamps, then stamped them on to the background. I liked how this gave me the opportunity of doing the music stamp with different amounts of paint.
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When the paint had dried, over stamped the herons and dragonfly with dark blue dye ink along with the word "discover". Then stamped a saying and more dragonflies with black Archival ink and heat set.
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Trimmed the card stock, colored the edges with black Archival ink and heat set. Tore a strip of white card stock and adhered to the left side of a dark blue card. Glued the stamped card stock on top.
Below you can see the same card made earlier when I grabbed the wrong supplies.