Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Splitcoast Tutorial: Vintage Watercolor

This week's tutorial over on Splitcoast was so much fun for me - Heather Telford is sharing some of her tips for Vintage Watercolor. I used to love stamping scenes with all the masking and combining images - for the occasion I pulled out a retired stamp set from Flower Soft called Quiet Corner Bench. This set came with the bench and then a variety of things to mask or fussy cut to set on it - the cat, a basket, hat and gloves, and a book.


I stamped the kitty first and then masked him to stamp the bench. I used Adirondack Espresso ink for that stamping (still sad that those dye inks are no longer in production... I've used them for years!). I added extra color with my brush right from the the lid of the inkpad, and that took me back to my early stamping days as well. For the darker shading I used an Elegant Writer pen - I bought a set of these after watching THIS tutorial on YouTube... the effects she gets are so interesting! Love the way the ink reacts with water.


I added some stamped grass (Biblical Impressions), then stamped in some flowers from Art Impressions, either blending with a brush or stamping into brushed water. The sentiment I used is from my Warm Fuzzies clear set available through Impression Obsession. I love that little line from An Affair To Remember (click there to hear it! *sigh*).


I hope you'll give this tutorial a try - and check out the Elegant Writer, too, if you're interested in something new!

Thanks for stopping by!

9 comments:

  1. Superb artistry! Thanks for the inspiration! kReN@afourthlife.blogspot.com

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  2. Gorgeous Vintage watercoloring Dina. TFS all your steps and links. Hugs, Nancy

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  3. Beautiful card Dina! Thanks for the instructions!

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  4. What a beautiful card! Thank you for sharing and thanks for the link to the video. It was very interesting.

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  5. Oh me...I have one of these pen and will be giving this a try. Thanks for introducing me to this "new to me " artist.

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  6. Fabulous watercoloring!!! I love this image of the bench with the kitty. That sweet, but scheming, feline is only *acting* like he is napping. His tail is switching as he plots his next move!! :)
    <3 J

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  7. What a LOVELY CREATION, DINA!!! So SOFT & just BEAUTIFUL!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVED the video you directed us to!!! THANK YOU!!! I SO ENJOYED watching it!!! ;)

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  8. What a gorgeous card, Dina, and I LOVE the sweet image!! And what a great tip about the Elegant Writer pen (that I bought a while back). Heather did a great video on SCS and made two beautiful cards! Loved learning some great tips! Hugs!

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  9. Beautiful, fabulous! TFS. Daria

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