Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Splitcoast tutorial - Ombre techniques

In this week's tutorial, Amy Kunkle shares 3 different methods for creating an ombre background - it's a smooth gradient, usually a light-to-dark range of a single color.



For my card, I used Ranger dye reinkers and a wide brush, increasing the amount of water as I went down the panel. (This is Shizen watercolor paper, which is 100% cotton, super textured, and very fun to work with.)


It occurred to me AFTER my card was done that I should have taken some process photos... sorry about that! It was past my brain time. After the panel was dry, I stamped the poppy image (Crafter's Companion), and brushed inside the outline with bleach so I had a white image to color in. The poppies were colored with a mix of dye reinkers and watercolor markers.


The sentiment is one of my designs, which is between companies right now... it's stamped on a diecut from Simon Says Stamp.

Hope you'll try this one out!
Thanks for stopping by!

5 comments:

  1. Dina, I love the idea of the bleach! Clever and useful.

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  2. Beautiful, Dina, and I look forward to seeing your stamps "consolidated." I love this sentiment! Hugs!

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  3. Gorgeous Ombre watercolored background Dina. Clever to use bleach to remove color from your lined poppies. All perfect for your beautiful quote. TFS my friend.

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  4. Really,really like this. Colors is outstanding. Thanks.

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  5. This is stunning!!! And I love the sentiment so much!!!

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