katiedrewcards: Free as a bird coloured with blends

The new Free as a bird stamp set has some beautiful images which are perfect for colouring with Stampin’ Blends. My collection of blends is growing steadily and I have to admit I don’t reach for my other alcohol markers much any more.

To be fair, they are quite an investment at £4.25 each but if you are thinking of getting some good quality colouring pens, I would definitely recommend them. They blend beautifully and I’m finding I use both tips whereas I never used the chisel tip of my old markers.

I have made two cards in the same style, just changing the colours slightly to suit the dsp I have used behind the image.

I always use both the light and dark of each colour and the colour lifter is invaluable. The colours used in the striped card are soft suede, ivory, pool party, daffodil delight, old olive and petal pink. For the other card I used soft suede, ivory, balmy blue, old olive and daffodil delight.

To create each card I stamped the largest image onto whisper white cardstock and die cut using a stitched rectangle die, the edge of the rectangle has been softened with ink applied using a dauber, balmy blue for one and pool party for the other. The dsp background is cut to fit onto an A6 sized landscape card. The sentiments are stamped using the same colour ink as the card they are stamped on, balmy blue on one card and pool party on the other, they have been die cut using the 'raffle ticket' shape die from stitched labels.

My tips for colouring the images are -

Use a very light hand - helps to avoid colour bleed, you can always add more colour.
Apply the dark colour first then blend using the light colour or the colour lifter.
Don't be afraid of white space - The chest of the birds is uncoloured, the colour lifter will soften the white with the colour you're blending.
Use the smaller (bullet) tip to colour very small areas and to add extra colour after blending.

I hope you like these cards and are inspired to do some colouring, the products used are shown below.

Thanks for looking,
Katie x

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