Welcome! I'm back in the saddle again--or at least trying to find my "riding legs" again. We've had some really crazy days, but things are settling down into a routine again, which usually includes card-making. Yesterday I pulled out a couple of MFT stamp sets, Green Pastures and The Whole Herd, as well as my Copic markers, and started coloring. It felt pretty good too! Note: I just saw that BOTH of these stamp sets are currently out of stock. You can get an e-mail notification when they are back in stock, however. Hope that helps!
These are the Copic Sketch markers that I used to color the images. The background was airbrushed with my Copic BG05 and Airbrush System. Everything else was colored normally. I did have one little incident. . . I had evidently overfilled one of my markers; and while I was working on the shadows in the hair, I had one big DRIP. . .
Well, there you have it--a lovely drip of E37, when I was almost finished. (That's when drips usually happen--Murphy's Law, you know?) To be fair, I weighed my marker after the drip, and it really was too full. I had refilled it myself, so this was totally MY fault. . .
When you are trying to rescue a piece from a drip, the goal is to use your Colorless Blender to PUSH the drip out of the areas that you need it out of. Sometimes you can push it through the back of the cardstock or paper onto an absorbent surface (like Kleenex or paper towels), and sometimes you are simply trying to push it back into the area that it should be in. Here I did a little of both--pushing through the paper AND pushing back into the hair area. I had to push ink out of the white border, out of the hat, and even out of enough of the hair to be able to have mid-tones and highlights.
It is important to STOP and let the paper dry during this process. Don't even THINK about "fixing" a drip that isn't completely dry, or you will have a really big mess. When the drip is dry, you can start pushing the offending ink. Push for a bit and let it dry, even if you have to do this several times to remove the ink.
It's mostly fixed here--not perfect, but useable! I went back onto the hat and added texture where I had messed up texture by pushing the brown ink out of the hat. The hair is softer than I prefer in the drip area, but not soft enough to stand out on the finished card. The border is still tinted a bit brown, but I hid that problem by using some distress ink on all of the edges. Yep--sneaky. ;-)
Well, that's it for today! Thanks for stopping by again, and I'll try to be posting more often again now that life has slowed down. Have a great day!
Supplies List:
Stamps: Green Pastures and The Whole Herd (both seem to be out of stock tonight)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
Cardstock: Kraft, Simply Chartreuse (PTI) and X-Press It Blending Card
Coloring Medium: Copic markers
Dies: Green Pastures Die-namics, The Whole Herd Die-namics, Cross-Stitched Circle STAX Die-namics, Rolling Hills Die-namics
Accessories: SU Winter White embossing powder; PTI Rustic Twine
