There is a technique I ran across several months ago that I have been wanting to try. I decided that this weekend I would give it a shot. It is call Black and White Magic and you can see it on Karen’s blog. If you would like to see some of her gorgeous creations go to the beginning of her blog as that is where you will find most of them. Usually the card is done with black carstock, but Karen had also done some with other dark cardstocks. I decided to do mine with Night of Navy.
This technique has you stamp your image with white craft ink and heat set it. Afterwards you use Pure Color pencils (I did read a blog this morning where the lady used Prismacolor pencils dipped in odorless mineral spirits and it worked also) to color the image. After you have the image colored you then use a white gel pen to highlight the image. I had used Heartfelt greetings and only used the solid image and then went around all the leaves and flowers with the pen.
Since I had to do a sketch I went blurffing to find a sketch that I could use to do this technique. Jen at iheart2stamp had one that would work. I do have to say that I had to change the layout a little to make it work. Here is her sketch and my card.
Stamps: Heartfelt Greetings, So Many Sayings Paper: Garden Green, Night of Navy, Pretty in Pink, white Ink: Craft White Accessories: Garden Green Marker, Pure Color Pencils, white gel pen, silver & Night of Navy brads, dimensionals, sticky tapeSo, what do you think? Isn’t this the prettiest technique? I just love it and plan on using it again on my solid stamps for something different. Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!
