This week's Make it Monday challenge at Papertrey Ink involves color isolation. Basically this means stamping a background in a neutral color and then adding a pop of color with one image. Ashley has a wonderful video showing just how to do this
here.
I don't have many stamps the involve coloring. Many years ago I bought several Copics when coloring those children images on cards were popular. I also made my own digital stamps so I figured the Copics would help me color those. I never truly loved coloring with the Copic markers..the end results were good but it took a long time and you had to use special paper/ink. I ended up giving my coloring stamps to my kids. So recently I was gifted a set of Prismacolor pencils. I decided to give coloring a try again and purchased PTI's gorgeous Peonies on Parade stamp set. Here is what I came up with for this challenge:
I embossed the focal image with Versamark ink using white powder. This kinda made it hard to color and see each flower petal. So I scribbled over the entire image with peach pencil first. (I think I if I do this again I will stamp in black or a color a shade darker than the flower). Then I added shading with the pink pencil. I blended it all with Gamsol. I just love how the pencil strokes just melted away when I applied the Gamsol! (Oh and I used the Gamsol kit by Inky Antics. It includes everything you need to start blending your color pencils. I love the dauber bottle! It has a sponge tip which you depress with the blending stump. No open containers to spill. I have heard you can refill this bottle too by popping the top off.) The middle was done with goldenrod appplying heavier color to the very center. I do love how this flower turned out! This didn't take nearly as long as using Copics. It was quite relaxing coloring. I can see why everyone is jumping on the adult coloring book bandwagon! I have to admit though I tried various shades of purple for my first attempt at this flower and didn't like the results. So I think it will take some experimenting knowing which pencils blend well together.
I scribbled the leaves first with the chartreuse pencil then added shading with the apple green pencil. I am soo glad I got this stamp set and will definitely be looking at other outline images to color in the future. Do you love or loathe coloring?
I did not buy the metal dies for this set. I really don't think I will anytime soon. For this image I fussy cut close to the flower so I wouldn't have to color precisely. I just cut off my scribbles! I always have a hard time deciding if the metal dies that match the stamps are worth purchasing. Sometimes they cost almost as much as the stamps themselves!
For the background I used more images from Peonies on Parade stamped in Memento Platinum Planet metallic ink. I needed one small flower to fill in the spaces and borrowed my daughter's PTI Flutterby Friend for that. Since this challenge involves a single pop of color I resisted adding any embellishments. I did cut out the background panel with a pierced rectangle die to add some interest.
Supplies listed and linked below:
I used the following Prismacolor pencils:
Goldenrod (1034) Peach (939) and Pink (929)for flowers
Chartreuse (989) and Apple Green (912) for the leaves
You can find individual pencils
here or the whole pack
here.
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