Spring to Autumn Coffee | Alcohol Marker Coloring on Kraft

I’ve been super busy lately, and trying hard to keep up with a bunch of deadlines – self-imposed and otherwise. As a result I have three (yes, three!) videos going live tomorrow for various hops. Today though I’m sharing a project I’d wanted to have live earlier in the week. This was supposed to be my Marvelous Monday Crafting Crew card for the week but I ran out of time to get it done for Monday. I have a different plan for next Monday (assuming I get it done in time!) so figured as this was mostly done I would share it today instead.

My idea with this card was that I wanted to create an Autumn card with a Spring stamp, and I also wanted to use my alcohol markers on coloured card stock. I started by arranging the image and one of the sentiments from Unity’s Spring To Go stamp set in my MISTI then stamping with Tea Dye Distress ink as I was planning on doing no-line colouring. I left the stamps in my MISTI, which came in useful later when I decided to restamp for a lined look.

I coloured the image with my Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers. I had a particular colour palette in mind but had to work quite hard to get close to it as I was missing some colours I wanted (corals) and also had to experiment to get them colours showing how I wanted on the coloured panel.

Once I was happy with the colouring (which took a while!) I returned the panel to my MISTI and restamped the image and the sentiment with Hero Arts’ Cocoa Ink.

In order to help the image pop a bit more I went back in with a white pencil and added some highlights to really increase the contrast and dimension on the image.

I’d accidentally got some red ink on the left side of my panel, so I trimmed it down very slightly to be a little shorter and narrower than my card base. I then used double-sided tape to adhere the panel onto the white card base, before finishing off the design with a trio of glitter enamel dots from Love From Lizi.

Whilst it took me quite a while to get the image to look how I wanted it to look, and even then some of the colours aren’t exactly how I wanted them, but in the end I really like how it turned out. I do think I achieved my goal of making an Autumn card with what is intended to be a Spring stamp. What do you think?

Love,

Lady Joyful

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Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge – I Love… (colouring!)

Caffeine Fueled Paper Play – Coffee/Tea

Creative Confetti – Color on Colored Card

Digi Choosday – Anything Goes

MFT Color Challenge – Color Palette (I struggled with getting the coral and orange-red correct, but did my best!)

Sketch Saturday – Sketch (edit: where it was chosen as one of the Top 3!)

Spectrum Noir Monthly Challenge – Autumn

STAMPlorations Summer Challenge – Anything Goes

Three Room Studios Challenge – Use A Sentiment

Unity Challenge – Coffee Cards