Altenew Educators Certification Program Level 3 - Creative Coloring with Erum, Advanced Techniques

Good Morning! It's a lazy Sunday for me so I thought I'd cover the next classes in my AECP course. I love Erum's coloring techniques and am an avid follower of her You Tube channel so when her Coloring with Erum - Advanced Techniques was available to me to do as part of my course I jumped at the chance.

She demo's lots of techniques that I will be trying but I chose 2 to document as part of my level 3. 

Day 1 was adding marker detail to stamped images. Previously this is not something I would of thought to do. I love the detail it has given to my images so will be using it frequently!

 Doesn't the flower look amazing!

I started the card by stamping the first 2 layers of the flower from Beautiful Day. I used Puffy Heart and Cosmic Berry Inks, this gave me a guide of where to add my shadows. Using the same colors in markers, which are from Set D, I added depth to the petals using the darker Cosmic Berry first. I then 'pulled' this color out with Puffy Heart. I also used the tip to tip technique which gives a mid color between the markers allowing the colors to blend easier. I was amazed with the depth this gave and impressed with my ability to achieve it.

I wasn't sure what to do with the center of the flower, I didn't want to ruin the work I had done by attempting to draw the stamens. I decided to use the outline stamp. I masked all the flower except the center with tape and ink the center in black. One thing to remember at this point -REMOVE THE TAPE! I forgot and ruined my flower with black smudges. I had anticipated that I would need to do this technique a few times so had stamped a few flowers. Picking up the markers I repeated my coloring. I then inked up the stamens again - REMOVED MY TAPE - and stamped it onto the flower. It didn't give as darker impression as I wanted.

I used #2 from the fine liner pen set and traced over the stamped stamens to darken them.

The leaves were colored in the same way as the flower. I used Mountain Pen and Firefly inks to stamp the layers then used the same green colors in markers From set F to add more depth.

Beautiful Day also has addition stamps that you can use to 'fill' your design with. I stamped the longer of these in grey denim and colored the images with the same markers sets. I did use a light lime green Copic because I didn't have one similar color in Altenew markers.

These were all the arranged in a spray and held together with press 'n' seal.

Using the Leaf Bed stencil and Bristol Smooth cardstock I lightly inked blended firefly ink into the bottom left corner and fading it diagonally across the card. I then removed the stencil and ink blended across the whole piece of card which made the stenciled image more subdued.

I had trimmed the Bristol smooth to 4x5.5in before stenciling. This was then added to an A2 card base giving me a border on each side.

My flowers were adhered in place. I stamped a sentiment from Build a garden Magnificent Branch stamp set and added a few coordinating sequins.

My next card uses a technique erum taught in Day 2 - Playing with textures. I have used embossing paste lots of times but have never used it with glitter and watercolors - It gives an amazing finish to the stenciled image.

I had purchased some black watercolor cardstock a while back to use with metallic paints so decided to see if it would work with this technique.

I started with a 6x6in piece of cardstock and laid the  Mega Bloom Stencil over it. I smoothed embossing paste over It. I love the reveal after using paste, it always looks so pretty.  I sprinkled iridescent glitter over the paste while it was still wet. it looked so pretty!

Once this was dry I started watercoloring with the Artist Watercolor Pan Set. I sprayed the paste with water and dripped Lapis Lazuli paint  on to it. I continued with Deep Blue and shades of purple until I achieved the beautiful colored flower.

I left this to dry again and stamped my sentiment from Build a Garden Tulips and Friends with embossing ink, sprinkled it with white embossing powder and heat set it.

I also matted an A2 card base with purple cardstock. ready for my design. Once dry I trimmed my watercolor piece to 4x5.5 inches and adhered it to my card base. I did have to place something over this while the glue dried because the watercolor card had warped slightly.

I finally trimmed my sentiment and added it to my card. Using black cardstock meant that excess glitter showed up around the image so I used a small paint brush to remove this.

I loved this class and will be using the techniques learned in more of my cards in the future. Thank you Erum for making the classes engaging and comprehensive!

Thank you for taking time to read my post.

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