WATERCOLOUR TAGS (with brushos) tutorial by Susanne

Hi my dear crafty friends!

It's Susanne writing today and I wanna give you step by step instructions for these two watercolor tags. I used one of my Brusho backgrounds. I love to play with these awesome powders.

1. Create a background with Brusho powders. I alternate in adding water with a spray bottle and Brusho pigments until I am happy.

2. I have a homemade tag stencil with which I can choose where to cut my tags from.

3. I ended up with these two backgrounds:

4. To add some texture to them I use the ARTplorations stencils Nestled Circles, Square Links and
Tribal Swirl. Instead of adding any color through the stencils, I only add water with a spray bottle.

5. Remove the stencil and let the color react with the water. Dab it off with a paper towel. You'll end up with some pretty ghosting textures.

 6. My background is not done yet. I add some splatters for more interesst.

7. Now it's time to stamp the main images and the titles. I use black pigment ink together with the Small Birds and the Large Hummingbird stamp set.

8. The sentiments are from the Font Expressions 2 and Follow Your Arrow sets.

 9. Finally I color the images. I use Pastel Pencils for the first one...

... and colored pencils for the second.

Thank you for stopping by today!!!
xx Susanne.

Products from STAMPlorations:
Small Birds - The Bee's Knees
Large Hummingbird
Font Expressions 2
Follow Your Arrow

Products from ARTplorations:
Nestled Circles
Square Links
Tribal Swirl

MAIL ART ENVELOPE tutorial by Susanne

Hi my dear ARTploration visitors, Susanne here.

Today I wanna share a mail art envelope. I used PanPastels together with the beautiful ARTploration stencils and STAMPloration stamps.
Here are the step by step instructions:

1. I created an envelope blank with the Envelope Punch Board from watercolor paper.

2. I stamp the wavy border from the "Artsy Border Marker" stamp set with VersaMark ink all around the front edges.

3. I start coloring my envelope with the PanPastels. The pigments stick to the VersaMark ink.

4. I add some stenciling for more texture. I use the "Tribal Swirls", "Retro Circles" and also the "Merry Go Round" stencils.

5. I pick some pastel pencils and draw a frame arround the cover. Now it's time to seal the pastels with a Fixative.

6. I add some stamping with Archival Ink. I use the "Art Marks" stamp set.

7. I color my stamped circles with Faber-Castell Pitt Pens. I stamp the lovely little birdies from the "Small Birds" set, too.

8. To achieve a more artsy look, I add some doodling with markers.

9. I use pastel pencils to fill in some of my doodled images.

10. Finally I stamp some sentiments from the "Subway Art Builders Create & Dare" sets and glue the envelope together.

Thank you for stopping by today.
xx Susanne.

ARTplorations stencils:
Merry Go Round
Retro Circles
Tribal Swirls

STAMPlorations stamps:
Subway Art Builders Create
Subway Art Builders Dare
Artsy Border Marker
Art Marks
Small Birds

MIXED MEDIA CANVAS WITH PANPASTELS tutorial by Susanne

Hi everyone, Susanne writing today and I have a mixed media mini canvas tutorial for you today.

Here are the step by step instructions:

 1. Take the large Leaf Bliss stencil and use VersaMark Ink to transfer the pattern onto your canvas.

 2. Use PanPastels to color the background. The pigments will stick to the VersaMark Ink. Add a layer of fixative to seal the PanPastels

 3. Take the little birdie from the Some Birds stencil set and adhere it to the canvas with Gel Medium. You only cover the edges with Gel Medium. This makes sure that the next layer of color will not run under your stencil.

4. Add one or two layers of Gesso and remove the stencil.

5. After the gesso is dry you need to put the bird on your canvas again and also the Tribal Swirsl stencil. Add some gold texture paste to it.

6. Add some doodling with pastel pencils.

Thanks for stopping by today,
Susanne.

ARTplorations stencils:
Some Birds
Leaf Bliss
Tribal Swirls