Tuppence Coloured: You're inspiring

Saturday, 23 March 2019

InspireINk blog hop - Easter

Hello and welcome!

It’s InspireINK blog hop day today, and this time we’re getting ready for Easter.

I’ve been playing with one of my old favourite techniques, shaving-foam marbling, so I decided to use some fresh spring-flower-like colours and marble some boxes that just might hold some choccy eggs (as brought by the Easter Bunny) – or something else…

This technique is so easy, and it’s one of my favourites. Back in my teaching days we used it a lot in art lessons with small children. It’s “clean messy” - you get to splodge ink about but the shaving foam helps in the clean up!

If you’ve never tried this before, you need a shallow container big enough to fit your item to be marbled into, some shaving foam (the cheaper the better!) and some water-soluble colours. I used re-inkers and Brushos.

Spread a layer of shaving foam into your container,

drop or spray the colours onto the foam

and swirl them around a bit.

Then press your item onto the foam,

take it out again and scrape/wipe away the excess. Job done!

I marbled the pizza box directly but for the treat container I marbled a sheet of card and then cut it to fit. I used a template (see here for A4 paper and here for 8 ½ x 11 ) so I din’t have to sacrifice one of my containers to use as a pattern. Then I embellished my treat container and mini pizza box with some stamped daffodils from the You're Inspiring set (love these!) coloured in with watercolour pencils for a delicate effect. I’m really pleased with the way it turned out.

(If you want to see the whole project, I will be posting a tutorial on my YouTube channel in the near future.)

I hope you're enjoying the hop! Thanks for dropping in, and do come again soon!

Keep crafting,

Keren

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Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Bore da! (Good morning!)

Hello and welcome – or perhaps I should say Croeso!

Tomorrow is St David’s Day. St David is the patron saint of Wales and we’ll be celebrating his special day. Children will wear national dress (some adults will, too!) and will be singing Welsh songs and reciting Welsh poetry as part of their school celebrations. Most of us will be wearing a national emblem somewhere – a brooch or a pin with a red dragon perhaps, but most of us will wear a daffodil (either fresh or artificial) in our lapels.

So today I’m sharing a card that features these beautiful daffodils. As March 1st was supposed to be St David’s birthday (and also the anniversary of his death, but let’s not go there right now) I’ve made it as a birthday card. I did some dry embossing on the reverse, but it doesn’t show that well (although you can feel it) – mainly because, I think, the watercolour paper is so textured.

I used the out-of-the-frame technique on this card, too so there’s quite a bit going on in today’s tutorial!