Hello everyone! This is my first blog post I’m writing from the road. Me and my husband we are again in Sweden and for few months we will be travelling across the Nordic Countries. And last year as we were travelling in our motorhome I was thinking about what I could do, if I needed a card and didn’t have a specific stamp. This is how I thought about my new series “No Stamps No Dies Cards” as well as of the project for the card in this blog post. All you need a tracing paper or light paper, pencil, eraser, black liner, card base, and the final card stock you are going to be using for your card (you can also use the card base, if you like the card stock). I’m using a watercolour card stock and here I learned right at the beginning that it’s better to use a smoother card stock, preferably even hot pressed watercolour card stock. As I was tracing the lines with my fine liner, the lines weren’t smooth. Talking about the fine liner, I would also recommend getting a thicker pen. I was using 0.3 pen and I think that is little bit too thin, I think to achieve the stamped look, the lines should be slightly thicker. And don’t forget to use waterproof fine liner, if you are going to be using watercolouring medium. The first thing you need to do is to find an image online or in a book. The easiest is an outline image or an image that you can easily trace. The most simple thing to do is to print out the image in the size you want it to be on a card. But what if you don’t have a printer. No problem! All you need is a smart phone or a tablet and use your tracing paper and trace the image, you can do this as well if you have an image in a book. On a tabled or smart phone it can get tricky as the image tends to move if you are not careful. The next steps are the same for those who printed the image as well as those who traced it. Flip the piece of paper with the image and cover it with the graphite of your pencil. Make sure that the whole piece is covered. There are also specialty supplies for this technique. After you apply the graphite flip it back and place the image on the final card stock. If you want to add a sentiment, make sure you leave enough space for it. Then start tracing the image. The graphite on the back will transfer to your card stock. After the image is transferred, you have transferred, you can make some changes if you want. And technically you can start colouring, if you don’t want to creat no-line coloured image. However, the project today is to create image that looks like you stamp it. To do that, you just trace the pencil lines with the black fine liner. And when the ink is dry, erase the pencil lines. Again, you can leave it like it is, add a sentiment and adhere the panel to the card base. Or you can colour the image. For my card I decided to use colouring pencils and do a messy watercolouring, which means I went outside of the lines. I had to re-do the card multiple times, because of the card stock I was using and I was ready to finally finish the card. However, I wish I did another layer of the colour as it was little bit too light. Once I was finished with the colouring, I wrote the sentiment. First I wrote it with a pencil and then I traced it with the fine liner. I noticed that the image of the Snowdrop I drew wasn’t cantered, so I took out my paper trimmer and trimmed it a bit and also adhered a dark green card stock on the back of it, to create a frame. Then I adhered the whole piece on top of a white card base. This finishes the card. This technique is nothing new, but because most card makers create cards using stamps, I thought I will bring this to the card making world. Make sure you check out my video, as I’m showing there one more step, because I could not find an outlined image that I would like. Of course you can just use a printer and print the image, if your printer can print on a thicker card stock. But by tracing the image, the end result is more yours, at least in my opinion. Thank you for stopping by! As usual, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to drop me a line. SUPPLIES I USEDDisclaimer: I’m currently not using any affiliate links. These links are just to help you find the products. If I don’t find the exact product, I will provide an alternative.
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