Thursday, August 8, 2024

#188 Children Challenge - A Bookmark.

Welcome back to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda collide to bring you twice the inspiration and double the fun!

Hi , Riet here with a little tutorial for this bookmark.
I used:
The name of the girl stamp is Bubbles,
The words behind the girl are from the Pieces of Calligraphy.

All the coloring is done with Inktense pencils.
Derwent Inktense nr:
Cadnium yellow 0210
 Tangerine 0300
Lime green 1535
Apple green1400
Malibu 1213
Iron blue 0840
Deep violet  0760
Burnt umber 1903

Skin tones:
Faber Castel - Albrecht Durer
8200-132
189
White gelpen.
Black waterproof inkpad.
Posca white for spletters or
White ink or paint for spletters.

I have to admit that it was actually a art journal page.
In the very last phase I made a big ink stain on the butterflies and the card was ruined.
I had put so much work into it and thought it was a shame to throw it away.
So I cut off the part with the stain and made a bookmark out of it.
In retrospect that was a good decision.

How to make it:
I started by stamping the girl Bubbles.
This stamp has two bubbles above her hands.
I left them off because I wanted her to grab the butterfly.
Stamp the girl on masking tape and mask her off.
Stamp the words and the 3 rings.
Let the text run a little through the rings.
Stamp only the black and white butterfly and mask it off.
Stamp the 3 butterfly's and overlap the cirkels a bit.

Start coloring the background, the cirkels and the little girl.
Stamp with black the black dots from the  brush strokes sheet.
Stamp the 3 butterflys on a thin piece off paper and color them.
Gleu them on the butterfly's and give them what accents with the white gellpen.
Cut off any excess butterflies.
Mask the girl again and spletter with the posca pen (or paint or ink).
Stamp the word "Dream" and give it some white accents.
Remove the masking tape.
Mat with a black cardstock and you ar done.

I hope you enjoyed it.
Maybe you want to join the challenge?
And have a chance to win new rubber stamps.
Stamp something with a child on it or make something for children.
As long as it is stamped and refers to the theme children.
Do your best and see you at the challenge.

4 comments:

ionabunny said...

This is magnificent Riet and can you believe I have never noticed Bubbles before!!! She is adorable. Love it. What a beautiful bookmark it is. Hugz

Tee said...

Beautiful mixed media background! Bubbles fits in perfectly! Gorgeous bookmark.

Riet Harikini said...

Thank you so much.

chantal said...

Amazing work. Beautiful