Hi everyone, it's time for the
Group of Seven Crafters monthly technique. This month we played with a Bokeh technique.
- I taped my piece of watercolour card to my mat creating a border and it also helps reduces the warping of the paper as it gets quite wet.
- I used a large paint brush to wet the whole card.
- After it was wetted I used 3 different colours of water colour on each of my samples, gold snuck into all of them.
- I let the card dry then removed the tape. Little bits of water colour seeped under the tape but I think that adds to the interest.
- Bokeh made easy a Wplus 9 video gives you and idea of how to do the bokeh circles.
- I have the perfect stencil for this by Magenta (TM179 duo circle stencils), but you can make your own stencils by using different size circles with dies or punches on acetate or velum.
- I also used Hero Arts White ink (Unicorn) pad and a small blending foam. I find the Hero Arts white ink is one of the juiciest ink pads and gives a real strong white print with stamps or sponge.
You can either add your white bokeh circles before or after you stamp. I really like the misty look of adding the white circles after my stamping, you see more of the image if you stamp after putting the bokeh circles on. My Christmas card stash really needs a boost so I did three Christmas cards
This was a really fun technique and one I will be doing again.
Card 1 Stamp- Unity (Grumpy Owls) BetterPress Sentiment
Card 2 Stamp- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous, BetterPress Sentiment
Card 3 Stamp- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous, Mamma Elephant Easy Christmas Sentiments.
It was hard to capture the image behind the bokeh on this one 😀
Card Recipe
Stamps:
Paper:
Ink: Hero Arts White, Versafine Clair Nocturn, Archival Grey
Accessories: Magenta Stencil set (TM179)
Techniques: Watercolour, Bokeh
