I’ve talked about saturation in colors before – but thought a refresher would be helpful, along with sharing some new stamp sets! Big thanks to Mendi from Sunny Studios for sending these along so I could play with them.
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I picked out a selection of Prismacolors for Farm Fresh – warm on the left, cool on the right. Notice there are saturated (bright and intense) and desaturated (greyed-out) colors in each color group.
In the video you’ll see the examples of bright, saturated colors and the duller ones – in context it starts to make more sense!
The Stonehenge “colors” pad has a selection of light tans/creams – some more pinkish, some more yellowish. I still love the white best but these have the same great texture for pencil.
The card design – I simply trimmed the panel to allow a little of the card base to show, popped it on dimensional adhesive. Then stamped “hay there” – fun fact, the word “hay” looks right when the stamp is upside down, but it stamps upside down. Ha. Thus my little trimmed panel to cover up my upside down “hay”!
On IGTV this video will post later today….I stamped and masked the chicken and hay first, then stamped the far left edge of the background on the right, and moved the buildings to the left side to stamp them….just to give the farm a different layout than is in the stamp!
Here’s some of the new release stamps and their dies — I may not make a video with the mice for YT but might for social media 🙂
Peeks!
There’s a great little Bountiful Autumn set – and I made a hilarious turkey dinner card where my turkey is watching the turkey on the table with googlie eyes!
The new Holy Night set is so pretty, and my upcoming video will show how to do a double-light-source background.
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- Sunny Studio Stamps: Farm Fresh
- Prismacolor pencils EH – BLICK
- Quietsharp Pencil Sharpener AMZ – BLICK
- Stonehenge Colors Paper
- Inks:
- Mini MISTI Stamping Tool, My Sweet Petunia
Swanky to the max!
I so enjoyed watching the making of this card, especialy when you seemed to magically make parts of it recede to the back or come forward to the front. It makes all the difference!
Got to go, our family is part of the 77,000 people who have been evacuated from California because of the fires. We are safe.
The motel we are in is near a Michels and I just have to go get something to play with! For whatever reason, silly people told me my craft/art things did not rank at the top of the list to take with us as we left our home. What’s with that?
Gorgeous card Sandy. … love those peeks too!
Ohhhhh , super sound system! I could tell a difference right away. You could whisper within a frog in your throat and should like Cinderella singing! How cool. Ya look like a DJ As for you scenes, ahhhhmazing! We have lots of goats and their babies dancing around all over the island. Thank you for sharing all the beauty with us!
Huge audio difference! Sounds like you’re sitting right next to me – kudos to you for your willingness to try something new and high tech. Good info about coloring fore-, mid-, and backgrounds. Great idea about using complimentary colors to tone something down! That’s something I can put to use with lots of different media. And right now, you’re saying, “Duhhh”. But sometimes I need to be mentally kicked into gear – Thank you – again, for all you do for all of us.