Anne's tips

Bejeweled 1068N

Stamped in Colorbox Stucco Pigment Ink

Bridget 1069P

Stamped in Colorbox French Blue Chalk Ink

Both stamps were inked with a brayer. Anne stamps on Classic Crest Brilliant White cardstock
by Neenah and colors with Prismacolor pencils. Anne may stamp the image multiple times until she has the right density of ink. Sometimes the first stamping is too faint or doesn't show all the details. Sometimes the stamping is too dark which means the ink won't be easy to subdue when coloring. It may take a few tries to get the image light enough so the Prismacolor pencils will cover it, yet intense enough so she can easily see the details. She saves a "reject" to use as a test piece as she works on the good stamped image. That way she can tell if she really likes a color combination before applying the colors to her piece of art.

More tips from Anne:

"I wanted to stamp Bridget in cool tones, so I chose the Colorbox French Blue Chalk Ink for her. If I had used Colorbox Stucco, the reddish orange in the Stucco would most likely have changed the blue Prismacolor pencils to a dirty blue since many of the pencil colors are somewhat transparent. For Bejeweled, I knew I wanted the jewels to be amethysts. So the Colorbox Stucco Pigment Ink with its warmth that works well with flesh tones as well as purples (since red is after all part of the mixture that creates purple) was my choice to stamp that image.

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