This month we are collaborating with
Frog Dog Studio!
This is the
Frog Dog Studio kit for February
which includes the beautiful
Romantic Background Stamp and a
saying
“Love Can Hope” stamp that
says, “Love can hope where reason would despair”, which is a quote from George,
Lord Lyttleto.
I decided to make a
minialbum of the first card my boyfriend made.
He made a lovely, detailed, layered Valentine’s Day Card.
The cover shows the
Vintage Valentine’s Backgroundstamp which I white embossed portions of in the corners of the cover,
over
Pan Pastels and chalkboard
paint.
I, then, decoupaged the
heart ephemera off-centered onto the
front of the book.
On page 4, I outlined a picture of the front of the Valentine’s
Day card my boyfriend made me with the
black Gelato, spreading the
Gelato with
my finger.
On page 7, my favorite part of the entire book, was ‘making
a rock walkway”.
I free-hand cut rock shapes from white cardstock.
Next, I smeared the
gelatos with my fingers, giving it the
look of rocks.
After gluing the ‘rocks’ onto my page, I covered the rocks
with Liquid Glass (Close To My Heart).
With a brown water-color pencil I filled the ‘rocks’ in with
‘dirt’, completing the walkway.
I really enjoyed making the next two pages in my
mini-book.
I simply spread the
PanPastels over each page using the soft tools.
To show how you can make more colors with the product that
comes with the kit, I’m sharing how to tint and shade the
Permanent Green PanPastel with the
Black and White Gelato.
Color one end of the page with the
Black Gelato and the other end of the
page with White Gelato.
Using a flat
paint brush and water, spread the
Gelato, lightening as you move the Gelato
toward the center.
This is how each color looks showing the varied colors.
Simply shake some loose color from your
PanPastels onto your page.
With a mixture
of 50% water and 50% rubbing alcohol,
spray over page then water color your
page with a paint brush.
After water coloring with the
Magenta Pan Pastel on part of
the page, I let it dry.
Then I repeated
the process with the
Permanent Green Pan Pastel on the other part of the
page.
If you spray extra of the
water/alcohol mixture onto your page, you can make your
Pan Pastel colors drip,
for yet another look on your page!
**It’s important to let each layer dry before adding a
different color.
If you add a new color
before the first is dry,
they will mix and possibly make a muddy color on your
page
rather than the distinct colors you intended to show.
I hope you learned at least one thing new, here, for you to
change up with product you already have with Sin City Stamps at
Frog Dog Studiokit!
I enjoyed sharing with you!
