Greetings friends. Today I want to talk about coloring on vellum using alcohol ink (in this case Copic Markers). Any alcohol-based markers would work for this technique. My card design changed while making the card, and I will address that as I write this post. My original plan was to stamp on one side of the vellum, color on the back side of the vellum and then flip the vellum back over for the finished card. However, that isn’t what I did in the end.
First, I stamped my Breezy Bouquet image onto vellum using black Staz On ink:
I then flipped the vellum over and colored it with medium colors of Copic markers and then added some darker markers for some extra depth. I didn’t worry about blending any of the colors. Vellum is a non-porous surface, so blending doesn’t work. Instead, I went back with my medium colored markers and dotted the color on top of the dardker marker and where the two colors met. The result was similar to what you get using alcohol inks on Yupo paper:
My original plan was to flip the vellum over and attach it to a card. When it flipped over to the front side, it looked like this:
The front side of the vellum muted the coloring and softened the transitions of the colors I used (which was the intention). However, I decided that I liked the back side of the vellum better. I liked the brighter color and the more mottled look. Therefore, I used the back side of the vellum for the finished card:
To finish the card, I added tiny dots of glue from a glue pen here and there over the floral design and then glued it on top of some white cardstock. The mottled look of the ink really helped hide the glue on my transparent vellum. I then added a sentiment from the same stamp set and popped it up on my card using foam tape.
Thanks for visiting today and have a wonderful weekend!
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