Cardmaking: Focus on God

In today's blog I have a lot of fun with my colouring materials and mediums. In this and a couple of upcoming blogs, I show you how to incorporate a number of pens, pencils and crayons into your colouring projects to make them more fun and to allow certain elements to 'pop' on the page. I then turn these colouring projects into fun cards. The theme for today's project is focusing on God.

I take my pages from this book that I bought at a secondhand book store in Clarens.

I remove the page I wish to use from the book. This is easy to do as the pages have been perforated for this purpose.

I start by using my Giotto Glitter Markers to colour the wording.

When using the Giotto Glitter Markers, be aware of the fact that they do bleed the page rather profusely.

I then use a Faber Castell Gelato stick to blend the colours. I use it dry, using a paper towel to blend the Gelatos with.

The yellow did not achieve the desired effect and I switched to orange. This was much better.

I then used a red Giotto Glitter Marker and, blowing on the tip with a straw, I sprayed some of the red ink onto the coloured area.

I then used Croxley retractable wax crayons to colour the camera. This is the inexpensive crayons that youngsters use in school.

I use a paper towel to blend my colouring. I zoomed in here so that you could see the difference between blended crayon (left) versus unblended crayon (right).

I coloured the rest of the camera with the crayons as well.

I then used Croxley Gel Pens to colour the bird sitting on top of the camera.

I used a craft knife to carefully cut out the different elements on the page.

I liked the elements that remained on the page, but it would be too tedious and time consuming to cut these out.

The hearts could still be retrieved and I dotted these with a glue pen.

I then waited for the liquid glue to become tacky, before laying a sheet of foil on top of the hearts. Rub down hard on the foil with a nail or a tool of your choice.

Pull the foil sheet away and you will have hearts with a bit of bling.

I did this to all of the hearts in the page.

Then I folded an A4 sheet of cardboard in half to form a card.

I edged the card with Faber Castell Gelatos, using it dry.

Then I blended the Gelatos with a wet wipe.

Once dry, I used  a black Giotto Turbo Marker to reproduce the frame that was on the original colouring-in sheet.

I used double-sided tape to fix the coloured images to the card.

I then drew the remaining elements that I had previously discarded onto the card with my Giotto Turbo Marker.

Next, I cut the hearts from the page.

I glued these randomly onto the card.

The finished product.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/90NQIYEhI_g

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