Cardmaking: Hope Prevails

Today sees the last of the blogs in the mini series on colouring. I am still using a variety of colouring mediums, but today's blog has a twist. I use foil to colour a large part of this drawing. I do not use a heat method, although that is the normal way of applying foil. I show you how to do this in today's blog. The theme for this blog is hope prevails. I once again turn the picture into a card when I am done.

I once more use this book to find a picture to colour.

I remove the picture from the book before I start.

I use three shades of gold metallic pens to colour the anchor. Make small concentric circles or short criss-cross lines when colouring with a ball point pen, to prevent it looking to linear.

I used a Faber Castell Pitt pen and a Mont Marte colouring marker to colour the banner. Both of these pens have brush tips. I then used a metallic pen to outline the words in gold.

I then used a glue pen to cover the rest of the elements on the page, a small batch at a time.

I left the glue to get tacky before covering it with a sheet of foil.

Rub down on the foil before lifting it away. The results look like this.

I did this with the whole page.

I then cut a small piece of Faber Castell Gelatos from a Gelatos stick.

I transferred the Gelatos to a spray bottle and added some water. Then I shook it vigorously to dissolve the Gelatos.

I sprayed this to the background of the page.

Fold an A3 sheet of cardboard in half to form a card.

Trim an A4 sheet of cardboard to fit on the card.

Trim the coloured page to fit on the black cardboard.

Use double-sided tape to matt the sheets on the card.

I used a gold Croxley gel pen to frame the card.

I drew a second frame with a black Faber Castell Pitt pen with a small tip.

Then I stuck photo corner stickers onto the four corners of the coloured-in picture.

The completed card.

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

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