Colour INKspiration #170 - choose your 3 favourites. Painting on white ink technique.

This great challenge is open for 3 weeks so even though I am slow out of the blocks you still have 1 week to create your own project and share it with us. It has been great seeing what colour palettes appeal to different designers.

Choosing only 3 colours is tricky!

This challenge is open for us to choose our 3 favourite colours.

I love greens, and blues and these are often my go to colours, but I always love Navy and Hot Pink and a bright Green together, so for this card I have used 

This technique is one we used at a recent demonstration day where I focused on using White Pigment Ink. It's a beautiful technique where I stamped the line image in White Ink and heat embossed with White Powder to establish the background. In this case this was done on Crumb Cake cardstock. Then you need to use the white ink and paint the image white. It's water based ink so you simply paint with water and a fine paintbrush. You get a beautiful effect on coloured cardstock and I did a few samples.

Once your white image has dried completely you can colour onto the white using either watercolour pencils or dilute ink. This will give you a very soft tone. You can always go back and add more colour if it is too soft. Blend the pencils with a tiny amount of water and your paintbrush.

I used the Enduring Beauty stamp again for this card as it is a lovely open line image for colouring. And of course I finished it off with a generous painting of Wink of Stella, although the shimmer doesn't show here very well.

I have some more samples using this same technique and you can see them in the next few days.

I hope you are inspired to share a creation with us on the facebook group page - just send us a photo of your project.

I hope you have a creative week and remember, 

"don't just post online,

 post something pretty!"

cheers, Liz