Vintage Patio set

Posted: June 26, 2024 | Author: Heather | Filed under: Coloured pencil, Echidna Studios, Tori's Trees, vintage patio set | Tags: Echidna Studios, Faber-Castell Polychromos Colour Pencil | 4 Comments

There are some lovely new summer digital images in the Echidna Studios etsy store. My daughter has been busy turning her own photos into line art for printing and colouring. I chose coloured pencils for the Vintage Patio set and added Tori’s Trees to the background. I have fun creating scenes with digital images. Even though the Vintage Patio set includes a table and two chairs I used only one chair on my card and added trees from a different digital set. Adding the ‘thinking of you‘ sentiment gave the card the card a bit of a ‘miss you’ vibe. I always like the look of coloured pencils on kraft paper so I used my Faber Castell polychromos for this card.

My initial plan was to colour the grass gradually wider from the edges of the trees to the chair and table, creating a wedge shape. I coloured the trees first with three greens then used the same greens plus a couple more to add the grass.

When I had coloured all the grass I used white and grey pencils to colour the table and chair but the green underneath muted the white so I used white gel pens to make the furniture pop. Keeping the wedge shape looked odd so I used my rectangle dies to help me ‘frame’ the image and choose a suitable cropped size.

I matted the little scene with a white frame and added it to a white card base. Make sure you pop over to the Echidna Studios store to see the other summery images along with some new ‘ready to print’ coloured cards. We would love you to follow Echidna Studios on Pinterest if you use it; it will help us reach a few more card making enthusiasts!

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Tori’s Trees

Posted: September 14, 2023 | Author: Heather | Filed under: Tori's Trees | Tags: Echidna Studios, Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Penny Black stamps, sennelier watercolours | 4 Comments

These lovely trees are so much fun to watercolour! If you scroll down you can see I’ve printed them in different sizes which probably tells you it’s a new digital stamp from Echidna Studios. My daughter created this design featuring a trio of trees on a property just out of Ottawa where friends of hers were married recently. She created a suite of wedding stationery for her friends and now I am playing with the designs myself.

I printed all three panels on hot pressed watercolour paper and painted them with Sennelier watercolour paints. The tree image above is 3.25″ wide, popped up on a card base with a Penny Black sentiment added in black ink. I printed the trees larger, 4.75″ wide, on the landscape oriented card below, painted them again with Sennelier watercolours then added a pale sky background with diluted speckled egg distress ink.

It was so much fun to blend the green, yellow and red on the trees then drop colour into a diluted green patch under the trees.

I’ve said before you can never have too many tree stamps and of course the beauty of this one is I can print them any size and even combine or flip them. You will definitely be seeing these trees again!

This last card is an one layer card, one 11″x 4.25″ piece of watercolour paper folded in half. I overlapped the tree image in different sizes to give me a wide display to paint in reds. Once again I finished it with a PB sentiment.