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Hi, all! I have tried to get some answers on the beautiful "pencil over" technique. It is the one where you use a dark piece of CS and stamp an image in white and color in with pencils....I have done a search and can't find the details. How exactly do you do this technique? Which pencils do you use? And, what steps are in the process? I will be forever grateful for your responses...the cards are wonderful and my customers would love it!!!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!
These are the instrutuions tha t have been using for swaps
Pencil Over Technique
Using dark cardstock, stamp your image with white craft / pigment ink.
Wait for the ink to dry, or use your heat tool to speed up the drying time.
Color the image with watercolor pencil crayons, even going over the lines.
Your colors will POP!!
The only other thing I would add, is that the more you go over the image using either the watercolor pencils or the metallic pencils, the more vibrant your colors get. So keep coloring until it reaches the color density that you want!
Thank you!!! Now, I when my order comes on Monday, I will give this a try. I couldn't figure out which pencils everyone was using to get such great colors. Happy stamping.....
Hi. Yes, I have done what I think is the pencil over technique. I simply stamped the image on a dark cardstock and let it dry. When it was dried I colored it in with the pure color pencils. The harder you color, the prettier it is!
This sounds interesting. Has anyone posted examples? Could you include a link? I must be a visual person - would like to see results in order to try it. Thank you!
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I guess I didn't know to use white ink - I used black ink on the Not Quite Navy and Night of Navy and Handsome Hunter and colored in darkly with the watercolor pencils. I loved that effect. I used the "In FUll Bloom" daisy and it was a hit.
My last plea...Please help me out!
here are my instructions
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