Campology Tutorial.

I posted a couple of cards on the  Stampin' up demonstrator face book page yesterday and the response was phenomenal.  I have been asked  many times to do a video on colouring the stamped images, in this instance the tent,  but my blog won't allow me to upload videos. The nearest I can come to a video is a photo tutorial. 

So I don't have a finished card for you today. The purpose of this post is to show you one of the ways I have been working with the Campology set. Which hopefully will answer all the questions left on FB. The actual cards will be posted  here on Tuesday,  which is Hubby's birthday. As he follows my blog,  I can't have him seeing his card on here before then. Hence the delay in posting the actual cards.

 If you are a visiting demo you will probably have seen the cards already and they are probably the reason you are visiting here.  I hope that this post will answer your questions.

First I stamped the tent onto my piece of basic white card and again on the sticky edge of a post it note.

 I cut out the tent from the post it , cutting on the inside of the stamped line. I placed the post it over the stamped image, to protect the tent from the blending process. You really don't want to get any ink on the tent.

I used Blueberry Bushel and a blending brush to create the sky. I load the brush with ink then tap off the excess in the lid of the ink pad, I can come back and collect the ink from the lid next time I need to load my brush.  I also work on a sheet of laminated card, this is so I can brush the ink from the laminated card onto the  piece I am working on, meaning I don't waste too much ink.  If I was working on paper the paper would soak up a lot of ink and I could never reclaim that. Yep! I am a tightwad.

Always start work from the top edge of your card and blend down towards the middle. The top edge will absorb most of the ink on your brush, as you work downwards the  less ink you will have on your brush, which will give you a graduated look. This will help to give the scene a little depth.

The next step was to stamp those trees. I roughly lined up the bottom of the tree stamp with the back edge of the tent, so as not to stamp over the guylines holding up the tent.

 I moved the tree stamp over and planted another row of trees on the opposite side of the tent. One set of trees looks great, but I decided to go with two sets on this sample.

Using a piece of torn scrap paper and Soft suede ink I brushed in some shade at the base of the tent and under the trees. I used the edge of the torn paper to brush in  some extra shading or contour lines.

 You can add the stars  with a white Posca pen now if you wish or leave it to the end.

 With a Mellow Moss ink pad  and a brush, I completely covered  the foreground in green ink.  This time working from the bottom upwards so the intensity of the green is darker at the bottom. You can still see those contour lines I brushed in but they are nowhere near as obvious. They give the impression of uneven ground without hitting you in the face.

                           Now we can colour that tent. So remove the mask. Take a pale yellow alcohol marker  The paler the better. Draw a circle with the marker and colour in the middle. 

With  a  slightly stronger, more intense yellow, draw another circle around the first circle and overlapping the first slightly.  Do not colour it in this time. You're creating a bullseye effect with the markers.

With a stronger  golden yellow, draw another circle around the first two,  slightly over lapping the last circle.

 With   a light or mid tone orange marker draw  another circle and fill in the corners of the tent with light orange.

Going back to the lightest yellow marker, gently blend the  hard lines between the circles. They don't have to disappear altogether, you just want to soften the edges.  

Don't go over the middle circle, you need to keep that as light as possible. 

Warning..... If you blend too much, you will washout all the darker colours. You are  also in danger of flooding your card with ink.  The good news is, if you do blend out too much colour,  let your card dry and then you can put it back in.

    

If you want a little more shading on the edges, try adding a little mid brown in the shaded areas and blend to soften the edges a little. Once you've achieved the look you like,  add some stars with a white Posca pen. if you haven't done it already.

I am including a photo of the marker pens I used  to give you an idea of the colours I used.

However I think I should have swapped the pale yellow Y11 to canary yellow Y02 or something even lighter.

 I do hope this information has helped and answered all the questions.