I’ve made a few cards recently coloured with the Zig Clean Color Brush Markers and I’ve had a number of requests to see a video. So when I saw the new Beautiful Friend set from Clearly Besotted I thought, you know what, let’s do this and turned on the video camera! Before I crack on though, just a reminder that for the next few days I will be sharing sneak peeks of the new Clearly Besotted release but the release won’t go live until 10pm UK time (5pm EST) on 5th August :D

Using Canson watercolour card, I stamped the blossom image from Beautiful Friend in Versamark and white heat embossed. To prevent warping I taped the card on my work surface and then started to colour. I love leaves as much as flowers and so started by adding a Mid Green marker directly to the card and then blending out with a wet paint brush. Slowly but surely I added more layers of colour, shading and highlights and in total used 9 markers. I only have a limited collection of the markers but even with just the ones I have it is easy to really pack a punch – the colours are vibrant and they blend so easily on watercolour card. It’s probably best if you watch the video to see the colouring and the marker colours I used.

Having finished the colouring with a light wash of Cobalt Blue marker around the image I left it to dry while white heat embossing the sentiment on a scrap of Black card, trimming out and adhering over a twirl of silver thread and a few Sparkling Clear sequins to embellish. The panel is mounted on a Fog card base – time to put in another order for some more of my favourite Simon Says Stamp Fog card, I use that colour more than any I think.

While you are waiting for the new release to go live on 5th August check out Stephanie for more inspiration and links to the rest of the Design Team :D

Video

Supplies

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or wording to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate your support.

Clearly Besotted BEAUTIFUL FRIEND All Kuretake Zig Clean Color at SSS Zig CLEAN COLOR 60 SET Zig CLEAN COLOR 48 SET Zig CLEAN COLOR 12 set Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker MID GREEN Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker COBALT BLUE Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker LIGHT CARMINE Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker CARMINE RED Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker GRAY Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker GREEN Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker DULL BLUE Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker YELLOW Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker DARK OATMEAL ZIG Wink of Stella CLEAR SSS BLACK Card SSS FOG Card Canson XL WATERCOLOR PAPER Versamark WATERMARK INK SSS WHITE EMBOSSING POWDER Milwaukee Heat Tool EK Success POWDER TOOL MISTI Stamping Tool Ranger MULTI MEDIUM MATTE 3M MASKING PAINTER’S TAPE 3M DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE PPP 6mm SPARKLING CLEAR Sequins PPP 4mm SPARKLING CLEAR Sequins