Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Black Magic Card post. Today’s coloring technique creates an incredibly beautiful result! All of the tutorials I watched stamped a chunky image with white pigment ink. You would then color over that stamped image to add the color. Being the crafting rebel I am, I chose to use a pretty outline stamp instead. This added an additional step to my process, I had to first fill in the image with my white colored pencil. Here is a link to the Black Magic Coloring Technique video from GinaK. In this video, you can see the difference between coloring over the pigment ink and colored pencils. Let me show you the card I created.
Black Magic Card
This card was made with the Black Magic technique. I deviated from the main direction with this image by not using a chunky stamp. After stamping this beautiful image by Asela Hopkins, in white Colorbox ink, I filled it in with a white colored pencil. The additional color was then added with my Kimberly Watercolor Pencils. At first I didn’t understand why the directions I was following said to use watercolor pencils. Please note – the watercolor pencils were not activated with water, they were used as a normal colored pencil. I did a little test, and found they do have a lot more pigment than the regular colored pencils. That extra pigment is needed to really show up on the dark cardstock. To add the definition back into the image, I re-stamped the image over the top with the help of my stamp-a-ma-jig and heat set it.
Here is a close-up so you can really see the color pop on this black card.
The image was cut out with Nestabilities labels 4 and matted with a piece of silver card stock which was also cut with labels 4. The silver layer was cut in half so I could spread it to the outer edges of the black image.
Thank you for joining me for today’s Flashback Friday Black Magic Card post. I am still blown away with how beautiful this technique is. As I’m writing up this post, I wonder how the Distress Watercolor pencils by Tim Holtz would work. I also now own a small set of Faber Castel pencils, which are heavily pigmented. Let me know in the comments below if you would like me to rewind this technique and try it again with these newer products. Until then, have a wonderful weekend and I will see you back in the craft room again soon!
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Ooooo!! That is so beautiful!! I love how black makes everything pop so much! This takes it to the next level. Gorgeous!
Thank you for the compliment and the comment Janet!!! I couldn’t agree more, this just pops and it’s even more vivid in person!!