Kit and Clowder-Scales, Bubbles and Bokeh Technique

Just popping to show my recent pencil coloring. 

 Pencil coloring is such a relaxing time for me.  I have been trying to do it a couple days a week in the evening.

Here is the latest that was popped into the mail yesterday..

Here is a closeup of the scales and bubbles.  I tackled the dragon and bubbles first, thinking they would be the hardest.  Turned out, it was the flower that I found difficult!

Look at all the pretty colors I used on the card!

Wish I could stay home and keep coloring but off to work I go!  Hope you all have a great crafty day!

Netta

Butterfly Punch and Bokeh Technique

Have you seen the Bokeh Technique being posted on many blogs on the internet?  

When I originally searched the word Bokeh technique to find out the directions, the sites that came up first were photography sites. So I searched what the word meant and this is what I found...

"Bokeh in Photography is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens.  Bokeh has been defined as the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."

Someone very smart figured out how to take that technique and transfer it onto paper using ink/water colors.  It looked a bit daunting to me but after researching it I discovered it was an easy and interesting technique. Possibly addicting!

(Check it out...Watercolor Bokeh Tutorial at Splitcoaststampers)

I used a butterfly punch to punch out a couple of butterflies after the Bokeh background was dry and covered the butterflies with Diamond Stickle.  While they dried, I put my card together.

Once the background was matted and glued down onto my card, I glued the butterflies back down flat onto where I had punched them out.  

Let me know if you give this a try.  I would love to see your creative work of art.

thank you for visiting!

Netta