Watercolor Crayons

[missibh]

How do I use them??? My awesome demonstrator showed us one way last night and she said she has a list of ideas for me. Thought I'd see how you all use them!!! Please share your ideas!

[willosmama]

I would be interested in seeing a "list"! I have colored directly onto my stamp, then spritzed with water. I have also heard of spraying your stamp first, then coloring, using an aquapainter on the (NOT SAHRP)end to pick up color from the crayon, and scribbling onto a plastic sour cream lid, and picking the color up from that with a watercolor brush/blender pen/aquapainter.

[missibh]

Those are the same techniques I've heard of... any others out there???

[Sharpstamper]

I don't have the Stampin' Up ones yet, but I've had them for a few years. I sort of color lightly different colors on a piece of cardstock and then rub it lightly with a baby wipe. It makes a nice background. I 'm sure these will work too.
Pat.....

[avonlea]

Hi!

If you do a search for 'watercolor crayons', you'll find a few threads discussing them and some techniques.

Just in case someone doesn't know how, this is how to do a search:


And here's one of the threads: watercolor crayons.
And another: Question about Watercolor Wonder Crayons.

Hope this helps!

[missibh]

Also just found another site from a different water color crayons search:
www.rubberroadadventures.com
Some interesting ways to try them here!

[Masnick]

Hi, Girls!

I just love watercolor crayons! I have used them by coloring on the stamp then spritzing with water but you can also use them with your blender pens and the aquapainter with water. What I do with the blender pens and aquapainter is this, I just leave the crayons in the box and run my blender pen or aquapainter (with water) over the ends to pick up color and then paint on my picture. They are beautiful and it is really hard to mess up with these. When you color on your stamp, you can color on two different colors on to the stamp, spritz with water, let the colors meld then stamp it once for a brighter stamp and then again for more of a shadow look.

Hope this helps! Watercoloring your stamped images is so pretty and looks like a lot of work but it really isn't!

Enjoy!
Carla from Kansas

[gurlzrok]

Are there samples in a gallery using the watercolor crayons directly on the stamps and spritzing with water?

[Masnick]

I think there are some samples on this board. It seems that I saw some with the Watercolor Garden set that were uploaded not too long ago.

I will have to research about other sites.

Carla from Kansas

[Shawna]

I also have the crayons from TAC. Another fun thing to try is using them on colred paper instead of just white. give it a try.

[greengem32]

I just wanted to let you know that I got mine yesterday and I couldn't wait to try the techniques I read about on here. I colored the stamp (flowers work great) and then sprayed the stamp with water and stamped on white cs. It looked awesome and dried fast. I also colored the image after I stamped it and then used blender pens to blend and the colors jumped off the paper. All I have to say is WOW!!! Well worth the money.
Kelley

[froglady]

I never in the world would have thought of colouring right onto the stamp, or spritzing with water. I've got to try that this afternoon. I'm basically new to this site and am overwhelmed by all the incredible creativity everyone has. It's awesome and inspiring.