WOYWW# 387 a couple of tips and a freebie!

It's What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday #387.  Wow, that week flew by!!  WOYWW is a world wide blog hop of craft space sharing!  Start here At Julia's Blog "Stamping ground", Join the Fun!!

So for the "deskers" , here it is , pretty boring:

One interesting thing, I lost the stand to my glue gun about three years ago.  This giant close pin made a perfect substitute.  It made me happy.  However, I still managed to burn my fingers!!

Now I have more of a post but if your only hoping, on to the next one!!

Or keep reading for a few tips and my freebie!

here is the freebie:

I love this cat!!

Fortunately, I printed him twice!  

here is a tip, for digital printing, I use cheap kids water color paper, 70-90lbs.  It works in my printer beautifully and I can use any coloring medium on it. And it is super Cheap!!  for this cat I used my alcohol markers and they worked really well!

I use the Spectrum noir brand alcohol pen, I love'em, they work great - But as far as I am concerned there are not enough colors, only 168 ( Copic has about 400- but I am not going to spend that kind of money they are 4x times  price)  So what I do to add more color variation is use my colored pencils with the markers.   I have a little system that works great:

Regular colored pencils are right under the markers

Here is another Tip:

I use this to keep my blending pens super juicy, I use the blending pen extensively with the marker pencil combo:

I also use this to refresh my Solvent ink pads like Stazon.  this is a $7.00 can that will probably last a decade or two.

I never use my pencils solo anymore I always team up with the markers, they richness of color is pretty amazing!

For my watercolor pens I do this:

The water color pencils are used with the markers in the same way. 

After working on my Cat a bit I noticed I had a whole lot of yellow in the fur and it really looked terrible, they more I worked it the more yellow it became! I had to cut the lower portion of the image off and start again - that is why it was a good thing I printed two!

Then I discovered what the problem was- I grabbed the watercolor pencil instead of the solvent based pencil!

Will the do over worked - 

Next, I glazed the image to give it a bit more pop:

I used white glue to do this.  I like it better than Modge Podge, it is less glossy and I have a gallon of it!

and here is the finished card:

I hope you enjoy the freebie and the "tips" help you crafting!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Ginny M

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