Penny Black Melody Makers and TaeEun

Posted on March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 by Shauna Todd

Hi Everyone,

We are over-the-moon excited to have TaeEun of Rainbow In November blog visiting today. She is a fabulous colorist! Just take a look at her color magic in this card. These alcohol ink colors just jump off the card!

Hi There! It’s TaeEun here! I’m so excited to be a guest at The Foiled Fox today!

The gorgeous image I used for today’s card is called Melody Makers. The large blossom and sweet birds were calling for alcohol inks when I saw them for the first time :)!

To start off I heat embossed Melody Makers on an Alcohol ink cardstock from Ranger in gold. I then colored the image using Ranger Alcohol inks along with a Y06 Copic Refill.

I applied the ink directly from the bottle onto the image and tilted the panel to move the ink. For small areas, I used a Micro brush. I once watched Jessica Frost-Ballas using it in one of her videos and started using it too. It is the perfect tool for this purpose!!!

The colors I used are:

• Flowers: Shell Pink, Snow Cap

• Leaves: Limeade

• Birds: Y06, Sunshine Yellow, Valencia, Red Pepper/ Pool, Y06

• Branch: Hazelnut

• Background: Aqua, Limeade

I colored the beaks and legs using brown fine tip Sharpie pen and the eyes using black and white glaze pens.

The sentiment is from Grateful Heart by Penny Black. I stamped it in StazOn black ink on the panel. I added some dots with gold and yellow Pico embellisher as stamen of the flowers. To finish off I scattered some clear iridescent sequins.

I’ve made a coloring process video. You can see the name of the used colors on the top left corner.

You can watch it in HD below or on my YouTube channel.