I have taught many a colouring lesson over the last few years and I am often asked similar questions, one of which is how to use the colour lifter (or color lifter!) from Stampin’ Up! I absolutely love the colour lifter and I hope this post is going to help you see how you might start to use it in your own colouring too, if you don’t already.
The Stamptastic Friends are a small but mighty group of Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who come together once a month to bring you lots of crafty inspiration, and this month we are talking all things colouring techniques. Please do have a hop around the rest of the posts by using the links at the bottom of this one.
The colour lifter is a bit like magic; how it works, no-one truly knows, but the effects are just delightful and can really enhance your colouring. The pen itself looks on the outside like a normal alcohol marker, and indeed it does contain the same alcohol ink, but there is no pigment, no colour, so it is just a blank pen, like the old invisible ink pens that were around when I was a kid!
The Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers are sold in a combo pack so you get a light and a dark marker in all of the colours we have available. This means that you don’t need to colour match like some other brands, as you know the tone of the two pens will work together. What the colour lifter does is allow you to add highlights to any of the colours, and it is this that really brings your colouring to life.
I have coloured the bird in this image using my Ivory Stampin’ Blend. This colour is actually unlike the normal combo packs, as you get two completely different colours sold together, a Bronze and an Ivory. This means that it is harder to get a 3D effect on your colouring, until you bring in the colour lifter. Can you see those lighter patched on the belly of the bird?
After I coloured it in using Ivory I went over a few areas using the colour lifter, to add those highlights I talked about. After colouring it with the colour lifter, and waiting a few moments for it to take effect, the area I coloured becomes much lighter – such a nice look.
It might be a little more difficult to see but I have also used the same technique on the berries, just adding a little of the colour lifter to add a highlight in the small oval circle. It’s really small though, so you might not be able to see it.
I can’t wait to see what the rest of the team have got in store for you with their colouring techniques this month, and if you would like any more information about my colouring courses, please do have a look below where you will find a link to my website page.
Until next time, Happy Colouring!!
Heather xx
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