Product Description

Gather your paints, pencils, papers, and stamps; then get ready to play! Discover how to use watercolor paints and colored pencils to create a clean, colorful, contemporary look in stylish greeting cards for occasions throughout the year.

* Find over 100 projects and ideas, plus beautiful close-up photos of projects and techniques

* Learn to create washes of color with watercolor brushes, paints, and inks, blend and shade with colored pencils, and use a color wheel for stellar results

* Create special effects by combining watercolors and colored pencils with transparencies, sponging, shrink plastic, and more

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #337074 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781564777805
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Home: Seattle, Washington

Dave Brethauer designs rubber stamps and scrapbooking products for his stamp and paper company, Memory Box. His work has been published in Better Homes and Gardens, Rubber Stamper, and Somerset Studio.

Customer Reviews

Coloring techniques with pencils and watercolors
This is a fabulous companion to Stamp in Color, another great technique book by the same author that is about 10 years old. Card Designs showcases cards that are relatively simple compared to cards displayed in papercrafting magazines, but the point is to show you exactly how the stamped image is colored. There is a technique to coloring well with pencils and certainly with watercolors (he shows you how to use watercoloring pencils, markers, inks and paints). With a little practice and Dave's instruction, you'll feel really proud of your projects and progress quickly.

The specific instructions for each card are grouped together in the back, leaving the front free to display the cards more as works of art. Though there are a lot of specific details on each card, there is not as much coverage of basic stamping topics as there was in Stamp in Color (ie. instead of explaining heat embossing at the front of the book, it assumes prior knowledge,) so if you're a total beginner in rubber stamping, I'd definitely recommend buying Stamp in Color: Techniques for Enhancing Your Artwork (Pastimes) or another stamping primer first. Simply Cards by Sally Traidman is a great place to start and covers some of the basics beautifully but is not (and wasn't meant to be) an encyclopedia of stamping techniques. Grace Taormina's book offers very thorough coverage of almost all stamping techniques, but the look of the projects and stamps featured is very dated because the book is probably a decade old.

The book features stamps from Rubber Moon and Savvy stamps and cards/papers from Memory Box--product lines you will want to know about if you are someone who likes to replicate a project exactly, which you can here with very professional-looking results. Have fun!

Great book - wonderful photos and directions
This is a great book for people looking to learn more about water color and pencil techniques. The samples have great design ideas and the instructions are clear and easy to read. The colors are vibrant and the photos very good.

Not as helpful as I hoped
The examples are beautiful and limited. Main problem is that the directions are in the back of the book, making it difficult to follow directions and look at the picture for a model. It would have been so much easier to have the directions on the same page.