What’s cooking by Leesa Magical Maker

September 15, 2024

Step by Step by Leesa Magical Maker

Hello everyone, Leesa here. I have called this tag “What’s Cooking” I hope you enjoy! It’s an easy and effective tag for you to get into the festive spirit 🙂Please use what you have in inks, pencils and stamps, be creative and enjoy what you make! Now let’s create this together. This design can be used for a card with all 3 witches from the Coven of the Blue Moon stamp set.

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Using one of the small Lavinia Stamps Watercolour card tags, I blended the following Distress Oxides together; Spiced Marmalade, Seedless Preserve, Wilted Violet and Villainous. Once you’re happy with the blended colours use a fan brush and splatter the card with water. Allow this to dry fully before you continue.

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Using Versafine Clair Nocturne I added the following stamps, LAV 918 Tree of Spirits, LAV 911 Bubbling Cauldron (add the bubbles later), LAV 912 one of the Coven of the Blue Moon witches.

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Now use Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves and add the bubbles to the cauldron LAV 911, place this where you want the smoke to be, I used 1st, 2^nd and 3^rd generation stamping on this to give a fabulous, faded effect. Add some foliage at the bottom around the tree, cauldron and our beautiful witch using Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves. Again use 1^st and 2^nd generation stamping to give a full effect.

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I’m now adding the words LAV 920 Witching Hour into the picture. I used Versafine Clair Monarch for this to complement the purples in the picture. Place where you feel you want to add some texture. I added in the top middle then followed the picture down right to left.

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Now for some fun! So for the smoke, first I got a small brush and added water to where I wanted the smoke to flow. Next I added my Kuretake Clean Colour Real Brush Zig pens to my mat and added the following colours to make the smoke 001 fl-yellow 004 fl green don’t be afraid to add the water and blend the colours together including the back ground. I also added the Zig 001 fl-yellow to the lantern light to make it glow.

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Now to add little bits of detail, I used the uni-ball Signo white to the top of the cauldron to look as though it was bubbling and into the smoke just here and there, I also added the white to the lantern. Next I drew some little flicks to the ground with the zig pen 010 black to blend into the foliage. Again you can add a little water to this or use water colour pencils.

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Yes, mission completed! What a beauty you have created. You can adapt these styles you have used into many different cards and tags, don’t be shy to experiment with what you have. 🙂

Thank you for joining me in this tutorial, I’m looking forward to seeing your creations.

Hugs Leesa 🙂