Step by Step by Mona Hauge
Hello everyone
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It’s Mona here with my latest Step By Step tutorial called “Forever Friends”
A magical encounter under the beautiful Northern Lights. Hope you like it!
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Step 1
Using some A5 white Multifarious card blend some Elements Ink Blue Atoll and some Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass. See the picture for placement. Keep the centre of the card completely without colour.
Step 2
To create a darker sky, we will add Elements Dark Denim and Elements Graphite to the outside edges. Spray some water on the “sky part” part of the card and let the magical reaction between the water and ink happen before drying the card with a heat gun.
Step 3
Now we will use a watercolour brush and a little water to create some hills and some mountains in the background. With a little water the ink colour is very easy to move and manipulate. Look at the picture for some inspiration.
Step 4
The PanPastel Hansa Yellow has a super magical glow to it and this is perfect for our Northern Lights. Add a very little touch of Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry for some different colour.
Step 5
To create some more “movement” in our sky we will use the Archival Brilliance Moonlight white. Use a Lavinia Stamps Stencil brush series 3 and use just a tiny bit of product. Brush across the sky, all strokes in the same direction. Check the picture for placement.
Step 6
Now we will stamp Tree of Courage LAV657, Fip LAV 697, Wild Hares Set Small LAV 614 and Reindeer (Small) LAV487 all in Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves.
Step 7
We need more trees so we stamp Red Pine Small LAV529 in Versafine Twilight. Do both first- and second-generation stamping. Stamp the little twig from the Foliage Set LAV679 in Versafine Clair Warm Breeze, then add Slender Mushroom Mini LAV151 in Versafine Clair Bali Blue.
Step 8
Our stamped images we will colour with Mondeluz Aquarelle Pencils. For our tree we will use Black, Dark Brown, Redish Brown and Ochre. The same Black and Dark Brown we will use to colour Fip and the animals. For a bit of shadow on the Mushrooms we will use a Blueish Grey and the same colour we will do some shadows on the ground.
Step 9
To create a light in Fip’s lantern we will use PanPastel Hansa Yellow. Now we will use our White Mondeluz Aquarelle Pencil to create some highlights. Look at the picture for placement.
Step 10
A White Posca Pen is great for creating some snow and a White Uniball pen will be perfect to create more highlights. Look at the picture for placement. For the finishing touch we will do a lot of white Posca pen Splatter.Â
Step 11
We have now finished a winter card with a beautiful Northern Lights sky. I hope you enjoyed following my tutorial. If you have any questions, please send me a message and I will answer as soon as I can.
Big hugs from Mona
