Twins by Mona Hauge

Team Member: Mona Hauge

March 23, 2025

Step by Step by Mona Hauge

Hello everyone 🧚‍♀️

Hope you all are keeping well. It’s Mona here with my latest Step by Step tutorial called Twins. I hope you like it.

Step 1

Using some white A5 Multifarious card use a series 9 stencil brush to apply some Elements ink Blue Atoll and Elements Olive like you see in the picture.

Step 2

Use a Watercolour brush and just water to move the Elements colours to create clouds in the sky, hills in the green parts and some movement in the water.

Step 3

Now we stamp the Tree of Hope LAV658 in Versafine Clair Pinecone. The Mini Castle LAV215 stamped in Versafine Clair Bali Blue second-generation stamping will look fabulous in the far distance. Stamp it a few times next to each other and some behind itself to make it a bigger Castle.

Step 4

Stamp the sweet Flowers Mini stamp LAV256 in Versafine Clair Charming Pink. Do both first and second generation stamping.

Step 5

Next, we stamp the dragons and horses, starting with the mothers. One of the mothers is the larger horse from the Horse And Foal LAV006 stamp. Stamp the horse in Versafine Clair Pinecone and then stamp just the Foal one more time also in Versafine Clair Pinecone. The other mother is one dragon on top in The Dragon Set LAV552 stamped in Versafine Clair Pinecone. Her twins are the Dragon Mini LAV213. Stamp both in Versafine Clair Pinecone.

Step 6

We need some flowers and trees. Stamp the Tree Scene LAV219 like you see in the picture in Versafine Clair Shady Lane. For the reflection in the water, I just turned the stamp upside down and made sure the trees almost matched the original image. The Red Pine small LAV592, The Bluebells LAV002 and the Orchard Grass LAV672 stamp all in Versafine Clair Shady Lane. Some first generation stamping and some second generation stamping.

Step 7

For some more foliage on the tree, I used the little round stamp from the Spring Trees Stamp LAV168. Stamped in Versafine Clair Shady Lane. Stamp mostly in second and third generation stamping. Don’t worry about stamping over the flowers because we are going to colour them with Posca pens. Use the Light Pink and the Pink to colour the flower on the trees and on the ground. Do some light Pink, some Pink and some both Pinks.

Step 8

Now we will colour the tree, horses and dragons. I use my Mondeluz watercolour pencils because they are so soft and bright in colour. For the animals I use the dark brown and a beige for highlights. Then I use a black coloured pencil to draw on the opposite side of the highlights to create more contrast in the light and dark. This helps to create more depth. For the tree I use dark Brown, Brown, Reddish Brown and Ochre. This helps to give the tree some more life to it.

Step 9

To create a more interesting and mysterious picture we will use our Panpastel Hansa Yellow and Orange. We also need to darken the sky a little bit so use the Elements Ink Graphite just in the top corners. Now we need more highlights and I love to use my White Uniball pen for this. Put highlights on everything and put some light in the windows of the Castle and for some reflection of light on the water. Look at the picture for placement.

Step 10

So, I decided to add another stamp at this point. I felt it needed more. The Cherry Blossom Tree LAV015 stamped in Versafine Clair Pinecone completes the picture. Colour the flower on the tree with the same Posca pens as before.

And now we finish with some White Posca pen splatters.