{"id":140,"date":"2011-07-29T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-07-29T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T18:43:00","slug":"rubber-stamps-with-charcoal-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/rubber-stamps-with-charcoal-pencils\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Stamps with Charcoal Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happen to love the look of charcoal drawings. So I decided to try using charcoal pencils with my favorite thing- Rubber Stamps. I really liked the look of the two combined!<\/p>\n<p>Here is what you need for this technique-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>light gray or black ink, <\/li>\n<li>charcoal pencils or graphite, <\/li>\n<li>Fixative, <\/li>\n<li>stumps, eraser, <\/li>\n<li>Easy Scraps stamps- <a href=\"http:\/\/easyscraps.com\/Rubber-Stamps\/Rubber-Stamps-for-Scrapbooks.html\">http:\/\/www.easyscraps.com\/Rubber-Stamps\/Rubber-Stamps-for-Scrapbooks.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stamp the image using a light gray ink. You could also use black, and stamp off onto scrap papper in order to get rid of most of the ink.<br \/>You basically want to get just the outline or hint of the image. Using your charcoal pencils, follow the outlines of the stamps and draw in bolder lines. <br \/>Shade in other areas of the stamped image making sure to leave some white. You can use your finger or a blending stump or a tissue to blend\/smear the charcoal, in order to get a softer, look. I especially like the look of edging the card with charcoal pencils. I shade heavier in the corners and it gives it a cool edge effect- sort of like rounded corners without the punching <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/easyscraps.com\/blog\/rsc\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" title=\"&amp;amp;#59;&amp;amp;#41;\" alt=\"&amp;amp;#59;&amp;amp;#41;\" class=\"middle\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>When you are happy with your image, spray it with fixative to set it so that it doesn&#8217;t smear or wipe off.<\/p>\n<p>Finish up your card with other stamping or embellishments. You now have a card that looks hand-drawn, but it was super easy!! Here is my sample- the child&#8217;s face was created using this technique:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rubber-Stamps-With-Charcoal-Pencils.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rubber-Stamps-With-Charcoal-Pencils.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"item_footer\">\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/easyscraps.com\/blog\/blogu.php\/rubber-stamps-with-charcoal-pencils\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happen to love the look of charcoal drawings. So I decided to try using charcoal pencils with my favorite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mixed-media-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}