Watercolour with Gel Pens and your ScanNCut
Did you know you can watercolour with your ScanNCut?
I love to draw with my ScanNCut and a Universal Pen Holder adds so many more techniques we can do with our machine. One of my favourites is to use water-based and water-reactive pens to create new effects quickly and easily.
The design
You firstly want to create your design in the desktop or downloaded version of CanvasWorkspace. This is really important as we move through creating the design. Make sure to leave space between elements rather than having them touch or overlap. Hide all of your elements bar one.
So, in the example above, you would firstly reveal the centre circle of the flower and draw that in pink. I used a mix of Zebra Doodlerz glitter gel pens and PaperMate InkJoy Liquid 0.5. These I found would move nicely after drawing so you could draw and then blend after drawing a couple of colours. You could then reveal the purple inner petal line and draw that and then the outer blue line. The Zebra Doodlerz pack quite a punch, so I did do a second pass with the outer blue line as shown below.
You can remove the mat from the machine when blending with water if you wish. A fractional shift in positioning won't hurt with this kind of design.
Work one flower at a time and make sure your scan glass is in the lifted position. Repeat this process for the smaller background elements.
Once you have drawn and blended all of your elements, remove the card from the mat. Doodle with a lime pen into flower centres as well as creating stems and leafs. You can then use the Zebra Doodlerz purple pen into the smaller areas as it packs such a punch it blends out lovely to cover larger areas.
We can also create type with a gradient. For this, draw your text with the lightest shade you want to use in your gradient. Cut out the text using your blade and remove it from the mat. Add colour inside your outline and blend each section one bit at a time.
Mount onto your patterned piece and then onto a card blank using thin 3D foam.
