Voila....viola!~

About this post's title...I could not resist the word play! My Group at Bella Creations is called Voila, Ink! We have over 60 members and share inking and stamping techniques, methods, and tips. I have the best time trying new things and sharing my results with the members, and it is so much fun to be cheerleaders, if not 'enablers', for each other! LOL~ The March Unique Challenge at Bella Creations is to use "spotlighting" or colorization of a black & white image. This is one I could sink my teeth into! haha. I gathered ink, punches, my Zig H2O pen and a stamp to try out this color technique.

I watched this Spotlighting with a punch tutorial before I started. (Bless our men & women in uniform!)
I stamped the viola on Krome Kote with waterproof Archival ink. Then I stamped the viola a second time on a smaller piece of paper. Next, I used a square punch to remove a portion of the second image. I used the Zig H2O pen and Distress Ink to color the punched portion, then matted it in black Bazzill. Then I attached the punched section to the bigger main image with foam dots. I embellished with ribbon, used a Martha Stewart punch on the corners, and stamped a sentiment on an oval punch. Voila!

This coloring method is striking! I think I am going to try it again soon. And something I will be using regularly while experimenting with ink will be the Distress Ink chart shared with me by Pcgirl over at Scrapbook.com. Laurie made a funny LO about her obsession, I mean appreciation of, T!m Holtz inks. I can relate. I already printed out a copy for myself and stamped it with the ink in my collection....and NO, I do not have every color...yet!