tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87473885575725506842024-03-04T23:48:01.141-05:00Nathalie Métivier MagentaStyleUn blogue pour les amateurs de cartes faites à la main, de créations artistiques variées, d’étampes en caoutchouc et autres loisirs créatifs… Et pour tous ceux qui aiment le Style Magenta évidemment!
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A blog for those who like hand made cards, mixed media and art in general, as well as rubber stamps, and various craft projects… And for those who love the Magenta Style of course!
Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.comBlogger387125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-19036856839996560292023-09-24T00:00:00.003-04:002023-09-24T00:00:00.140-04:00Fleurs sauvages / Wildflowers<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Encore une carte toute simple: un cercle de couleur tracé au pochoir </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">et une étampe qui remplit bien cet espace créé. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Du marqueur bleu sur les fleurs et du noir pour tracer cercle et cadre, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">et voilà, c’est fait!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwF_WV7yt6GIx1OgYM5PRCLrPohQ2hNRj1T8VgRBuKmzScZxd6Hu0Whmkx5lVCggHHsyGh34iqBfJ9YYsG4CsOwD0FEWgs-59KeTneXqG8rbdRb8me99gJqAaHG8p3hUfH8Yr5Fiks9rqZMx9sjmn-Jys6I4TcD8Yd87lovLBB4d7YGKjZpYjn1DO5/s1650/0854.P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwF_WV7yt6GIx1OgYM5PRCLrPohQ2hNRj1T8VgRBuKmzScZxd6Hu0Whmkx5lVCggHHsyGh34iqBfJ9YYsG4CsOwD0FEWgs-59KeTneXqG8rbdRb8me99gJqAaHG8p3hUfH8Yr5Fiks9rqZMx9sjmn-Jys6I4TcD8Yd87lovLBB4d7YGKjZpYjn1DO5/w640-h640/0854.P.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Another very simple card: a circle of color drawn with a stencil </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>and a stamp that fills in the space created. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Blue marker on the flowers and black to draw circle and frame,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>and voila, it's done!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-75712108498458466222023-09-21T00:00:00.002-04:002023-09-21T00:00:00.142-04:00À la tombée du jour / After the sunset<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Encore une fois j’ai fait un paysage sur un fond fait d’encres à l’alcool. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ce genre de tracé me plait bien en ce qu’il représente bien l’horizon, lorsque se confondent eau et ciel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Les deux étampes sont imprimées en noir - le plus encrées possible.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Un peu de crayon de couleur rehausse certaines parties de cette composition.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipN3peg3ZuyWsCm3VmjPIjW25hcbWPJiLFSyISGX5FqC5iLPten8KG_Tg1C_e9z6kW5FleMQAE13Sse_H-kavOTylsQ6m3aEMh6d7Iq6KFbMJbR6HXgxXSCnvtRgR3S9Hk46R-MsU7atIXDxYJPnKYfVxMnyacffMjyDxx4H6dd04DpOPzWD4soqIL/s2048/0845.O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipN3peg3ZuyWsCm3VmjPIjW25hcbWPJiLFSyISGX5FqC5iLPten8KG_Tg1C_e9z6kW5FleMQAE13Sse_H-kavOTylsQ6m3aEMh6d7Iq6KFbMJbR6HXgxXSCnvtRgR3S9Hk46R-MsU7atIXDxYJPnKYfVxMnyacffMjyDxx4H6dd04DpOPzWD4soqIL/w492-h640/0845.O.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Again I made a landscape on a background made of alcohol inks. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I like this kind of coloring because it represents the horizon well, when water and sky merge.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Both stamps are printed in black - as inked as possible. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A bit of colored pencil enhances certain parts of this composition.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-15076557700288995252023-09-17T00:00:00.003-04:002023-09-17T00:00:00.156-04:00La sieste du chat / The cat's nap<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Y a-t-il sujet plus charmant qu’un chat endormi? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mais pourquoi y a-t-il une orange à ses côtés? Mystère!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mis en couleur aux crayons de couleur. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Le texte est étampé sur une forme amusante, retenue par une attache parisienne</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> en forme de coeur dans laquelle sont glissés quelques fils d’or. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Un gentil petit mot d’amour!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWyzykKOqO7B2WupE9YtsDGrglsGnNm_HTzUErfO6A62Tpx94tFFBR1wmV_dLJfS2fMSSi1iYpaxC22SqQPZv6HFPXhBuDojHP2MFWzHXe3C62w-HI5CTMLDipjVIoy9gE7nHeheRyV58isk7ug9fbzfrifeO3P3Wqu-K-C4cw19aUpyc8SEFQJPgM/s2048/0846.P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWyzykKOqO7B2WupE9YtsDGrglsGnNm_HTzUErfO6A62Tpx94tFFBR1wmV_dLJfS2fMSSi1iYpaxC22SqQPZv6HFPXhBuDojHP2MFWzHXe3C62w-HI5CTMLDipjVIoy9gE7nHeheRyV58isk7ug9fbzfrifeO3P3Wqu-K-C4cw19aUpyc8SEFQJPgM/w492-h640/0846.P.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Is there a subject more charming than a sleeping cat? </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>But why is there an orange next to it? Mystery!</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Colored with colored pencils. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>The text is stamped on a fun shape of paper, held by a brad in the shape of a heart </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>in which are slipped a few gold threads. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A sweet little message of love!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-68402731908014955172023-09-14T00:00:00.001-04:002023-09-14T00:00:00.138-04:00Jolis papillons / Pretty butterflies<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Quelques couleurs d’encres sont brossées sur le papier de fond, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">sur lequel est ensuite étampé le grand motif un peu abstrait de papillons.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> L’étampe de papillon est étampée 2 fois, coloriée aux crayons de couleur, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">puis chacun est découpé pour être ajouté au montage. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pour ceux qui n’aiment pas trop découper de pareils détails, il est toujours possible </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">de ne pas garder les antennes et de les dessiner sur la carte à la place… </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">De bons petits ciseaux fins sont recommandés pour ceux qui s’y risquent!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KcHRlEBPowJQ4Qq_ksCFCe780AFGiilf1D23aEgLpRGudk_Io7KmOPcFdMKozlZGKl_u4c-9boe90FwwO_fHNrEBK-fO1UdhsbkF0WRSKSWnAHHVCX2EwCI9FE4Bq5bgXX4iIoLxf5xMmTQ81BXzoKF47N_kuWBN8f2j319sBPcv6Ex1iyooQI_B/s2056/papillonsjpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1628" data-original-width="2056" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KcHRlEBPowJQ4Qq_ksCFCe780AFGiilf1D23aEgLpRGudk_Io7KmOPcFdMKozlZGKl_u4c-9boe90FwwO_fHNrEBK-fO1UdhsbkF0WRSKSWnAHHVCX2EwCI9FE4Bq5bgXX4iIoLxf5xMmTQ81BXzoKF47N_kuWBN8f2j319sBPcv6Ex1iyooQI_B/w640-h506/papillonsjpg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Some colors of ink are brushed on the background paper,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> on which is then stamped the large, slightly abstract pattern of butterflies. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>The butterfly stamp is stamped twice, colored with colored pencils, t</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>hen each one is cut out to be added to the layout. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>For those who don't really like to cut out such details, it is always possible </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>not to keep the antennas and to draw them on the card instead... </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Good little fine scissors are recommended for those who dare!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-77095948991504142192023-09-10T00:00:00.001-04:002023-09-10T00:00:00.144-04:00Quelque part dans le monde un oiseau chante pour toi / Somewhere in the world a bird sings for you<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cette silhouette d’oiseau sur un fil, dont les bulles évoquent le chant a été étampée </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">sur un fond fait d’encres à l’alcool appliquées en lignes sur un applicateur feutre,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> pour tracer des lignes horizontales sur un papier cartonné blanc. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pour renforcer l’idée du chant, et donc des bulles, j’en ai ajoutées au pochoir. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Du crayon bleu très foncé est ajouté sur l’oiseau et ici et là.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Le texte est évidemment approprié: « quelque part dans le monde un oiseau chante pour toi ». </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ce que je souhaite à chacun de vous!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_d6SmLVotYSNAE4W88O9byTim8nQXFCf0axuf42SUPB6GOiAFHCooLZF2fb0PGrBC6ZXsZQXVfzrvm1CINQ_V1XJsTeLsFb_S2zyvPlHXymmSTBYeh6IpZJoYyj8cVTcCaz4ehyyarLrWoMhF6FS79yZKHnvTx448_E9MaLRz770Puw7cMwe5IkiE/s1650/oiseau%20bulles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_d6SmLVotYSNAE4W88O9byTim8nQXFCf0axuf42SUPB6GOiAFHCooLZF2fb0PGrBC6ZXsZQXVfzrvm1CINQ_V1XJsTeLsFb_S2zyvPlHXymmSTBYeh6IpZJoYyj8cVTcCaz4ehyyarLrWoMhF6FS79yZKHnvTx448_E9MaLRz770Puw7cMwe5IkiE/w640-h640/oiseau%20bulles.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>This silhouette of a bird on a wire, whose bubbles evoke singing, was stamped on a background made of alcohol inks </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>applied in lines on a felt applicator, to trace horizontal lines on a white cardstock.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> To reinforce the idea of singing, and therefore bubbles, I added some more with a stencil. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Very dark blue pencil is added to the bird and here and there. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>The text is obviously appropriate: "Somewhere in the world a bird sings for you".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> What I wish for each of you!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-1855758796347511552023-09-07T00:00:00.005-04:002023-09-07T00:00:00.145-04:00Oiseau au bord de l'eau / Bird at the water's edge<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Des encres à l’alcool dans les tons de bleus et de mauves sont versées en lignes sur un applicateur feutre, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">diluées avec de la solution spéciale Blending Solution et appliqués en lignes horizontales sur du papier cartonné blanc. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Lorsque je fais ce genre de fonds, j’ai parfois du mal à choisir entre le dessus et son verso. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ici c’est le verso, plus pâle, plus inégal, qui correspond mieux à l’idée d’eau et de ciel. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">L’oiseau et son reflet s’intègre bien dans ce résultat (une fois bien sec). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Et une délicate branche complète la composition. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oiseau et branche sont rehaussés de crayon de couleur. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Et pour l’oiseau, également de marqueurs blanc et noir. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj15osvCTVibUkll1tjiDJyc7ld2g5GaH-ZsT6bp5BvOrKtqkKxp51UBTCIkr6E98ONS3nLQsGNwcCXrSmw4SPtO9NKBstukBRQBT2ym8pSlgCeVeyNVdW8kUZGSdLhdYCDMb45iWALEbZXAo0-AokNtQiVNZfn-7AV2H_ce-YVQrgzs-2xQnISjt5r/s1650/be%CC%81casseau.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj15osvCTVibUkll1tjiDJyc7ld2g5GaH-ZsT6bp5BvOrKtqkKxp51UBTCIkr6E98ONS3nLQsGNwcCXrSmw4SPtO9NKBstukBRQBT2ym8pSlgCeVeyNVdW8kUZGSdLhdYCDMb45iWALEbZXAo0-AokNtQiVNZfn-7AV2H_ce-YVQrgzs-2xQnISjt5r/w640-h640/be%CC%81casseau.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Alcohol inks in shades of blues and mauves are dropped in lines on a felt applicator, </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>diluted with Blending Solution and applied in horizontal lines on white cardstock.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> When I make this kind of background, I sometimes have a hard time choosing between the top and its back. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here it is the back, paler, more uneven, which corresponds better to the idea of water and sky. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>The bird and its reflection fits well in this result (once dry). </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>And a delicate branch completes the composition. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Bird and branch are enhanced with colored pencil. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>And for the bird, also white and black markers.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-54303383350661286782023-09-03T00:00:00.001-04:002023-09-03T00:00:00.146-04:00Les oies du Canada au coucher du soleil / The Canada geese at sunset<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Voici un fond sur papier aquarelle fait avec des poudres Nuance, dans des tons de coucher de soleil. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Une fois bien sec, j’y ai étampé ce magnifique motif, typique de mon coin de pays:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> le passage des oies du Canada, dans leurs allers et retours entre le sud et le nord. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On peut presque imaginer leurs cris incessants qui attirent notre attention vers le ciel. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Un spectacle dont on ne se lasse pas, nous indiquant les changements de saisons.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgYtFd5RcWYld3fGHC4F4JDUov_KNpYveTVmP1zYzVI4WO0Nw_Y-vZhak1hq4e8x2Gc7Lz_BJmyfjvPjORPlwAqVpqrWtwH2ACgjXXQGAXAmvWKyXGTiYC_OrOFmlw-ljJvzRAzDR3anylgQWQ50HXdroM91gOrIFspORqkdY2N6EHM2hzXgPt5mw/s1650/0848.P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgYtFd5RcWYld3fGHC4F4JDUov_KNpYveTVmP1zYzVI4WO0Nw_Y-vZhak1hq4e8x2Gc7Lz_BJmyfjvPjORPlwAqVpqrWtwH2ACgjXXQGAXAmvWKyXGTiYC_OrOFmlw-ljJvzRAzDR3anylgQWQ50HXdroM91gOrIFspORqkdY2N6EHM2hzXgPt5mw/w640-h640/0848.P.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here is a background on watercolor paper made with Nuance powders, in sunset tones. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Once dry, I stamped this magnificent pattern, typical of my part of the country:</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> the passage of Canada geese, in their round trip between the south and the north. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>We can almost imagine their incessant cries drawing our attention to the sky. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A show that we never tire of, showing us the changes of seasons.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-2739994624105413332023-08-27T00:00:00.001-04:002023-08-27T00:00:00.135-04:00Le gentil chat gris / The sweet grey cat<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Depuis bientôt deux ans, il y a un chat qui visite mon jardin presque chaque jour.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Sans collier, je ne sais s’il appartient à quelqu’un, mais en tous cas, il est mignon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Alors, en son honneur, j’ai mis celui-ci en couleur, aux crayons, dans des tons de gris qui lui ressemblent un peu.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZ2wvFfEYN3xwcbt7u96pqNggNzNtIvMjtfKCALEfiBClCkDgXMs_NE6WR-OBd4ZSEZ5k-uUfqFpu4pVNHZWlBX2U9mVvI6CtbGGRBvKEaIounommB33k0jdDZpbv7XTenbocrvX_zPUBCO1sYlXFi7StK6757XVe4tWYYNd3sydBTqLWu8Wvpnao/s1650/0847.O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZ2wvFfEYN3xwcbt7u96pqNggNzNtIvMjtfKCALEfiBClCkDgXMs_NE6WR-OBd4ZSEZ5k-uUfqFpu4pVNHZWlBX2U9mVvI6CtbGGRBvKEaIounommB33k0jdDZpbv7XTenbocrvX_zPUBCO1sYlXFi7StK6757XVe4tWYYNd3sydBTqLWu8Wvpnao/w640-h640/0847.O.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>F<span style="color: #a64d79;">or nearly two years, there has been a cat that has visited my garden almost every day. </span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #a64d79;">Without a collar, I don't know if it belongs to someone, but in any case, it is cute.</span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #a64d79;"> So, in his honor, I put this stamped one in color, with pencils, in shades of gray that look a bit like him.</span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-23868519165697765012023-08-24T00:00:00.001-04:002023-08-24T00:00:00.141-04:00Fleurs et papillons / Flowers and butterflies<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Aujourd’hui, c’est en sujet principal que j’ai étampé ce joli motif floral, alors qu’il m’avait servi de délicat décor il y a quelques temps. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mis en couleur aux crayons, assortis aux deux papillons étampés sur du papier blanc, coloriés et découpés. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Un montage de papiers dans les mêmes tons de rose et vert agrémente cette carte.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtfXZmDoWcbm5eDkTAdeS9dkyCghT3Z01NgW9mQq8Teauvy56Dr6d8vYfvJQyIgm9G7nMjikNWBPvz1s2ASQP9dkIPGEvCxaAkMuna_VgsLW-oRJul1OoneXu7KcmCyMUmfo0qGRsHhdqxYLIiLbs_m5E-PKsKwhdB77XNIEDnXBMzZfidmOl9kBN/s1650/0855.O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWtfXZmDoWcbm5eDkTAdeS9dkyCghT3Z01NgW9mQq8Teauvy56Dr6d8vYfvJQyIgm9G7nMjikNWBPvz1s2ASQP9dkIPGEvCxaAkMuna_VgsLW-oRJul1OoneXu7KcmCyMUmfo0qGRsHhdqxYLIiLbs_m5E-PKsKwhdB77XNIEDnXBMzZfidmOl9kBN/w640-h640/0855.O.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Today, I stamped this pretty floral pattern as the main subject, while it had served me as a delicate decoration some time ago. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Colored with pencils, matched with two butterflies stamped on white paper, colored and cut out. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A layout of papers in the same shades of pink and green embellishes this card.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-88878236697236866282023-08-20T00:00:00.003-04:002023-08-20T00:00:00.135-04:00Je t'envoi des bisous pleins de courage! / I send you kisses full of courage!<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’aime beaucoup ce genre de motif, qui peut tout aussi bien servir d’élément décoratif que de sujet principal. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Je l’ai d’abord étampé en vert très pâle partout sur ma carte, en le tournant </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">dans diverses directions pour éviter que le tout soit trop rigide. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai retracé le tout au fin marqueur noir, en ajoutant spirales et points pour remplir l’espace. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai étampé le texte sur un carton blanc, collé sur un carton vert </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">à peine plus grand pour ne laisser qu’une fine ligne contrastante.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Enfin, j’ai repris le motif de feuillage et l’ai étampé quelque fois, toujours en vert pâle </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">mais pour les colorier aux crayons et marqueurs, puis je les ai découpés comme s’il s’agissait de fleurs. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Et j’ai composé une sorte de couronne autour du texte.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HJL9aBjkC87s-vvpmx9P5oAgOYQfBDq4LIphIITEKKW5EMaDioSke__ObxLUvliP3uoU0mLFcVvwJoyR66XTy2-3srFdEbWxSaxY54ub5-VYLGNrCB8bAEjP6bjiN_xI4TPPFwDsD3B3wIepuBLfzKvAz2mHS2LxZHnDwYK2TlpzSo4pgMHgSe47/s2048/0857.K.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HJL9aBjkC87s-vvpmx9P5oAgOYQfBDq4LIphIITEKKW5EMaDioSke__ObxLUvliP3uoU0mLFcVvwJoyR66XTy2-3srFdEbWxSaxY54ub5-VYLGNrCB8bAEjP6bjiN_xI4TPPFwDsD3B3wIepuBLfzKvAz2mHS2LxZHnDwYK2TlpzSo4pgMHgSe47/w492-h640/0857.K.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I really like this kind of pattern, which can serve as a decorative element as well as a main subject. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I first stamped it in very pale green all over my card, twisting it in various directions to keep it from being too stiff. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I traced the whole thing in fine black marker, adding spirals and dots to fill in the space.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I stamped the text on a white cardstock, glued on a slightly larger green cardstock</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> to leave only a thin contrasting line.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Finally, I took again the foliage pattern and stamped it a few times, still in pale green </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>but to be colored with pencils and markers, then I cut them out as if they were flowers. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>And I composed a kind of wreath around the text.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-23730416757195168092023-08-17T00:00:00.001-04:002023-08-17T00:00:00.150-04:00Un petit oiseau ma dit que c’était ta fête / A little bird told me that it was your birthday<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Un autre oiseau charmant et agréable à mettre en couleur aux crayons. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ici, j’ai d’abord brossé très délicatement de l’encre bleu, de manière à créer un ciel aux légers nuages. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Encore une fois, j’ai prolongé les branches aux crayons de couleur pour leur faire traverser la carte plus logiquement. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Les spirales sont tracées au fin marqueur noir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhks1HfDwAQ0NJq3pGYIx-E3fyDnlM-0IK0xVTM-AJXO2qxPw5ktoqThE5keyU4dMTxhJQbFMHVduUeV_k6ZjsVVp4Q15YUiBMbfgobdfVd8mVAf27GARoU_ax2pJFZvNAx-yL65vXbVyjCpWMaWQ7DII3yrsqO2ON3cIesv4AZO0EPNbVosHLapYLh/s2048/oiseau%20sur%20branche.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhks1HfDwAQ0NJq3pGYIx-E3fyDnlM-0IK0xVTM-AJXO2qxPw5ktoqThE5keyU4dMTxhJQbFMHVduUeV_k6ZjsVVp4Q15YUiBMbfgobdfVd8mVAf27GARoU_ax2pJFZvNAx-yL65vXbVyjCpWMaWQ7DII3yrsqO2ON3cIesv4AZO0EPNbVosHLapYLh/w492-h640/oiseau%20sur%20branche.jpg" width="492" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Another charming bird, pleasant to color with pencils. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here, I first very delicately brushed blue ink, so as to create a sky with light clouds. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Again, I extended the branches with colored pencil to make them cross the card more logically. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>The spirals are drawn with a fine black marker.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-5436667179893851972023-08-13T00:00:00.005-04:002023-08-13T00:00:00.139-04:00Champ de fleurs / Field of flowers<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">De temps en temps, j’aime bien faire des cartes toutes en longueur comme celle-ci. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Je me contente de les couper à la dimension des enveloppes standard de bureau.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> J’ai eu envie de faire un champ complet rempli de ces jolies fleurs! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Au crayon de couleur, tout simplement. Pour les répartir également, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">j’ai d’abord étampé le motif au centre, puis de chaque côté, jusqu’à remplir la carte.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjVzBI3MJC8u3-XklkakVjnXp1W7ALGqjpX5mob15eeLzN07Vl4xaEx1yDWKvdSAdiwP-kiUozO61GwVEF4ryaA-aXJwrNDLjTMT02tl3TYGM9Z4l0DJZrpRuGWZ38BVuYCYqKDFY6S8U10H-xmRkvhQYNPD6Wup0yRU8BfUrpvOHLEE7jqOp5JTF/s2925/fleurs%20des%20champs%20horiz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1275" data-original-width="2925" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjVzBI3MJC8u3-XklkakVjnXp1W7ALGqjpX5mob15eeLzN07Vl4xaEx1yDWKvdSAdiwP-kiUozO61GwVEF4ryaA-aXJwrNDLjTMT02tl3TYGM9Z4l0DJZrpRuGWZ38BVuYCYqKDFY6S8U10H-xmRkvhQYNPD6Wup0yRU8BfUrpvOHLEE7jqOp5JTF/w640-h278/fleurs%20des%20champs%20horiz.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Once in a while, I like to make long cards like this. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I just cut them to the size of standard office envelopes. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I wanted to make a full field filled with these pretty flowers! </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Just in colored pencil. To distribute them evenly, </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I first stamped the design in the center, then on each side, until I filled the card.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-79121043404595628742023-08-10T00:00:00.001-04:002023-08-10T00:00:00.156-04:00L'oiseau dans les feuilles 2 / Bird in foliage 2<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">De retour avec une autre carte mettant en vedette cet oiseau dans ses feuillages.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Ici, je me suis permis d’ajouter de petites fleurs étampées et découpées. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Le tout étant colorié aux crayons de couleur. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Des touches de marqueur noir complètent l’ensemble, ainsi qu’un peu de Stickles</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> dans le coeur des fleurs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrrs2w7vt7ZOUBi_YIfheCCjaXbLStqRvSuF0cJvkf_2a296mYhQyX_iP4hr6nDuocz3rWIwLbAOWA87nb3Ir6oIvK1LbP3TkeGWRtb5QW-gp-M3dbd-bR5bfSi0FsEhmcSMJxyqLpfBO7OSAdwBAEir0LHhQMsMeZHTMe6RGdSnuAToBKCXuShyQ/s1650/oiseau%20bleu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrrs2w7vt7ZOUBi_YIfheCCjaXbLStqRvSuF0cJvkf_2a296mYhQyX_iP4hr6nDuocz3rWIwLbAOWA87nb3Ir6oIvK1LbP3TkeGWRtb5QW-gp-M3dbd-bR5bfSi0FsEhmcSMJxyqLpfBO7OSAdwBAEir0LHhQMsMeZHTMe6RGdSnuAToBKCXuShyQ/w640-h640/oiseau%20bleu.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Back with another card featuring this bird in its foliage. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here, I took the liberty of adding small stamped and cut-out flowers. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>All colored with colored pencils.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Touches of black marker complete the set, </i></span><i style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;">as well as a little Stickles </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;">in the heart of the flowers.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-28816346843568958322023-08-06T00:00:00.004-04:002023-08-06T00:00:00.132-04:00Mésanges sur une branche / Chickadees on branch<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai présenté plusieurs fois des cartes composée en partant d’un cercle colorié avec un pochoir. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">C’est un type de structure que j’aime beaucoup. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ici, c’est le prétexte à combiner ces magnifiques feuillages et ces adorables petits oiseaux sur leur branche. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Attention, je me suis permis de prolonger cette branche lors de ma mise en couleur afin de rendre le tout plus réaliste. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Crayons de couleur et marqueur noir complètent le tout.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNrU7_rYeHjfkcaZu-y6WRum--0ErgKlyCXCdMJmjDuSkLenRrm6SzL4VrjVF1ifCOBOMLpwgzBVwuT9uoOx5a_Z_OQuvWjWJiA58zQFcEOVAi5Io2BQMo1kyiHGD0OZQGTyXj80M9GyeU6Ye3YgxTHcO2PXycgqW9IBCqOVtP8d3EWvwMTm5WILp/s1650/0843.M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNrU7_rYeHjfkcaZu-y6WRum--0ErgKlyCXCdMJmjDuSkLenRrm6SzL4VrjVF1ifCOBOMLpwgzBVwuT9uoOx5a_Z_OQuvWjWJiA58zQFcEOVAi5Io2BQMo1kyiHGD0OZQGTyXj80M9GyeU6Ye3YgxTHcO2PXycgqW9IBCqOVtP8d3EWvwMTm5WILp/w640-h640/0843.M.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I presented several times cards composed starting from a colored circle done with a stencil. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>It's a type of structure that I really like. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here is the pretext to combine these magnificent foliage and these adorable little birds on their branch. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Attention, I allowed myself to extend this branch during my coloring in order to make everything more realistic. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Colored pencils and black marker complete the whole thing.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-59639797169815804672023-08-03T00:00:00.017-04:002023-08-03T00:00:00.163-04:00L'oiseau dans les feuilles 1 / Bird in foliage 1<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Depuis quelques temps, je vous présente des cartes que j’ai faite avec </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">les plus récentes étampes de Magenta, essentiellement créées par Hélène. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Je les aime toutes!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ici, j’ai combiné deux étampes. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Un sujet principal, adorable oiseau dans les feuillage mis en couleur aux crayons de couleur. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Et un dessin de fleurs délicates que j’ai étampé tout autour, d’un seul ton, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">assorti à la mise en couleur et à l’encre verte délicatement brossée sur le papier blanc. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Du marqueur noir et du blanc rehaussent le tout ici et là.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaH2LY1_4vwegYDYF6VZ4qmRIZtC-7ZCb_SZUbVaO7q58m3ZNrLP_HZjsz8yn1_iu7CA811NNV0ucQ2U8yn4iRxMLOXDYADD2s5A-P9f0vIU-DV6kwEVD1Zrmbn92z6rZpZeNQK3n0zCWsw50ihN7AlA1tdsI3mQgJfMmCOH1a2L06YfXgzjcr6R6X/s1650/0853.P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaH2LY1_4vwegYDYF6VZ4qmRIZtC-7ZCb_SZUbVaO7q58m3ZNrLP_HZjsz8yn1_iu7CA811NNV0ucQ2U8yn4iRxMLOXDYADD2s5A-P9f0vIU-DV6kwEVD1Zrmbn92z6rZpZeNQK3n0zCWsw50ihN7AlA1tdsI3mQgJfMmCOH1a2L06YfXgzjcr6R6X/w640-h640/0853.P.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>For some time now, I have been showing you cards I made with the most recent </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Magenta stamps, </i></span><i style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;">mainly created by Hélène. I love them all!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here I have combined two stamps. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A main subject, adorable bird in the foliage colored with colored pencils. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>And a design of delicate flowers that I stamped all around, in one tone, </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>matching the coloring and the delicately brushed green ink on the white paper.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> Black and white markers enhance everything here and there.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-49496530362649073872023-07-27T00:00:00.003-04:002023-07-27T00:00:00.143-04:00Oiseau farfelu / Wacky bird<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cet oiseau est unique en son genre, son côté décoiffé est très amusant </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">et il est plaisant à mettre en couleur, comme ici, aux crayons de couleur.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyMAPFSWI-YYACK6_aseyJp_3V-1gygBQuH-R5uN_JHBrXh5KNe6NAjhPK66nR97y-SqtCMT2sg2R3l6MWtGkTnXsZ16S304355fR3jFFezrZATKkQ9qYjDr65_LoYaZ9Ab6d-AWdUUeQMszAD9TvnG9wbs7XT47bGGGHDK0r29Ph11PBabCy6EEo/s1650/0851.O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyMAPFSWI-YYACK6_aseyJp_3V-1gygBQuH-R5uN_JHBrXh5KNe6NAjhPK66nR97y-SqtCMT2sg2R3l6MWtGkTnXsZ16S304355fR3jFFezrZATKkQ9qYjDr65_LoYaZ9Ab6d-AWdUUeQMszAD9TvnG9wbs7XT47bGGGHDK0r29Ph11PBabCy6EEo/w640-h640/0851.O.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;"><i>This bird is one of a kind, its disheveled side is very fun and it is nice to color it,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;"><i> like here, with colored pencils.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-39005212070700731462023-07-23T00:00:00.001-04:002023-07-23T00:00:00.140-04:00Au jardin / In the garden<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sur papier cartonné blanc, j’ai d’abord appliqué quelques couleurs d’encres, plutôt pâles. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Puis j’ai étampé mes éléments en vert - sauf le lapin en beige. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai rehaussé le tout de crayon de couleur. J’ai également étampé en vert le motif</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> de feuillage plein - 2 fois - pour en découper le plus petit groupe de feuilles,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> que j’ai ensuite collés (après les avoir rehaussés de marqueur blanc et noir). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai griffonné au crayon vert un semblant d’herbe pour situer le lapin dans le paysage ainsi créé. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’en ai un très semblable dans mon petit jardin - en plus de 2-3 ratons laveurs,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> écureuils, et plus rarement une marmotte et… une mouffette… </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Je me demande bien où ils vivent tous!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_iW0vnES1R_LUYCi2b67YdyVjL1m4ZSXmpYwa4-BrX3ittBj3rJML-RutHBulcrKidh7CX-gf6mK0xm7CpMxz6UvtPdwWca_NMMVz0b9SXUxY-xqbnffngDV-4HW6GMr3wBx58qiSDA5kNVZc6Xk7Nz-P-2fYbWC0Ks6Setu7ggmLkxycRjy_s6b/s2056/0849.I-0854.P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1628" data-original-width="2056" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_iW0vnES1R_LUYCi2b67YdyVjL1m4ZSXmpYwa4-BrX3ittBj3rJML-RutHBulcrKidh7CX-gf6mK0xm7CpMxz6UvtPdwWca_NMMVz0b9SXUxY-xqbnffngDV-4HW6GMr3wBx58qiSDA5kNVZc6Xk7Nz-P-2fYbWC0Ks6Setu7ggmLkxycRjy_s6b/w640-h506/0849.I-0854.P.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>On white cardstock, I first applied a few ink colors, rather pale. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Then I stamped my elements in green - except the rabbit in beige. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I enhanced everything with colored pencil. I also stamped the solid foliage design</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> in green - twice - to cut out the two smaller group of leaves, which I then glued on </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>(after highlighting them with white and black marker). </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I scribbled a sort of grass in green pencil to situate the rabbit in the landscape thus created.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I have a very similar one in my little garden - in addition to 2-3 raccoons,</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i> squirrels, and more rarely a groundhog and... a skunk... </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I wonder where they all live!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-38578700042105098812023-07-20T00:00:00.001-04:002023-07-20T00:00:00.142-04:00Vue sur le lac Champlain / View on lake Champlain<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Certaines étampes, comme celle-ci, ne demande rien de plus que d’être imprimées en noir </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">sur un fond délicatement colorié d’encre - un joli bleu qui évoque autant le ciel que l’eau du motif. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Il est simplement important de très bien encrer l’image et de bien appuyer pour répartir la pression.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMmk6Qs8S0nURrU9FYekCJWWAVIPb7vjF8ee_ZOXB8r7VrlEzLQvW3_WW4EWFxkIqxy1buznoy-og1JB4n5_HU3ntKhw2zZnGSvjWqbGzFSNho75G0flVDJExzbNxablNJArWVd2qeUtvDSF4cRHDZfnVOex1TK_c5W_Aysd3DSyUec38qY8fqJA7k/s1650/0840.R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMmk6Qs8S0nURrU9FYekCJWWAVIPb7vjF8ee_ZOXB8r7VrlEzLQvW3_WW4EWFxkIqxy1buznoy-og1JB4n5_HU3ntKhw2zZnGSvjWqbGzFSNho75G0flVDJExzbNxablNJArWVd2qeUtvDSF4cRHDZfnVOex1TK_c5W_Aysd3DSyUec38qY8fqJA7k/w640-h640/0840.R.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Some stamps, like this one, ask for nothing more than to be printed in black on a delicately colored ink background </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>- a pretty blue that evokes the sky as much as the water of the design. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>It is simply important to ink the image very well and to press firmly and evenly.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-79143586064347164132023-07-16T00:00:00.001-04:002023-07-16T00:00:00.140-04:00Agapanthes / Agapanthus<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Voici une carte extrêmement rapide à faire, de temps en temps c’est agréable! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai simplement brossé quelques couleurs d’encre sur du papier glacé (Kromekote) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">et j’ai étampé le motif à l’encre noire permanente. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">En fait, j’ai mis beaucoup plus de temps à décider quelle couleur de papier choisir </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">pour mettre le tout en valeur!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRGeDmuD931a7Qc0b8ojcGAdqfpqYtN7kK1TWjpm0R4uOpQRjs1YXJP4vRmKFHZUuTn7pBXU45xH4uwTbqlWTPp4lQPVBaJWDG9VdBwTJCdFIMvKcgVWo0Ix2ApWq2zMAE3Qzg9LOmIEFtywwRVdhRCIBrtpGBQ6TSwG7-aaGfek7oy2kG8r4FvWT/s1650/0842.P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRGeDmuD931a7Qc0b8ojcGAdqfpqYtN7kK1TWjpm0R4uOpQRjs1YXJP4vRmKFHZUuTn7pBXU45xH4uwTbqlWTPp4lQPVBaJWDG9VdBwTJCdFIMvKcgVWo0Ix2ApWq2zMAE3Qzg9LOmIEFtywwRVdhRCIBrtpGBQ6TSwG7-aaGfek7oy2kG8r4FvWT/w640-h640/0842.P.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here is an extremely quick card to make, once in a while it's nice! </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I simply brushed a few ink colors onto glossy paper (Kromekote) </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>and stamped the design in permanent black ink.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>In fact, it took me a lot longer to decide which color of paper to choose </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>to enhance it!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-52319118780588629602023-07-13T00:00:00.003-04:002023-07-13T00:00:00.139-04:00Fleurs toutes simples / Simple flowers<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Parfois une carte peut être aussi simple que celle-ci. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Un pochoir tracé en douce couleur pour le fond (ici un pochoir de 9 motifs carrés de fantaisie). </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Puis une étampe imprimée en couleur assortie, plus foncée, et rehaussée de quelques touches </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">de crayon de couleur, et de marqueur noir, y compris pour les spirales ajoutées.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMqAZM8eMKwoAVEgN7r0VtJZj4iczi__JSjAwgWjwuJYNtTQ0kvBmnKbHz9YQ9Si1FqNLCaaP4gOt85bz7PYiXfrqKgpnBWvdcYKj6-UHfgo4fZSZBI-N7_s6f_TpuM4A47iKMqn2R_kSeBarURC0okJB9ZvCc6DHxLnr8NepxTGPQWxJPKNvNARXP/s1650/0844.P.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMqAZM8eMKwoAVEgN7r0VtJZj4iczi__JSjAwgWjwuJYNtTQ0kvBmnKbHz9YQ9Si1FqNLCaaP4gOt85bz7PYiXfrqKgpnBWvdcYKj6-UHfgo4fZSZBI-N7_s6f_TpuM4A47iKMqn2R_kSeBarURC0okJB9ZvCc6DHxLnr8NepxTGPQWxJPKNvNARXP/w640-h640/0844.P.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Sometimes a card can be as simple as this. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A stencil traced in soft color for the background (here a stencil of 9 fancy square pattern). </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Then a stamp printed in darker matching color, and enhanced with a few touches </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>of colored pencil and black marker, including for the added spirals.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-47093804448149329052023-07-09T00:00:00.001-04:002023-07-09T00:00:00.133-04:00Rose de l'été 2 / Summer rose 2<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">En variante des cartes de jeudi dernier, voici la même étampe de rose, mais cette fois, non seulement elle est entière </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">(et non recadrée comme précédemment) mais je l’ai étampée 3-4 fois pour découper de quoi la faire en relief. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Une première fois complète, donc, sur un papier cartonné blanc plus grand que le motif, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">mais que j’ai ensuite découpé au couteau de bricolage pour que certaines feuilles ressortent du cadre.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Deux ou trois autres fois pour la fleur elle-même, en prenant moins de pétales à chaque fois. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai tout mis en couleur aux crayons, puis découpé et courbé mes roses, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">de plus en plus petites pour les superposer au motif complet. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">On peut les faire pivoter au montage pour ne pas trop cacher les premiers pétales.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Le texte est très romantique, mais, honnêtement, ça n’a pas marché pour moi dans mon petit jardin!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwmbTvMCg0UJvx45zoK-3VVG7LjOm8AcP8UeSmSJnKxf6aygbtOH_hP92FupgrzlFhCbBPAl-Kq57Ve1oHjcPNi6AZBWLyI6oVrO9azfV6z_1LWpTveWzItCH_k695GzpDYO0OKDtl6i2W4wghiy1bOeCH7aXgbR3GPLa8s2atsTIUY8KNQqO7cZ-v/s1650/NMVC565m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwmbTvMCg0UJvx45zoK-3VVG7LjOm8AcP8UeSmSJnKxf6aygbtOH_hP92FupgrzlFhCbBPAl-Kq57Ve1oHjcPNi6AZBWLyI6oVrO9azfV6z_1LWpTveWzItCH_k695GzpDYO0OKDtl6i2W4wghiy1bOeCH7aXgbR3GPLa8s2atsTIUY8KNQqO7cZ-v/w640-h640/NMVC565m.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>As a variation of the cards from last Thursday, here is the same rose stamp, but this time not only is it whole </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>(and not cropped as before) but I stamped it 3-4 times to cut out and overlap the flower.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A first time for the complete image, therefore, on a white cardstock larger than the pattern, </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>but which I then cut out with a craft knife so that some leaves stand out from the frame.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Two or three more times for the flower itself, taking fewer petals each time. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I colored everything with pencils, then cut and curved my roses, </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>smaller and smaller to superimpose them on the complete pattern. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>They can be rotated during assembling so as not to hide the first petals too much.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>The text means: « It is by believing in roses that we make them bloom ». </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Which is a very romantic saying, but truly, it didn’t work for me, no roses in my little garden!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-1559532265444579362023-07-06T00:00:00.002-04:002023-07-06T00:00:00.142-04:00Rose de l'été / Summer rose<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Lorsque revient l’été, j’ai la nostalgie du parfum des roses d’autrefois. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mon jardin et moi n’avons jamais réussi à nous entendre au sujet de certaines plantes et fleurs. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Je n’ai jamais eu de succès avec mes rosiers, alors j’ai abandonné. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Je me contente de les apprécier ailleurs… ou d’en faire des cartes comme celles-ci.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ces premières versions sont toutes simples, je me suis contentée de les étamper</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> sur des carrés plus petits que l’étampe. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Cela donne une présence différente au sujet que de le prendre en son ensemble.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Elles sont mises en couleur aux crayons de couleur et assemblées </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">avec des papiers et cartons de tons assortis.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Une différence: j’ai changé l’orientation de la rose sur la seconde carte </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">et j’y ai tracé un cadre fantaisiste au marqueur noir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4g67mVcYcjxUVF5fvW-et3-A13fg7MvSPCqAHWGkLxGDBY1clt_Dv8Sso144_5h-6OOmIk2QtOH-vaEgQbzrs9jGQFTkx47OleqUpGyLb361dahGQdrO9tt4DqBGK-gbxUjnMmQKstecfeDb7HZaMnJ57sEOCB0n6KDO6_iY2uOJC_lSn2AYDPZs/s1650/NMVC566m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy4g67mVcYcjxUVF5fvW-et3-A13fg7MvSPCqAHWGkLxGDBY1clt_Dv8Sso144_5h-6OOmIk2QtOH-vaEgQbzrs9jGQFTkx47OleqUpGyLb361dahGQdrO9tt4DqBGK-gbxUjnMmQKstecfeDb7HZaMnJ57sEOCB0n6KDO6_iY2uOJC_lSn2AYDPZs/w640-h640/NMVC566m.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgasrQ8yzdNljg_w1QVS6-JvZ2GCVRglnUIwbut68Y7ug0FpXMij1sRDzfedNAf5KBw3APcaf96qVLo7hCS1vEhphKpugrGFh1hlXMSeLwjdE8BJRuTixmba_FHt6uVWr3A9i3Wm3la1AfXMwyxJgcHOrFmJ_LkJ9yGFrrVbsg2EVU_mvVJyNoDLxno/s1650/rose%20ve%CC%81ronique.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgasrQ8yzdNljg_w1QVS6-JvZ2GCVRglnUIwbut68Y7ug0FpXMij1sRDzfedNAf5KBw3APcaf96qVLo7hCS1vEhphKpugrGFh1hlXMSeLwjdE8BJRuTixmba_FHt6uVWr3A9i3Wm3la1AfXMwyxJgcHOrFmJ_LkJ9yGFrrVbsg2EVU_mvVJyNoDLxno/w640-h640/rose%20ve%CC%81ronique.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>When summer returns, I long for the scent of roses from yesteryear. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>My garden and I have never been able to agree on certain plants and flowers. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I never had success with my roses, so I gave up. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I’m content to enjoy them elsewhere…or make cards like these out of them.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>These first versions are very simple, I just stamped them on squares smaller than the stamp. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>This gives a different presence to the subject than taking it as a whole. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>They are colored with colored pencils and assembled with paper and cardstock in matching tones.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>One difference: I changed the orientation of the rose on the second card </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>and drew a fancy frame on it with black marker.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-90827133456217685742023-07-02T00:00:00.014-04:002023-07-02T00:00:00.134-04:00Joie, plaisir, surprises / Joy, pleasure, surprises<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Voici une carte différente de ce que je fais en général, bien que j’aime énormément </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">tout ce qui implique du découpage, comme le savent bien ceux qui me connaissent.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai étampé 2 fois le motif en violet et les ai décorés de diverses couleurs de marqueurs. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">L’un a été découpé au couteau de bricolage pour en retirer le cercle, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">que j’ai remplacé par un cercle blanc sur lequel j’ai étampé le texte. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">L’autre a été découpé, toujours au couteau, pour en retirer la fleur. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai remis un cercle de papier blanc en-dessous de celui-là aussi </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">et j’y ai griffonné une nouvelle fleur au marqueur noir.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">J’ai fait un assemblage amusant sur un papier foncé et j’ai ajouté des détails </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">aux marqueurs et aux Stickles.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPr4I7NtZyQRfF1_E8vfMDcYbQ7tkLvc5ABN4WCoiUHEoSe7zCqzxpUFCEGjZTI6jHPHYNs-ySSaLIXeLlats5-lcBDj345sVsT-3IBsyRcPsB8aISmlW-wvR9dP3i06ZUXEyLMqx6UYRstCHpsNHUuaDi9AHw49ObuRwrm_XUysAsvsQak_s0q72Q/s1650/NMVC581m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPr4I7NtZyQRfF1_E8vfMDcYbQ7tkLvc5ABN4WCoiUHEoSe7zCqzxpUFCEGjZTI6jHPHYNs-ySSaLIXeLlats5-lcBDj345sVsT-3IBsyRcPsB8aISmlW-wvR9dP3i06ZUXEyLMqx6UYRstCHpsNHUuaDi9AHw49ObuRwrm_XUysAsvsQak_s0q72Q/w640-h640/NMVC581m.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>This is a different card than what I usually do, although I really like anything </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>that involves cutting, as those who know me know.</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I stamped the design twice in purple and decorated them with various colors of markers. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>One was cut out with a craft knife to remove the circle, </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>which I replaced by a white circle </i></span><i style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;">on which I stamped the text. </i></div><div><i style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;">The other was cut, still with a knife, to remove the flower. </i></div><div><i style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;">I put a circle of white paper back below that too and scribbled a new flower on it</i></div><div><i style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"> in black marker.</i></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>I made a fun layout on a dark paper and added details with markers and Stickles.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-15489523278831297142023-06-25T00:00:00.001-04:002023-06-25T00:00:00.139-04:00Fleurs des champs / Field flowers<div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Il y a quelques semaines j’ai fait une carte avec la même étampe de fleurs,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> également sur un fond fait avec des poudres Nuance sur papier aquarelle. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Elle est faite sur le même principe, rehaussée de crayon de couleur </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">et d’un pochoir de fleurs colorié en gris, tout en douceur. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Du marqueur noir fin est utilisé pour retracer les fleurs et pour encadrer le tout</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">ou faire de petits cercles fantaisistes ici ou là.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfi9Iqx740SDXZf8mrZXy7fJ0HrUlRCiSVjlypOtrNm-y7xKj60GfntEOEcXDUbWgoBtqUesKCY2JmcZUionZRuFimvXI7v_njGD6hPJlacW5bUvvWFWIItIQcnJ8q_a3FB2q4uv8I-9y2vkgnuLBwViXJ3HDa0y6ejJobuLUFO3-bCjXuv9K8dz7/s2048/NMVR648m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfi9Iqx740SDXZf8mrZXy7fJ0HrUlRCiSVjlypOtrNm-y7xKj60GfntEOEcXDUbWgoBtqUesKCY2JmcZUionZRuFimvXI7v_njGD6hPJlacW5bUvvWFWIItIQcnJ8q_a3FB2q4uv8I-9y2vkgnuLBwViXJ3HDa0y6ejJobuLUFO3-bCjXuv9K8dz7/w492-h640/NMVR648m.jpg" width="492" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>A few weeks ago I made a card with the same flower stamp,</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>also on a background made with Nuance powders on watercolor paper. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>It is made on the same principle, enhanced with colored pencil and a stencil of flowers </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>colored in gray, very gently. </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Fine black marker is used to trace the flowers and to frame everything</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>or make fancy little circles here or there.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747388557572550684.post-87648771068841721072023-06-22T00:00:00.002-04:002023-06-22T00:00:00.140-04:00Délicatement floral / Delicately floral<div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Voici un joli motif floral que j’ai d’abord étampé en gris clair puis rehaussé de crayon de couleur </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">et de marqueur rouge, bleu or… et noir très fin pour ajouter des détails, lignes, points, spirales… </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Le charme vient également du montage très coloré.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_VbY001iabSufbdDSNHrsJT9zibrOAqECWzLHV6CfzKQHMt0eAGGSNL0-nHBehgzZC84wiQKZgW0zNzXAbn5y06use24_czY9KLJg0ZDPw1jhoZib9B7oPlw1ioMb2FY4htee3RG7ZhkLI-S4YCqSv3kfKk3RsetomQCC7nyFd0gkDhCmU1DoNTL/s2048/NMVR650m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_VbY001iabSufbdDSNHrsJT9zibrOAqECWzLHV6CfzKQHMt0eAGGSNL0-nHBehgzZC84wiQKZgW0zNzXAbn5y06use24_czY9KLJg0ZDPw1jhoZib9B7oPlw1ioMb2FY4htee3RG7ZhkLI-S4YCqSv3kfKk3RsetomQCC7nyFd0gkDhCmU1DoNTL/w492-h640/NMVR650m.jpg" width="492" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>Here is a pretty floral pattern that I first stamped in light gray then enhanced with colored pencil </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>and red, blue and gold markers… and very fine black marker to add details, lines, dots, spirals… </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: verdana;"><i>The charm also comes from the very colorful layout.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>Nathalie Métivierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250150845172714386noreply@blogger.com0