A few thoughts went through my head before I began - should I use markers or blends, and which side should I colour on?I tried both. I found that for me there was little difference with straight colouring using either blends or markers. Blending light and dark colours for shading was challenging. I tried blending with both markers and blends. You could blend the markers provided the ink was wet and in small areas. Really I just wriggled my marker, darker over light, so that it wasn't a solid line. I am referring to the purple flowers which you may not even notice the shading as it is such a small area. I tried blending shades with my blenders. I had some success with the pink flowers but ended up with a little wet mess trying to shade around the outside of the flowers. This led me to think that plain colouring looks just as good.
I coloured on the printed side of vellum. The print is a little raised, so colouring inside was easier. If you turn it over to colour, the colour is duller or muted and it is harder to stay inside the lines. I double matted both of the pieces to bring out the colours. The stained window was matted on whisper white cardstock and the bookmark was adhered with glue dots on a matching purple shade, before mounting onto black cardstock.
If you didn't work it out, I used markers on the bookmark and blenders on the card.
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