Negative Space Coloring

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today's project features the Negative Space Coloring technique. A negative space is the area surrounding the image, in my project's case, the sunflowers are my images and the surrounding open space around each flower is the negative space. We often give more attention to the image, adding colors and details to the image/s. This is not the case with negative space coloring technique. We do the opposite in negative space coloring technique, in which we add color to the background instead of the image.

I used the Blank Page Muse Small Sunflower Blossom rubber stamp on my project. I stamped the sunflower on a yellow cardstock cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I used a Stamp-a-ma-jig tool to help me stamp the flower repeatedly on the panel. The Stamp-a-ma-jig is an old tool but there are other stamp positioning tools that can be used for this purpose. I used Memento Tuxedo black ink for stamping.

After I stamped the sunflowers in rows to fill up the whole panel, I colored the negative space with a black Copic marker.

I die cut the sentiment on a pearl gold shimmer cardstock. The die I used is from Lawn Fawn. I die several pieces of this sentiment and adhered this to the panel. 

I ran the black marker on the edges of the panel to hide the color of the yellow cardstock. I adhered this to a top folding A2 note card.

I hope you like today's project. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.