We Are the Definition of Friendship

Today, I’m sharing my colouring of this pretty stamp from MFT on ‘Definition of Friendship’. When I first saw this stamp, it reminds me of a friendship that I forged with a colleague I met when I started to work many years back. She is a very nice lady who patiently taught me many things. Though we are no longer working together, we still keep in contact with each other. I’m thankful to have her as a friend.

I used a very light colour ink to stamp the image on the paper for Nagomi Art. The paper is quite smooth and not so easy to colour. Hence I have to layer the colours.

Once I’m done with the colouring, I stamped the image again on a post-it on to act as a masking prior to applying the soft pastels. I chose blue, purple, yellow and pink and gradually blended them for a soft effect.

Then, I placed the stencil on top and using tombow mono knock eraser and kneadable eraser, erased off the soft pastel with the stars.

Finally, I stamped the sentiment. There you go… the completed work with the white frame. Hope to meet up with her soon and give it to her. 😘

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