Painting

We are here today to reveal our February 2022 kits. Get yours before they’re gone! We are starting to implement our new year changes, so make sure you are following us on all Social Media platforms and are a part of the Facebook Cafe that way you won’t miss a single announcement or project created with these kits.

Now onto the newest kits.

The February 2022 kit is filled with gorgeous new papers from 13 @rts, an international company that we have featured previously. As always, these papers will be amazing for all your upcoming projects—from a night on the town to a slow Spring stroll. You will find a lovely assortment of patterned papers and perfectly coordinated embellishments.

Our card kit is filled with gorgeous papers from P13 and goodness so you can create a beautiful Traveler’s Notebook and more. Who doesn’t like creating a variety of projects from one kit?

These kits are for the beginner to the advanced, clean and simple to mixed media maven. No matter your style, there is something for everyone. We know you are going to love it!

Presenting the Tres Jolie February 2022 kits:

*Scrapbook Kit*

*Mixed Media Kit*

*Cards, Tags and More Kit*

Don’t forget to stop by the Tres Jolie YouTube channel and see our video reveal of all our kits.

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The designers at Tres Jolie have created some amazing layouts/projects with this kit.

Here is a little tease from me using this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit:

Please stop by the other designers blogs and check out their sneak peaks. They are listed below:

Rae Moses

Jeanne Rodriguez

Kim Heard

We have a new mood board challenge for the month. Here are the rules.

*You can create any type of project for the challenge.

*You MUST say what you were inspired by.

*You MUST include the twist in your design.

*We would love to see you USE AT LEAST 1 of Tres Jolie’s products on your projects but it isn’t required to play along.

It MUST be a new project.

Here is the mood board:

The twist for this month is CABARET LIFE.

Place your entries in the February 2022 challenge folder on Tres Jolie Kit Club Cafe Facebook page. This challenge ends on February 28th 2022 at 11:59 pm CST. All entries must be in this folder to be eligible for the prize (to have everyone eligible to win, we are limited the same winner to once every 3 months).

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All the designers will be revealing their projects on the Tres Jolie Blog all month long. Make sure you join us for tons of inspiration, including video and photo tutorials. Also make sure you check out our newest chipboard designs that were just added to the store.

Hey, all! Today I’m bringing you a little winter painting I made using the January Mixed Media Kit from the Tres Jolie Kit Club! I was super excited when I saw this kit – there’s gouache in it! If you don’t know what gouache is, the simplest way I can think to describe it is an opaque, flat, matte, watercolor. It acts like watercolors (traditionally, there are acrylic gouaches on the market, but this set isn’t one of them!), but it isn’t translucent like watercolors, and it has a flat, matte finish.

This final version on the watercolor panel from the kit was my second painting! I grabbed a sheet of watercolor paper from my stash and (tried) to work out what I wanted to do first! (Truth be told, I like my first set of trees better! I show it in the video.) Check out my video to see how things came along!

Video:

I was inspired by this month’s wonderful, winter moodboard! I love winter—not the cold so much, but the beauty of ice and snow; it’s just so — clean!

I have a few images here for you to check out the layers and shading.

The colors I used from the Art Alchemy Gouache set for my little painting are:

Titanium White, Black, Deep Green, Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine, Prussian Blue, & Burnt Umber

For some reason, the trees on this final painting really gave me fits! I just couldn’t get the front tree to come out “right”! I didn’t have near as much trouble on my practice painting with my trees, but eventually I did get the front tree to be – not a total disaster! LOL! A great tool for evergreen trees? A fan brush!

I really love how my could came out here—even if I did have to move it! When I added my first cloud to this painting, it was much lower on the horizon, but fortunately gouache is relatively easy to rework!

I’m almost as happy as my happy little critter here with how they came out! (I was going for a fox! What do you think?) I didn’t try to add extensive detailing, but just tried to give some shading to the shape to give the impression they were facing forward with their tail wrapped around the front.

The key to all of this was to be patient and work s-l-o-w-l-y! I took my time and made sure bottom layers were 100% dry before doing the next layer! Even though gouache is water-soluble, it is possibly to add layers if you allow ample dry time and don’t add excessive water on the following layer(s).

Thank you for joining me here in my little corner. I hope you enjoyed this project and it gave you an idea of what you can do with the gouache paint set—and how gouache acts–in this month’s kit!

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