Decided to get the watercolor paper out last night and play with a new set of stamps I bought from the Basic Grey line. These stamps are Two Scoops/Flower Swash.
Supplies:
| Stamps: Basic Grey Two Scoops/Flower Swash |
| Paper: Watercolor Paper, Purely Pomegranate, Soft Sky |
| Ink: Stampin’ Up Soft Sky, Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Eggplant Envy, Purely Pomegranate re-inker |
| Accessories: Stampin’ Up markers Gable Green, Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke, White Gel Pen, Flower punch, Brads, Ribbon, Brayer |
Recipe: On Watercolor paper, brayered on Soft Sky, Not Quite Navy and Old Olive. Stamped Flowers and stems by coloring stamps with Stampin’ Up markers, Always Artichoke, Elegant Eggplant, huffing on the stamp and then stamping it. Sprayed the paper then with water, really soaking it good and dropped drops of re-inker purely pomegranate where the flowers are.
Dried paper with my heat gun, restamped again using the same technique and a stamp-a-ma-jig. Colored in the leaves and stems with a Gable Green marker and put White swirls in the flowers with a white gel pen. Center white flower was punched from Whisper White card stock. Since the design turned out pretty wild, I decided to keep the layout very simple. This almost went in the scrap heap last night, but I put it a side and worked on the layout this morning. It’s growing on me, lol.
I want to answer some questions that were left here yesterday:
Chris asked, how do you go about choosing a color palette? Well Chris, I usually use an inspiration piece for color selection. It depends on my mood and what appeals to me that day. When I look at art, it’s the color that grabs me first. I keep a Microsoft Word document that I cut and paste ideas in, pictures, sketches etc. It’s were I go for inspiration for sure. I use to keep a notebook with ideas in it, but that got way out of hand and I was killing a lot of trees, so I’ve gone electronic.
Tina Delong asked, if I give classes or teach in any shops? Tina, not at the present time. Stamping is my way of relaxation and it doesn’t work for me if I put pressure on myself to make money at it. I love to teach in a very informal setting, like here at the house, lol. So if you are in the West Alexandria, Ohio area, let me know, we can get together and stamp some 🙂
Earline Gordon asked, Will I ever write a book about techniques? Earline, I haven’t even thought about that at all. My hope is to put as many techniques on this blog as I can. So keep checking here, it’s free!
Hope your day is filled with color and joy!
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