I've stamped some more "snow" but I didn't like how much of the color I'd covered up. |
I popped the image panel over the base for some depth. |
Here's a closeup of the greenery. |
I've stamped some more "snow" but I didn't like how much of the color I'd covered up. |
I popped the image panel over the base for some depth. |
Here's a closeup of the greenery. |
These are the two prints from a small leaf. I fussycut the one on the right to use on my collage card.
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Here's a close up of the card I made using a larger leaf (this squash plant gets huge and has quite large leaves!) I used a regular pencil to add shading, blending with my finger. |
Here's the finished card; I kept it simple with some added spatter and sponging as well as script stamped using the leaf as a mask.Stamps: French Script, Gorgeous Grunge, You Are Loved Paper: Smoky Slate, Soft Suede, Watercolor Paper Ink: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz Accessories: Sponge, Leaf and Big Shot, Pencil, Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Star Pen Techniques: Sponging, Pounded Flowers, Pencil Shading, Masking Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2657353#ixzz3jbQQwIFL |
Here are some flowers laid out ready to pound. |
You lose the true colors in the pounded prints. |
My youngest wanted to get in on the action-instant art class! |
This ended up being one of my favorites and I got two "prints" from this batch of 4 red carnations from my garden. |
The green parts didn't really show up and I was working on another inspired card. I've added homemade embossing paste over the non-colored areas. |
Dropped some more of the color on. |
Dropped some pearl onto the still wet second drops. |
I think this is some more pearl. |
I dragged some copper around with the wood end of my paintbrush as well as some dots |
Traced along the edges of some of my colors with more hand sanitizer. |
I'd washed out a lot of the color so I dripped some more Currant on to intensify the color again. |
Removing some of the color in places with the hand sanitizer |
Here's the final product! Stamps: Messages for Mom Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Wild Wasabi, Pool Party, Glossy Paper Paper Size: A2 Ink: Versamark Accessories: Hand Sanitizer, Cheery Lynn-Pair of Ferns, Copper Cord, Tempting Turquoise ep, Stampin' Dimensionals, Adirondak Inks: Meadow, Slate, Currant, Copper and Pearl Techniques: Copic Ink Background, Embossing Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2649976#ixzz3hFKRg84a |
My next step was to use Adirondak Pearl dripped on randomly. |
I wanted the colors to be nice and deep so I dropped some more Meadown on over the pearl while it was still mostly wet. |
Here's where the fun starts with the hand sanitizer. I took the wood end of my paintbrush and dipped it into hand sanitizer then dropped on circles of the gel and also made some veining. |
I took my Gelly Roll Clear Star pen to add highlights around the background~terrible picture of the colors, but you can see the shimmer. |
Here's the final card with some Indigo framing and a pretty corner piece that was a RAK from a splitcoast friend. I embossed the sentiment in clear ep using Versamark then Garden Green inks. |
Here's my finished card with pencil shading in a monochromatic setting with touches of silver. |
You can see the difference in the shaded left piece vs original. |
I added some touches of glitter and silver as well. |
I added some sparkle to the flourishes as well and sponged along the edges to mimic the pencil shading. |
Here's a closeup of the image panels with the pointillism. I popped these over my silver cord after framing in Brushed Silver. |
You're going to ink directly onto the paper til the whole piece is covered. |
Here's the wet piece! I took my heat gun to dry it before the next step. |
Use a spritzer to "ink up" your stamp with water. |
You want it nice and wet but not so soaked that you lose the detail. This is probably slightly wetter than I wanted. |
Lay it onto your paper and press firmly, holding in place to make sure you get a good saturation of the water. |
Here's a closeup of the finished card. I used some marker to add some detail back in to the waterstamping. |