Friendship Flowers
Posted: April 23, 2014 Filed under: Friendship Flowers, Twirls, Watercolour | Tags: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour pencils, Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Penny Black stamps, Penny Black stencils, Tsukineko Memento inks 11 Comments
This little scene was built in layers, some of which you will need to take my word for as they are no longer obvious. I taped the watercolour panel down with painters tape to begin and you can see that I kept a very narrow border around the picture panel when I cropped it later.
The first step was sponging memento new sprout ink through the promenade stencil ( you can just see it ). Next I wet the whole panel and stamped the verdant wood mounted stamp in memento olive grove several times. The ink bled and faded. At this point I had to decide on a feature image; I picked the little wheel barrow of flowers from the new Friendship Flowers transparent set. I inked only the wheel barrow in memento London fog, spritzed it and stamped on the panel. I then used watercolour pencils to add colour and shading to the barrow. I inked up the rest of the stamp (flowers) in memento rhubarb stalk and love letter, spritzed it and stamped onto the panel. I used red and green watercolour pencils to fill in the flowers, stems and leaves. I framed the scene using the flourish stamp from the Twirls set stamped in London Fog and coloured with the same red and green pencils. I drew a border around the edge with the green pencil and blended from the edge inwards with water. Finally I added the sentiment and matted the picture on green stamped with the Twirls flourish stamp.
Supplies:
Stamps: Verdant, Friendship Flowers, Twirls (PB)
Inks: Memento London Fog, New Sprout, Olive Grove, Rhubarb Stalk, Love Letter (Tsukineko)
Pencils: Albrecht Durer Watercolour pencils Pale Geranium Lake 121, Light Grey 195, Medium Grey 197, Black 199, Pine Green 267 (Faber Castell)
Cardstock: Fabriano 100% cotton hot pressed watercolour paper, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb smooth, PB Mix & Match Spring Meadow Paper
Heather Telford 
Very nice. Love the way you did this card. The wheelbarrow full of flowers is so pretty.
Edna
Stunning!
What a perfect scene! Beautiful.
Lovely project Heather…love the wheelbarrow with the flowers!!!
Jan
BEAUTIFUL card, Heather! Your coloring is just amazing. The scenes you create with your stamps are always so lovely. 🙂
I just love this one, it is my favorite since you started water color cards. I wish I could try and make one like it but it would cost me a fortune to buy the materials, lol. I don’t have any of the stamps or the inks. Thank you so muuch for thaking th time to share you beautiful cards.
hugs from France, Joanne
Oh, my goodness, this is unbelievably pretty! You do amazing things with those PB stamps. I love what you’ve done with the wheelbarrow image, but that border, as well, is just a dream!
Beautiful techniques. Thanks for the tutorial.
Beautiful!
Beautiful card, love the watercolour effect. Thanks for explaining how you did it, Cathy x
I’m really enjoying your water colour phase Heather, so many beauties to choose from 😀 x