Berry Merry Christmas
Posted: August 13, 2014 Filed under: Berry Merry Christmas, Watercolour | Tags: Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Penny Black stamps, Ranger Distress inks, Ranger Distress stains 10 CommentsI think these berries might be one of my favourite stamps from the new “Season’s Greetings” release from Penny Black. I opted once again for a watercolour design when creating this card starting with a piece of hotpressed watercolour paper splattered with masking fluid. I inked the stamp with barn door distress stain on the berries and vintage photo distress stain on the stems. I spritzed the inked stamp and stamped it twice on the panel. Using brush and some water I added fired brick ink to some of the berries to give them a bit more dimension. I added water here and there to blend and spread the colours. I added some peeled paint in the background but decided to primarily use broken china stain to paint the sky. I painted around the images with water and broken china stain letting some of the berries and stems bleed into the blue. When it was almost dry I added some yellow highlights with a watercolour pencil and splattered some undiluted broken china distress stain over the sky areas.
To finish off the card I removed the masking fluid then added the sentiment in walnut stain distress ink and matted with blue before attaching to a deep red card base.
Supplies:
Stamps: Berry Merry Christmas, Festive Wishes (PB)
Inks: Barn Door, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Fired Brick, Broken China, Walnut Stain distress stains and inks (Ranger)
Pencils: Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils Lemon 107 (Faber Castell)
Cardstock: Fabriano 100% cotton hot pressed watercolour paper
Also: Winsor & Newton masking fluid
Okay, me again… just have to tell you that this is one of my FAVORITE cards from this entire release. GORGEOUS! I need to use my Distress Stains more!!
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 04:03:36 +0000 To: jillianfoster82@hotmail.com
Like a painting, Heather! Just magnificent!! Hugs, Darnell
Jaw-dropping beautiful card! Simply stunning!!!
Absolutely stunning. LOVE
This is a beautiful card!!! Thank you for explaining how you did that…I am going to give it a try. Awesome!!! I’ve been trying different techniques with watercolors and I can’t wait to try yours.
Absolutely lovely
Heather this is just stunning, the berries look gorgeous and I love the contrast of the blue background.
gorgeous card. love it!
Now this really is very much your usual, beautiful style! The berries look perfect with the watercolour treatment.
Heather, this card is gorgeous!