Lustrous
Posted: July 4, 2017 Filed under: Lustrous | Tags: Penny Black stamps, Ranger Distress inks, Tsukineko Versafine inks 9 CommentsThank you for your lovely feedback about yesterday’s flower lanterns. Today’s card features a different stamp from the Penny Black ‘Poetic’ release but a similar technique. Although I love working with distress stains, at times I go for the markers instead because I can apply colour to smaller sections with more accuracy. I used markers today beginning with a picked raspberry distress marker for the petals and buds and stamped on hot pressed watercolour paper using a stamp positioning tool. I blended the raspberry ink with water, let it dry then stamped again with raspberry but only where I wanted darker shading. To add even darker areas I painted seedless preserves distress stain directly on the roses and buds.
Once the roses were dry I switched to forest moss distress marker and inked the stems and leaves. After stamping I once again blended with water and added extra ink for definition and shading. Finally I stamped the rosehips with candied apple distress ink and blended them.
After completing one complete stamped image I decided to add more roses but this time leave out the rosehips and leaves. A stamp positioner makes this straightforward as I was able to ink only the parts I wanted to stamp and again build up my colour and shading in the same way as for the first roses.
To finish the panel I splattered a mix of picked raspberry and seedless preserves ink over the panel then added a sentiment. I have mentioned before how important colour matching is to me and I wanted a forest moss coloured sentiment but I wanted to use the crisper versafine pigment ink to achieve it. Using the stamp positioner yet again I stamped congratulations in Spanish moss versafine then over the top in vintage sepia versafine and ended up with just the right shade of green.
I will be back tomorrow with some more brushstroke beauty from Penny Black’s Poetic release
Supplies
Stamps: lustrous, banner sentiments (PB)
Inks: picked raspberry, seedless preserves, forest moss, candied apple distress markers and stains (Ranger) Spanish moss & vintage sepia versafine ink (Tsukineko)
Paper: hot pressed watercolour paper, pink cardstock
Wow stunning Heather! Love your watercoloring so much!
Your cards are always so beautiful, Heather. I use this technique also – it’s one of my favorites.
Another stunning design!
These rose stems look fantastic painted with the Distress markers Heather and you have managed to get the watercolour look without losing any of the detail. I love the colours too. x
Your work is breathtaking. Exquisite.
Totally STUNNING Heather! TFS how you did this – love it!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
Beautiful, like how you explained the process you used!!
Wow, just love your work.
As a colourist I find your attention to detail amazing.
Cheers
Lisa
Heather, this is gorgeous, and I so appreciate your sharing the details of how you colored this beautiful stamp. What a stunning card! Hugs!