‘Simply Sarah’ grevillea
Posted: July 5, 2018 Filed under: grevilleas | Tags: Darkroom Door stamps, Ranger Distress stains 11 CommentsMy father is visiting from Australia at present; he has attended all three graduations with us. Before he left home I asked him to pick up some new stamps from Darkroom Door. It’s been pretty busy here but I finally found some time earlier this week to try them out. Grevillea is a plant native to Australia and some other southern hemisphere islands. There is a wide range of grevilleas with different shapes and colours. The new grevillea stamp set includes four different shaped flower heads and a couple of foliage stamps.
I searched for grevillea images on line and chose a couple of different colour schemes including this purple/burgandy one know as ‘Simply Sarah‘. I used both dusty concord and seedless preserves distress stains to ink the stamp, spritzed, then stamped on hot pressed watercolour paper. I spritzed again without reinking, stamped again and repeated a couple of times to get lighter images. I inked one of the foliage stamps with forest moss distress stain and stamped it a few times in and around the flowers. Finally I splattered some dots of scattered straw stain over the panel and added a sentiment from another new DD set, ‘thank you’. All the thank you sentiments are on one long strip so I masked with some post it notes to leave a space for just one sentiment.
When my dad first arrived he took a close look at the stamps he’d brought and came up with a challenge for me, but that will be a post for another day.
Supplies
Stamps: grevilleas, thank you DDSE002 (DD)
Inks: scattered straw, seedless preserves, dusty concord, forest moss distress stains, monarch versafine clair
Paper: hot pressed watercolour paper, neenah natural white cardstock
Another great card, and joy and privilege to watch it come into being.
I really like this, Heather – it’s pretty and effective, but seems easy to achieve.
Beautiful card🤗
Beautiful colours, beautiful card
So pretty and cool Dad!
Lovely card! Wish my Dad would bring stamps!!
This is another magic card, Heather! I love how you work with water … an incredibly beautiful card!
Hugs,
BoznA
Another wonderful card. Hope you are having a wonderful summer.
A lovely, fresh, cool card, Heather, just right for the heat of summer.
Love what you have done with the Grevillea Heather, and what a great name for this particular one. The straight to stamp inking technique has worked beautifully here and gorgeous colours too. x
Another lovely one Heather Look forward to see your Dad’s challenge one