Bell & Berries
Posted: October 28, 2020 Filed under: bell & berries, Coliro paints, Finetec paints, fragile branches, Penny Black | Tags: Coliro paints, Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Papertrey ink, Penny Black stamps, Tsukineko Memento inks 13 Comments
Over the summer I kept reaching for the blues and greens; they were refreshing in the hot weather. It appears that my fascination with them is continuing into the winter! I created this wintry panel with the Penny Black ‘bell & berries stamp and the versatile PB ‘fragile beauty’ set.
When I started this panel by stamping only the branch section of the stamp at the very top I chose only blue, grey and green inks. Choosing green over red for the berries helped to create a fresh frosty look. After stamping only the top branch I repositioned the stamp and stamped the whole image then finally a bit more branch on the right hand side. The extra twigs were added in dark blue.
I inked the leaves with papertrey ‘enchanted evening’, a dark blue and ‘stormy sea’, a grey blue. I used the olive toned ‘prairie grass’ for the berries. When I spritzed the stamp before stamping on the hot pressed watercolour paper the inks began to blend. I did further blending on the paper with a paint brush and water but didn’t blend every part of the image, some leaves and berries I kept unblended to show the texture of the paper and stamp.
The paper had spots of masking fluid splattered over it before I began which caused the white dots you see in the finished panel.
I stamped the bell in a mix of stormy sea and true black ink and also added ‘blue silver’ pearlescent paint from the Coliro ‘ocean’ set so there is a shimmer to it in real life.
I used a piece of dark blue cardstock for a card base then stamped the ‘bell & berries’ on both an insert panel and the envelope.
I woke up to the frosty look of fresh snow on autumn leaves this morning; it’s pretty but it can go now!
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Heather Telford 
This is stunning! I love the beautiful colours, take care and stay safe xxx
Gorgeous! Love the blues – you’ve created such a realistic wintery scene!
Gorgeous!!
This is fabulous Heather and as usual your colour choices are perfect, and the watercolouring and spritzing straight to stamp technique always looks wonderful in your hands. A really effective and beautiful seasonal card. x
How you can always make fairly somber colors wake up and “play nice with others” is magic. This classic bell is now a favorite Christmas card scene.
Thank you for your lovely words; I am always delighted to see the difference colour combinations make to the feel and impact of a design.
I love this stamp in these colors, Heather, and the fragile branches add to the scene! Gorgeous, my friend!
Thank you Bonnie, I was very happy to see how these colours worked together.
Gorgeous card Heather, love the colours
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Love Love Love this card (Bell & Berries), I don’t know how many times Ive gone back and looked at it. By chance do you have a video or You Tube?
thank you Barb, I don’t have a video of this one but I’ll keep it in mind. I really enjoyed making this.
These are just gorgeous cards. Thanks for posting them.