Garden Variety
Posted: February 24, 2021 Filed under: fresh ferns, garden variety, Penny Black, Uncategorized | Tags: distress markers, Penny Black stamps, Ranger Distress inks 7 Comments
I’m enjoying having new flowers to arrange, stamp-wise, that is. Penny Black’s new ‘Daydream collection has some lovely floral stamps including the ‘garden variety’ I’ve used for today’s card alongside ‘fresh fern’, another new one. I used distress inks and markers to ink the stamps; I generally pick at least two colours for the flowers and two colours for the foliage then give the stamp a spritz so the inks begin to blend.
Once I’ve stamped the images I decide whether to blend further with a paint brush and water, for this card I kept it minimal but sometimes I do more blending for a looser watery look. I stamped the ferns after the flowers which required some partial stamping and as well as a little masking to make the ferns appear to be behind.
I finished the panel off with splatter then stamped a sentiment and stacked it up on three layers. I have an art journal page in process with the ‘garden variety’ stamp which I will hopefully finish and share with you next week.
Have a great day; thanks for spending some of it here on the blog with me.
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This is beautiful, Heather! I love the flowers and how the ferns add wonderful contrast! Great job of masking and arrangement of your “garden”!
It’s not just your incredible art work that draws me in but also your composition. Love the way you mix stamp sets. This has such a beautiful watercolor look to it.
Thank you so much, Nancy, and so glad you see the watercolour look; it’s always what I’m hoping to achieve!
The ferns are beautiful mixed in with the really pretty flowers Heather and love the colours and just a perfect amount of spritzing to bring the colours together. A gorgeous card. x
[…] when I was making a card with the new Penny Black stamps, ‘garden variety’ and ‘fresh fern’ I also began an art journal page. I […]
I wantrd to say this as well, so borrowed the words from Bonnie 🙂 “This is beautiful, Heather! I love the flowers and how the ferns add wonderful contrast! Great job of masking and arrangement of your “garden”! ” It is spectacular, so, so beautiful!!