Vintage layers
Posted: April 5, 2021 Filed under: Darkroom Door, French Script, global postmarks, mesh, Nature Walk, Papertrey Inks, scratches, you are everything | Tags: Darkroom Door stamps, Dr Ph Martin Hydrus watercolor paints, Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Papertrey ink 12 Comments
Today’s cards developed bit by bit over a week or so. I worked on flower panels one day, middle layers another day, let them sit a few days, searched for ribbon another day and finally a week later put them together still adding stamping, splattering and blending right up until I called them finished!
I featured the silhouette floral stamps from the new Darkroom Door ‘you are everything’ set. There are four floral stamps along with eighteen word stamps I mentioned in a previous post. The flowers above are stamped on cold press watercolour paper with papertrey inks. I used pale peony and pure poppy on the petals and olive twist on the stems. I spritzed lightly before stamping then blended further with a paintbrush on the paper. I used the same technique on the purple flowers in the second card but worked on hot pressed watercolour paper.
For the vintage and collage details on the card I above I used olive twist and fine linen inks to add painted areas, stamped text, splatter and blending with a brush.
The flowers above are stamped in pale peony, royal velvet and olive twist and I stuck with fine linen and royal velvet as the inks on the layered areas also.
I’ve listed all the stamps I used to add texture and interest to the floral panel and the layers underneath. You can see some of my favourite ‘filler’ stamps including French script and global postmarks. I also splattered water and white paint for some watermarks and subtle blots!
To finish both cards I punched a couple of holes in the top to thread some fabric through. I didn’t have a cream silk or sheer ribbon so I ripped some strips of what might be silk but I can’t remember. The ripped edge worked fine with my vintage layered look.
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Heather Telford 
Great cards
The time these cards took, shines all over them……they are fabulous!
I love your soft vintage cards.
Gorgeous, love the layers of stamping!
These are outstanding! I studied those layers for such a long time. What a fabulous vintage look you achieved. I suspect I will be shopping for these stamps very soon.
The vintage layered look is really wonderful on these two cards Heather using lots of gorgeous DD stamps, and I love the beautiful colours and the spritzing and stamping gives such a soft and pretty look, and the layers look wonderful too, also the ripped fabric bows on each look great. x
Love seeing these silhouette flowers again … makes me want to use mine now. Especially love the first card.
gorgeous layers!
can’t find in stamps listed the random words having to do with nature.
one stamp? several combined?
The little word stamps are part of the DD nature walk set
I love the vintage look of both of these, Heather! I love the pop of color with the distressed backgrounds! Very nice!
Two gorgeous vintage style cards Heather. Love the layering of your offset panels. Gorgeous colour and so much visual texture from your “filler” stamping. I have to check out that stamp set!! 🙂 xx
Oh my, I love these flowers they are so amazing I need to learn how to do these. Your work is marvelous..