Blooming Blue
Posted: July 4, 2022 Filed under: blooming, Penny Black | Tags: Penny Black stamps, Ranger archival inks, Ranger Distress inks 9 Comments
Here is another take on the PB stamp ‘Blooming’. Last week I posted a card with a blended background, brown outline stamping and painted petals. For today’s card I stamped with distress inks which I then blended into the petals.
My original plan was to have yellow centres not brown; I guess I got distracted. After inking the petals randomly with chipped sapphire and seedless preserves I added some ground espresso ink to the centres, spritzed the stamp and stamped on hot pressed watercolour paper. With the spritz of water the inks blend a little; with a paint brush I do the rest of the blending adding more ink if needed. That top flower got more brown than I would have liked but I was still happy with the overall blends.
Finishing touches include defining the centres with the bullet tip of the distress marker and adding white dots with a gel pen. The sentiment is from the PB set ‘so thankful’. I have a few more in this little series of watercolours with PB’s large outline floral stamps so I’ll see you back here soon.
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Heather Telford 
This is just beautiful, Heather in those fabulous colors. Love the highlights in the petals. Also love your finishing touches on these blooms. This is so well done!
So beautiful Heather! You are inspiring me to pull out some of my older PB stamps and use your method. You are a master of this technique Heather. Well done!
Lovely flowers Heather…as always, your work is amazing!!!
Paper Hug,
Jan
This just took my breath away…absolutely gorgeous!♥♥♥
This is a beautiful stamp and looks wonderful in every different colourway Heather, and your watercolouring is brilliantly done as always. x
Blooming delightful Heather!
the centers may not have come out like you had hoped but it is so lovely!
Amazing watercolour Heather. Love the colour combination … the brown adds so much!! xx
Lovely! That is a wonderful sentiment.