Warm Reception

I continue to enjoy the gorgeous autumn colours outdoors these days but there will be a few wintry scenes appearing as I create cards for the coming months. This sweet house, a Penny Black stamp called ‘warm reception‘, is similar to several we see on our drive to church. They are lovely houses and look impressive during all the seasons including when they are surrounded by snow.

I did all the inking of the stamp with watersoluble markers with the stamp in a misti so I could stamp, re-ink and stamp again as needed. I was experimenting with a brand of markers I haven’t used direct to stamp before. I originally bought them for brush lettering. If you are in Australia you’ll be able to find them but elsewhere in the world they are not so common. The brand is Artline and the shell of each marker looks a bit like lego! I inked the house and trees with red, brown, green and black using the side of the brush nib to apply ink to the stamp. I spritzed the stamp lightly then stamped on hot pressed watercolour paper. After I had stamped everything I blended some of the ink with a brush and water to fill the walls of the house, tree branches and foliage.

To add background I stamped and cut a simple mask of the house from post-it note and lay it over the house so I could use a blending brush and speckled egg distress ink to fill the background sky. Once I had applied the ink I painted over it with water, just loosely, to give it the same watercolour look the rest of the image had.

I have mentioned before that distress markers have been discontinued, that’s why I wanted to try the Artline for inking stamps. I also have a pack of Staedtler water based brush pens that work well.

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