Pines and Pinecones
Posted: December 4, 2023 Filed under: Brush Pines, Penny Black, treasured pine | Tags: Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, Penny Black stamps 9 Comments
I have a couple more simple one stamp cards to share today. This style has been the main contributor to my stack of Christmas cards this year. I love brushstroke stamps and always enjoy using watercolour techniques with them. The stamp above is from Penny Black and is called ‘brush pines‘. It is a small stamp so you could stamp it more than once to fill a card front or combine it with a berry stamp. I chose to position it in the corner of a watercolour paper panel, ink the stamp with a couple of green and a couple of brown distress inks, spritz the stamp then press it onto the paper. The ink moves and blends a little and if I want more blending I use a paintbrush and water.
Because it is a simple design I embossed the little panel (after stamping the sentiment) with a woodgrain embossing folder. I like the differentiation between the panel and the card base not by colour, but by texture.
By the way, on Friday I posted a card that is part of the Scrap’N’Stamp Christmas Critters blog hop. There is a prize to be given to a commenter as well as some discounts and a free gift to read about. Make sure you pop back to my post to comment yourself into the draw.
I gave the same treatment to the PB ‘treasured pine‘ stamp which is larger but still a simple cone and needles design. After stamping I added some pearlescent white paint to the design where there might be snow sitting on the pine cone. I used the same Stampin Up ‘woodgrain’ embossing folder to add texture after the sentiment from PB ‘Christmas sentiments‘ was added. (PB treasured pine is available at both Foiled Fox and Scrap’N’Stamp)
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Heather Telford 
Awesome cards!!! Where is the sentiment “Especially for you at Christmas” from?
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Thank you Wanda. The sentiment is an older rubber cling stamp from Penny Black. I’ve searched all through their website but I can’t find a name. It might be discontinued. Sorry I can’t be of more help; you are not the only one who has asked me about it.
WOW for both the pinecone cards….soooooo pretty!
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Jan
You are the master of these pine cone stamps! Love the blending you do with the brushstroke stamps. My success rate is about 50% but after seeing this I’m so tempted to get one of them. Beautifully done.
Two very different but equally beautiful pine cone cards, Heather!
WOW! Breathtaking!
Fantastic cards! I love those pinecone images!
I love these cards Heather. I have the PB stamp ‘Brush Pines’ and it has never looked as good when I have used it ! 🙂 Beautiful work.
Two beautiful pinecone cards Heather. I LOVE the texture you added to the first one with dry embossing. It really makes it stand out. I’ll have to remember that idea! xx