By the Garden Gate
Posted: March 28, 2024 Filed under: Echidna Studios, garden fence, Inktense pencils, Stampin Up | Tags: digital stamps, Echidna Studios, Inktense, Kuretake Zig clean color real brush markers, Stampin Up 5 Comments
The Garden Fence set is an Echidna Studios digital stamp set that I designed and my daughter digitised. The set includes a gate, three pots and a grass & flowers image. Each image is stackable which means you can arrange your own garden design with pots and gate beside each other, behind each other or even on top of each other if that sounds fun!
Both the gate scene above and the individual pots on the tag shown later in this post were printed on hot press watercolour paper on an ink jet printer. In the past I have always printed on a laser printer but my daughter recently bought a second hand printer to test some colour printing of our designs. We printed some black outline images to see how they were to watercolour.
The gate design above I coloured with inktense watercolour pencils and blended the ink with water and a very fine brush. The ink from the printer did bleed a bit so you can some some grey tones here and there. Because I used very little water I was able to keep the bleeding to a minimum. I received the lovely ‘exposed brick‘ embossing folder for my birthday from a couple of friends who know just what I like. It seemed an appropriate background for the slightly aged garden gate.
On this little tag I used a mix of inktense pencils and Zig clean color real brush markers; again there was some bleeding when I added water but no so much as to make me stop colouring and blending. All that to say if you have an ink jet printer it might be worth printing and watercolouring some images just to see how it goes.
I’ve been making some vintage style collage cards lately (I’ll share them on the blog soon) so I decided to find a book page as background for my watercoloured tag. I blended vintage photo and antique linen inks around the background and tag and added some typewriter alphabet stamping on both. Unfortunately I stamped the alphabet upside down on my background but I continued with my card anyway! I like the pairing of old fashioned conservatory with modern little pots just for fun.
I’ve featured the Garden Fence set before; take a look here and here. This post includes affiliate links from Foiled Fox and Scrap’n’Stamp . If you buy through these links I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.
Heather Telford 
Two very pretty cards using this digital set Heather and I think this is so versatile and would suit masculine or feminine cards. The first is so bright and springlike and the exposed brick EF makes a wonderful background, and then the second with the more vintage feel looks great with the book page background and the beautiful pots on a tag over the top. I think the watercolouring has worked well, and the bit of bleeding looks like shading so not a problem. Our inkjet printer refuses to take anything other than a lightweight paper which makes it difficult even with minimal water. We don’t have a lot of space so it is one that turns the paper so it goes in and comes out the same way and obviously we probably need one that goes straight through without turning. x
Thanks so much, Pat. I also thought the ink bleed looked a bit like shading and gave everything a bit of an autumnal look. And yes we feed the watercolour paper through the machine without turning as it is much thicker than the usual printer paper.
Incredible painting on that gate! I looked at both of these cards for quite a long time. The shading on that gate is phenomenal. I too like the bit of bleeding from the ink. The vintage background behind that tag looks super. What fun those images are!
Beautiful images Heather!! What a fun set of images. How wonderful and you and your daughter work together on these projects. Your colouring is amazing (as always!). xx
Both are beautiful, I’m impressed by your digital design!