September Stampers’ Club

Tonight at Stampers’ club we used the Sunflowers that I have been enjoying playing around with lately. I tried several techniques for creating a watercolour effect with the sunflowers. One was spraying the watercolour paper first and then stamping on it. Alternatively I stamped the sunflowers and then sprayed the paper afterwards. You can also ink the stamps and then spray them before stamping them. Unfortunately I can’t remember which technique I used here!? I think it was spray the paper first stamp after, but you may as well try each technique yourself. I added the dots to the paper with a Stampin’ marker.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serene Sunflowers, With Gratitude
Inks: Ruby Red, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke, Burgandy and Artichoke Stampin’ markers
Cardstock: Ruby Red, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke, Naturals White, Watercolour paper
Also: Antique Brass brads

For the other card I started with half an 8½x11 piece of vanilla cardstock and randomly stamped leaves all over it in Basic Black ink. Then I coloured with watercolour pencils in a range of colours which would match the earth elements cardstock. I added some leaves in earth elements inks, stamping several times before re-inking to get the variety of shades. At this point I showed my samples but encouraged everyone to cut whatever size and shape they wanted out of the leaf sheet and matte it to make their own card. I had twill tape on hand to add and the THANKS greeting. There was a little bit of complaining about having to design their own cards, but as usual they did a beautiful job.

Supplies:

Stamps: Fundamental Phrases, With Gratitude
Inks: Basic Black, Close to Cocoa, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red, Summer Sun
Also: Twill Tape

Supplies:

Stamps: Fundamental Phrases, With Gratitude
Inks: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie
Also: Twill Tape