Pines and Pinecones

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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