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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Treasured Pine

Posted: November 1, 2022 | Author: Heather | Filed under: grafix, Penny Black, treasured pine | Tags: Fabriano Watercolour Paper, grafix, Penny Black stamps, Ranger Distress stains, Staedtler watercolour brush pens | 6 Comments

You are excused for thinking you have scene this card before. When I get a new pine branch stamp I often set it against a blue sky. I have a pine tree in my front yard and I think it is at its best under a blue sky after a fresh fall of snow. Most of the year said pine tree is just making a mess in our yard and driveway. This lovely stamp is from Penny Black and is called ‘treasured pine’.

I worked on hot pressed watercolour that had been splattered with masking fluid earlier. I smooshed both speckled egg and uncharted mariner distress inks on a glass mat, spritzed with water then swiped my watercolour panel through the ink several times. I also spritzed water on the panel to spread the ink further.

Once the background was dry I worked in a stamp positioner to stamp first the pinecone in a couple of brown inks then the pine needles in a couple of greens. I blended the ink on the pinecones with a brush to intensify the coverage and after the inks dried added white to the snow covered areas with a posca paint pen. I added a sentiment from the PB ‘feeling of Christmas’ set. To see a couple more pine themed designs click here and here