Black, White and one other version 2 ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well. I’ve been inking and stamping a couple of new stamps to see how they look. To be honest this stamping was going to be just a practice project and I didn’t think it would be good enough to use on a card but wham the stamps clicked with me immediately and the idea in my head was what I stamped firsst try, anyway here is my card …

A 148mm square card

Good to post

All the stamped details

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Artastic Challenge April Black, White & One Other

Creatalicious Challenge #137 Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Joy Clair Challenge April Anything Goes

Penny Black & More Challenge Black, White and one other

Penny Black Saturday Challenge Anything Goes optional twist spring flowers

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge Flower Power

I recently purchased a new to me Penny Black wood mounted stamp. A very lucky find on Ebay that just happened to be a bargain too, lol! I really do wish that I could find these Penny Black brushstroke stamps at a bargain price more often! Anyway the stamp was mounted on a wood block and I knew that when I received it I would probably remove it from the mount because I wanted to use it in my MISTI and it is easier to ink up the stamp with multiple colours in my MISTI. When I took the stamp out of the package it was hanging off the mount which was a real time saving bonus.

I used my Versafine grey ink pad with a new set of Tim Holtz stamps to stamp the background by stamping first onto scrap paper then onto the card and I dried the ink. I used some very cheap WH Smith brush tip felt pens to ink up the stems in black and the flowers in red. I then stamped the iris but the ink had dried so I lightly sprayed the stamp with water and stamped again and achieved a lovely juicy black and red iris. I left the stamp in position and painted the iris flowers with Luminarte H2O Twinling watercolours in a lovely deep rich red and stamped the flowers again, I repeated these steps four more times so that there were five iris flowers stamped onto the panel and I left it to dry.

The next day I trimmed the stamped panel to size and wrapped the rich red velvet ric rac on one of the sides, securing the ribbon on the back of the panel with double sided tape. I trimmed a snippet of black card to fit on the front of a 148mm square card and glued that in position before gluing the stamped panel. I decided not to add any die cuts or sentiments because I wanted the iris flowers to be the star of this card and I think I achieved that lol! You will be seeing much more of this stamp, it’s stunning and works beautifully with my old and new Penny Black stamps. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Penny Black 2663K Single Iris wood mounted stamp

Tim Holtz CMS241 Ledger Script cling stamp set

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette; spray water bottle

Supplies

Card &/ Paper &/ Substrates:

Sheena Douglass white stamping card

300 gsm card/Craft UK 150mm square card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Versafine IP: grey

Luminarte H2O Watercolours: red

Brush tip felt pens

Embellishments:

Velvet ric rac ribbon

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue

Double sided tape