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
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
14 comments:
Gorgeous work Karen. Thank you so much for joining in with ARTastic this month.
Absolutely stunning Karen, using the PB Iris (yep have that one) in red works so well and pops against the script background. You play session came off perfectly. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Penny Black and More challenge.
B x
Really lovely--it has an Oriental vibe that is very appealing.
Wow, this card is stunning Karen! I do love that flower stamp. It is so beautiful against that amazing background you made. Well done! Hugs Brenda
What an amazing creation Karen. And so perfect for our black and white plus one challenge at Penny Black and More. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful card with us!
Hi Karen
Fabulous card... love the stamp....
thanks for joining us at PBSC
Hugs Sylvie xx
Really fantastic! I love it! :)
Thanks a lot for sharing your work wiht ARTastic! :)
What a simply gorgeous card Karen! Your flowers are beautiful against the pretty background and the black framing adds a wonderful contrast.
Thanks for sharing with us at Happy Little Stampers and I hope you will join us again soon.
Hugs
Carol x
Gorgeous card, Karen! Love that stamp also. Your background is perfect for it, and love your coloring! Thanks for playing at Penny Black Saturday Challenge! Hugs, Lynda Joy
Beautiful card. Thank you for joining us at ARTastic this month. :)
There is so much gorgeousness happening here! I really love the way you said you were experimenting and the results are incredible. I thought it was so creative of you to use splats and splatters on the petals of some of your flowers. You did a remarkable job and I'm so glad you shared your talents with us for this week's Simnon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!
What a fantastic card, I love the flower stamp against the fab background! This is really stylish and elegant. Thank you so much for joining us over at PBSC this month! Good luck in the prize draw and I do hope you'll join us again soon, love Jacky x
PBSC DT
Karen this card is just beautiful.
Thank you for joining us at ARTastic this month x
A wonderful card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our "anything goes with optional dies and punches” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy these past weeks…
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