Hi there, it's Heather Telford from snowy Canada looking forward to the day when flowers are seen around here once more. We have loads of snow so I enjoyed the contrast of stamping spring flowers. These new flowers stamps are great to work with especially as they have nice long bendable stems; you can make one stamp bend this way or that to fill your stamped vase or garden!
Instructions:
1. In a stamp positioner, place tall daisy stamp from 'Tall Flowers' set on cold pressed watercolour paper panel
2. Ink stem with peeled paint distress ink and flower head with fossilized amber ink then stamp
3. Using markers ink petals of the stamp with spiced marmalade marker, spritz stamp and stamp over initial print
4. Ink petal partially with rusty hinge distress marker close to flower centre, ink centre with ground espresso marker. Spritz with water and stamp.
5. Blend stem, petals and flower centre with fine tip paintbrush and water.
6. When dry restamp flower centre in ground espresso ink.
7. Repeat two more times to add flowers to panel using a stamped and hand cut mask to overlap flowers.
8. Using the mask again to protect stamping add background foliage using a stamp from 'Nature Walk' set inked with weathered wood and tea dye distress ink.
9. Splatter with tea dye ink.
10. Stamp sentiment in brown Stazon ink on vellum strip then wrap around panel before attaching to kraft card base.
Supplies used:
Darkroom Door Tall Flowers Stamp Set
Darkroom Door Nature Walk Stamp Set
Distress inks: Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint, Weathered Wood, Tea Dye
Distress markers: Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Ground Espresso, Forest Moss
Cold pressed watercolour paper
Brown stazon ink
Vellum
Kraft cardstock
Instructions:
1. Ink delicate flower stamp from 'Nature Walk' set with stormy sky and iced spruce distress inks, spritz stamp with water then stamp several times across cold pressed watercolour paper panel before re-inking and repeating.
2. Use stamp positioner to stamp tall daisy stamp from 'Tall Flowers' set over background foliage. Ink petals first with wilted violet distress ink and stem with forest moss distress ink, spritz stamp then stamp.
3. Clean stamp and partially re-ink with blueprint sketch distress ink, spritz with water then stamp again. Because the ink is diluted with water the two colours will blend and fill the outline petals. If desired blend more with a paintbrush.
4. Repeat to add more daisies across panel bending the stem to change the orientation of the flower heads.
5. Stamp sentiment in black Stazon ink on vellum strip then wrap around panel before attaching to card base.
Supplies used:
Darkroom Door Tall Flowers Stamp Set
Darkroom Door Nature Walk Stamp Set
A Year Later
Teri Smith on 1 May 2023
Well Heather, I'm a year later coming across these & my, oh my, they are fabulous! I am always, without fail, so impressed with your artistic ability & design of your cards. I've still got the lovely card you sent me on my 65th birthday, just about three years ago. It's a keeper!
Three thumbs up
Abi on 13 May 2022
Three for three - I like these all! Love your style. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to see a video as I'm a novice so I can't fully visualize your instructions. I'll check for you on YouTube. Thanks again!