Landscape

Happy Saturday!

Meet today's card.  I'm playing with a new stamp from Penny Black called Escape.

PB has just released some wonderful landscape stamps and I was eager to get a chance to play around with them to see what I could come up with.

Sometimes, I feel a bit intimidated by 'scene' stamps, but this one was actually very easy to do once I pulled out my Brushos and a paintbrush.

So onto my card details.

I began by placing this stamp inside my Misti.  A stamp positioner is essential for this technique to work.  Next, I sprinkled some Brushos into my palette and diluted it with some water.  Since Brushos are so highly pigmented with colour, a little goes a long way.

I picked up some of the diluted colour with my wet paintbrush and painted it directly onto my stamp and pressed onto my paper.  I repeated that process until I was happy with the coverage and all of the stamp areas had been painted in.

To fill in the open areas left after I was done stamping, I used my wet paintbrush and just pulled the colour along the lines of where it had been stamped.  Not only did it blur the sharper lines from stamping a bit, but it also made the card look more hand painted.  

I was pleased with the results when done.

When it was all dry, I placed it back into my Misti and stamped the sentiment form the PB set that is called Destination Sentiment.  

I glued it onto a sand coloured piece of cardstock, then a blue piece, then onto my plain white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More- PHOTO INSPIRED
Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES
Penny Black Saturday- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Escape (PB); Destination Sentiments (PB)

Inks- Brushos; Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); tan, blue

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); paintbrush; plastic paint palette