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

Windswept

Good Morning!

So happy you have come for a visit today.

As most of you already know, I enjoy playing around with inks to see what I can come up with.  

I made this piece using a piece of Yupo paper and applied Alcohol inks from Ranger and Pinata.

When using the Yupo, you never know what kind of a look you will get.

I made another landscape card using the same technique a few weeks ago.

Landscape

I began with a piece of Yupo and applied the Alcohol ink in shades of blues and greens across the paper.  I added some Ranger Blending Solution and moved the inks around using the edge of an old credit card.  That helped to blend the colours together and got the inks to move.

I set that aside to dry.

I placed the Silhouette Pine Trees from Flonz Stamps into my MISTI, inked with Archival ink and stamped.  I repeated to get a darker impression but still had to add a bit of black with a Sharpie marker to areas that I wanted to appear darker.

I die-cut the frame using the Rectangle Peek a Boo Window from MFT and placed it over the image.

Lastly, I stamped the sentiment from Daisy Bucket using my Misti again.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed- ANYTHING GOES

Alphabet Challenge- 'Y' YOU CHOOSE

('L' Landscape)

Happy Little Stampers- CAS-BLUE

Moving Along With The Times- FOR A MAN

Have a great weekend and thanks again for taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps- Flonz, Daisy Bucket/ die- MFT/ MISTI/ ink- Archival/ Cuttlebug/ Yupo paper/ Alcohol inks/ old credit card/ Ranger BlendingSolution