It's no secret that I love Penny Black Stamps. I find myself drawn to their floral designs and love to use watercolors to "paint" the image and then stamp it. I never know how the image is going to transfer and sometimes it needs a little tweeking and sometimes it's beautiful just the way it stamped out. This card was made with
Penny Black's Trumpet Song Stamp. It really is a beautiful stamp and so versatile because you can use all of the image or just parts of it for your projects.
- Cut a piece of watercolor paper to 4-1/2" x 6-1/2".
- Prepare watercolor paper by liberally spreading water over the top of the card.
- Make a watercolor by mixing any Tim Holtz Distress Ink color of your choice and put some of the ink on a craft sheet. Add a few sprays of water.
- Using a paint brush, paint the ink on the paper moving the ink around the card to get the desired look. Dry completely.
- Use Distress Markers to "paint" the image by coloring the flowers, leaves, bird and stems in the colors of your choice.
- When you're finished "painting" the image give it a couple light spritz of water and stamp the image on your water colored paper.
- Add any depth to the image, if necessary. (I added depth to the flowers and bird with some soft strokes of ink from the distress marker fine tip.
- To give the card more depth and movement, lightly stamp some background images around the image.
You can find a list of supplies I used to make this card below:
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