Stamping On Rose Petals

Hi Jannet here today, I was recently looking through my box of pressed flowers, and noticed that some of my Rose Petals were quite large. So I thought that one of the new Peony stamps might fit onto it, but can you stamp on petals? I had no idea so I decided to experiment......

I used a versafine inkpad to stamp directly onto the petals and it worked ok, but it took forever to dry so if you have a Stazon that might be better. Then I started to cut out the  stamped image, and of course the petal is very delicate. I kept going, then I was wondering about how am I going to adhere these petals as they are so transparent. I halted what I was doing, and had a think, think, think. I decided to try some double sided adhesive sheets, and peeled of one side and placed the stamped petal onto it. It worked !

 Not all of the peony fitted on one petal so I stamped other petals with the missing parts. 

I wanted more stability to the flowers so I peeled off the other side of the adhesive sheet  and adhered it to some card before fussy cutting.

To assemble all of the flower pieces together I stamped the original flower on some copy paper to use as a guide, and placed the pieces over it until they fitted together.

I also stamped the leaves onto dried leaves and followed the same process.

I finished by painting on the stamens, and  heat embossing the word thanks from the Dreams Come True Stamp set. I mixed my paints to match the colour of the rose petals, and gently flicked the paint over the 17.78cm/ 7inch card.

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I hope you will enjoy experimenting with stamping on pressed flowers too, have fun ! xx

No Limits Art Journal Page

Hi everyone,

It's Mike here with an oriental colour themed art journal page in my Junk & Disorderly art journal. I know it's October and normally would go for a fall or Halloween themed project, however, I love the subtle colours used in oriental and Japanese imagery and wanted to create a sedate and calming art journal page using the A6 Peony stamp set instead of a seasonal page.

This art journal page design could easily be adapted for an A5, 6x6 or 8x8 greetings card too!

I also used Townhouse Teal acrylic paint, Fair Portrait acrylic paint & Apricot Blush Portrait acrylic paint & Goldfinger Metallic acrylic paint, plus the collectors stamps Bubbles (No1) and Crosshatch (No3). The sentiment is taken from the Mindfulness #1 stamp set.

To watch how I created the page from start to finish click the YouTube image below to visit the IndigoBlu YouTube channel and see how the page was created step by step in real time.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating the page. Don't forget to give it a thumbs up, share with your friends and subscribe to the IndigoBlu YouTube channel for more videos from the Design Team.

Perfect Peony

Hello Cheremane here with you today. I just adore the new floral designs and have chosen the  A6 Peony for this creation, it really is a stunning stamp design. To begin I painted an in-expensive box with Black Gesso before I painting it with Stroke of Midnight.

I stamped four of the Peony's onto watercolour card with Versafine and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then wet the area of the flowers and added some Mulberry Bush paint to the area with a small brush and let it travel where is wanted to go, as with the card wet the colour will flow where the water is.

I added some Olive waistcoat paint to some Phat foam and used it like an ink pad to stamp the leafs onto some watercolour card and also around the bottom of the box.

Once the Peony's were dry I layered the four together with glue gel. For the flower center I added some Lemon Meringue paint.

I finished off with a gorgeous sentiment from Mindfulness #2 heat embossed to the front of the box and attached the Peony to the top of the box with some Super Thick Slap It On.

I hope you enjoyed my piece of inspiration for you today.

Cheremane x