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.

Peony

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

Snowy Feathers

Hello Jannet here today, have you started thinking about creating your Christmas/Winter cards and gifts yet? I have actually made one gift already which is for my parents. This Snowy Feathers  plaque, which features the lovely Robin. For once I was quite happy with how it turned  out, so I thought it might look nice as a card too.

I started by creating a background by using a brayer to apply Stonewashed and Terracotta Adirondack inks. and then spritzed over them with water.

The Robin stamped very nicely onto Watercolour card, and I used Watercolours to give him his famous red breast. I then fussy cut him, no feathers were harmed!

I found a comfortable looking twig for the Robin to happily sit on. I dabbed on some fine modelling paste and then shook some Unicorn Sparkles over it to create the glistening snow.

I stamped the Night before Christmas stamp from the Sparkle and Glisten Stamp Set onto the background. To create the icicles I applied a thick line of glossy accents to the top of the card and then stood the card up so it dripped nicely down, I then shook Unicorn Sparkles over the top.

Indigoblu Robin

I adhered the Robin onto the twig and attached the twig to the background. I added some dried moss  a pine cone and a festive red berry.

I finished by flittering white paint over the picture to create falling snow.

I hope you have fun making your cards - Unicorn Sparkles everywhere !







Drifting Into Autumn







Hello Jannet here today, and I am honoured to be a member of the lovely Indigoblu Design Team for another year. October is full of golden crisp leaves swirling from the trees, so I thought I would try to capture that scene in a picture. I have recycled some items, and foraged from Mother Nature for other lovely natural pieces.

For my canvas I recycled the backing of a Watercolour pad. I began by covering it in fine texture paste. I pressed some leaves into the paste and then peeled them back. Some were more successful than others, but the textures they left were all interesting!



When dry I painted Warm Tan, Leather Corset, and Hot Cocoa over the paste.I had some crumpled copy paper ready to lay over it and then pressed it down, when removed it leaves lots of lovely textures from the creases.

When the paint was drying I repeated this process on a sheet of card, ready to die cut some leaves from. After cutting them, I randomly added a touch of flitterglu and some  flakes from the chocolate box mega flakes, which gave them an autumnal sheen. I crumpled up the leaves to try and make them look more natural.

I inked over the top of the raised leaf shapes in the texture paste and also, added some penny dreadful luscious to add some Shimmering shine. I mixed a pinch of  luscious with clear embossing powder, and heat embossed the Always something New To Discover stamp from the  “Dreams Come True” Stamp set.

I added another helping of texture paste to the base of the picture and added some little art stones into it. When dry I painted over the stones using the same colours as previously, and shook a little luscious with clear embossing powder onto to it, and heat set.

I gathered together some twigs, pressed leaves, and flowers and adhered them along with my die cut leaves onto the canvas.

Happy Autumn xx

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Walk Gently

Hello Jannet here, and today I am going to be using the stunning new Victorian Garden, and Mindfullness Stamp sets. Victorian Garden has beautiful butterflies gorgeous flowers and two lovely sentiments plus a bumble bee! Mindfullness has wonderful sentiments and an amazing butterfly.

This month we are thinking about "Things with Wings" which inspired me to bring some of our beautiful nature indoors to enjoy.

To create a Nature background I individually mixed a little water with Grandmas Teacup, Olive Waistcoat, and Warm Tan. I laid a wash of Grandmas Teacup onto the top of half the watercolour card, then using a clean wet brush I wiped off some small areas of the blue to create a cloud effect.

I used Olive Waistcoat and the Warm Tan colours on the remaining card by brushing, dabbing, and dragging the brushes in different directions over the card. Using a Coffee Archival inkpad I added the "Walk Gently" sentiment from the Mindfullness set.

I love pressed flowers, so I decided to add a Forget-Me-Not to the picture. (I press my flowers in between paper towels and place them in a thick book. Of course the correct way is to press them between blotting paper and use a flower press!)

I mixed Snow White paint, and Clockwork Heart luscious together and brushed it quite thickly onto the flower stamp and stamped it onto card. The thick paint gave it some texture. I used Snow White paint and Olive Waistcoat paint for the dandelion and fussy cut them both.

The butterfly from the Victorian Garden Stamp set is just beautiful and has quickly become one of my favourites. I used versamarker to stamp it and followed with black embossing powder.I mixed the luscious powders with water and used some artistic license to colour the butterflies, I think I created some new species! I followed the same process for the bees.The luscious powders make them gleam and sparkle beautifully.

I gathered a few twigs from the forest, and used raffia to tie them together to form a frame for the picture.

I juggled all the pieces around until I liked the look, and then adhered all of the flowers, bees and butterflies in place.I adhered the background to the back of the twiggy frame.

To finish I tied a length of raffia onto the back for hanging.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and happy Stamping!

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