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I was trying to be clever here, and i am not too sure it worked.
I was trying to create a traditional Roman style mosaic floor in the background using alcohol markers to colour the tiles and a blending pen to spread the colour out beyond the tiles. In hindsight I think it would have been better to be random rather than trying to make a square pattern!
The seed heads were also coloured with alcohol markers
The first was stamped onto black card using versamark ink and gold embossing powder, then painted with some ancient h2o iridescent paints.
Then simply trimmed. aded to a gold mat then onto a 7" square white card blank, leaving room for a sentiment on the right
The first uses brusho powders for the background in blue and yellow, leaving a lighter patch towards the centre - not quite as large as i would have liked, but you never know how the colours are going to end up! I stamped the image using bklack versafine and clear embossing powder into the yellow area, then used bleach to remove the colour from the flowers.
The flowers were coloured using pencils
Playing with the leafy heart stamp from the Harlequin Rose stamp set by Chocolate Baroque after making some Valentine cards I ended up with a sort-of flower after realisong that it was too large to use to create a wreath effect
I stamped the image four times onto white card using my stamping platform , and once onto a spare piece of card. All the images were coloured with watercolour pencils in my favourite autumn shades with lighter colours on the single image.
The single image was fussy cut out and covered with glossy accents after gluing onto a slightly smaller heart shape cut from the same brown card used for the mat - would have been a lot easier just to colour the centre of the image if I'd realised it needed it before I cut it all out!
It's quite a large stamp, so makes an 8" square card
I would like to enter the following challenges
sirstampalot - anything stamped
make my monday #164 - three 3 hearts
Carrying on the Valentine theme, some more samples this time using the main image from the Rose and thistle stamp set as well as the sentiment from words of love, both from Chocolate Baroque.
The main image was stamped in black versafine ink and coloured with watercolour pencils, then torn out and edged with versafine ink. The background was sponged wiith distress inks in worn lipstick and peeled paint and parts of the stamp were randomly stamped in worn lipstick.. Sentiment stamped in versamark and gold embossed.
The first one is 7" square, the background is distress oxide inks squeezed lemonade, peeled paint and salvaged patina sponged randomly and part images from the Rose Stem Script set and words from Tall Trees set also used to overstamp.The sentiment is from Words of Love, stamped in black versafine and candy apple distress oxide inks. The main images were stamped onto spare card with verxafine ink, coloured with watercolour pencils and fussy cut out. If you snip the leaves carefully you can weave two images together. I glued just the bottom halves onto the card, so the the centre pieces will stand up slightly
The second card is a very simplified version of the first, with red and black lines drawn with marker pens round the image and no sentiment - this is a 6"square card
Another 6" square version, again coloured with pencils this time trying to get a rainbow effect - in hindsight I think it would have been better to start the rainbow at one side of the image and not do individual leaves....
this was a single image, fussy cut round the edges of the design only and glued onto a distress oxide background. Background was stamped with the rose from Rose Stem Script coloured with marker pens and randomly stamped over the card, thne spritzed with water to blend the images. Distress oxide inks were then sponged over the dried card , sentiment added in black versafine and the wobbly lines drawn with a fineliner.
For my last post this month I am sharing two versions using the Toadstool Garden stamp set from the December shows.
