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"Rubber
Stamping - Watercolor Techniques" |
| Click Here view a different category from
our 4th anniversary contest. |
The winners of the watercolor
techniques category are:
Helen Chilton ~ Diane Moore ~ Sharon Sahl ~ Tina Shoaga |
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Rubber Stamps:
Tilapia FM 006-1 Fred Mullet;
available at StampDiva.com
Seaweed; 100 Proof press, Letters;PSX
Background created on watercolor paper
using twinkling H2O's as a wash.
Fish and words stamped with colorbox chalk inks(Prussian Blue).
Attached to navy blue metallic cardstock. Rox attached to the
edge of the card using double stick tape.
Seashells attached along the top with E6000. Glitter added using
duo by USArtquest.
Embellishment madeusing a mold and paperclay. Colored with twinkling
H2O's.
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Sea Shore
Stamp Artist - Tina Shoaga
Winning
Entry |
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BONJOUR PARIS
Stamp Artist - Helen Chilton
Winning
Entry |
Supplies:
- All stamps by Hero Arts available from
Cards N Stamps:
G2811 Gracious Lady
LL627 Alphabet Blocks
- Memories black ink
- Versacolor ink - canary, orange, magenta
- Derwent Watercolour pencils
- Card - black, white hammered
- Vellum scraps
- Deep red pearlescent paper
- Art Institute Glitter - black
- Wire - black
- Beads - red/orange
- Organza ribbon - orange
- Fibers
- Spritz bottle
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Instructions:
Background:
Ink the Gracious Lady stamp in canary, orange and magenta. Spritz
with water and stamp on white card to give a watery effect. Do
this 4 times. Repeat this technique once on vellum, but this
time use the second impression so it's not too wet.
Stamp PARIS faintly in magenta, spritzed with water, across top
left and right corners.
Tear the vellum image in half diagonally and stick to top left
and bottom right corners.
Wrap the background in orange ribbon.
Layer the background onto red paper and then onto the black card
and edge with black glitter using narrow double-sided tape.
Main image:
Stamp Gracious Lady twice in black ink and colour in with watercolour
pencils - blend with water and a brush. Cut out one lady and
mount onto main image with 3D sticky fixers. Layer onto card
edged with black glitter as before and then onto red paper stuck
onto card. Punch 5 small holes along the bottom.
Stamp out PARIS in magenta ink, cut
out and stick onto black card cut and punched to look like little
tags. Attach a small piece of wire to each tag, thread on beads
and then attach to main image. Mount image onto background using
3D sticky fixers. Finish off with fibres tied under
ribbon at top.
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"Midsummer Bouquet "
Actual Framed Size 18x12"
Stamp Artist - Diane Moore
Winning
Entry |
Cut cold-press watercolor paper a bit
larger than size desired and using masking tape, tape to painting
board. Create background by laying in areas of very wet watercolor
(Daniel Smith) allowing the colors to flow together in a controlled
fashion to avoid muddiness of color. While color is still wet
spritz with rubbing alcohol to aid in the fusion of colors. Set
aside to dry.
Prepare pressed flowers using micro
fleur (A Stampers Dream). Set aside.
Once watercolor background is dry, add
additional color where and if needed. Mix powdered pearls (Lemon
Tree) with a bit of leftover watercolor from your palette and
using a very wet brush flick spots of color onto the background.
If desired add bits of Perfect FX (Marco's Paper) for added sheen.
Stamp vase (image-maker unknown) onto
cold pressed watercolor paper using Vivid! Dye ink in Plum.(Clearsnap)
Heat set image. Using watercolors paint in vase image (Daniel
Smith) Once background paper is *totally* dry, stamp random images
on background using the same ink pad (Images from Stamp Zia -
Large and Small Day Fern, Large and Small Night Fern). Heat set
images.
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Carefully trim vase image. Using the
same colors, carefully paint the cut edges to avoid a glaring
white
cut. Carefully shape the vase into a rounded position and using
double stick foam tape, mount to background.
Using PVA (Marcos Paper) or other similar lightweight adhesive,
glue dried flowers onto background. It is very helpful to do
a dry run arrangement first.
Once adhesive is dry, lightly spray
completed project with matte spray sealer (Duncan). Remove from
painting board, trim and frame as desired.
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"Watercolor Garden Quilt"
Stamp Artist - Sharon Sahl
Winning
Entry |
When I first
read the contest rules, I was drawn to the watercolor technique
category even though I didn't know what it meant. A few days
later I thought to look it up in the technique section, but by
then it was too late. A "watercolor technique" from
a previous life as a quilter had captured my imagination. In
a nutshell, fabrics are cut into small squares, sorted by values
and then pieced together minimizing rather than maximizing the
color differences between edges. A value plan is laid out, in
this case, light in top right flowing to dark in bottom left.
I love incorporating ideas from one discipline into another.
Use Magenta Mosiacs 1" x 1" squares or cut your own
1" x 1" squares from cardstock. Remove each tile to
an empty section of the tile backing. Stamp a section of a flower
or leaf stamp, color with watercolor pencils, and blend the colors
with a Dove blender. Make the tiles look like fabric by coloring
the backgrounds. Apply the completed tiles to a piece of text
weight paper in 7 lines of 5 tiles. Work each line paying attention
to the colors of the adjacent tiles, i.e., try to make the colors
flow from light tones at top right to dark tones at bottom left.
After all 35 tiles are in place, trim around the 5"x 7"
block. For borders mount on black cardstock, green patterned
paper, and teal cardstock.
Numbering from top left as if reading lines of text, these are
the stamps I used. The ones I found available from Stamp Club
vendors are listed first, in case you don't need the rest of
them.
#3 Beeswax 689M - Cherry Blossoms available from Beeswax
#4, #14, #15, #21, #26, #32 Hero Arts LL754 Blossom Etchings
available from A Stampers Dream
#16 Beeswax 632M - Dogwood available from Beeswax
#17 All NIght Media ANM-580K01 Climbing Rose Background available
from Stamp Diva
#18 Creative Mode - I got this as a freebie unmounted from Creative
Mode (don't know #) but should be available from Creative Mode
#23, #27 PSX F1724 - Morning Glories available from A Stampers
dream IF this stamp is still in the PSX catalog
#24 PSX D2218 available from A Stampers Dream IF this stamp is
still in the PSX catalog
#28 Hero Arts F1050 Violet Border available from A Stampers Dream
IF this stamp is still in the Hero Arts catalog
Other rubber stamps:
#1 Provo Craft 35-9321
#2 Stampassions G-4405 Daffodil Bulb
#5, #20, #29 Inkadinkado 5663P
#6 Judikins Floral Leaves Cube 6315G
#7 Rubber Stampede A1576E Violet
#8 Great Impressions H93
#9 Inkadinkado 5217P
#10 Stampendous CN006 Dasiy
#11 Impress Me Set 61 Dolls D
#12 Provo Craft 35-9316
#13 Inkadinkado Wildflowers set
#19 unknown
#22 Rubber Stampede Victorian Butterflies collection
#25 Stampendous CN021 Wild Thyme
#28 Stampendous L079 Queen Anne's Lace
#30 unknown
#31 Hampton Art D242 Sunflower
#33 Provo Craft 35-9039
#34 100 Proof Press # unknown
#35 Rubber Monger Leaf Background
Since fabrics come in so many styles, practically any floral
or leaf stamp will work for this paper "quilt". |
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Supplies:
- Geisha Girl 2 (M009) - My Heart Stamps
For You
- 1 x A4 sheet of black card cut
- 9cm x 15.5cm piece of gold card or
matboard (3 ½" x 6")
- 7cm x 13cm piece of pink batik print
card (2 ¾ " x 5 ¼")
- Scrap of white card
- Black brilliance ink pad
- Black embossing powder
- Watercolour pencils
- Aqua brush
- Gold pen
- Scissors
- Double-sided tape
- Asian stickers
- PVA or craft glue
- 2 small Asian coins
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Geisha Girl
Stamp Artist - Gillian ElGawly |
- Cut A4 black card into 2 pieces: 22cm
x 21 cm (8 ¾" x 8 ¼") & 14 cm x 7.5cm
(5 1/2 " x 3")
- Fold the larger piece of black card
in half lengthwise.
- Stamp "Geisha Girl 2" on
white card with black ink then emboss using black embossing powder.
- Colour with watercolour pencils and
aqua brush.
- Colour flowers on kimono with gold
pen.
- Cut out Geisha Girl and stick to small
piece of black card using double-sided tape.
- Stick the black card onto the gold
card.
- Stick the gold card onto the folded
black card. about 1cm (1/4") from the top.
- Put 3 gold stickers at the bottom of
the card.
- Glue Asian coins inside 2 of the stickers
using pva or craft glue.
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Supplies:
Oak Leaf with Peace (JB-2516H) - Designs Ink'd
Watercolor paper
Black Pigment Ink - Stamp Cabana
Black Embossing Powder - Stamp Cabana
Table Salt
Watercolors - Crayola
Black paper - ?
Acrylic paint - Folkart
Aleene's Tacky Glue
Heat Gun
Technique:
I stamped the Oak Leaf with Peace image with black pigment ink
onto watercolor paper and embossed with black embossing powder.
Then I wet the watercolor paper thoroughly and applied yellows,
browns and oranges to the entire paper. While still wet, I applied
table salt, allowing some salt to clump. When completely dry,
I brushed the salt off and mounted on black paper. |
"Autumn Mist"
Stamp Artist - Becky Partan |
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For the background papers I mounted
it on, I applied various colors of metallic acrylic paint to
plain yellow paper, smooshing it around to make a random design.
Another background paper was made by spreading Aleene's Tacky
Glue onto kraft paper and heating it with a heat gun until it
bubbled. When cool, I applied Copper metallic acrylic paint.
The other piece of background paper was a piece of left over
watercolor paper that I painted with gold acrylic paint.
I mounted all 3 background papers on
white cardstock, then mounted the watercolored design.
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Yellow Roses
Stamp Artist - Verna Angerhofer |
Supplies:
Rose Background Stamp-Stamp
Camp (Name & # not known); Verse stamp-Designs Ink'd (Name
& # not known); blender pen; black fine detail EP; Black
Versacolor ink pad; yellow ribbon; glue dots; yellow cardstock;
white cardstock; scissors
1. Start with yellow basic card.
2. take white cardstock and stamp rose background with
black Versacolor and emboss with fine Black Detail
EP.
3. Using blender pen, pick up colors from markers to color
in the background stamped image, giving a watercolor
look
4. Cut out background and mount onto yellow card.
5. Stamp verse with black Versacolor ink onto yellow cardstock,
mount onto black cardstock and glue to l ower
right corner.
6. Add ribbon to finish. |
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Daisy Chain
Stamp Artist - Ida Abshier |
Supplies:
- Posh Impressions Lazy Daisies # 550-J17
- 2 pieces of 140 lb. cold press water
color paper
- Marvy brush markers nos. 43, 05, 64,
18
- Tombow marker no. 249
- Gold Card Stock
- 1 folded white card made out of water
color paper or Bristol drawing paper
- Fine mist spray bottle
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Instructions: Color rubber with above markers, starting with
lightest color and ending with darkest color. Do a little shading.
Spray stamp with a very fine mist until you can see the water
puddle. Stamp onto watercolor paper. Stripe all colors on a palette
or wax paper. Now pick up some color with a wet sable brush and
blend around design for contrast, use quite a bit of water. Add
more color to define centers.
Tear edges and mat on dark green which has been colored with
Tombow. When dry, tear around dark green mat. Layer onto a contrasting
gold card and then onto a white folded card. |
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Supplies:
Black glossy card
White Expression cardstock (Marco's Paper)
Mint cardstock panel
Glue Stick
Caran d'Ache Supra Color ll Soft watercolor pencils: #300 fast
orange, #021 naples yellow, #030 orange, #035 ochre,#239 spruce
green.
Rubber Stamp:
Passion Flower Panel #S105, from Stamp Camp
Directions:
Stamp onto white expression cardstock with black pigment ink.
Emboss with clear powder. Dampen paint brush with water and pick
up color directly from water color pencils and paint entire image.
Keeping brush to an almost dry brush effect. Meaning as little
water as possible. Too keep the paper from buckling. Glue mint
cardstock to black glossy cardstock panel. Next layer image on
top of this.
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"Serenity"
Stamp Artist - Lorraine Raveneau |
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Iris Holiday
Stamp Artist - Karen R. Brooks |
Supplies:
- Iris Stamp: ©2001 My Heart Stamps
For You
- Black Ink
- Black Embossing Powder
- Marvy Le Plume II Marking Pens
- Water & paintbrush
- Junk AOL CD
- Diamond Glaze dimensional adhesive
- Watercolor paper
- White and black paper
- Apricot hand made paper
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| Instructions: Stamp Iris onto watercolor paper with black
ink. Emboss with fine black powder. Scribble Marvy markers onto
CD and use as a pallet. Dip paintbrush in water and marker colors
from CD to watercolor iris. I used shades of blue and purple
for the flowers and yellow and green for the leaves, Coral Pink
for the border and blue for the background. A drop of clear dimensional
adhesive makes the dewdrop glisten. Layer onto white, black,
then apricot paper and again onto the black. |
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Supplies:
Rubber Stamps - Angi-b &
Co
Stamp Kokopelli, Warrior & Circle
Head Warrior images (Angi-b & Co.) with blue dye ink. Color
them with Crayola watercolor pencils. Cut images out and layer
with mulberry paper and a paint sample(found in the paint department
at home improvement stores) on bright yellow-gold cardstock,
add your fibers to the top.
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"Tribal Trio"
Stamp Artist - Dawne Edelman |
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In Bloom
Stamp Artist - Judy Mouer |
Supply
List
1 Sheet cream color ribbed card stock
1 Sheet cream color smooth card stock
1 Sheet black glossy card stock
1 Sheet sage color card stock
1 Black dye based inkpad
1 Black waterproof extra fine point pen
Krylon 18 KT Gold Leafing Pen
Small Aqua Flo Brush filled with water
Marvy LePlume II color: # 30 - Rosewood
Marvy Brush Markers: # 15 - Olive Green, # 27 - Olive Brown,
#52 - Yellow Green, # 55 - Iris Purple
Color Box Chalks: Yellow Ochre, Ice Jade, Lime Pastel, Alabaster
Personal Paper Trimmer
18 to 24 inch length Freezer Wrap paper for work surface - Wax
side up |
- On smooth cream card stock, stamp the
tall flowerpot. Stamp same image on a scrap of paper to create
a mask. (All images are stamped with the black inkpad).
- Cut the mask out and place over the
flowerpot. Stamp the twiggy branch, # C-29 to the right side
of pot, then stamp # C-74, the leafy branch to the left of the
pot. Fill in the leafy branch with AA-37, the twig. Then fill
in the flowers.
- Scribble the olive green Marvy Brush
Marker on one edge of the freezer wrap about a 2-inch circumference.
With the Aqua Flo Brush, squeeze a drop or two of water onto
scribble and wash the flowerpot with pale color. Go back and
pick up more color and apply deeper color for shading.
- Repeat step three with the olive brown
Marvy Brush Marker. Use very sparingly just along the rim edge
- Repeat step three with the Marvy LePlume
II Rosewood color, and highlight the flowerpot.
- Repeat step three with the yellow green
Marvy Brush Marker. Do not dilute this one, just pick up the
color with the Aqua Flo Brush and paint all the stems and leaves.
Go back into the olive green and pick up a little color for contrast
and shading.
- Repeat step 3 with the iris purple
Marvy Brush Marker. Wash the flowers with pale color. Go back
and pick up more color and paint the centers of the flowers.
- With the black ultra fine point pen,
draw a line under the flowerpot and go over it with olive brown.
- Trim card stock to 1 11/16" by
3 7/16" and border with Krylon 18 KT Gold Leafing Pen
- Cut black glossy card stock to 2 1/8"
by 3 7/8" and mount design with double sided tape
- Cut sage card stock to 3 ¾"
by 5". Randomly stamp the four Color Box Chalks to attain
the background color. Border with Gold Leafing Pen. Layer the
mounted image on this.
- Cut black glossy card stock to 4"
by 5 1/8" and mount the layered image on this and mount
to card.
Rubber Stamps - Stamps by Judith - AA-09 open flower,
AA-37 twig, C-29 twiggy branch, C-74 leaf branch and C-106 tall
flower pot
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Materials:
Bristol card stock
watercolor markers (Tombow, Marvy)
CD
water brushes
teal tissue paper
plaid adhesive vellum
Chatterbox scarlet tag
Chatterbox scarlet nails
freezer paper (wax paper on one side, regular paper on the other)
iron
green pigment ink
Vivid teal dye ink
Adirondack bottle embossing powder
1/16" hole punch
Xyron
x-acto knife |
"Emerson's Virtuous Plants"
Stamp Artist - Liz Jutila |
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Directions:
- apply green pigment ink to flower block
stamp, stamp on piece of Bristol
card stock. Emboss with Adirondack bottle embossing powder.
- scribble the markers one at a time
on the CD. Using water markers, pick
up a little color at a time and color images in flower block,
highlighting
accent areas as desired. Let dry completely. Cut out block leaving
white
border.
- crumple teal tissue paper and apply
to wax paper side of freezer paper
with iron (put a piece of paper over tissue paper to protect
the iron).
- mount plaid adhesive vellum to Bristol
card stock.
- mount teal tissue/freezer paper to
vellum
- run flower block painted image through
the Xyron, and mount to
tissue/freezer paper
- stamp saying in Vivid teal ink on tag.
Let dry completely.
- Punch holes in Bristol card stock at
bottom, aligning with tag holes.
Mount using Chatterbox nails.
Rubber Stamps - flower block -- Printworks
virtuous plant saying...from 16 sayings and frame sheet -- After
Midnight Art Rubber Stamps
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Plain Sailing
Stamp Artist - Theresa Rasmussen |
Stamp sailboat image from PSX (available from A Stampers Dream
vendor) using Ancient Page coal ink on watercolor paper. Watercolor
the image as shown. Speckle the image and computer-generated
quote with black and cream acrylic paint. Layer these images
on medium and dark blue cardstock. Layer again with gold cardstock.
The base card is colored with Ancient Page blue bliss and cobalt
inks using the direct to paper technique. Embellish with a pink
square gem. |
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Supplies:
Light blue cardstock purchased from Anchor Paper
Astrobrights Lunar Blue cardstock
Sandpaper
Astrobrights Re-entry Red cardstock
black ink pad
Mongol watercolor pencils
Water
paintbrush
Fiskars rotary paper cutter
Fiskars deckle scissors
Double-stick tape
Tombo Monoaqua liquid glue
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" Serenity Lighthouse"
Stamp Artist - Dawn Fagerstrom |
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Instructions:
Stamp the image onto white cardstock
with the black ink. Color the image with watercolor pencils &
water. Cut the image out with a deckle scissors.
Cut lunar blue cardstock 3 7/8”x
4 1/8” with paper cutter. Cut sandpaper 4.5”x4 5/8”
with deckle scissors. Cut red cardstock 5.5”x11” and
fold.
Attach the lighthouse picture to the
lunar blue cardstock with double-stick tape. Attach to sandpaper
with liquid glue and to red cardstock with liquid glue.
Rubber Stamps- K1112-75 Lighthouse from UMP75 Lighthouse
sheet available from Impressions of Faith
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Trees
Stamp Artist - Frances Jones |
Materials:
300#cold pressed watercolor paper
cardstock in orange and green
watercolor pencils
chestnut brown Memories ink
Khaki Versacolor pigment ink
Small square and circle punches for the letters
deckle edge scissors
waterbrush or paintbrush
Peel n stick tape
Instructions:
First stamp the tree image on watercolor paper with the Chestnut
memories pad, then heat set with heat gun to dry. Then cut out
image with deckle edge scissors. Then color in image with various
watercolor pencils, then wet them with the waterbrush or paintbrush
to bring out the vibrant color. |
Then stamp the small tree
image on watercolor paper, then cut out image with deckle edge
scissors. Then stipple from the edges with the Khaki Versacolor
pad to give it a shaded look. Then punch out 5 small squares
and circles with the punches. You then stamp each letter on the
squares to spell the word "Trees", and adhere the squares
to the circles on the lighter green cardstock.
Layer your large tree scenery image on piece of pumpkin colored
cardstock and adhere to the card at the top. Then adhere the
small tree image underneath that. Then adhere all of the circle
letters around the small tree at the bottom.
Rubber Stamps: Tree scene from My Heart Stamps for you, small
trees from Wild Frog creations, and letter stamps from Stampcraft. |
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Materials:
- Watercolor Paper
- Dusty Blue Cardstock - 6 ¾"
x 5 ¼"
- Ancient Page Coal Black Ink
- ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink - French Blue
- Watercolors
- Brass Seashell Charms
- Jewelry glue or glaze for charms
- Craft Glue
- Greeting card 5 ½ x 7 - White
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"The Red Lighthouse"
Stamp Artist - Ruby Cross |
Instructions:
1. Stamp Lighthouse on watercolor paper and allow to dry.
2. Stamp blue cardstock with background in French Blue ink.
3. Apply watercolors to lighthouse image and allow to dry.
4. Tear edges of watercolor paper around the lighthouse image
and brush on blue watercolor on the
torn edges.
5. Glue to the blue background piece.
6. Glue completed piece to card.
7. Glue charms to card.
Rubber Stamps: Designs Ink'd - Lighthouse, Stampendous
- Paper Cube Background |
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"Watercolor Flowers"
Stamp Artist - Dee Ruger |
Materials:
White Cardstock
Black Cardstock
Burgandy Glimmering Cardstock
Watercolor Pencils
Water
Soft Stone Shadow ink By Hero Arts
Orange, Purple Ink
Black Ink
Black and White Checkered Ribbon
Instructions:
- Stamp Abstract Art stamp with soft
stone on white cardstock.
- Dip colored pencil into water and color
directly onto rubber. Make sure that the pencils are quite wet
and that you color heavily onto the rubber. Do not let the color
dry on the rubber. Stamp Flower designs over abstract designs.
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- Repeat two more times with different
flowers. (These three flowers come in one set.)
- Stamp bouquet etc beneath flowers.
- Mount to black layer.
- Mount to burgandy layer.
- Tie ribbon around burgandy layer
- Mount everything to White card.
Rubber Stamps:, H2807 Abstract Art (Hero Arts), LL850
Watercolor Flowers (Hero Arts),
C2769 Bouquet of Dreams (Hero Arts), Hero Arts carried by Rubber
Stamps Galore
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Stamp image (Enchanted Ink #1223-v Easter
Angel) with black waterproof ink,
such as document ink. Let dry.
Color in image using watercolors, and highlighting with radiant
pearls layer with coordinating cardstock.
Finally layer onto a large piece of black cardstock
Actual Size 8 1/2 x 11" |
"La Flora Bella"
Stamp Artist - Kristina Ernst |
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"Butterfly Dreams"
Stamp Artist - Denise Devers |
Supplies
White watercorlor paper
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 blue cardstock
Diamond Glaze-Marcos Paper
Lyra Aquacolor Crayons
Small paintbrush and distilled water
Scap copper
Marvy butterfly punch
Flower and butterfly button hole covers
Pop dots
Glue
Black watercolor stamp pad(I used my old Stampa Rosa pad)
Directions
Stamp Dance of the Butterfly on white paper. Color eyes with
blue and lips with red crayons. Scribble yellow over the face.
Scribble blue, red, and yellow crayons around image and over
the butterflies being careful not to color the face. |
Now is the
time to color the butterly if you want it to be varied colors.
Carefully add water and blend the eye coloring. Wipe brush and
do the same with the lips and face. Start blending around the
face and butterflies.Be sure to completely get rid of the scribble
lines to make it look natural. If it is too dark blot and remove
color. If you remove too much color and want to add more, allow
it to dry and carefully add crayons and blend.
Once desired finish is completed, squeeze a quarter size blob
of Diamond Glaze. Punch butterly out of metal and mount in left
corner. Place flower on image. You could also add beads, game
chips, etc at this point. Allow to dry completely. Carefully
tear the edges. I tore from front to back. Tear another piece
of paper slightly larger than image and glue to blue cardstock.
Moount image with pop dots.
Stamp Give flight to your dreams. Tear around it and mount underneath
image with pop dots.
Tie butterfly buttonhole cover to one end of the fibers. Punch
a hole at the top and thread fibers. Put a dab of glue on butterfly
end to keep it in place as it is heavy.
Rubber Stamps:Dance of the Butterfly(Large)-Paper Inspirations,
Give Flight to Your Dreams-Stampa Rosa, available from Cardsnstamps. |
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Supply list:
Tan card stock, Pigment ink
in Black and Light Gray, Embossing Powders in Black, Clear, and
Magenta, and water color paints.
Directions:
Ink the Pompano stamp by inking the top of the fish and around
the eye with Black Pigment Ink. Ink the bottom of the fish with
the Light Gray
Pigment ink. Stamp the image unto the card stock. |
"Red Pompano"
Stamp Artist - Amy Hughes |
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Using a small straw cut at an angle
at one end, scoop out some Magenta embossing powder and carefully
tap it unto the line that runs from the
head to the tail of the fish. Shake Black embossing powder on
the top portion of the fish, and Clear embossing powder on the
bottom portion of
the fish. Emboss using an embossing gun.
Paint the fish using water color paints.
Rubber Stamps: Stamp credits: BG 15 - Big Pompano by Fred
B. Mullett, available from StampDiva.
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"Butterfly Trellis
Stamp Artist - Carolyn Summers |
Supplies
- Black fabric
- Gold thread/fiber for trim
- Watercolors, brush and Dr.Ph.Martin
Iridescent Accent Paints
- Brilliance gold ink
- Gold tinsel embossing powder
- Diamond Glaze
- 3M Spray glue & Matte Fixative
Spray
- Adhesive tape or glue
- Gold and glossy black cardstock and
a scrap of thin black
Directions
Stamp the Beeswax collage image
with Brilliance gold ink on the black fabric and emboss with
gold powder. Color the image using watercolor paints. Add highlights
using Dr.Ph.Martin Iridescent Accents. Spray with a fixative.
When dry spray glue the back of the fabric and adhere to a thin
sheet of black cardstock to prevent the fabric from stretching.
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Attach the gold thread around the image
as shown using Diamond Glaze.
Adhere the image to a gold card leaving
approximately a 1/4-inch border and then to a slightly larger
glossy black card and attach to a folded white card.
Rubber Stamps:Beeswax Butterfly Collage
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Front of Card |
Inside of Card |
"A
Friend"
Stamp Artist - Karin Lagerstrom
Inside of card reads ...
"
A friend is someone who knows the song to your heart and sings
it back to you when you have forgotten the words." |
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Supplies
90lb water color paper, Marvy
markers, water color pallet, watercolor brushes, water, 2 sided
tape, fox river blue confetti cs, bone folder, corner rounder
Directions
2 sheets 9X12 90lb water color paper
First I cut into 1 piece, 2 ½"
X 3 ½"
Stamp vases with flowers on this paper
with Black Adirodack Dye Ink. I proceeded to paint at this time.
I rubbed my marker in the pallet and dipped my brush in water
and lightly touched the color in pallet to get the effect I wanted.
I started with the vases, then did the ground shadows and between
the white flowers so I wouldn’t mess them later. Then I
did the flowers. You only need a very little touch of color and
then the water does the rest with the brush. If you need more
color you just add a little after it drys. To show sun reflection
I touched yellow above. I rounded the corners with a corner rounder.
The next layer I cut was the Burgundy
corrugated 3 ½" X 3 ¾" . I used this
color to bring out the color of the roses.
The next layer I cut was the 4"
X 4 ½". This one I painted blue #29 I put in pallet
then pulled out with wet paintbrush.
The next layer I cut was the 5"
X 4 ¾". This one I painted musty yellow. I put it
again in pallet with yellow marker and pulled out with wet paintbrush.
So they wouldn’t curl I put them
on ironing board and put a cotton tea towel on them and ironed
them with a non steam iron.
The cs for the base of the card I cut
from blue confetti cs, 11 X 5 ¾". I folded in half
with bone folder. I then put strips of 2 sided tape on all my
layers. First the flowers were placed on the burgundy square,
then that was placed on the blue square, then that was placed
on the yellow square, then that was placed on the base card.
I stamped a few flowers with blue marker
for ink, then watercolor painted them and cut them out. I put
2 sided tape on them and placed on the front and inside of card
and back to add interest
Also on the inside of the card I put
a verse about a friend with flowers falling out of the card
The layering went as follows
1 watercolor paper 4 ½"
X 4" painted blue as front was.
Burgundy corrugated square 5 ½"
X 5 ¾"
Verse printed from my computer on watercolor
paper 2 ¾" X 3 ¼" then corner rounded.
I stamped a few flowers with blue marker
for ink, then watercolor painted them and cut them out. I put
2 sided tape on them and placed on the front and inside of card
and back to add interest
Also on the inside of the card I put
a verse about a friend with flowers falling out of the card
The layering went as follows
1 watercolor paper 4 ½"
X 4" painted blue as front was.
Burgundy corrugated square 5 ½"
X 5 ¾"
Verse printed from my computer on watercolor
paper 2 ¾" X 3 ¼" then corner rounded.
Put 2 sided tape on all squares
First tape verse to burgundy square,
then tape this to blue square, then tape to inside of card. Tape
3 flowers down lower right side.
Rubber Stamps:PSX Brushed Bottles & Bouquets F 2418
available from Rubber Stamps Galore
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pattern from the book "EYELETS FOR CARDS AND MORE",
Available from Posh Impressions.
For the face I used Face Plate LD-1 from Panacheposte.com. Stamp
all the stamps randomly all over the doll using Ancient Page
Coal black ink. When dry use different colors of dye based ink.
I used yo-yo yellow,taken with teal, green galore,lovely lilac,only
orange, positively pink and prettyin pink for the face. All from
Stampin' Up!.
Press down on the cover of the ink pad so some ink gets on the
plastic cover. Add water to that with a water color paint brush,
and now you have watercolors! Paint in your doll.When dry, attach
together with eyelets. Put 5 eyelets in head for hair. Attach
fibers for hair.Add Crystal Effects to head and parts of body
for a shine, and add no hole beads with Red Liner Tape to arms
and body. Attach doll to layers of velumn and cardstock for your
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"Perfect Hair Day"
Stamp Artist - Christine Ann Peterson |
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Stamps - RUBBER STAMP TAPESTRY
stamp, Bug plate 01, Mini Ornamentum, Leaf Plate - LE02, Tiny
Botanical-0023, Mini Botanical0019, Tiny Floral 0002 , and Tiny
Botanical 0014 |
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"Grateful"
Stamp Artist - Martha Myers |
Materials:
Adirondack markers
Figi water brush
water soluble oil pastels
Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits/cosmetic sponge
Lumiere paints (olive green and turquoise)
Marl paper (allows for blending colors)
India Ink Stamp pad
gold Krylon marker
decorative border punch
Cream Linen cardstock (Marco's)
Rust cardstock panel (Marco's)
Rubber Stamps:
Floral Background-Stamp Camp, Message (Impression-Obsession) |
- Stamp message on Marl paper with India
Ink pad. Mask the message and stamp the Floral background on
top. Remove mask and cut out image. Stamp Floral background again
on second piece of Marl paper.
- Scribble Adirondack markers on plastic
"palette" (I used an old petrie dish). Pick up colors
with the water brush and paint floral images. Shade and blend
colors with the brush. Do the same with the second stamped image.Let
images dry. Cut out select flowers/leaves and layer them on top
of the original stamped image to add dimension. Curl petals/leaves,
etc.
- Paint Lumiere Paint to cardstock panel.
Let dry and mount stamped image to it. Adhere to rust panel.
- Scribble oil pastels on cream cardstock.
Blend colors with cosmetic sponge dipped in Mineral Spirits to
create background panel. When dry, punch top and bottom with
decorative punch. Edge panel with gold Krylon marker.
- Adhere to cream 5 x 7" card. Adhere
other panels to top and embellish with artificial flower.
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"Flower Blocks"
Stamp Artist - Viki Banaszak
AKA Burning Rubber |
Supplies:
Long gold fleck card stock
Green cardstock
Watercolors
Watercolor paper
Water brush
Daisy corner punch
Floral Block stamps by "Second Star On The Right".
Stock # Flowerblock available at Cardsnstamps
Black Memories ink |
Directions:
Stamp 3 of the flower blocks
onto watercolor paper and use a waterbrush to paint them with
watercolor paints. When they are dry, trim the artwork close
to the edges and attach it to green cardstock. Trim that and
attach to the long gold fleck CS that you have folded into thirds.
Punch the corners and you are done |
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Supplies:
Rubber Stamp Tapestry Leaf Sheet
Watercolor paper
Canson green paper
Artist watercolor paints
Adirondack stamp pads
Decorative snaps, charms and stick-on words
Gold matte board
Faux postage stamps
Leaf skeletons
PVA adhesive
Diamond Glaze
Yarn tassel
Instructions:
- Paint watercolor papers with pale
wash and when almost dry stamp with leaf stamps. Tear out stamped
leaves.
- Cut green paper into a triangular shape and fold into the center
twice. Paint a blue and yellow watercolor wash over the paper
and stamp with "squiggles."
- Cut gold matte board into various shapes and glue on green
folded triangle.
- Collage leaf watercolor pieces and other materials to the inside
and front and back covers of the folded book. Attach decorative
snaps and tassel for closure.
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"Dare To Dream"
Folded Book
Stamp Artist - Barb Sporcic
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