City Days by Heather Telford

City Days by Heather Telford

Posted on by Shauna Todd

Hi there,

This City Stacks stamp and die set is soooo fabulous. It is almost as fabulous as Heather Telford! She has created a wonderful 5-layer (can you believe it?) card and colored it using the Inktense watercolor pencils. Read on to hear how she does it! Then, don’t forget to pop over to her blog for oodles more inspiration!

 

Hello my creative friends. Is it hot where you are? It has been very hot, very often where I am so maybe that’s why I came up with such a summer’s day kind of card. I have been having a lot of fun with Concord & 9th’s City Stacks stamps and dies and I’m happy to have one to share today with Foiled Fox readers.

I created four different panels for this card and stuck them all on a card base so that’s a five-layer card! Unusual for me, I know. I wanted to watercolor the images with Inktense pencils so I stamped in waterproof Versafine Clair nocturne ink on cold pressed watercolor paper. The nocturne ink does a fabulous job on the first impression but I did two simply because the watercolor paper has a bumpy texture.

 

I stamped each image on a separate piece of watercolor paper then die cut them with the co-ordinating dies. I used a limited number of pencils to keep my color scheme cohesive and picked up color from the sharpened pencil ends with a wet watercolor brush. To create my cloudy sky I used the cloudy die to cut myself a cardstock edge to trace. After tracing it several times on watercolor paper with a blue watercolor pencil I used a wet brush to pull color from the pencil line and to add extra blue picked up from the pencil.
I trimmed each of my stamped panels with a paper cutter so they would nest together, each exposing the top of the panel behind. I used a liquid glue to attach them all together then placed an acrylic block on top while the glue dried. I attached the cloudy panel to the Neenah cream card base then the house, tree and city panels over the top.

 

It’s been a while since I created with stamps like these but I had so much fun I’ve dreamed up a class using the same versatile stamps and dies.

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