Hi Crafty Friends,
Heather Telford is sharing a gorgeous card design with us today, using the Fresh Cut stamp by Penny Black. By using only a few dye ink colors, Heather has transformed this stamp into a beautiful display of roses. Isn’t it wonderful?
Enjoy her narrative on how she made it happen, then pop over to her blog for more lusciousness!
Hello, I’m happy to be back on the Foiled Fox blog with a delicate Penny Black floral stamp called Fresh Cut. Although the stamp includes five roses I did some masking and partial stamping to swell the freshly cut bunch to eleven.
Working on hot pressed watercolor paper in a stamp positioner I inked the roses first in canyon clay and summer sunrise ink cubes from Papertrey Ink, I spritzed the stamp lightly then stamped. I smooshed both ink cubes on my glass mat so I could pick up more ink with a paintbrush if needed as I painted all the roses. I left some areas untouched and added extra canyon clay ink in other areas to achieve some depth and shadow on the petals. Similarly, I inked the leaves and stems with prairie grass and cocoa bean inks, also from Papertrey Ink. I blended the leaves loosely with some more smooshed ink.
To fill in the bunch of flowers I added extra roses one at a time. To tuck them in next to and sometimes behind another I did partial inking. I inked the part of the bloom which would not be stamping over another rose and then added ink a little at a time before once again blending with a paintbrush. If there were leaves in the way I cut little post-it note masks to cover the leaves while I stamped over the top. It sounds fiddly but it was pretty straightforward. Anytime I got ink where I didn’t want it I diluted it with water immediately and dabbed away the ink with a paper towel.
Once finished I taped around the edge of the panel with post-it tape and blended ink inside the tapes with a blending brush. This created a pale rectangle in the center which I then painted over with water to make it look painted rather than blended. Of course, I splattered some of the prairie grass ink over the panel.
To finish the card I die-cut ‘i love you’ three times from summer sunrise cardstock and stacked them (I snipped the ‘i’ from the die so it would just say ‘love you’). Because the floral panel is quite busy and the die-cuts match the roses I used a strip of vellum to separate the words from the panel. I popped some double-sided adhesive strips behind the words on the back of the vellum to hold it in place.
Thanks for joining me today; hope you are staying safe and warm and finding a little time to get inky!
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