Highdesert Stamper – Artistic Inkspirations

This week for the challenge on Creative-Sketches we had a sketch and a technique. The technique was watercolors. I love doing watercolors of all kinds. I’ve done the floating watercolors and just watched the SU video on the “Bleeding Watercolors” , so that’s what I have done with my card.  Here’s the sketch we had to follow.

This what I did with this sketch and my “Bleeding Watercolors”

I used several different stamp sets in addition to the bird punch for the leaves, and some smooch spray.. can’t seem to get away from those sprays. When doing the Bleeding Watercolors, you have to emboss your images first as in the Floating Watercolors, but it uses a different paper. This one used the plain GLOSSY WHITE cardstock and WHITE embossing powder. Then you wet the cardstock a lot and use the waterbrush, dipping it into your colors and let them “bleed” all over the image. Start with your lightest color first, then add the darker ones. I outlined some of the branches with Old Olive to give them more emphasis. Tree branches were stamped in Crumb Cake ink, then sprayed with the gold smooch spray. The bottom PINK paper is from the FREE Sale-a-Bration pack ICE CREAM PARLOR, along with the strip of green trim.

I used Daffodil Delight, Regal Rose, and Melon Mambo for the bleeding technique.

Here’s a close up of some of the flowers and smooch spray:

Supplies used: Stamp sets: Easter Blossoms, Define your Life, Bliss (free during SAB);

Inks: Crumb cake, Old Olive marker (to bring out the leaves), Melon Mambo, Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight, Gold smooch spray, Early Espresso;

Other: Versamark ink, White embossing powder, Very Vanilla cardstock, Naturals kraft cardstock, Glossy white cardstock, Ice Cream Parlor designer paper and trim; Crochet lace trim, Trinkets, and Vintage tags, Bird punch

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Be sure to leave a comment if you like my card, and I will make another one, since I have MORE flowers. and send it to one lucky blog hopper! BUT YOU HAVE TO LEAVE A COMMENT HERE. You can get your name in there an extra 2 times by checking the LIKE button on Facebook and following my blog!!

Here’s what the flowers looked like before fussy cutting them.

Those of you who have been wanting to order the NEW Stampin’ UP! Watercolor crayons, they will be made available to order the END of November!  If you want some of the OLDER ones, the Soft Subtles are still available on the CLEARANCE RACK on my ordering link!

Here is the notice about the NEW WC crayons:

Watercolor Wonder Crayons Update

November 3, 2010

Our supplier has notified us that we will soon receive our Watercolor Wonder Crayons, and we are pleased to announce that we plan to have these available for order by the end of November. We will keep you updated if we are notified of any changes to this schedule, and we sincerely appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this product availability issue.

New Digital Downloads

Available now  for the Holidays!! Have you ever thought of making a DIGITAL calendar with all those pictures still hiding on your hard drive, or even maybe still in the camera? Well, nows the time to get these new Holiday digital images and make those calendars!!

Item	Description	Image	Price
123949	Tags til Christmas Stamp Brush Set		$5.95
123950	Jolly Jingles Stamp Brush Set		$7.95
123951	Decorative Label Punch		$0.95
123952	Medium Oval Punch		$0.95
123956	Christmas Cheer Digital Kit		$9.95

Have you seen cards where the images are all different colors… and you wonder how they did that? The trick is using your StampinUP markers to color the images how you want them, then “huff” on them and stamp!! It’s easy as that.

Technique A: Multiple Colors

1]   Use a marker to apply ink only to the desired parts of the image.

2]   Add other colors if desired.

3]   Breathe on the inked image to re-moisten the ink with your breath before stamping onto paper. (this is the “huffing” technique)

Technique B: Omitting

1]   To omit a certain part of a stamp image, use a marker to apply ink only to the desired parts of the image.

2]   Breathe on the inked image to re-moisten the ink with your breath before stamping onto paper.

You can purchase the SU markers by individual, by “family color set”, or by the whole case. When purchased by the case, you get all 48 regular colors in an easy to carry storage case with handle.

Hurry and get your complete set of the SU Markers in all 48 colors before the Color Renovation hits!!