Ink it! Stamp it! Blog Hop: 2018-2020 In-Colours - Masculine Card Mountain Air Clubhouse

Welcome to the Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - we hop every month so be sure to pop back and visit us again!  

Today we are saying farewell to the outgoing In-Colours 2018-2020.  They've been wonderful, my favourites being the Blueberry Bushel and Call Me Clover, but I can't wait to see what new colours await us in the new Catalogue!

You are currently at my page - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.  At the end of my post there is a full line up of team members, please click on the name after mine in the list to continue the hop.

A golfing scene coloured with nearly all of the outgoing 2018-2020 In-Colours

I did cheat a little.  I didn't use the Pineapple Punch or Blueberry Bushel colours but I did mix in a few other colours.

Forever Blossoms is stamped onto Whisper White paper with Grapefruit Grove ink and then coloured with Grapefruit Grove, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Call Me Clover Markers blended with a Blender Pen.

The mountains are stamped with Gray Granite ink and coloured with a Purple Posy Marker and Blender Pen.

I tapped the stamp with the golf ball and tee into Smoky Slate ink and then used a Call Me Clover Marker to add green ink to the grass bit before stamping.  Then I used the Call Me Clover and Lovely Lipstick Markers to colour the grass blades and the tee.  The tee looked too bright, so I didn't mask it before sponging with the green.

Having masked the golf ball, I sponged with Call Me Clover (very lightly) and then used the same ink colour to stamp the laurel wreath.  The shield is cut with the coordinating die, edged with Smoky Slate and the sentiment stamped with Call me Clover ink.

I masked the blossoms and then very lightly sponged the sky with Balmy Blue ink.

Thank you so much for joining us today and we hope you'll join us again next month when our theme will be "Kids"!

I'm Stephanie Fischer and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next with another great project.

Thanks for visiting
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - all products available for purchase from online store

Mountain Air Photopolymer Stamp Set

$35.00

Clubhouse Bundle

$72.00

Forever Blossoms Cling Stamp Set (English)

$40.00

Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$63.00

Grapefruit Grove A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Call Me Clover A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

$17.00

Forever Mountain Blossoms

Forever Blossoms, Mountain Air and Power of Hope

I find that sometimes creativity seems very easy and natural, resulting in the birth of a card with minimal fuss.  This is not one of those cards.  This was most definitely a breach birth!

It started out life as a Japanese-style scene with distant mountains, a temple on a lake shore and cherry blossom in the foreground.  I left an open space under the cherry branch ready for a greeting and coloured it with watercolour pencils and an aqua painter.

BUT:  I was really unhappy with the result!  The composition was OK, the masking and scene building worked as planned but something went awry with the colouring - it looked much to strong to me.  

If I hadn't already invested so much time and effort it may have ended up in the bin.  However, since the investment was there, I tried to think of a way to use it.

So, I brayered Whisper White Craft Ink all over it!  Then added some cherry blossoms cut with the coordinating Cherry Blossoms Dies from the Forever Blossoms Bundle.  My idea was that these blossoms would be the new foreground with the ill-fated scene providing a misty, distant background.

Did it work?

The Power of Hope stamp set is part of a bundle from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue - that means it's free with a qualifying purchase.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All products used available for purchase in my online store

Forever Blossoms Bundle (English)

$92.50

Mountain Air Photopolymer Stamp Set

$35.00

Power Of Hope Bundle

$0.00

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

$15.75

Aqua Painters

$20.00

Lovely Lipstick A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Soft Suede A4 Card Stock

$15.25