The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: Watercolor

Monday, 11 May 2020

Magnolia Blooms on Stone

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Beginning my farewells to the retiring Magnolia Blooms stamp set that I love

The gorgeous Magnolia Blooms stamp set has been one of my favourites and I'm rather sad to see it retiring! So I've been having a last flurry of creating with it.

The image is stamped with Saddle Brown Stazon ink onto Whisper White cardstock and then watercoloured with Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry and Shaded Spruce inks.

The greeting is stamped with Earlyl Espresso ink.

The base card is Rich Razzleberry with a layer of Sahara Sand embossed with a folder that I forgot was from Sale-A-Bration - so it's retired. I apologise! I clearly need to spend some time organising my craft room!

The stamped image and its Rich Razzleberry layer are cut out with the Stitched Nested Labels dies and I added a piece of Reversible Ribbon and some Holiday Rhinestones.

On Monday 25 May, I'll be sharing a different approach to take with the same image.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - all available for purchase from my online store

Magnolia Blooms Photopolymer Stamp Set

$24.00

Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

$15.75

Saddle Brown Stazon Ink Pad

$17.50

Stitched Nested Labels Dies

$61.00

Old Olive/Pretty Peacock 3/8" (1 Cm) Reversible Ribbon

$13.00

Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$10.50

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Aqua Painters

$20.00

Monday, 2 March 2020

Floral Essence Watercolour

Floral Essence stamp set in watercolour mode

Continuing my quest to use the Floral Essence stamp set!

Rather than re-invent the wheel, I used the same layout as I did for my black and gold version but stamped onto Watercolor Paper with Lovely Lipstick and Call Me Clover inks.

I thought about using the fluffy coordinating flower centres but decided they looked too heavy for this watercolour effect of the flowers. So I watercoloured the flower centres with Crushed Curry and a touch of Lovely Lipstick and added some more Call Me Clover and Lovely Lipstick to complete and shade the flowers.

Then I added just a touch of Mint Macaron to the background.

When it was all dry, I stamped the greeting (from Good Morning Magnolia) with Lovely Lipstick ink and adhered the stamped panel and a layer of Lovely Lipstick to the Mint Macaron card base.

My usual practice is to create the card front and then afterwards figure out the colours I'll use for the card base, layers, ribbon and so on. That's one of the great things about Stampin' Up! - I can do it that way because I know that I've got a cardstock to coordinate with any ink I use and vice versa.

Playing with colours to decide how to construct my card

So this is what I do - I just pull out card (often just scraps), look and compare. I tried a layer of Crushed Curry on a Lovely Lipstick base and then tried reversing it before settling on the Mint Macaron card. Did I get it right? I don't know - I was very drawn to the Lovely Lipstick base with Crushed Curry layer but I must have been in a mood for elegance and understatement!