Variation on Inspriration: Watercolor block stamping

 Are you a card maker? Do you follow Jennifer McGuire's videos? If you are and if you don't, you should.

The latest one demonstrated a technique in which she use an acrylic block to stamp watercolor ink (distress ink) on paper, and then emboss images on it.

I liked the look of what she did, and was inspired by it. All of my acrylic blocks are curved at the edges, but I do have a mirror stamp from MFT. I used that, along with distress ink, to stamp on Tim Holtz watercolor paper.

The first image uses Aged Mahogany, Victorian Velvet and Shaded Lilac. The second one uses Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough, Broken China and Salty Ocean. I inked the mirror image stamp, sprayed it with water, and then stamped it on the watercolor paper. I didn't lift it, and placed a jar of water on it for 5 minutes.

After lifting the block, I then allowed it to dry, used an antistatic tool, and then stamped Penny Black Dreamy (a wonderful, wispy flower) with Versamark ink, and then embosssed it with Ranger Liquid Platinum powder.

These are both anniversary cards, and the Celebrate stamp is from the June Simon Says Stamp kit, Floral Bliss.

Variation on Inspiration - Doodle Flowers

I haven't been posting regularly, but I'll see if I can change that.  I thought it might be interesting to post cards that I make along with the inspiration for the card.  Many of my cards aren't original designs - some are exactly like someone else's card, and a few others are variations of designs.  It's the variations that I'm talking about.

I made this one last night.  I found it's inspiration on Pinterest --> this pin.

I found it because I was looking for inspiration for a romantic script 6x6 stamp I purchased from My Favorite Things.  This is the card I made.

I didn't have the beautiful flowers from the inspiration, so I used instead Doodle Flowers from Inkadinkado.  The doodle look to them worked well with my hand-drawn stems and buds.  I stamped them on Neenah solar white with MFT black hybrid ink.  I stamped the MFT Romantic Script stamp over the flowers with Lawn Fawn Walnut ink.  I colored the flowers and stems with copic markers.  I then "distressed" the white paper with Distress Ink - all over with old paper and then on the edges with vintage photo using a round blender.  The piece is layered on MFT Tangy Orange.  The sentiment is from Penny Black's "Sprinkles and Smiles" set.  The card has no dimension, and I love the look of it.  It's a favorite of mine.