Penny Black Challenges

A while back, I tried a new technique with Loll Thompson and Christine Alexander.  This card is my second attempt at it (see the first here).

Here's the technique for the poinsettia:

With the stamp in my MISTI, I inked it up with Versamark.  Then shook out a bit of my Brushos colours onto a palette, slightly moistened a paintbrush, picked up some colour and painted it onto the stamp over the Versamark.  When I'd painted the whole stamp, I lightly spritzed with water and stamped onto watercolour paper.

I got way better coverage with this second attempt.  I went in with coloured pencils and added back some of the definition that was lost, stamped the sentiment, added a bit of black splatter and a black border, and embellished the centre of the poinsettia with tiny sequins.

Since the main focus of the project is a Penny Black image, I'm linking it up to two Penny Black challenges:

Penny Black and More - Traditional Christmas Colours

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Winter or Christmas

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black poinsettia, SU sentiment

Ink - Versamark, Archival Jet Black

Paper - white and black cs, watercolour paper

Size - A2

Accessories - brushos, coloured pencils, tiny sequins

Christmas Greenery

I'm hosting the CAS Watercolour challenge for November and, since it's coming up to the time when we need to mail our Christmas cards, I thought I'd challenge you to get some of those cards made!

You can use any kind of watercolour technique you like.  For my card, I chose a new way of using Brushos (or any other powdered ink).  Loll Thompson, Christine Alexander, and I tried this out at our last crafting get together.

With the stamp in my MISTI, I inked it up with Versamark.  Then shook out a bit of my Brushos colours onto a palette, slightly moistened a paintbrush, picked up some colour and painted it over the Versamark.  When I'd painted the whole stamp, I lightly spritzed with water and stamped.

I ended up with some areas that were not very well covered in colour.  I could have moved the colour around with a wet brush but decided to leave them as it looked like snow on the leaves.

Some of the berries were too "blobby" with no definition between them so I added a bit of definition with a red coloured pencil.

I stamped my sentiment and splattered a little bit of black ink, trimmed the panel, bordered it with a very narrow black border, and added it to a cream card base.

With a glue pen, I carefully went over the parts of the leaves and berries that weren't well covered in colour and added white glitter.  Here's a close-up:

We'd love to have you join us between now and November 24th.  Please be sure your card is clean and simple, uses some kind of watercolouring, and has Christmas florals or greenery as its theme.

There is lots more inspiration from the rest of the Design Team and our wonderful Guest Designer, Maura (see her SCS Gallery here), over at CAS Watercolour!

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black branches, Serendipity sentiment

Ink - Versamark, Archival Jet Black

Paper - cream and black cs, watercolour paper

Size - 5.75" square

Accessories - green, brown, and red brushos, red coloured pencil, glue pen, glitter