Summer by the Sea – A Stamping Journey

When I was stamping the other images from a previous post I stamped this one as well. One lesson learnt: It is very important to stamp the image in Stazon if you intend to watercolour to prevent the ink from running. Hence, the purple mark in the water. Buy hey, I think it looks like reflection from her pants!!!

I used inkpads and aquapainters to watercolour the image in Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive. I used an Old Olive marker to ink up just the word ‘happiness’ on the text stamp in this set. I matted this on Old Olive. I used a strip of Bali Breeze DSP and matted that on Old Olive as well. The base is Elegant Eggplant. It may not show up too well, but I paper pierced around the image. I have enjoyed watercolouring these images from this set and I will be sad to see it go at the end of the month.

While I had the paper scraps out I whipped up another card for my niece’s birthday next month. Early for a change!! I cut a strip of the Pumpkin Pie DSP and mounted it on Ruby Red card. I sponged around the edge with Ruby Red and stamped the text from ‘Sincere Salutations’. I mounted this on Tempting Turquoise base. This is not a colour I have used very much but it goes well with the paper. I cut out the flower images on the reverse of this ‘Bali Breeze’ sheet and adhered them to the bottom of the card. The flower brad is not SU and I can’t quite remember what brand it is – Sorry. This card didn’t take long at all.

I just received my new stamps that demonstrators can preorder from the new catalogue. It is very exciting. I have been getting them inky so I will show them to you next time.

It is not just the summer season that has finished here, although we are having some beautiful autumn weather, the stamp set “summer by the sea” will be retiring at the end of the month. This is a set I should have used more. It has such fine line images which is beautiful to watercolour or to stamp just by itself. I wanted to try watercolouring with the set before it leaves us. I haven’t done a lot of watercolouring so I was experimenting. After several attempts I think watercolouring with the inkpads and aquapainters worked better. Just open the inkpad slightly and squeeze a couple of times. When you open the inkpad there will some pools of ink. Pick up some ink with the aquapainter and paint on your image. I have stamped the image onto watercolour paper with stazon. This prevents the ink bleeding when it is watercoloured. The more ink you apply the darker the colour. I was pleased with the end result. I have stamped ‘wish big’ from “short and sweet”. I thought this image would be great for a young boy so I pulled out some bold bright scraps. These are colours I don’t use very often, but it is nice and summery.

Ink: So Saffron, Certain Celery, Pumpkin Pie, Going Grey, black Stazon plus Brilliant Blue Marker.

Card: Brilliant Blue, Green Galore, Only Orange, Yoyo yellow, watercolour paper.

There are only 2 weeks left to buy any of the retiring products. Also, there is only 2 weeks left for the Victorian Bush Fire Appeal so let me know if you want to place an order for any of the products.