Today's card features the
Honor Valor Pride stamp set from
Pajama Crafter Stamps. I wanted to create a colorful mountain, inspired by God's wondrous creation, such as the Rainbow Mountain in Peru, and the Zhangye National Geopark in China. Scroll down for brief, creative details. You can also click any of the highlighted products throughout this post for additional product information.
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I opted to do several techniques for today's card; watercoloring, ink blending, paint splatters and masking. This is a square card with full dimensions measuring in at 5.25 x 5.25 inches. My stamped card panel was trimmed down a bit to fit within the confines of these dimensions.
Since I'm watercoloring, I opted to stamp my image on heavyweight mixed media cardstock.
I initially stamped my card with black hybrid ink using my stamp positioner, then laid down some masking tape (mint tape) and stamped again with the extra ink on my stamp, fussy cutting only around the top portion of the image.
I laid the trimmed tape on top of my stamped image to mask that area and ink blend my sky, however I forgot to heat set my ink after stamping and some of the red ink blending got a bit muddy around the trees.
I also decided to trim off the trees from my masking tape before ink blending to better better get my ink into the space between the branches. I highly recommend you don't forget to heat set your stamped ink, or instead, do some heat embossing for the stamped image.
All of the inks I'm using today are Catherine Pooler inks. They're water based, and easy to paint with by simply pressing your ink pad on a craft mat, spritzing with a tiny bit of water, then grabbing the mixture with a waterbrush to paint. You can also use a wet paintbrush.
The colors I used are:
Ink blended sky and mountains - Rockin' Red, Orange Twist, Glacier
Field - Succulent, Macchiato, With an Olive
To embellish my mountains, I also used a white gel pen for some snow capped mountains, then added white paint splatters to my ink blended sky.
Here's a bonus tip: Use the handle end of a small paint brush to dot on larger spots of white painted stars. To create a "comet" in the sky, place the handle end of your paintbrush on the wet, white dot of paint and with a quick stroke, swipe the dotted paint with your handle to create the tail of the comet.
You might want to practice first on some dark colored cardstock to get the hang of it.
I love this patriotic stamp set, and there are 3 fabulous sentiments included. Let me know if you have any questions, in the comment section.
Check out the entire new release at
Pajama Crafter Stamps! There's a really great variety of patriotic stamp sets, plus other themed stamp sets. as well. Something for everyone! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Terri
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