Peony Bouquet Three Ways

The Altenew Peony Bouquet stamp is so beautiful and versatile, it comes with a lot of layering stamps, as well as the outline stamps and leaves and berries, so you can use it in a variety of ways. And if you've visited my blog lately, you've seen me using it a bunch. I tend to get my new stamps and then use it til it's about worn out!

Here it is with watercolors behind the outline stamps, stamped in blue ink.

This one uses the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens and I looovvee the glittery look these give you. The marker is water soluble so you can spread the color like watercolors.

This last one is stamped as intended, with the layers and leaves. I used Hero Arts inks for the flowers and that ink is water fast, so I could do the leaves in Tombow markers, which do react with water, and it didn't affect the flower stamping.

And now it's maybe time to retire these a bit and actually move on to some stamps I haven't inked up yet. Do you have any stamp sets you haven't inked up yet? It's a new thing for me because I just got a few at the same time, so some are just waiting for me to get to them, and it's killing me not to be able to get to them yet!

Happy Friday!
Chark

Altenew Peony Bouquet Redux

Visiting the Peony Bouquet stamp again in this post. You gotta admit, it's a good one. It comes with outline stamps, which are great for coloring and then you get the layered stamps too, you get blossoms, leaves and berries. What more could you want?

This one uses the outline stamp and then I watercolored with Tombows.

For this, I stamped the outline in Distress Inks so that when I used the Tombow markers and water, the outline would become part of the paint. I added white Uniball white pen for some highlights.

I love how the Altenew floral color layering stamps make me feel like an artist! 

Next, I want to try color layering stamps with one color, like in this Jennifer McGuire's video. Seriously, this woman is crazy talented...idea after idea and her technical skills in creating makes her a rock star.

Happy Friday!

Chark

Peony Bouquet in Black and White

I love the Altenew Peony Bouquet color layering stamp set I got and I knew I'd be featuring it all week...here's Day Two with a bookmark I created using just black ink and masking. I got the idea from the packaging from Skullcandy earbuds my son got.

Here's the package. It's actually silver on white, but I went with black and white.

I'm not a huge fan of masking, but it was necessary for me to achieve this overlapping look and I enjoyed how it turned out, so I guess masking won't kill me :) Yes, it's a little extra work, but it's worth it.

And here's a closer look. 

Ever tried just stamping black and white with no intent to color? It was a different idea for me, the coloring is usually the fun part, but when inspiration strikes, you gotta go with it!

Happy Wednesday!

Chark

Altenew Peony Stamping

I'm so jazzed about the Altenew Peony Bouquet set, I'll probably have to feature it all week. As far as coloring layering stamps go, Altenew was the first I saw on blogs and I was so impressed. I found the set at my lss and they came home with me. 

Today I have a project using the technique I saw on Jennifer McGuire's blog. She used a black marker after stamping to create the black background for her stamping. They look so cool against the black. She embosses her images, but I just stamped and colored the black carefully.

I watercolored the peonies with Tombow markers, I love these markers for their vibrancy. The sentiment is a die from Lawn Fawn and it gets a lot of use here at my house.

Happy Monday!

Chark