Hi Everyone!
Today I’m over on the Topflight Stamps blog showing you several different projects using a stamp set that mimics the look of wood carved stamps, and which can give a great focal point to a simple card. The stamps I used for this are the Carved Whimsy Wood Stamp set by Rubber Dance. They are rubber stamps but have etchings that give them the look of carved wood when you stamp them.
To create my watercolor block printing cards, I used a variety of shapes of acrylic block (by Catherine Pooler Designs). On each one I swiped Distress inks or Distress Oxide Inks over the block. On the cluster of trees card, I used Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio oxides. On the leaves I used Squeezed Lemonade and Picked Raspberry Oxides, and on the mushroom I used Wild Honey and Ripe Persimmon Distress inks. I then liberally sprayed them with water and then pushed them down into a panel of Canson XL coldpress watercolor paper, then lifted off, dabbing up any excess with a paper towel.
On the pink leaf card, I also splattered some of the excess paint with a small paintbrush. On the tree card, I ran the panel through a die cutting machine with a woodgrain embossing folder.
When dry, I stamped the images in a variety of Catherine Pooler inks using my MISTI. The leaves were stamped with Royal Treatment (deep purple) and heat embossed in clear embossing powder by Brutus Monroe. The mushroom was stamped in Icing on the Cake. The trees were stamped in Green Tea, Eucalyptus and Juniper Mist. I masked off two of the trees and stamped a third to create a cluster.
I then trimmed down each of the panels to 4.25″ x 5.5″ and adhered with double sided tape to white 110lb card bases and added a tiny sentiment from the Tim Holtz Ideology Chit-Chat stickers collection, popped up on foam tape.
For my final card, I trimmed down a panel of wood paper (made from real wood – I used a scrap by Altenew) and stamped it with Icing on the Cake ink, stamping off onto scrap paper first so the impression was a lighter brown.
Before it dried, I heat embossed the tree in clear embossing powder by Brutus Monroe, and added a sentiment. I adhered it to a kraft card panel.
I really love how these turned out – so simple, and yet so effective. For more details on the supplies I used, please see below.
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Jenny x
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