Organic structures (by Miranda)

 

Hi crafty people,

Miranda here.....with another blogpost for you. I was so inspired(as many of you) by the talented Jo Ward that I had to give this a try.......I re-watched the demo on the Craft store channel and I loved it!

I tried to change it a bit so I also added a bit of myself too.....I love organic structures and it made me think of 'mother Earth' with colors of earth, water, greens and a bit of gold too......

I used my Daniel Smith watercolors and this time I played with the Primatek colors, based on minerals....all a bit muted tones ....I did not have the handy rulers Jo used but I just cut the paper with wavy edges so I had a positive and a negative.

I used the same  square bubble stamp but instead of a drawn circle I took the circle stamp from the 'Celestial set'.

I created more open areas between each 'bubble stamped area' so I could create a kind of 'rivers' in between. I used a waterproof fineliner to draw some lines in the blue and purple areas after I painted a thin line of gold paint. 

I have used the sentiment of the 'words of inspiration' set.

Thanks to Jo for inspiring me with this fun technique and hope you like my take on it! I sure will try this technique in other ways.......

Thanks for visiting and till next time,

More Autumn inspirations (by Miranda)

 

Hello there,

It's me again with more Autumn inpirations........

a similar technique and also using the toadstools.....

This is my favorite technique and style although I als enjoy too play with other mediums and styles....

Watercolor backgrounds, using watercolor paints or Ecoline inks, acrylic inks....anything that can flow with water on the paper. And then adding color with color and pastel pencils......

these are the stamp sheets I have used:

Autumn Poppy rubber stamp set A4

Autumn edges rubber stamp set A5

and a little fun using some photo editing....

And some oldies but maybe not seen by everyone of you.....still love these ones......

Also nice to combine with some die cutting too! I will just add them for more inspiration but if you want to know more about these cards, just ask in the comments below......

On these two cards I have use the 

Nature Table rubber stamp sheet DL

On this card I have used the 

A year of stamping issue 10 stamp  

(A cling mounted stamp in a choice of two sizes (or multibuy) 

her I have used the 'Autumn Poppy' (see link above)

Here the 'Autumn Edges' (see link above)

Well, that was a whole lot of Autumn inspirations!

And you can see that I am a real lover......

Thanks for your visit and see you next time,

More feathers and flowers(by Miranda)

Hello there,

I am back again with more feathers and flowers.......almost the same stamps as in my previous post but a totally different use of colors and a white,YES....... white background.......did not do much with that.....it was difficult, I admit it LOL....

I used another stamp from the Artist Baubles and I have a lot more of them to play with, really love that set! There are 6 beautiful baubles on the sheet and some design elements.

Used stamps:

I shall be your wings rubber stamp sheet A5

Artist Baubles rubber stamp sheet A4

Pretty Poppies Rubber stamp sheet A5 (sentiment)

I have embossed the feathers with silver embossing powder and used a lovely cabochon to ' hold' them together. 

 I stamped the bauble using Archival Shadow grey. Than I colored the image with Derwent Colorsoft. 

The feathers were colored using Tombo markers. I used the lovely sentiment from the pretty poppies sheet. 

Only added a thin black line and some dots using a black fineliner.

Next time I will be back with something totally different with lots of butterflies........

Thanks for your visit and always like to read your comments.

Elegant Crocus (by Miranda)

Hi there,

Today my 2nd guest post using an oldie.......but still a beautiful one......

Okay, I agree it is not Spring but Summer but hey who cares........at the moment the weather is more like Spring and I love it!

I used the Elegant Crocus Rubber Stamp sheet - A5

I had this background for quit a while in my stash......I did create it on heavy watercolor paper using the Derwent Art bars on an acrylic bloc. I always pre wet my paper with these watercolor techniques.

I did sprinkle some coarse and fine salt onto the damp paper and let it dry for some hours. When you sprinkle salt when the paper is too wet it won't create these white areas but you will get dark spots under the salt. And it will take a very long time to dry.

When the paper is totally dry you can wipe of the salt. And it create such beautiful structures.....

Then I stamped the whole image using a violet ink. And colored it using color pencils.

I am still a fan of the Derwent coloursoft pencils. I have many other brands too but still pick these when I am coloring on inky backgrounds.....they have such a great grip on the paper and beautiful pigment.

Hope you did like my take on this stamp,

thanks for your visit and till next week, have a lovely Sunday!