Penny Black - Graceful Lily

Hi everyone.  Today I'm sharing cards made with a new stamp from Penny Black called Graceful Lily.  Lilies are my favourite flower.  I love their shape and the beautiful colours of the different varieties.  

This card started with a background piece from my stash.  It is a soft stencil monoprint from a stencil, although hard to see the design with this small oval.  It looks more like smooshed colours.

I stamped the lilies in black ink and heat embossed in clear; then watercoloured using Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry, Mowed Lawn).  Die cut the image with an oval and popped it up on the card front with sentiment (Enliven stamp set), to give it a bit of dimension.

Close-up ...

I wanted to make another card with this beautiful set.  I went in the opposite direction with design, using a black card base, stamping image twice, gold embossing and then watercolouring with metallic gouache paints.

The paints are very light in colour over top of black, but you can see all the shimmer from the pearl added to the colours.  The close-up shows it better.

Close-up ...

The sentiment (Smiles) is stamped and gold embossed to match the image.

Thanks for coming by for a visit!

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Graceful Lily (30-689)

Enliven (30-705)

Smiles (30-802)

Card #1:  Have a great day

Stamps:  Graceful Lily, Enliven (sentiment) - both from Penny Black

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.)
Ink:   Black (Memento); Distress Inks:  Picked Raspberry, Mowed Lawn (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Clear embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool, waterbrush, Oval die (Spellbinders)

Card #2:  Hear for you always

Stamps:  Graceful Lily, Smiles (both from Penny Black)

Paper:   Black card stock (Stampin' Up!)
Ink:   Versamark; Metallic Gouache Paints:  Pearl Scarlet, Pearl Eucalyptus (Arteza)
Accessories:   Princess Gold embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool, waterbrush, 

Playing with Gouache

Hi everyone.  A few months back I had a play day with Christine, Susan, and Trina.  Christine had purchased some gouache (pronounced gwash) paints and we had a play with them.  They are highly pigmented watercolour paints that can be used on any colour of card stock.  They can be used full strength (opaque) or be watered down (translucent).  Very versatile colouring medium.

Above is the first card I made with these paints.  The colours are opaque and look really nice with this wonderful image from Magenta.

Close-up ...

Below, I used the paints (with lots of water) to smoosh the background before stamping and painting the flower over top.  White gouache is especially good to have.  It's wonderful to have a white that will cover everything ... and also create wonderful splatters for Christmas cards. :)

I got a set of 24 colours and 12 metallics as an early Christmas present.  Hope to be sharing more cards with you soon.

Thanks for visiting!

Card #1 - Floral Collage
Stamps:  Floral Collage (Magenta); Sentiment (unknown)
Paper:  Mixed media (Strathmore 140 lb.); White card base (Neenah 110 lb.)
Ink:  Black (Versafine); Gouache paints
Accessories & Tools:  paint brushes

Card #2 - Creative Chaos
Stamps:  Creative Chaos (Visible Image); Noteworthy (STAMPlorations)
Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb).
Ink:  Black (Versafine); Gouache paints
Accessories & Tools:  Water mister, paint brushes