Today I bid a farewell to my most loved and most used stamp sets – Roses in Winter and Petal Prints. My RIW are the most gnarly and nasty looking stamps you have ever seen. The wood is completely discolored, the rubber is coming off of some of the small stamps – glued back together with tender loving care. The Rubber Lovers, my stamp club, actually made fun of me last week about the condition of these stamps. They have been well loved and well used. I’m going to put these sets away now – and hope to find something to take their place. You’ll see them again – eventually! I know that I will use them again – sometimes certain colors just cry out for RIW. Petal Prints doesn’t look nearly as bad as RIW, but they were inspiration for a series of cards that I did some time ago. One day I’ll upload them all hear for you to see. It is also a favorite set that I like to combine with RIW.
Last week when The Rubber Lovers met, they wanted to learn the technique of stamping on wet watercolor paper. It is one of my favorite techniques, so I was quite eager to show them. There are so many ways to maneuver the colors around, make them bright or dull, let them run together or have them stay put.
The first thing you need to do, is to completely saturate your watercolor paper with water. I use a mister bottle and just spray until the water literally runs off. I let it set up for a few minutes, allowing the water to soak into the paper and then I start stamping. You really need a solid image stamp for this (RIW being one I’ve used for many projects). If your paper gets dry, give it a light mist and continue stamping. For an all over blending effect, once you are done stamping, you could re-mist the paper and watch the colors run. IF you want to tone down the colors, after you have misted your final stamping, you can take a piece of paper towel and lightly dab to remove some color. This is what I have done on today’s card. But, I couldn’t stop there. I also combined the cracked glass technique to give an overall aged look.
Now for today’s card. I actually started this card for today’s Color Challenge on SCS. When I saw the colors of Rose Red and Apricot Appeal my brain clicked into overdrive and all I could see were roses. I knew that this was probably going to be one of my last cards with this set, so I really wouldn’t to try and experiment with a number of techniques with it. Plus, I’m out of Whisper White cardstock!
I misted my watercolor paper, inked the Roses in Apricot Appeal and rock and rolled them in Rose Red. The fern like stamp from Petal Prints was stamped in Tempting Turquoise, the leave in Green Galore and the small flower in the different colors. I misted the image again to let the colors blend a little and dabbed a paper towel in certain areas where I wanted to remove some color. While the paper was still a little damp, I stamped French Script in Ranger Walnut Distress Ink (after stamping off 4 times before). I sponged the edges of the image in the distress ink and then once the image was completely dry, I stamped the sentiment in the distress ink. I liked what I had, but wanted to add just one more touch. I inked up the image with Versamark and embossed 3 coats of UTEE. Once the image had been placed in the freezer and cracked, instead of just sponging across with the distress ink, I took my stamp pad and pressed and pulled across the image. I was amazed (doesn’t take much sometimes) to see how well the ink went down into the cracks. I then figured out where I wanted the ribbon and brads, and mounted the image on Rose Red cardstock. To tone down the layer, I sponged just a smidgen of distress ink on the edges. The layers are then mounted on a Rose Red card.
Stamps: Roses in Winter, Petal Prints, French Script
Ink: Rose Red, Apricot Appeal, Green Galore, Tempting Turquoise, Ranger Walnut Distress Ink
Paper: Watercolor, Rose Red
Accessories: UTEE, Misting Bottle, Wedge Sponge, Brads, Ribbon
AND, I just decided this! I have been wanting to offer up some blog candy, but the term blog candy is not that appealing to me. I’ve been wrestling with a new term for weeks now and really haven’t hit upon anything that I like. Bear in mind, that I have been trying to incorporate it with *BAD*. How can Bad Sherry offer up blog candy that is not *Bad*? So here’s my offer: anyone leaving a comment on this post with an alternative choice for blog candy (for this blog only), will have an opportunity to win this card! It must go along with the theme of the blog – bad, wild, etc., you get the idea. I will pick my favorite alternative and that lucky person will receive this card!
What a beautiful card!
How about “Bad Goodies” with a play on the two words? Bad has at times (or may still) mean “good” in the slang world. And everyone knows what “goodies” are. 🙂
Karen
How about “Sherry’s sinfully *BAD” cyberspace sweets”?
Love your blog and the cards you create. Could call it simply Bad,Bad,Bad Sherry Candie.
Wow-what a gorgeous card!! It has such a dreamy, lovely feel.
How about “Devilish Delights?”
How about Retired Roses Riches.
Cheryl Sims
hmm, like Devilish Delights, I thougt “Wild Winnings” was kinda obvious, but I’m the first suggesting it (maybe that means it’s too obvious and everyone will laugh at me, well, if that’s the case, I’ve done my good deed for the day as laughter is good for one’s health and it’s always great not to be the kid with the dopiest idea, I can live with that for today!)
OK, I digress, Wild Winnings, Wild Wonderful Winnings, Bad Sherry’s Sugar! Yeah, gimme some sugar baby!
OK, back to tax law and my boring “real” life!
Say it ain’t so…you’re saying goodbye to RIW and Petal Prints? Gorgeous card Sherry!
Will have to put my thinking cap on regarding the alternate blog candy idea. Hmmmm….when Candy goes Bad?
Linda
Ohhh…how about Wicked Winnings? Will still have to think on this one.
Linda
Sherry, your card looks gorgeous! Sorry, I suck at finding cool names for things. I would call it Bad Candy! But then…I am so not good with words.
Love your cards, how about Too Good to be Bad Treats!
How about Naughty Nuggets? I like Devilish Delights. That’s a good one.
Your card is drop dead gorgeous! I’m gonna be sad to see you not using RIW & Petal Prints anymore, I love everything you’ve created with your well loved sets.
Love this card – just recently tried RIW with cracked glass myself – but now I need to also do the wet watercolor paper! So, how about… hmmm… Bad Baubles? Naughty Knick-Knacks? Untamed Treats? 🙂
What a fabulous RIW card! I’m thinkin’ Twisted Truffles fits you, Sherry.
Check your blog daily, love your cards and techniques. How about “Tawdry Treats”
Man, this is so beautiful and fascinating! Love the muted, dreamy look, yet the colors are so wonderfully vibrant. And thanks for all the details. Linda
wow… this card is amazing!!! You are one BAD girl…!!! my kids had to wait get their milk cause i was just glued in front of the computer screen 🙂
Sherrie, i do have one question tho, how did you add the brads? i have made the cracked glass technique before but with all the layers of ute i can not visualize how you added the brads. Did you use the Crop a dile? This is the only tool i can imagine that would work.
thanks
claudiafromgermany @ scs
I do believe I shed a tear hearing you wax poetic about RIW…you made it my favorite stamp set and gave me all the courage to get it and just stamp with it:) Thanks!!
Ok, how about Blog Badness??
What a knock out! As you are retiring this baby, I just received my RIW set in the mail today. Guess what my first technique will be with this stamp set. To beautiful not to case. How about Bad Blog Bitters? OK, that is very bad………. linda
llbaldwin @ SCS
Very pretty card Sherry!
Love it!!!