The Impression Obsession Design Team challenge this week is Nature. I have been having lots of fun playing with all the new and wonderful dies over the last couple of months but for this challenge I decided to go back to my first real love as a stamper/paper crafter and create a watercolor scene representing nature’s wondrous fall.
For my project I used Sold Tree Set
I started by stamping the tree on watercolor paper using Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Using a damp brush I lightly painted Walnut Stain reinker over the trunk of the tree and limbs to fill it in and add more depth of color and definition. I stamped all the leaves with the open leaf stamp using Peeled Paint and then painted each individual leaf with a combination of Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge and Spiced Marmalade. I sponged Adirondack Lemonade over the tree and leaves to highlight and Peeled Paint on the ground area.
I sat and looked at the scene for a little while and decided I wouldn’t finish it. It wasn’t turning out like what I had imagined. It struck me that since I wasn’t going to use it I may as well take a chance and soften it up with water. I dipped a wide brush in water and then lightly painted over the whole scene. The water mellowed out the sponged color and took the edge off the tree and leaves. I liked it. I heat set with my gun and started adding texture to the grass and the hint of color for the fallen leaves by dipping a dry stiff round style brush directly into reinker and applying using a stipple or pouncing type motion. I finished by distressing the edges of the scene and mounting it with mounting tape.
Why don’t you come along and play with us. To enter the challenge go to the Impression Obsession blog (all the details are there!). A random challenge card will be selected to showcase on the IO blog AND you can to enter to win a $25 gift certificate to IO just by playing!
Thanks for coming by today. I hope you will go check out what the other IO teams members created for the challenge.
Stamps: Impression Obsession Sold Tree Set Paper: Watercolor, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip Ink: Distress Ink and Reinkers Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge, Spiced Marmalade, Adirondack Lemonade Accessories: Brush , Stipple Brush, Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool, Paper Distresser
A lovely watercolored piece of art, Kittie! Your multi-artistic talents amaze me. Your attention to detail and in this case, layers of color/ink, is stunning. You are truly an inspiration! 🙂
This work is fabulous, great details!!!
Kittie this is a beautiful work of art!
Sometimes things don’t work out according to plan -it happens to me all the time- but your tree turned out well in the end.
Weer een unieke creatie ! Proficiat !
Kittie, this is just gorgeous. Watercolor is one of my favorite techniques but I need lots of practice! I can’t wait to try this, I have a very similar stamp and have just done a class on watercolor!
Every project you do is just amazing! ( by the way, try saying fall leaf wreath really quickly!! lol.)
Gorgeous! Ican even hang your card on my walls! I love it!
Kittie this is BEAUTIFUL! I looked at it on my phone this morning and couldn’t wait to get home to take another look. WOWSWER…..Funny we used the same stamps…lol. Great minds think alike!
WOW Kittie!!! That is AMAZING… I am wondering what it originally looked like to make you not like it and who’da thunk to run a wet brush over it… I sure hope this steel trap of a brain holds that idea…..
What a beautiful watercolored scene! I love how you described your process and how you weren’t going to use the image but kept going. Love the fall colors! Thank you for sharing.
Katie B.