More watercolor flowers

More watercolor flowers. The stamps are by Hero Arts. They have a whole series of these stamps.

Another method of coloring on the stamps is watercolor crayons. Depending on your brand of crayons, you can mist the stamp and color directly on the rubber or color on the rubber without misting. You will have to mist again after coloring.

Felt tip markers can be used too. Color on the rubber and "huff" on it with your warm moist breath. After stamping you can "huff" again or mist.

I have even carefully inked my stamps with dye based ink pads, stamped, misted and stamped again. Ink with the lightest color first to prevent the dark color (in this case the green) from bleeding onto you light ink pad.

STAMPER HINT - you stamped in a dark ink, forgot to clean or did not clean your stamp well. When you use the stamp again on a light ink pad you can see that dark image on the ink pad. GASP!!! the pad is ruined!!! or is it?? Nope it's not ruined. With a little bit of effort you can clean your light ink pad. Using a paper towel, repeatedly dab the dark ink on the pad. Use clean parts of the paper towel with each dab and eventually you will have all that dark ink lifted from your pad. You may have to reink, but that is far less expensive than buying a new ink pad.

Watercolor flowers

Using a stamp to create a soft water color appearance is far easier than it appears. There are several ways to achieve this "look". I will try to explain all the methods that I have used and in the next few days show you the results.

First you need a stamp. I love the Hero Arts line of florals. These are rather bold stamps and work well for this technique.

1. Mist your stamp lightly.

2. Color directly on the stamp with water soluble

oil pastels. I found the Portfolio Series at

Staples to be inexpensive and they work well.

3. Mist the stamp again.

4. Stamp on paper of choice. Now if the image is too dark mist and stamp again, without

recoloring.

5. You can mist and stamp to create a shadow image as well.

Play with the technique on scrap paper until you find the amount of color applied and the water misting that works best for you.

I used two colors on the flower and one green on the stem.

The words are computer generated, punched out and edged with a gold leaf Krylon pen.

The flower image was cut into an oval using a Coluzzle template and it to was edged with the Krylon pen.