Distress Inked Ranunculus

Woohoo, this is the third card I've made with this stamp set and the third different technique for colouring too. I am wanting the other beautiful bouquets stamps from Wplus 9 now. But I must resist even though the urge is strong.

I might not have mentioned that I put myself on a stash buying ban until all my birthday cards until the end of the year were finished, at the point I started the ban I had 23 cards left to make and the number is now slowly getting lower, not quick enough though lol. Maybe if I stopped waffling and started making it would be faster lol.

Nothing much to say about the card, it was stamped and white heat embossed on Tim Holtz watercolour card and then I used a wet on wet technique to colour the initial layer, the darker colours were wet on dry.

Ingredients
Image: "beautiful Bouquet - Ranunculus" Wplus9
Sentiment: "bruised greetings 2" Clearly Besotted
Card: Orange Zest from paper trey ink
Dies: Blueprints 27 from MFT

Distress ink
Squeezed lemonade and Fossilised Amber
Abandoned Coral, Candy Apple and Aged Mahogany
Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint
Evergreen Bough and Pine Needles
Spiced marmalade and Rusty Hinge
Tumbled Glass

Beautiful Bouquet - Ranunculus Version 2

As part of my "you have more than enough craft stuff to last two lifetimes" I have to be able to utilise any new stamp in at least three ways, so before I bought this stamp I had already thought of the ways to use it, so far I have done two of the three but its such a versatile stamp I can now visualise another few ways to use it.

My first technique was of course to copic colour so my next technique had to be very different, I was inspired by videos from Jennifer McGuire and Kelly Latevola when I made this.

I stamped the image and sentiment with versa mark and embossed with detail white embossing powder from stampendous. Next I swiped the peacock feathers ink over the paper, I was going to blend with the tool but this was much quicker and made it darker. Then I simply used a brush and water and painted over the flowers, dabbing off the colour as it lifted. I was hoping it would be lighter but for a first attempt I think it looks ok.

Ingredients

Image: "Beautiful Bouquet - Ranunculus" WPlus9

Sentiment: "brushed greetings 2" Clearly Besotted

Dies: Blueprints 24 from MFT

Distress ink: "Peacock Feathers"

Beautiful Bouquet - Ranunculus

I had seen so many beautiful cards made with this stamp around blogland I had to get my hands on it, I have become addicted to flower cards recently which is odd as I'm not a flower person in real life. I was inspired by Kelly Latevola who is on the WPlus9 design team and she also loves flower cards and bright colours, normally the pinks I would have chosen would have been more muted but I thought I would give Kelly's bright combo a whirl and I have to say I really like it. I just wish I could add the drop shadows she does, maybe next time. 

Ingredients

Image: "Beautiful Bouquet - Ranunculus " WPlus9

Sentiment: "wet paint" Papertrey Ink

Die: Blueprints 24 from MFT

Card: "raspberry fizz" Papertrey Ink

Copics

Pink - RV09, 06, 04, 02

Yellow - Y17, 13, 11

Purple - V17, 15, 12, 01

Green - YG97, 95, 93

Background - BG11, 10, blender