Saturday, May 30, 2020

Rainbow Stamping | Picket Fence Studios & My Sweet Petunia Hop

Hello!

I'm excited to be part of today's hop.  I have a couple of cards to show you today, created with my MISTI - and the A Rose, and Favorite Notification stamp sets.  All of the supplies used in today's cards, will be listed at the bottom of this post for your convenience.  


There are prizes to be won in this hop!  There will be a winner of a $50 gift certificate to My Sweet Petunia, and a winner of a $50 gift certificate to Picket Fence Studios chosen from all the comments on the hop!

Today's card focus on a really easy Rainbow Stamping technique.  One of my favorite things with MISTI, is the ability to stamp multiple times in the same spot - and always have your image perfectly aligned.  This allows for some fun with the inks you use.    


For my cards, I used Distress Ink Mini pads, although any mini ink pad could work for this first card.  I lined my card front, and the beautiful A Rose Stamp up in my MISTI, then began partially inking my stamp.  I started by inking with the Wild Honey Distress Ink.  Then I closed the door of the MISTI and pressed the stamp to the paper.  Then I inked the stamp with the Peacock Feathers color - without cleaning my stamp. This allows the color to mingle a bit on the stamp, and on the paper once it is stamped.  I again, pressed my stamp to the paper - aligning perfectly with the first stamping, thanks to the MISTI.  Finally, I inked the stamp with the Festive Berries Distress Ink, and pressed it to the paper.  


I cleaned the stamp, turned the card front, and repeated the stamping, through all three colors.  Then I trimmed the card front down, and matted it on a piece of Pitch Black card stock.  I stamped, and white heat embossed, my sentiment from the Favorite Notification Stamp Set, onto a strip of the same card stock.  The sentiment was attached to the card front, and then the card front was adhered to a white card base.  A few self adhesive gold pieces finished the card.  



I wanted to create another similar card, but make it a super easy watercolor card.  I began by stamping out the image, with the three ink colors, the same as above, onto watercolor paper. 

I took advantage of the water reactive properties of Distress Inks, and once my image was stamped, I used a mister to spray water onto the image.  You can get the ink to move just a little, or a lot, depending on how much water you spray.  


Once I was happy with the spread of the ink, I dried my panel with my heat tool, being careful not to move the color around much.  Then I put the panel back into the MISTI and stamped the image once more, in Versamark this time, so that I could heat emboss it in gold.  I again trimmed the panel down.  I stamped and white heat embossed another sentiment onto Pitch Black card stock, and cut the end of the sentiment strip at an angle, before adhering it to the card front.  I attached the card front to a white card base, and added a few more self adhesive gold pieces as accents.    


That's my two cards today.  These are super easy, as the MISTI and the ink do all the work on the stamp.  But they are super colorful and cheerful.  I hope you give it a try!  

Next on today's hop is Sandi MacIver.  Remember to comment as you hop, for a chance to win the gift certificates!  




Sara Sherlock (YOU ARE HERE)



Thanks for stopping by!


Supplies Used**:

Use this easy list to find the products I used in my projects. (Contains affiliate links - where I earn a commission from purchases made from my links, at no cost to you. Your support helps me keep this blog going, and continue to create - Thank you! Affiliates and disclosures can be found here.)

Please note, when possible, I try to offer multiple sources for the items I use.


58 comments:

  1. These are beautiful. The watercolor is my favorite. I love the effect of it. [Bunny]

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  2. The rainbow stamping is amazing, I never thought to do that.

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  3. Now this is called simplicity at its best

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  4. I would do this technique but I am afraid of cross-contaminating the colors on the ink pads...I use an ink dauber for each color so that I can place the color on the stamp and not crossover on pads.

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  5. great technique and beautiful cards, love the water spritzed one

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  6. I love your roses! They are gorgeous! Great minds think alike, as I almost made a card similar to your first one! I love the gold embossing on your second one.

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  7. Both of these are so pretty. I forget about my regular distress inks. I def give more love to my oxides, shame on me!! Gonna CAS these cards!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!!

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  8. Love, love, love the rainbow stamping!!!

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  9. Love all the colors of those flowers! Thanks for sharing how you did it.

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  10. It's amazing how water can transform the image in such a beautiful way!

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  11. Such a cool technique... Going to give this a try for sure. The second card is so lovely with the gold embossing. Nicely done!

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  12. Wonderful cards! Going to try that water color technique! Beautiful rose stamp, and I love my misti!

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  13. What an amazing technique!!!! You rock!

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  14. Love your rainbow flowers.
    Simple but beautiful.
    thanks for sharing
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  15. Lovely cards, I must try this technique!

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  16. I love the rainbow stamping technique - will be trying this soon!

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  17. Beautiful cards! Love the pretty rose image, and the technique for stamping in multiple colors! I'll have to give that a try! Great technique with your MISTI!

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  18. Love, love, love the rose card. Colors are awesome together.

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  19. Beautiful art work. I love them.

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  20. Great use of the Misti and love the multicolored flower!

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  21. Great idea using the mini ink pads to do the multi color outline stamp.

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  22. I just love the technique used on your second card & am definitely going to try it!

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  23. Love that you said that you moves on to the next step once you were happy. Sometimes it is hard to know when I am happy enough to move on.

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  24. Both are so pretty..particularly the watercolor effect

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  25. I like both cards, but the watercolor effect is fabulous. I love that you embossed it afterward, it looks great!

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  26. Love these cards! The watercolour effect is gorgeous!

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  27. I love your cards, so pretty. Thanks for sharing.

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  28. I love the differences in both rainbow looks. Gorgeous!!

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  29. Absolutely love your rainbow cards! I've got to try that!

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  30. Very pretty cards! I especially like the first stamp with the distress inks. Very cool looking, but like you said, pretty simple. Can't wait to try this technique!

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  31. I love your cards! Thanks for sharing!

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  32. They are so colorful and cheerful! Love the watercolor softness!

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  33. Colorful and awesome cards!! :)

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  34. Beautiful cards! Love how the colors blended to create such pretty images.

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  35. Simple but beautiful. Love them both!

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  36. OH Sara, this is just a vision - your second watercolor card has captured my heart! I have loved that look since I saw it on a lady's tattoo at WDW! Stunning effect - and thanks for your supply list, I've seen a few things that I didn't know about! TFS!

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  37. Oh wow, these are stunning, I love them both! I can't take my eyes away from these, I keep scrolling back and forth! Very well done!

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  38. What a cool technique and beautiful cards! I LOVE the sentiments too!

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  39. Fabulous rainbow roses! I love the multi-colored cards and how easy the MISTI makes that possible. The watercolor card is gorgeous with the gold embossing!

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  40. Beautiful roses on the card. Thank you for sharing it.

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  41. I love how you did this!! The image stamped first with rainbow of inks and then later restamped and heat embossed really showcases this beautiful rose image!! Great effect and love your tutorial and card!!

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  42. LOVE your cards! Especially the gold embossing - stunning! And I think I need the rose stamp!

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  43. OOOOOOH, those both look so cool. I especially like the first one. So many colors.

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  44. Love these different looks, that second card is my favorite, such a pretty, artsy look!

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  45. Woah, those color techniques look really fun. Well done. Thank you for sharing.

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  46. love these...so pretty. I can't live without my Misti!
    :) Karen

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  47. Simply stunning!! A wonderful hop filled with inspiration!

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  48. Beautiful cards!
    Thanks so much for sharing...

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  49. Gorgeous! I must try this technique. Love the results.

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  50. Beautiful cards! I really like both your techniques. Thanks for sharing.

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  51. I like the look of the color mix.

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  52. What a cool technique...never thought of inking, spraying and then embossing over it!

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