We visited Lynette on Friday and had a great time as always! For lunch, we took a walk to a nice restaurant in her neighborhood...delicious food, with leftovers to take home.
Lynette found inspiration for our cards from Lisa Hetrick, Gina K (who was inspired by Natasha Foote) and Jodene Tripp.
For our first card, we followed Lisa Hetrick's flower card with a wet on wet watercolor technique demonstrated on Lisa's YouTube tutorial from May 28, 2019.
Lisa described it as "wet, wet, washy watercolor".
Lisa stamped her flowers first with GK amalgam ink-obsidian/black waterproof ink. Apparently the amalgam ink is waterproof. However I left that inkpad at home. So we decided not to stamp the flower first.
First we added water to the watercolor paper with a paintbrush. Then we used watercolors from Lynette's stash, trying to keep our work area wet so the color would travel. We followed Lisa's video as we worked and set aside our panels to dry before we stamped the large outline flower from Gina K's Hugs and Wildflowers set, using Versafine Onyx black ink. It was very fun to watch the colors move and "go with the flow" on the paper.
Lynette mounted her both panels on a dark pink panel from her stash (this one and the next).
I decided to add the extra stamping shown on Lisa's demo, stamping the little branches with Gina K dandelion yellow and medium lilac. I stamped the leaves on a separate piece of cardstock with GK grass green ink. Then I fussy cut the leaves and attached them with GK connect glue.
For our second card design, we followed Jodene Tripp's Sept. 16, 2019 blogpost:
using the large leaves stamps from Altenew's Leaf Canopy stamp set. First we stamped the the large shadow image with GK soft stone ink. Then stamped the large leaves outline stamp in Versafine Onyx Black ink. In both instances we followed the placement that Jodene used.
Apparently Gina was inspired by Natasha Foote's YouTube from Jan. 22, 2025
I forgot to bring my GK Masking Magic, so we used Lynette's removable tape. We used a solid mask for the sides, and ripped the tape for the wavy our ink blended areas. We used Post It's as shown by Gina to prevent our ink blending from going anywhere but the intended space! After ink blending an area, we stamped a design with the same color ink as what we used for the ink blending.
From top to bottom, used Gina K inks:
Wild Dandelion, Turquoise Sea, Lucky Clover, Wild Lilac.
Then we stamped the flowers from Gina's Natural Silhouettes stamp set using Versafine Black Onyx ink.
Thnaks for visiting!
Peace and All Good!
