New Stamps and a new technique

Hi all! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that Santa was good to you. We had a wonderful time with family yesterday and we are just relaxing and trying to recover today.  My son is playing with all of his new toys and I'm playing with some new Hero Arts stamps I picked up at Archivers just before Christmas.

I got these yummy stamps and had to make at least one quick card with them.

I just love this beautiful flower bird garden stamp and happened to see a video by Jennifer McGuire where she shows a new technique of painting in the image using distress inks and Liquid Pearls.

Here is her card that inspired me to ink up this stamp right away- isn't it a beauty!

I basically cased her card ( so little time and not much mojo either) but I used my new background stamp and changed up the colors to be a bit more cheerful (I was thinking bright and happy spring colors).

I stamped the image using Versamark- then heat embossed it using detail white embossing powder. I used my distress inks in the colors wild honey, spiced marmalade, and barn door to watercolorcolor the flowers. I don't have Liquid Pearls so I just added a bit of pearl white paint to the mix. The flowers and stems have a really nice shine and shimmer now- it was fun and easy to add the paint right into the mix of ink and water.

                                 You can see a little bit of the shimmer here in a close up shot.

Make sure you check out Jennifer's's video to see the technique I used-  it is so easy and quick to paint the image like this....plus you get amazing results!

Now I'm off to go eat some more Christmas cookies( still have dozens left)  and then go play a game of bowling or tennis on the new Wii with my son....maybe I can talk him into just watching a movie instead.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you get to relax today after your Christmas celebration....I don't know about you but I'm wore out from running around like a chicken with my head cut off for the last week.

Inky Hugs, Anne