More on the Hydrangea

Since I still had my Hydrangea set and card stock out, I used them for today's sketch on SCS. I changed swapped out the Burgundy for Riding Hood Red in my flower, added a bit of Close to Cocoa to the leaves, and tried my hand at stamping the beautiful vase that come with with set.

I need a bit more practice at getting the vase to fit right with the flower bloom, I'll have to try a few more times before I clean up my studio. I added the Black Sheer Ribbon through the Filigree brad, then heated with my heat gun.

For the Mellow Moss piece, I adhered my Black strip, then ran it through my Big Shot using the Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes Folder.

I've had a few people ask about the images - you stamp them in stages to create your finished image. For example to create the flower - there are 4 different stamps, and I used 4 different inks. If you didn't have 4 coordinating inks, you could always ink your image, stamp off then stamp. I did this for the vase - as I didn't have 4 shades of Gray.

The flower was stamped as follows:

Cameo Coral, Regal Rose, Rose Red, Riding Hood Red

The vase as follows:

Going Grey, Going Grey, Basic Gray, Black

Details:

Stamps - Kitchen Sick Hydrangea

Card Stock - White, Black, Mellow Moss, Rose Red, Regal Rose

Ink - Cameo Coral, Regal Rose, Rose Red, Riding Hood Red, Going Grey, Basic Bray, Black

Other - Big Shot, CB Distress Stripes Folder, Black Sheer Ribbon, Filigree Brad, Heat Gun