Block Watercolour Stamping

Hi! The challenge over at Just Us Girls is all about block watercolour stamping. There's a video here about how to do it. I had to have a go, and I tried it with my distress oxides, because I am obsessed with them. I wanted to make a rainbow background, inspired by the CASE challenge at Time Out, so I inked up the block in lines of colour, spritzed it with water, and plonked it down onto a spare piece of hammered card. The video said to use watercolour paper, so I wasn't sure how mine would turn out, but the colours are really rich! I let it dry completely, then stamped the border, the flower and the sentiment. I coloured the flower and the stems in the border with inks, used a Wink of Stella brush on the flowers and leaves. I added a button to the centre of the flower - it's a painted abalone shell button which I have a stash of but had never found a use for, but it matched the colours perfectly! I added a small black ribbon and bow to the underneath of the border to finish it off.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Just Us Girls

Time Out: 'CASE Beverley Brown'

Simply Create Too: 'Use Ribbon & Buttons'
Rubber Dance Forever Stamping challenge



Ingredients:
Distress Oxide Inks: Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Wilted Violet
Rubber Dance Stamp Set: 'Textured Flowers'
Lavinia stamp: 'Hill Border Floral'
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'

Wink of Stella pen

Abalone button