The Stamp Review Crew: Wetlands

Welcome to another Stamp Crew Review Blog Hop!  We share our take on a selected stamp set every first and third Monday.  Today will investigate the fun, natural and even masculine set Wetlands.  If you are hopping around in a circle, you have just come from Rita's blog.  Rita has such a clean, fun style!

Wetlands has such wonderful images for all sorts of background techniques.  I've done some brayering with the sand piper images in the past, and last month for the Watercolor Wonder class, we used the watercolor wash technique.

After stamping the image, brush on two or three watered-down refill colors for each segment of the image (sand, water, sky).  When you are happy, use a Stampin' Spritzer to spray water on the image and let the colors blend.  You can go back and add more color and spritz more, as desired.  I did use a post-it note to mask off the skyline for a crisper line.

Stamps: Wetlands; Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Modern Medley DSP, Watercolor paper; Ink: Black Stazon, Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Sky, Pool Party, Marina Mist, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake reinkers; Accessories: Linen thread, White gel pen, Aquapainter, Stampin' Spritzer.

I changed up and remade a past card, although I am not sure I shared it back then.  It uses the Bordered Sentiment technique.

I won't lie to you; this simple layered card isn't easy to get right.  It took my five tries before I was happy.  But that being said, I love the clean look.

• To guarantee no ink smearing, use Black Stazon ink and give a moment to dry between stamp images.
• Stamp-a-ma-jig is a must!
• Temporarily adhere your panel to grid paper when drawing the bordered sentiment lines with a ruler
• Be very careful to not pick up stray ink marks on your stamp edge or ruler.

Stamps: Wetlands, Summer Silhouettes; Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White; Ink: Black Stazon, Basic Black marker; Accessories: Stamp-a-ma-jig!

Make sure you check out the next stop to see what creative and fun goodies Nancy at iguanastamp put together with the set.

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