Fruit and Veg

I've been practising some watercolouring using a new Hero Arts stamp set called 'Stamp your own Salad', I love the sketchy bold design of the stamps in the set but decided to use distress inks to stamp the tomato and carrot and use a watercolour brush to colour them instead.

Hubby is a keen gardener and we have quite a productive allotment at the bottom of the garden too so any stamps like these are always going to catch my eye :0) 

Instead of having three tomatoes in a row I tried inking half the stamp and making a wedge of tomato instead. To make a paler colour I made a second generation impression and then googled a photo of a tomato wedge so I could copy the shape and colour right by adding extra distress ink with a paintbrush

For the carrots I had a slight accident where the colour bled so I decided to work with it and go for that look but it's quite tricky to make the colours bleed naturally.... I think I prefer the tomatoes more ;0)

I finished both cards with some Lawn Fawn backdrops patterns and a couple of sentiments from WPlus9.

A few more details can be found on my blog post over at Make the Day Special Stamp store where you can buy the stamps too..... in fact I have a set of three cards using this set in next months Craft Stamper magazine but I'll have to show you those at a later date :)

Stamps used: Stamp your own Salad - Hero Arts; Gingham and Argyle Backdrops - Lawn Fawn; Hand lettered Thanks & Fresh Picked - Wplus9

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x