Happy Monday! It's Jill here with a challenge that invites you to set that stamping ink to the side and pull out your Sprinklers instead. Wilna and I both decided to have a go at this challenge, and we both loved the painterly effects that our Sprinkler-stamped images created on our layouts.
We each took different approaches to applying the color to the stamp. I sprayed color directly on the stamp (a cute little cloud from the Fly a Kite clear stamp collection), and stamped the image over patterned paper.
I varied the colors and the patterns that I used, but I worked mainly with blue, gray, and white. The Sprinklers that I chose included Robot Blue, Tinsel, Set Sail, Night Sky, Miss Mary Mack, and Tin Type. I cut out some of the stamped images and mixed them with images that I had stamped directly to paper. I also shook off some of the color prior to stamping, to create droplets.
Rather than spray directly onto her stamp, Wilna uncapped her Sprinklers and poured a little of each color she chose (Hopscotch, Buttermilk, and Brown Bag) into a paint tray. She then painted the colors on the stamp with a brush, and applied the stamped image (from the Farmhouse rubber stamp set) to a series of scalloped circles.
As a finishing touch, Wilna stitched over the images and around the layout using silver thread. She also backed the layout with a sheet of 9 to 5 chevron patterned paper, and she incorporated accents from the Sidewalks collection, demonstrating just how easy October Afternoon's lines are to mix.
All in all, both Wilna and I both got a kick out of this challenge. "Stamping with Sprinklers is fun," Wilna claims, "and the textures and effects one creates are really lovely." I definitely agree!
We would love it if you would join in the challenge this week and share your own approaches to mixing Sprinklers and stamps in the OA Flickr gallery.
Of course, Katy! :) Have a blast! (And share what you come up with in the Flickr gallery!)
Posted by: Jill Sprott | March 02, 2012 at 11:07 PM
This is stinkin' cute! What a great idea! Can I scraplift it?
Posted by: katy | February 29, 2012 at 06:45 PM
Cool ideas and fantastic layouts!
Posted by: Trine Brandt-Lassen | February 28, 2012 at 03:11 AM
Wow - very cool!
Posted by: Jean Marmo | February 27, 2012 at 08:53 PM
beautiful!!!!
Posted by: soapHOUSEmama | February 27, 2012 at 03:56 PM
Jill and Wilna! You two are flipping amazing!!!!! You know that, right!? :) These are wonderful!
xo
Danielle
Posted by: Danielle Flanders | February 27, 2012 at 08:21 AM
great layouts! :)
Posted by: emily (justem) | February 27, 2012 at 06:22 AM