As usual, to read more about the spiritual meaning of this artwork check out my other blog here. Here I just want to briefly explain how it was done since it represents a way to layer stamps without masking them as you do so!
After preparing the page with clear gesso as usual, I stamped these images with Spellbinders "Celebrations" hybrid ink (all stamps from HOTP - "You're Tea'riffic" small stamp & "Sweet Blossoms & Swirls" stamp set). I'm not sure this ink gives me as crisp an image as either StazOn or VersaFine, but I wasn't sure what I would use to color it & didn't want to have to worry about the black bleeding. This ink doesn't bleed whether using alcohol inks OR watercolor based ink.
Usually when I stamp multiple layers, I mask part of the stamp, but it just wasn't very practical to do that with this one. It was just too hard to know for sure what parts of the cup would need to be masked to add the flowers! SO, I started by stamping the cup. Then stamped one bunch of flowers & took white gesso and a very fine paint brush to remove any lines from the cup that needed to be removed. I repeated this process for all of my flower additions. I already knew the white gesso was pretty much the same color as my page and it worked really well.
I ended up coloring it with my scroll and brush markers, using multiple colors to add a bit of depth to the flowers. Even in person, you really can't tell the difference between areas with white gesso and areas without! I DID go over a couple of lines with my fine-line Sharpie where the white gesso had covered a bit more than I wanted. I finished with some hand-drawn lettering using both a very fine Millennium pen, and the fine-line Sharpie.
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