Spring flowers

 

Hi There! I am here with a bit of spring colour to brighten your day. Here is how I made it.

I began by blending distress oxide through the Grande inkable onto a 15x15cm ivory base card.

On a 9cm square of ivory card I stamped the stems and buds from Journaling essentials #3 along with some leaves on a scrap of the same card, colouring them in with an ecoline pen and cutting out the leaves.

I added some background stamping from the same set to the square using distress oxide inks

I stamped and cut out three of the bells. I also stamped these onto the main panel where the cut outs were to be stuck on so I didn't need to tackle cutting out the stamens. 

Finally I matted and layered the square onto the card, adding the leaves and flowers with a little 3d glue gel.

Here is the finished card again

I used:

15x15cm ivory card

Inkables Grande - squircles

Distress oxide inks - I used picked Raspberry, Crackling Campfire, mustard seed, lucky clover, peacock feathers and wilted violet

9x9cm of ivory card

Journaling essentials #3 stamp set

Versafine Clair ink - I used green oasis and glamorous

Green ecoline pen

3d glue gel

card for matting and layering

Thanks for looking! 

A Spring Tulip

 Hi there! I think all of the spring flowers coming out has got me reaching for my tulip stamp again! Here is a spring card to share with you. 

I cut a piece of watercolour card 9 x 20cm and sprayed it with Distress oxide sprays. 

Once this was dry I sprayed water through the circles dinkable to make a faux bleached effect.

I stamped little patches of the script stamp in  tea dye distress ink onto the background

Next I used morning mist versafine clair ink to stamp the tulip onto the panel.

I coloured it using ecoline pens. At this point I decided to make the tulip more dimensional.

I stamped the flower twice in Versafine Clair charming Pink, cutting off the petals that are to the rear of the flower on one of them. I then shaped these and attached them using 3d glue. I also added a few highlights in white gellyroll pen.

I stamped a speckled border around the edge of the panel in vintage photo distress ink

Finally I stuck the panel to an ivory DL card and added a sentiment stamped in brown ink. 

Here are links to the items I used:

Distress oxide sprays (I used twisted citron, squeezed lemonade and spun sugar)

Circles Dinkable from Dinkable set 3

Script stamp

Texture borders stamp set

Tulip stamp

Wordage Ticker tape stamps set 1

Watercolour card

Distress ink in tea dye and Vintage photo

Gelly Roll white pen

Brown, grey and pink versafine clair ink

Ivory DL card 

Thanks for looking! 

Mid month post for Stamping Sensations

It is mid-way through March (Where did that go?) so time for our mid month inspiration for Stamping Sensations where the theme is Spring Flowers. For my card I used stamps and dies from Thirsty Brush, our lovely sponsors this month. I gold-embossed the stamped images and painted the flower with cosmic shimmer pixie powders made into a wash. The sparkle is gorgeous! I do hope you get chance to enter the challenge.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog and leaving comments. It all feels a little bit surreal at the moment with everything that is going on. I hope you can find a little bit of calm in your crafting, and that if you are having to self-isolate that you have plenty of supplies to keep you going and are well enough to craft. Stay safe and lets hope it doesn't last too long.
Take care friends  xxx

March Challenge at Stamping Sensations

Good morning, It's time for a new challenge at Stamping Sensations and this month we are looking for

****Spring Florals****

As the title suggest we would love to see your stamped creations that reflect the theme. I am sure you will come up with lots of fabulous designs. My card this month features stamps from our spensors this month, Thirsty Brush. The sets are called Calm Circle (flowers) and Modern Floral (words) I stamped in Versafine Clair and coloured with Arteza watercolour brush markers. 

Please can I remind you we are a stamping challenge so must see a stamped image which reflects the theme as the focal element of your artwork , this means:

Stamping must be the central point of attention and interest

Our prize this month is from  our new sponsors, Thirsty Brush.  Do pop over to the challenge blog and take a look at the fabulous creations from my talented team mates and more details of that prize! Thanks for looking!