Daffodil in bloom

Hi there,

After such a beautiful sunny spring weekend here in the UK I thought I would post another Easter card that I recently made, again using my fab new Uniko daffodil  but trying something different with the background this time.

I cut a square of white card and created a smoosh background with Distress Oxide ink by dabbing it onto acetate, spritzing with water and then "splodging" onto my card. Brenda recommends this and it did seem to give an effect I was pleased with ... my only problem right now is a shortage of suitable acetate!!  

Anyhoo ... I did some 2nd generation background stamping of words with VFC, and some stencilling with my new Lavinia flower stencil. I had seen a video by Corrie stencilling with white acrylic paint on a green background with a statement spring flower, so I thought I'd try something inspired by a similar concept.. I only have a mini tube of acrylic paint which isn't exactly optic white and the stencilling ended up looking a little bit grungy, but I think I actually like that. I stamped my daffodil and coloured with Promarkers, then fussy cut and attached to the background panel. Lastly I stamped a large vertical sentiment (where the letters were well spaced) then cut each letter out separately and edged with a green Promarker before attaching to the image panel, which I then matted onto two colours of green card.

Stamps: Uniko Spring Botanicals - Daffodil; Lavinia - Words of Spring; sentiment - See-D;

Media: Promarkers; Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Mowed Lawn); Versafine Clair (Rainforest); white acrylic paint;

Tools: Lavinia flower mask.

Challenges I would like to enter: 

Ally's Angels #57 - Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge #4 2022 - Anything Goes (6th Birthday Challenge) (4th entry)

Country View Challenges (April) - Spring Is Coming (4th entry)

Creatalicious #232 - Anything Goes with option Easter

Double D Challenge- Easter (2nd entry)

Dragonfly Dreams (April) - Spring/Easter (2nd entry)

Get Creative #110 - Springtime (2nd entry)

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2215 - Anything Goes

Three Room Studio Saturday Challenge #80 - Water Theme

(watercolour distress oxide background)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

 

Hope you all had a lovely weekend with the sunny weather - we had a couple of great walks in the Derbyshire countryside and visited the fab brand new sculpture exhibition in the park of Chatsworth House. This one was my favourite - "Wings of Glory" - its wings do actually move as if it is flying but sadly we didn't see it in action ... I hope I will though!

Take care and thanks for visiting today.

Hugs,