Scribble Flowers

Good morning everyone,

I needed to make an ATC and matching card for this month’s ATC swap over in the Visible Image group on Facebook, so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone, and use it as my Snippets Playground homework assignment! This fortnight is Snippets Playground’s 11th Blogoversary, so Di and Sarn have got another special challenge going on with another awesome prize of a £50 gift voucher for a craft store of the winner’s choice … wow!! If I'm lucky enough to win that I think I'll be looping the loop on the Treehouse swings after downing the contents of Sarn's Secret Stash of Moonshine in the Speakeasy  Tree House!!

ATC’s are always a good way to use up smaller snippets, and when making a matching card for a themed swap I try to ensure I can find a larger matching snippet of coloured card to use for matting.

Bearing in mind that the theme for this ATC swap is three of something, I decided on my stamps, and then assembled some snippets of white card for the ATC, plus coloured snippets for both ATC and card (the pink and orange cardstock were originally 12” x 12” sheets).

Here is the finished ATC - three flowers, 3 different stamps (flower, scribble, wording) and three colours. I did actually use both white snippets on this one as I used one of them for testing my colouring media!🤣🤣

I cut my smallest snippet of white card to 3.25 x 2.25 inches, and stamped my focal flower three times “off the edge”. I then masked the flowers and stamped the scribble in pink, orange and yellow ink. I removed the masks and coloured the flowers using my new Distress Watercolor Pencils (pink and yellow) and Distress Oxide ink (orange). For all three I picked up the colour with a water brush … the pencils give a really vibrant colour, and I think I really need more than the one set I currently own!! (I have also ordered a special sharpener so that I can hopefully get a point for fine colouring, and save the shavings in a watercolour palette!) I stamped the wording, then edged the finished panel with black marker before matting onto pieces cut from small snippets of orange and pink card to make a standard size ATC. I finished off with a couple of bright pink heart gems and Glossy Accents on the flower centres.

Stamps: Visible Image - Where Flowers Bloom;

Media: Distress Watercolor Pencils (Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Black Soot); Distress Oxide inks (Ripe Persimmon, Squeezed Lemonade); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Charming Pink, Summertime); Glossy Accents.

Challenges I would like to enter:

As You Like It - Favourite Reason to Craft (and why)

(I love making ATC’s as I love the challenge of working with such a small space, and I also love making generic cards that can be used to enclose ATC’s, as there are no constraints eg. on sentiments).

ATC’s Around the World #97 - Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge (January) - Anything Goes

DL.Art (January) - Anything Goes

Paper a la Mode (January) - Let’s Get Started (Not a Card)

Papercraft Challenges #90 - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground #445 - Show Us Your Snippets!!

Here is the matching card - it uses all the same techniques and supplies as the ATC and my larger snippets of orange and pink card stock,  with the addition of some yellow card matting (not a snippet!).

... and an angled picture to show the Glossy Accents on the flower centres.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Daring Cardmakers - New Year, New Crafty Things

(New stamps and Distress Watercolor Pencils)

Love to Craft #172 - Anything Goes - TOP PICK

NBUS #46  - Use Your Never Before Used Schtuff

(Stamps, Distress Watercolor Pencils)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Fabulous Flowers

Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin’ - New (2nd entry)

Try It On Tuesday - In With the New (2nd entry)

We Love Stamping (January) - Favourite Colours (2nd entry)

(I love bright pink and orange together)

Word Art Wednesday #579/580 - Anything Goes

Thanks very much for visiting my blog today - take care.

Hugs,