Create With Passion(flower)

Hi everyone, I recently managed to acquire the much sought-after (by Tracy Evans fans) AALL & Create stamp set "The Great Outdoors" - a.k.a. the wellington boots - but hadn't really had any chance to play with it until this week. Also I needed some silicone glue for dimensional crafting, and had identified that Lavinia sell some so I picked up a tube when I visited the shop a couple of weeks ago.

This card is a bit of a mash up of various techniques and ideas from Tracy's videos, with adjustments to cater to the stamps I have in my stash. I don't really have many of Tracy's floral stamps which are suitable to place inside the wellies, but I remembered I have the Passion Flower set which I won quite a long time ago but have never used ... so now was the time!

I cut a piece of stamping card slightly smaller than a 7" x 5" card blank, and stamped the large leaf background in shades of green Versafine Clair towards the left of the card. I then extended the background with some more stamping in green and grey. I stamped the wellies onto separate card, coloured with watered down green Distress Oxides then fussy cut out and stamped some random text onto them in grey. I stamped the Passion Flower, coloured with Inktense pencils then fussy cut various portions to form three separate flower stems. I attached the wellies to the background with silicone dimensional glue then added the flower stems and two butterflies which I had stamped, coloured with Inktense pencils and sparkle pen, and fussy cut out. I stamped my sentiment onto separate card, cut out, edged and attached - I thought this was particularly appropriate given that I had used passionflowers 🥰. Lastly I ripped and attached a piece of washi tape to the top right corner, added some white Posca spatters, then matted the finished panel onto black card stock and a card blank. This is definitely a “more is more” creation! 🥰

Stamps: AALL & Create #449 Through the Meadows (background leaf), #370 The Great Outdoors (wellingtons), #278 Passion Flower, #909 Garden Notes (art background text), #304 Heartfelt (grey background stamping), #906 Art notes (stamping on wellingtons), #753 Delight In Flora (butterflies), #533 Bring on the Sentiments;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Bundled Sage, Iced Spruce); Derwent Inktense pencils; Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist, Verdant, Shady Lane); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Posca pen (white);

Other: AALL & Create washi tape #44 - Around.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Ally’s Angels #72 - Anything Goes - WINNER

Beautiful Blossoms #7 - Anything Floral Goes (3rd entry)

Butterfly Challenge #185 - Butterfly plus Flowers (2nd entry)

Let’s Craft and Create #197 - Anything Goes with option Add Flowers (3rd entry)

Paper Dragonfly #19 - Nature - TOP 3

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations (July) - Summer Flowers (3rd entry)

Triple B (July) - Blooms, Birds and/or Butterflies (2nd entry)

We Love 2 Create #6 - Anything Mixed Media Goes (3rd entry)

We Love Stamping (July) - Fabulous Florals (3rd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #605/606 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

I'm actually quite thrilled with how this card turned out - it was very time consuming and fiddly but in my mind was worth the effort. I will also be entering it into Tracy Evans' current FB challenge "heartfelt" as there is no specification as to the size of the heart(s) that must be included, and you can just about make out the teeny hearts on this one if you look closely!

 Until next time, take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,