Flower Smudge - Take 2!

Hi everyone, today I would like to share another birthday card made with AALL & Create “Flower Smudge”, the stamp set I was having trouble with earlier in the week. Following those problems I posted a question on Tracy Evans‘ A&C FB page, and was quite shocked and overwhelmed when the lovely Tracy made a little video of tips for stamping with her large silhouette stamps … especially for me!! 🥰 Most of the things she said I do already but there were definitely a couple of tips that I hadn’t thought of, so a couple of things for me to try. 

That being the case, while I was waiting for my nice new juicy black Versafine Clair ink pad to arrive, I thought I’d have another go, this time using Sepia coloured ink. I chose cream coloured card to do ordinate and started out thinking I would make a vintage tones card .. but I then got sidetracked down other avenues - here’s the result.

I stamped two of the Flower Smudge stamps in sepia onto cream card and coloured the flowers with yellow and fuchsia pink Inktense pencils. I cut a third panel and stamped with the leaf part of the wellies stamp from The Great Outdoors set, then stamped a sentiment in fuchsia pink (I don’t actually have any specific birthday sentiments by A&C so I used the closest I could).

. I also stamped a bit of background stamping and random pink words onto the other 2 panels. I then edged each panel with blended Distress Oxide, and matted onto a die cut triptych card.

Stamps: AALL & Create #985 Flower Smudge, #370 The Great Outdoors, #531 Textured Florals #533 Bring On the Sentiments;

Media:  Versafine (Vintage Sepia);  Versafine Clair (Charming Pink); Inktense Pencils; Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Vintage Photo);

Tools: Studio Light Essentials Triptych die set.

Challenges I would like to enter: 

Ally’s Angels #73 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments #304 - Not a Rectangle

Creatalicious #264 - Anything Goes with option Different Card Fold Technique

Double D - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers: Dies (August) - Anything Goes with Dies

Love to Craft #75 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

Seize the Birthday #267 - Shaped Card

Simon Says (Monday) - Happy Birthday (3rd entry)

Triple B (August) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms

Word Art Wednesday #607/608 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

I definitely got on better stamping the large silhouette stamps with a juicier ink pad though it’s still not easy … my new black VFC has now arrived so my next step will be to try again stamping in black on top of an inked background … watch this space!!

Until then, take care and thanks for visiting. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Hugs,