Sending Sunshine

Hi everyone, this month’s Visible Image ATC swap on FB has a theme of How Does Your Garden Grow?, so I thought it was high time I break out my VI sunflower stamp set to make a cheerful summery floral card. It’s not exactly in keeping with the weather we’ve been having here, but I live in hope! As always, I made an ATC and co-ordinating card using only Visible Image stamps, stencils and/or dies.

Firstly the card:

I cut a 5 1/2 inch square of white card and used my gel press to make a background circle by brayering two colours of Elements ink, adding some droplets of watered down Elements then taking a print. I stamped the sunflower for positioning, then masked the circle and added 2nd generation background text stamping in blue. I stamped the sunflower again onto a separate snippet of card, coloured it with Zig pens, fussy cut out and attached, then added further stamped spatters. I stamped the sentiment onto another snippet, cut out and attached, then matted the finished panel onto a black border (another snippet!) and a 6” square card blank. Finally I added some white Posca dots to the flower centre and finished with Glossy Accents.

Stamps: Visible Image Sunflower Grunge, Sketched Tulips (background text), Christmas Robin (addional spatters); Golden Daffodils (sentiment);

Media: Lavinia Elements inks; Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Blue Belle); Kuretake Zig Clean Colour watercolour pens; Posca pen (white); Glossy Accents;

Tools: Lavinia Roland gel press.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #784 - Flowers Galore

Beautiful Blossoms #17 - Anything Floral Goes (5th entry) - TOP 5

Crafts Galore Encore #124 - Anything Goes

Festive Fridays (June) - Flowers

Four Seasons (June) - Anything Goes Summer

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #193 - You Are My Sunshine

Let’s Craft and Create #208 - Anything Goes

Love to Craft #80 - Anything Goes

Path of Positivity #122 - Anything Goes Positive 

{PIN}spirational #314 - Flowers (2nd entry)

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

We Love 2 Create #5 - Anything Goes

We Love Stamping (June) - Fabulous Florals (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #651/652 - Anything Goes

Secondly, the ATC.

 I made the background for this by using the “run off” from my brayer for the gel press, which I rolled onto a spare snippet of card. The background and sunflower stamping were the same as the card, and the wording from the same stamp set as the flower. This ATC was made entirely from snippets!! 

Stamps and media as per card above.

Challenges I would like to enter: 

Love to Scrap #167 - Anything Goes

Make My Monday #227 - B is for Blooms (2nd entry)

Outlawz (June) - Anything Goes In a Card Free Zone

Snippets Playground #482 - Use Snippets

Time Out #265 - There Are Always Flowers For Those Who Want To See Them

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,