Hi everyone, this week’s challenge at Allsorts is to use circles, so I felt inspired to make a card featuring a circular floral wreath using some of my new release Lavinia stamps along with a few older stamps.
I cut a square of stamping card and created a circle by blending Distress Ink around a circle mask. I then stamped an arc of flowers using the new Moss Flowers stamp, which I coloured with Zig pens and Wink of Stella, then I surrounded it with stamped smaller flowers and leaves using a variety of pastel shades of Versafine Clair. I stamped the two bees Bumble and Hum in the centre of the circle and coloured them with Sakura Stardust pens and their wings with Zig pens and Wink of Stella. I then stamped my sentiment in black and some soft honeycomb background using 3rd generation Elements ink. I finished off with some Posca sparkle pen dots, and my first attempt at foiling using Fab Foil and a Quickie glue pen to add some detail to the flowers and the circle. I wasn’t entirely successful as I couldn’t seem to make my dots of glue as small as I wanted, but I’m reasonably pleased for my first attempt and will definitely keep practising as I really love how it makes cards “pop”.
Here is an angled picture to show the sparkle and shine.
Stamps: Lavinia Moss Flowers, Bumble and Hum, Flower Mini, Mini Leaf 2, Mini Maple; Visible Image Bee Happy;
Media: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Spun Sugar); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Baby Pink, Hawthorn Rose, Lilac Bloom, Very Peri, Avocado); Kuretake Zig Clean Colour watercolour pens; Sakura Stardust pens (orange, yellow); Posca sparkle penn(pink); Wink of Stella; Fab Foil (gold).
Challenges I would like to enter:
613 Avenue Create (July) - Anything Goes with option Floral Delight
Allsorts #789 - Use Circles
Beautiful Blossoms #19 - Anything Floral Goes
Incy Wincy (July) - Circles
NBUS #64 - Use Your Never Before Used Schtuff (2nd entry)
(Main flower and bee stamps, Fab Foil)
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2428 - Anything Goes
Simon Says (Wednesday) - Add Some Sparkle
Sweet Stampin’ - Things With Wings
Try It on Tuesday - Things With Wings
Word Art Wednesday #657/658 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
I hope I’ll be back before too long with some further makes with my new Lavinia stash. Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
15 comments:
Jeja vous on our activity yesterday Pauline, I went Autumn though great card for Allsorts circles, thank you for sharing.
You might find you don't get the larger dots if the glue dries longer, I find it doesn't smudge and move as much that way.
B x
A really pretty wreath with sparkle and shine - loving the bees
Glorious card my friend. So pretty with the new stamps and all the sparkle & shine.
Thanks for joining in at Allsorts and using the theme. X
This is so pretty, love the pastel shades and sparkle from the foil. I got the Shadow Bloom stamp, but wishing I'd got the smaller flowers too. I feel another spend coming.
Avril xx
Gorgeous wreath of flowers and the bees are busy pollinating and dancing amongst them. I also like the gold accents here and there, reminds me of honey drops. Thanks for sharing your lovely card with us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge. We look forward to seeing more of your creative designs soon.
Donna xx
Beautiful Blossoms Challenge
Paper Funday Challenges
Inspiration Station Challenge
Lovely card Pauline. Thank you for joining us at TIOT!
This is a beautiful creation Pauline I love how you have done the of gorgeous flowers and those Bee's are perfect in the centre I love this so much thank you for joining us at Allsorts
hugs
lolo x
A beautiful card using these lovely pastel colours, thanks for sharing at Allsorts this week.
Lorraine
A fabulous design Pauline, I love how you’ve used new Lavinia stamps. They are still on my wish list, but I think I may need to put in an order soon. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge this week using the Circles option.
Liz xx
Oh this is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing at Allsorts. Sarah
I see you succumbed! A lovely card and the touches of sparkle really enhance the design. Thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts.
Such a great take on our circle theme Pauline, love how this turned out and always a fan of bee themed cards!
Thanks so much for joining us this week at Allsorts challenge!
Gorgeous colours on this beautiful card Pauline. The bees are so lifelike. Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stampin. Pat K x
Such a lovely card! Those bees are fabulous and I love the gold shimmer and shine 😊. Thanks so much for joining in the fun at Try it on Tuesday! Hugs, Jo x
Oh this is so beautiful! Love the colours and the sweet bees!
Thank you for sharing your card with us at Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges.
Hugs,
Renata
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