Hi everyone, today’s card is a bright and happy summer floral - I love sunflowers, and really like this grungy vibe sunflower stamp by Tracy Evans.
I cut a piece of stamping card and created a background by daubing various colours of Distress Oxide onto a large acrylic block, spritzing with water and then “stamping” onto the card. I stamped the focal sunflower and coloured the stem and leaves with Distress watercolor pencils, then stamped again onto a separate piece of card, coloured the flower head then fussy cut out. I added a little stencilling and stamped wording to the background, stamped my birdies on a branch and dangling hearts, and attached my fussy cut flower head and added the stamped sentiments. I matted the piece onto a blue border and a 7” x 5” card blank before finishing off with some white Posca highlights and spatters.
As this card was for a crafty blogging friend I also decorated the envelope and the inside of the card.
Stamps: AALL & Create #648 Friendship Florals; Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE6 Branched Heart; Pink Frog
Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron); Distress watercolor pencils (Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Warm Breeze); Posca pen (white);
Tools: That’s Crafty! Dinky Stencil.
Challenges I would like to enter:
613 Avenue Create (July) - Anything Goes with option Floral Delight (2nd entry)
AAA Birthdays #63 - Fabulous Flowers
Allsorts #790 - Flowers
Crafty Calendar (July) - Add a Sentiment (2nd entry)
Creatalicious #279 - Anything Goes with option Summer (2nd entry)
Dream Valley #318 - Summer Colours (2nd entry)
Everybody Art #561 - We Love Stamping (2nd entry)
Four Seasons (July) - Summer (2nd entry)
Inkspirational #320 - Products from 2 or More Stamp Companies (2nd entry)
Shopping Our Stash #526 - Summer (2nd entry)
Simon Says (Monday) - Lots of Layers
Try It On Tuesday - Things With Wings (2nd entry)
Word Art Wednesday #657/658 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)
Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
17 comments:
Super bit of bright and cheery grunge which I'm sure will be appreciated by your crafty friend - great idea to decorate the envelope to match
BEAUTIFUL!!! Fabulous design and happy colors! Don't forget to share this beauty in our STENCIL FUN challenge also (link below). Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons Challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back again soon.
Darlene
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A gorgeous card, full of summer sunshine with that spectacular sunflower. The background design is beautiful too.
xx
Another favourite A&C stamp, always so cheery and great combo using the teal colours in the background and the three birdies which compliment the focal one.
You mentioned masking fluid, I used to use the one with the nozzle but didn't really get on with it, far prefer the tub (which is much cheaper as well) and a finish brush which for me gives more control. Rubbing off, sometimes I use one of the square rubbers intended for glue removal, but usually revert to fingers (make sure you use more than one - blisters!) as the rubber can as you mentioned tear the card.
Also, your card arrived today, it really is pretty and appreciate your message.
Finally, many thanks for sharing your sunny Sunflower with us at Allsorts challenge.
B x
What a lovely Summery card with the wonderful sunflower on the fab background. Love this. xxx
Gorgeous card, I love the sunflower image and the background is great. Thanks for joining in our challenge over at Crafty Calendar.
Bev x
Very pretty and so coordinated with the envelope and inside in the same style, gorgeous. Thank you for playing at the AAA Birthday Card Challenges
A lovely sunflower and looks great fussy cut too. Such a lot of detail on this super card.
A beautiful card, I like the way you added the bird details. Thank you for sharing with us at TioT's.
Yvonne
A lovely summer card and nicely decorated envelope too. Thanks for taking part at Allsorts too.
A lovely card Pauline, the sunflower really pops against your inky background and I love the addition of the little birds on the branch to tie in with the one on the sunflower.
Thanks for sharing with us at Try it on Tuesday.
Avril x
It was such a joy to receive this beautiful card, I absolutely love it, from the colors, to the design to the products you used, it's simply perfect. Thank you again!! Also for linking up at Allsorts and Four Seasons challenges.
Wow, so pretty! Great stamp and a beautiful design. This sunflower really looks so beautiful against this amazing background. Wonderful colors and those birds at the bottom of this sunflower look so gorgeous. I think your blogger friend really liked this birthday card.
Thank you very much for sharing your card with the current Everybody-Art-Challenge.
Hugs Uschi
Beautiful! I love the artsy, mixed media feel. Wonderful details. Thank you for joining us at Inkspirational!
Really pretty :) Thanks a lot for joining us at Creatalicious! :)
What a beautiful, inky masterpiece; I love everything about this; plus BIG bonus points for the cool coordinated envelope! Thanks for SHOPPING YOUR (summery!) STASH with us this fortnight!
I love it!! Collage/grunge cards are some of my favorite!! Way to go adding to your stash...your sunflower card is perfect for our "Summer" challenge!! Thanks for playing along with us over at Shopping Our Stash!!
Deb Horst, DT #SOS526
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