Spring blooms

Welcome to my second inspiration post for Crafts U Love. This month I am playing working with  teamie Julie Hickey's Flower Garden stamp. If you missed it, my first sample is here.

This time I used pens to ink the image before stamping. The stamping platform really helps with this technique as there is no limit in the number of times you can stamp or re-stamp each part of the image!


To colour each flower I used the matching Distress Inks to the pens with an improvised palette and a waterbrush.

The colours in the photos are not true to life, as unfortunately at this time of the year good natural lighting is hard to come by.

I painted the flowers in pink and orange, the leaves with several greens and yellows, teasing out some of the colour from the stamped lines.

With the colouring finished I fussy cut the top of the image and positioning the die as shown in the photo, run it through the die-cutting machine.

I then matted the image on top of a mat of die-cut with the next size up of the same nesting dies set.

The flowers now are bursting out of the frame!

To finish I glued the panel on a kraft card base and added a white embossed sentiment on vellum from the Everyday Sentiments also by Julie Hickey.




Supplies:
Julie Hickey Designs Stamp Set - Flower Garden
Julie Hickey Designs I Need It Stamp Set - Everyday Sentiments
Distress markers
Distress Ink Pads
Crafts Too Water Brush - Small
WOW! Embossing Powder - Bright White
Vellum

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