Playing with Blue- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning.

Time for another card at 

The Flower Challenge.

http://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.com/

Great theme we are playing with this month

MONOCHROME

(we can use black for the sentiment)

So onto my card.

I love to play with my inks especially my Distress Oxides.  I often rub them onto a piece of acetate or my non-stick craft mat, spray with water and ink up my paper.  

My dilemma comes after that....what to do with the leftover ink since I hate to waste it?   So now, I always keep an extra piece of cardstock handy to mop up the extra ink left behind and that is how this background came to be.

I used some Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean DOX, sprayed with water and pressed my cardstock into that.  After it dried, it was just a mess of color with no focal area, so I took a stencil and some Blueprint Sketch DOX and stenciled right over the inkiness.  I loved the results!  

When that was all dry, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the sentiment with Memento black ink and clear heat embossed to help it pop against the inked background.

I die-cut the flowers, glued them in place and then I added some clear gems to help the flowers pop, keeping my card simple and very monochrome.

Thanks so much for coming by to take a look.

Please check out the amazing card at our challenge too.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simply Create Too- NO PATTERNED PAPERS

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- WATERCOLOURED BKG

Supplies

Stamps- Live, Laugh, Love (Rubbernecker)

Inks- Memento black= Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white

Accessories and Tools- Misti (Sweet Petunia)= Dandelion Posies die (Creative Expression)=

Floral Radar Stencil (TCW)= clear eb powder= heat tool= Mister (TH)