Sunday 31 March 2019

Flower Clusters

Good Morning.

Meet today's card.  
I'm playing with a new to me stamp from Magenta called Large Floral Bkg.  As soon as I saw it months ago, I knew I had to pick it up.  I love the free flowing look the flowers in clusters has.  
I wanted to try using it with my Ranger Alcohol Lifting ink and a piece of previously inked Yupo I had done and so today was the day.

So like I said, I began with a piece of Yupo that I had inked with Ranger Alcohol inks.  I placed the that piece inside my Misti, inked the stamp with the Lifting ink then stamped it onto the AI Yupo inked sheet.  It lifted the colour so I was able to swap out the Yupo for a piece of plain white cardstock and transferred the ink onto it. 
I cleaned the stamp then repeated that process to get a nice dark image.  The beauty of using the Misti for this process is that you can be sure the image will be in the right position for re-stamping every time.

I let the piece dry for a minute, then placed it back inside my Misti and stamped this lovely sentiment from Serendipity Stamps.
I added the finished piece over some pink cardstock then glued it all onto a plain white card base.


Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES
My Time to Craft- FEMALE or MOTHER's DAY

Supplies
Stamps- Large Floral Bkg. (Magenta); Sentiment (Serendipity Stamps)
Inks- Ranger,TH Alcohol Lifting Ink; Tuxedo Black Memento
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); pink cs
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); previously Alcohol inked Yupo piece


17 comments:

Sam Squires - A Crafting Niche said...

Wow, I absolutely love the look of this card. Thank you for taking part in the #393 of the "My Time To Craft Challenge". DT Sam x

Christine Alexander said...

Your flower background looks amazing with the AI lift. This is one of my favourite Magenta stamps, it's so versatile :) you should post on Magenta Style FB :)

Christine M said...

This is such a lovely card Karen, the colours are so nice and the entiment so true ... tfs

Christine M said...

ooops! Sorry that should say 'sentiment' :)

Verna Angerhofer said...

So beautiful with those wonderful flowers and sentiment.

Susan said...

So beautiful!! I'm definitely buying that stamp after seeing your card. Great use of the alcohol lift ink!

nancy littrell said...

Gorgeous Alcohol Lift background flower image, Karen. I love the monochromatic design for your beautiful sentiment. I really need to try this technique with my AI backgrounds in my stash. TFS and always inspiring me my friend. Hugs..Nancy

Glennis F said...

Fabulous card Karen, I love that colour

cuilliesocks said...

Absolutely gorgeous card Karen, it's a wonderful stamp and colours, Kate x x

Mac Mable said...

The technique looks glorious and love the vibrant pink and what a fabulous stamped image x.

Cath Wilson said...

I can see why you like this stamp - it's very natural looking, as if the flowers just fell off and weren't deliberately positioned. Beautiful way to use it. I love image backdrops and this is perfect.
Cath x

Pat said...

Beautifully done Karen using the ink lifting technique on the alcohol inked piece has worked so well, and the background stamped on to white cardstock using that image looks great, and love the sentiment too. So bright and pretty. x

Bonnie said...

Wow, Karen! What gorgeous goodness, Karen! Another fabulous quote!

Macimbalo said...

Very pretty! Thanks for linking up to ATCAS!

Loll said...

This turned out amazing Karen! Also love this stamp and ordered it a little while ago ... it's on it's way. :) Great work with the AI lift. xx

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

AMAZING and Beautiful.
Faith x

Gwendolyn said...

Gorgeous composition and wonderful effect from your technique! Thanks for sharing your beautiful creation with us at Addicted to Stamps and More and I hope to see more of them soon. Hugs, Gwendolyn