Wildflowers

Good Morning

Meet today's simple card.

I pulled out some of the first flower stamps I ever bought.  

They have been sitting in the drawer for years with no attention.  When I did pull them out and use them, I remember how much I love the way they look as a silhouette.  It's those classic stamps that you never get rid of and I feel happy that they came to live on this card.

So here's what I did to create my card. 

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and positioned my Rectangle Marvelous Mask over my panel.
• I rubbed some Distress Oxide ink onto my acrylic block, sprayed with water and pressed onto my paper.  I continued that process until the whole masked area was filled with ink.  (The inks I used were:  Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron, Broken China, Seedless Preserves, Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet)
• I dried the background, then randomly stamped the flowers, entwining them together.  I did clear heat emboss them to help make them pop against the inky background.
• I die-cut a piece of vellum using a Spellbinder Circle die, then stamped the Friendship onto it with some Versafine ink and clear heat embossed that too.
• I free handed cut a heart, pressed it onto my Wilted Violet stamp pad, then lifted some of the ink by splattering it with water.
• I splattered the whole panel with white just to break it up a bit using my white Posca pen.
• I removed the mask and then glued the inky piece onto a purple piece of cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- STAMP IT

Watercooler Wed.- ANYTHING GOES/ FEMININE

Cardz 4 Galz- JUST SAYING HELLO

Supplies

Stamps- Wildflowers (Hero Arts); Daisy (Stampabilities); Friendship (SU)

Inks- DOX; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); Purple cardstock 

Accessories and Tools- Rectangle Marvelous Mask (A Colorful Life Designs); Posca pen; white eb powder; heat tool;

Spellbinder Circle die

Fall, Thanksgiving

Getting started on a few Thanksgiving cards since our Canadian Thanksgiving will be in just a couple weeks from now.  The weather is turning cooler and the leaves on the trees look fantastic.

I am playing along with the challenge at Splitcoast today- to use squares, the CASology challenge- Autumn and the CAS-ual Fridays challenge- to use fall colours and a leaf.

I pulled out my leaf stamp from Penny Black and coloured it using Distress ink and Memento markers.  I added some splatters around the sentiment for interest.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a peek.  

Supplies:  stamps; Penny Black, Stampabilities/ Memento markers/ Distress inks/ waterpen

You can find the OLW159 HERE.