Hi everyone
I hope you are all enjoying the weekend.
Thank you ladies for your lovely comments on my last post.
A quick post today to share a card I made recently.
The background was created using Distress Oxides and then the flowers stamped using Black permanent ink. I took some of the colour out from the background, from behind the flower heads, using a clean damp paint brush. I then painted some of the flowers with inks. To bring it all together I added some white paint splashes.
Crafty Individuals Stamps used:
Build A Meadow CI 395
Build A Spring Flower Garden CI 423
Words and Wishes CI 438
Thank you for looking.
Take care,
Flo x
I love this card Flo and I’ve only just discovered the Oxide inks, so I’m loving them too. Everything on this card works together so beautifully and I really like your colour palette. Crafty hugs, Sandra x
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Thank you Sandra. Loving your makes on the Kraft card.
http://sandmacards.blogspot.com.es/2017/10/my-second-batch-of-crafty-individuals.html
Hugs Flo x
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This is gorgeous Florence, love the oxides background, beautiful floral stamps too.
Hugs
Linda xxx
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Thank you Linda.
Hugs Flo x
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Absolutely beautiful card. Love the colours too. Reminds me of my favourite time of year, Spring :)x
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Thank you Kim. Spring is my favourite time as well.
Hugs Flo x
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Sometimes it is hard to combine two stamp sets but this is really good composition. And I really like the colors you used.
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Thank you Beverley.
Hugs Flo x
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Lovely card . I’m also enjoying the oxides. Jan
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Thank you Jan. Lovely to hear from you. Hope all is well.
Hugs Flo x
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What a beautiful card Florence, super background colours and a beautifully designed meadow, love it Kate x
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Thank you Kate. Hope your week is going well.
Hugs Flo xx
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Absolutely gorgeous Flo! The flowers are so delicate and beautifully painted, love it. Hugs xx
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Thank you Penny.
Hugs Flo x
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A beautiful Summery card Flo! I love the colours!
Have a great week!
Alison xxx
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Thank you Ali. Hope your week is going well.
Hugs Flo xx
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Absolutely beautiful Flo. I love the choice of colours used. They team so well with the stamped image. Very grown up fairy type of thing. Love it.
~~ Cobs. xxx
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Thank you Cobs. Pleased you like it.
Hugs Flo x
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Florence, I always like the stamps you use, but I am most enthralled with your background. I love the colors and the variegated way they adhered to the paper. This card is so beautiful – who wouldn’t love to get something like this to know they were being thought of. I hope you had a lovely weekend and are headed into a joyous week.
Marianne xox
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Thank you Marianne. Hope your week is going well.
Take care, hugs, Flo xx
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You’ve managed very well to lift the colours from the Distress background, the flowers have clean colours and look gorgeous. xx
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Thank you Christine. Yes I did manage ok with this one. It’s not easy to remove the colour with them is it! The normal distress inks are easy peasy. I think it could have been the water color paper/card stock I used. The inks seems to sit on it rather than soak in. Pleased you like the card.
Hugs Flo x
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Hi Florence, I have just a few of the Oxides and I have mostly just sponged with them and blended the colours. I have such a long list of things I want to try. I really like the little stamps you have used here, so pretty.
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Thank you Barb. I have had problems with the oxides directly applied to card with a sponge. This could be the card stock I am using. I have very, very limited choice. For me, I have found it easier to pat the ink onto a piece of plastic or an acrylic block, spritz it with water and then swish the card in the diluted ink. I do like them to stamp with on coated card stock and then emboss with clear powder. Saves buying special ink and different colours of embossing powder so I am pleased with that. Saves the pennies. One of the surprises for me was that some different colour combos don’t necessarily work as I thought they were going to and some colour combos seem to work better together than I thought they would. If that makes sense. A bit like a box of chocolates….you don’t know what you are going to get! 🙂 All good fun though.
Hugs Flo x
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Beautiful card Flo, love the bright colours of the flowers against the more muted background.
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Such great fresh colours! And love the splashes’they really finish of the card! Enjoy the weekend; hope you’ll get some sunshine too! Hugs, Gerrina
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A truly beautiful card so bright and uplifting : ) Just perfect. I must try oxides one day, they look very interesting, your background is wonderful x
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Fab selection you have – love all your cards
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The oxide background is really pretty Flo and I adore snakeshead fritillary flowers and the blue ones are pretty too, also the bright orangy red butterflies are so uplifting and fun. The white spattering finishes it perfectly too. x
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Wow!!!! I adore this card and your coloring Flo, fabulous!!!
Hugs again,
Coco Xx
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