If Friends Were Flowers, I’d Pick You

Hello, friend!

Today’s card features the Pretty Pansies stamp set from Clearly Besotted.  This set has a few sentiments, and two larger stamps of flower bunches that make it easy to fill up a card.

I started with an A2-sized piece of Neenah Solar White #80 Classic Crest cardstock which I placed into a Misti stamping tool.  The stamping tool isn’t necessary for this card, but it was helpful to create symmetrical stamping.  In hindsight, since I was just making one card, it would have been just as quick and easy to hand stamp.

I position a flower stamp at the corner of the card, with part of it extending off the card.  I stamped the image in Copic-friendly Hero Arts Intense Black ink, and then rotated the card 180 degrees to stamp the image again, in the opposite corner.

Then I rotated the card 90 degrees, removed the stamp and positioned the other flower stamp to fill in the empty corner.  I stamped the image and then rotated the card 180 degrees to stamp in the opposite, and last open, corner of the card.

For coloring, I used five Copics: RV63, RV66, and RV69 for the pansies, and YG23 and YG17 for the leaves.  For both flowers and leaves, I started by adding a solid layer of the lightest color, and then adding flicks of the darker colors from the center, outwards.  Then I went back in with the lightest color to blend a little.

With the coloring done, I went back to the Misty and stamped the sentiment in Versafine Black Onyx ink, a pigment ink that remains wet for a little bit.  I sprinkled Hero Arts clear embossing powder over the top, and hit it with my heat gun.

I trimmed the panel down to 4″ x 5.25″ inches and then added foam tape to the back before I adhered it to an A2-sized card base.  To finish, I added drops of Dandelion Yellow Nuvo Crystal Drops to the centers of each of the flowers.

Thanks for stopping by!