Happy hare

One of my favourite challenge blogs -  Stamping Sensations - has 'June flowers' on its mood board. Lucky me, because I just made a long walk in the countryside. It was so beautiful! Hundreds of wild Marguerites, red Poppies, White and Red Clover and many more, visited by honey bees, bumble bees and hoverflies. We also spotted hares, ducks, geese, swans and birds of prey. Enough inspiration for a new card!

First step is to stamp and mask the marguerite at the bottom left and the bottom right. I have used black Versafine. Now you can stamp and mask the marguerite in between. Stamp the hare and mask it. Now you switch to white Versamagic ink and stamp a marguerite on both the left and right side of the card. Mask these prints, and stamp the third and last marguerite. Stamp the 'bees' with black Versafine, and mask them as well. 

Next step is to remove all the masks temporarily and colourize the 'bees', the hare and the marguerites with pencils. It is important to use a pencil that is really 'fat'. For this technique, I prefer wax-based pencils like Derwent coloursoft. 

Put back the masks on the marguerites at the bottom, the hare and the bees. Colourize the entire background with blue inktense,  Use a big water brush to dissolve the inktense, and brush some of it over the marguerites. 

Remove all the masks and add the sentiment.

Irl, the blue is less bright, I've tried to make a better picture .... and I am still trying. If I succeed, I will add the new picture to this blog post. 

Stamps:

Katzelkraft KTZ174 - Les Marguerites, KTZ224 Flamingo's & friends ('bees'), KTZ276 - Whatchamacallit (sentiment), KTZ208 - La Ferme des animaux.

Other materials:

- Versafine (black)

- Versamagic (cloud white)
- Derwent coloursoft and inktense pencils

Challenges:

- We Love Stamping - 15 year blog celebration!!! Fabulous Florals or AG
- Stamping Sensations - June challenge: mood board or AG

- Allsorts Challenge - Lots of layers or AG (do 6 layers of masks count?)

Thank you for watching and have a nice day!

Small card, big rose

 This time I've made a card with a stamp that was put back unused in its storage folder way too many times. Almost all my favourite challenges having a rose on their mood board was just the push I needed!

I stamped the rose with Memento Rhubarb Stalk, and masked it. I made the background by stamping the small rose with Versamagic Pixie Dust (pale pink) and colourizing all these little roses with a white pencil. 

I then brushed Inktense over the entire background. I did this by picking it up directly from the pencil, but you can also colourize the background with an Inktense pencil and use a water brush afterwards. You can actually see the resist happening when you start brushing, this is so much fun to do!

Now the background is ready and all there is left to do is to colourize the big rose. I used pencils and a stump.

A little fun fact: The little rose stamp is one of my oldest stamps, it's at least 15 years old, probably almost 20 years!!

Another fun fact: I ruined the first card. The glue stained the cardstock and I am still not sure what went wrong. So I had to do it all over again. 

Stamps:

- Katzelkraft KTZ176 Les Roses (the big rose)
- PSX A-249 (small rose)

Other materials:

- white PaintOn paper
- Memento Rhubarb Stalk
- Versamagic Pixie Dust
- Inktense: crimson

Challenges:

- We Love Stamping - 15 year blog celebration!!! Fabulous Florals or AG
- Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - Anything florals goes with optional mood board #17
- Stamping Sensations - June challenge with mood board or AG
- Allsorts Challenge - Lots of Layers or AG 

Thank you for watching and have a nice day!