Flourishes Friday - Promise of Lilacs

I was just talking with my mom about our flowers, the perennials and trees that need to be fertilized and watered in before winter. We've had a really dry summer and fall and I know they are thirsty. There's something beautiful about the thought of spring in the midst of fall isn't there?

I was designing some Christmas cards yesterday for a Charity Stamp a Stack I'll be doing in a couple of weeks and I wanted to use purple. This is not a color I commonly use...I'm not sure why because when I do I'm usually so happy with the result! Well, I took that same color combination and used it here today in this very rich promise of spring Lilac card.


I stamped the Lilac set with Stazon on Very Vanilla. This was just to give me a guideline for where I wanted to position my lilacs and where I wanted the sponging to go. Then I sponged Old Olive all around the black stamped Lilacs to give it a lovely glow, and added Eggplant on the two edges.

Next I stamped the Lilacs two more times on watercolor paper and watercolored with my Stampin' Write markers. I used one of the watercolored lilacs as my *cut out* piece, and one as my *dimension* piece. I trimmed out the entire lilac on from the cut out piece and adhered it right to my sponged piece over the stamped image. Then I cut out parts of the dimension piece (some blooms and a leaf) and added those with dimensionals to the main image. (much like paper tole I imagine). It really has a gorgeous effect. Here you can see the 2 or 3 layers in the different parts.



One thing I really like about clear stamps is that you can create a pattern yourself. I used the grasshopper and the leaf stamps on my acrylic block together to create a pattern for stamping the Olive piece and sponged it.

The sentiment is stamped on Vanilla and lightly watercolored and accented with the SW Marker.
Sigh...it's so rich! I love this creation!


Be sure to visit the other Flourishes girls to see what their Fabulous Flourishes Friday creations are!

You can visit Julie's Friday roundup of the Friends of Flourishes Blog Team over at the Flourishes Newsletter, and also visit these Friends of Floruishes team-members. They are great creative ladies: Becca Fekken, Betty Wright, and Cindy Haffner

Recipe: Stamps: Flourishes: Lilac Ink: Black Stazon, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive Paper: Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Brocade Background DSP, Watercolor, Very Vanilla Accessories: SW Markers, Sponge, Dimensionals, Gold Brads, Scallop Edge Punch, Piercer, Olive Organdy Ribbon

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Flourishes Friday - Promise of Lilacs