Well, its been about 6 weeks since I’ve created for myself! A lot of things have happened in the last few months including a big career change back into a church Pastoral role and our son got married last weekend. A lot of my creating has gone to doing little bits and pieces for their wedding. I honestly thought I might have lost my creative spirit. It’s hard to start back up again isn't it?
When I’m lost for inspiration, I always go back to what I know, and that’s my love of colouring. I pulled out this stunning set from Simon Says Stamp called Beautiful Flowers and its coordinating die. I inked it in Toffee Crunch Memento Ink for a no line look, and coloured the image with Copics, and a bit of coloured pencil for details. I have some Sunrise Roses in the front flower bed which I used as inspiration for this design. They come out of the bud in deep coral shades and then fade to apricot and the faintest peachy blossom.
The image is so beautiful and large that I went with an A6 sized card for the design. The background is first inked on the card base with SSS’s background stamp Overlapping Drops, and then the next layer is ink blended with Distress Oxide ink and then run through the SSS Pincushion Plate Die, where I left all the holes in the die so it just brings texture. I’ve added in some ink blended die cut leaves for more tone on tone texture.
The sentiment, from the stamp set is embossed onto a vellum strip. Hope you enjoyed!
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