Flowering Fields

Okay so you need to spend the $50 on some stamping stuff so that you can get Flowering Fields as a Sale-a-bration freebie. It’s loads of fun.

I stamped 5 of the 6 plants in this set in archival basic black freehand on very vanilla. I was just too lazy to use my stamp-a-ma-jig and figured I’d put a banner to cover up the stem ends. I’ve been using my aquapainter lately and for some reason, rather than using my Stampin’ Write markers, I continued. Mostly the colours are full strength – pear pizzazz, so saffron and calypso coral. The only place that I really went for watered down colour was on the second plant on the left – that’s coloured using calypso coral at different strengths. The banner didn’t work – it was covering too much of the plants and I suddenly remembered that I had pear pizzazz ribbon from a ribbon share last year. It covered the rather uneven stems beautifully and gave the plants some grass to grow from. It was a little plain and there is less happening on the left hand side of the card so I actually added a bow, attached with a glue dot. Quite a rare event. And it took a fair amount of agonising about whether it was a good idea or not! But I think it’s produced a cheerful birthday card and as previously mentioned, I’m sending more cards this year so it’s useful. I’ve sent/given four this week so I’m feeling pretty good about my progress on my resolution.

I lined the envelope with the subtles designer series paper stack in pear pizzazz using the envelope liners framelits to cut out the liner. I love the script pattern so it’s not likely that you’ll see the reverse (dots) any time soon!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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