Sunflower Daisy background

Welcome back to the blog. Today I am sharing part 2 of my August Stamp Set of the Month series. This month's pick for stamp set of the month is Sunflower Daisy by Altenew. It's a gorgeous layering stamp set. For today's card I am going to use the same stamps to create a background for my card and the focal images. To do this I will be using the Mask Stencil set that you can get in a bundle with the stamps and dies. The Mask Stencil set is just what the name says a Stencil that coordinates with the flower and leaf images in the stamp set, but they also give you the cut out shapes of the flowers and leaves to use as masks. It's fabulous.

So let's take a look at today's card.

The background on this card was inspired by cards that I saw Lydia make on her YouTube channel, Lydia's Crafty Corner. I loved it so much and knew I wanted to make my own for this card.

The trick to making the background with the same flowers is to eliminate the most solid stamp that you normally stamp first in the stamp layering process. That leaves more white showing through. Also, since my background was going to be under the same stamped flowers I stamped the background with mostly light ink. You can use darker inks and put just a sentiment over this background, it is so beautiful. 

I love these flowers, they are so gorgeous, detailed and dimensional just with layering stamps.

The ink that I used for this card should be mentioned. With layering stamps you want 2-4 colors of ink that go together. I used two ink pad sets from Altenew; Sweet Dreams for the Teal Blues and Tropical Forest for the green leaves. If you are not familiar with Altenew ink pads they come in sets of four. So when you do stamp layering you can easily pick a set of ink pads and stamp your flowers in that set of colors, knowing that all the colors in the set will work well and layer nicely together.

For the sentiment panel I used a Gel Press background that I had on hand. A Gel Press print is made by brayering paint or ink over a gel like plate and picking up that paint with a piece of paper.  This card needed something that would stand out between the background and the flowers and solid card stock was a little plain to me. So, I pulled out some prints I had previously made and this one was perfect, the green went really well with the stamped leaves. I also thing the grungy edge of this print is amazing and it adds something special to this card.

With all the cards in the August stamp set of the month series I will be dressing up the inside of the card. It's a goal of mine to add a little something to the inside, which just makes the card more special. If you caught last weeks card, the inside of this card is similar in lay out. I will try to be more creative on the inside of next week's card.

If you are new to my stamp set of the month series, you should know I give away the cards I make each week. It's easy to enter. First, watch the making of this card in the video below. Then, if you like the video give it a thumbs up and leave a comment on the video. Every one who does will be entered to win this card. I will announce the winner on next week's video. And here is the video:

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If you are interested in video of the Gel Press in action check out these:

Rainbow Glimmer Unicorn Card

Gel Press & Distress Oxide Inks

Gel Press Surprise Prints

Below I have listed and linked all the products I used to make this card. Affiliate links have been used, which means when you click on these links you are supporting this blog and my YouTube channel at no cost to you. Thank you! I appreciate you stopping by and letting me share my creations with you!

 

 

Comments

[Linda Carver]

Love this card....a beautiful garden you don'thave to weed.website of this company.will have to check out the goodies might want something..beautiful job as usual