Hello there, I am back today with part 3 of my Sunflower Daisy series! If you missed Part 1 or Part 2 I have linked them here for you. Every Monday in the month of August I am sharing creations using my pick for Stamp Set of the Month, Altenew's Sunflower Daisy. I was blown away at the realistic look of the flowers and leaves in this set and just had to play with it.
For today's cards I am playing with the coordinating stencil. You can get the stamp set, die set and stencil set in a bundle, which is what I purchased. Mostly because the stencil set comes with masks! Check out the masks in action in last week's video if you missed it.
I used the stencil with the Altenew inks, Rose Petal. This is a set of four pink colors that Altenew has grouped together, so I know they are going to layer together and be beautiful. I made a stenciled background with three of the colors from this set; Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart and Purple Wine. I stenciled the smaller flower with one color and filled an entire piece of card stock that measured 4" x 5-1/2". Then I took the second more detailed coordinating stamp and stamped that over the top of the stenciled flowers in the same ink color. I repeated this with the other two colors, creating 3 backgrounds.
Then I took my three backgrounds and cut them into strips, measuring 1-3/4" x 4". I was then able to create 4 cards using the three backgrounds that I made.
I used the Elegant Occasions Glimmer Hot Foil plate set and Aurora foil to add the Thank You Sentiment. I did have some over foiling with this set and I am not sure why, that happens sometimes and you can use a sanding eraser to remove some of that but I had a hard time getting it off of the stamped backgrounds. So I just went with this I felt it added to the botanical feel of this card.
I love the iridescent shine of a Hot Foiled image! I also added a stamped sentiment using one of the greetings from the Sunflower Daisy stamp set.
Speaking of the Sunflower Daisy stamp set, the star of this card has to be the large stamped flower. The layering of the four images in four coordinating ink colors is amazing!
For the center of the flower I used the three lightest colors from the Delectable Delights ink collection, also from Altenew. The leaves were stamped with the three lightest inks from the Tropical Forest ink collection. I LOVE these greens, so bright and vibrant but still earthy.
Now let's take a look at the other three cards I made using the remaining background strips.
For this card I reversed the order of the strips, putting the lightest at the top and moving the flower to the top of the card. The look that you get when ink blending the base of the flower in the backgrounds and then stamping the top layer with the same color of ink is much different than stamping the base image with a light color of ink and then stamping the second detailed image over that with a darker ink. Which makes excellent backgrounds. If you like the idea of using your focal images to create backgrounds you will want to check out last week's creation in this video.
For my next card I foiled the sentiment on the lightest strip with pink foil.
I love the placement of the flower on this card as well. There where so many options when creating these 4 cards with very similar layouts. I highly recommend creatins more than one card with the same supplies. It gets the creative juices flowing and you already have all the supplies out so it makes it easy to create.
This last card is so different because I only had 1/4" strips left. So I used one here as an accent above my embossed panel. And used pink foil for my sentiment.
I LOVE this flower images, just look at how beautiful it stamps. If you have yet to try one of Altenew's stamp layering sets, I suggest this one. It is more forgiving than some other layering stamps if you do not get it lined up exactly, ask me how I know. Just look closely at this image and you can see one side I did not get lined up. And if you can not find it, then I proved my point I guess. hehe.
You can watch the making of these cards in the video below. AND, if you go over to my YouTube channel and you LIKE and COMMENT on this video, you will be entered to WIN one of these cards!!! The winner of last week's card is Doreen Nelson! Congrats Doreen, I will be in touch and get your card out to you right away!
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