Sweet Summer Flowers...

Happy Tuesday,

I thought that after such a nice day yesterday weather wise and as an antidote to the Christmas cards over the weekend I would show a card today using the Sweet Summer stamp to die for that matches the Belgian collection Antwerp die by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions.  Hopefully the bright yellow and soft blue will invoke sunny clear blue days to come this month!

I stared this card by stamping the sweet summer stamp in watering can archival ink.  I then coloured the flowers and foliage using my watercolour pencils shading the flowers with different shades of yellow then going over the tip to blend these using my water brush.  I coloured the leaves in 2 shades of green but didn't water cover these to give mire definition.  Next I painted around the flowers using a soft blue which I shaded by adding the colour to a scrap piece of card and picked top the colour with the water brush to give a softer feel.  Finally I ran all around the border with a darker blue.

Next  cut the stamp to with the Antwerp die to make the frame and inserted a primrose foundation card centre cut with the centre section of the same die. adding a sentiment using the smallest pierced flags die.  I hand cut the matts on the flag and attached this under the frame and shaped this over the front.

Finally I added a panel embossed with the real checker board em,bossing panel which I embossed whilst the card was in the double pierced backgrounds rectangle die so that I maintained the piercing around the edge.  A few layers of blue and primrose and a bow and finished.

A light summery card for, Hopefully, a light summery day!

Enjoy...