Flower Card

           It’s April 1 and Mother Nature is playing cruel tricks on us….cold and a few snow showers today. The snow showers didn’t last but a few minutes but in April, that’s still too long. More could be coming too! Grrrrr.

Today’s card was made using a Power Poppy stamp that was coloured with pencils and blended with gamsol.

 

This was the smallest stamp in the set. I’ve had it coloured for quite some time but never got around to finishing it. I like to sit and colour images while I’m watching hockey on television and I seem to have quite a pile ready to make into cards.

The dies are all various Spellbinder’s dies. Once the image was die cut, it was left in the die and blue ink was lightly sponged around the image which left the border white. If you have the Spellbinder’s magnetic platform, here’s a trick I use all the time. Place a piece of scrap paper on the magnetic platform and then the image that is still in the die. This will hold the image in place while you sponge the colour on and no worries about the image moving in the die and getting ink where you don’t want it. That magnetic platform is powerful. The brushes I use for light inking came from the make up aisle at The Dollar Tree…much cheaper than buying them from a craft store and they work just fine. The downside is they all have brown handles. So, I added a piece of coloured tape around the handle of each one so I know which one to grab for inking….one per colour family.

     Anyway, back to the card. Once the image was adhered to the black die cut and then onto the designer paper on the card front - from the stash so I have no idea where it came from. The tag was die cut and adhered with a gold brad. The sentiment is a gold peel-off.

   That’s all for a cold Friday, April 1, 2022. Have a safe and creative weekend everyone.

Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes takes a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.