…flowers shall grow and I am in them

Sharing a very simple sympathy card featuring the elegant Demure from Penny Black.

I carefully inked the stamp so that only the three main flowers and their individual stalks were inked.  The flowers were done in Tim Holtz Distress Ink Milled Lavender and the stems in Mowed Lawn.  I then water coloured the flowers and fixed up the stems with the matching Distress Marker.

I did the careful inking so the flowers would fit the three elements of the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I added in the sentiment with a stamp from the Good Morning Magnolia set from Stampin’ Up! in some Distress Archival.

Over at The Rainbow Card they’re currently passionate for purple, which worked well as this is going to a friend who loves purple.  Keeping this CAS, I’ve not used any patterned paper, so I’m also linking my card up at Dragonfly Dreams.

Ingredients:

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colors ~ No. 139 Purple

Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink ~ Dusty Concord

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Milled Lavender & Mowed Lawn

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Mowed Lawn

Papers

Arches Water Colour Paper

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Gorgeous Grape & Purple Posey

Stamps

Penny Black ~ 40-375 Demure

Stampin’ Up! ~ 149298 Good Morning Magnolia (sentiment)

Challenges

Dragonfly Dreams ~ No Patterned Paper

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…when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air…

Sharing a CAS card featuring the large magnolia stamp from the Good Morning Magnolia set by Stampin’ Up!.

 

Over at AAA Cards they are asking you to use one image with the option of going positive.  My card features the one large image and the uplifting sentiment of ‘Thinking of you’, from the same Stampin’ Up! set.  I always think a handmade card that comes in the mail just because someone is thinking of you is like a hug in an envelope and can’t help but make the recipient feel more positive about themselves and life because they know someone cares and is thinking about them.

My colours are from the pretty palette at Just Us Girls.  The two pinks the perfect colouring for my magnolia, I do love the pink variety.  Although I’ve realised now I’ve stuck the whole thing down that my cardstocks are the wrong colour family for my inks ~ duh!

Although I like to keep my cards CAS, I have scattered a few tiny pearls around my magnolia so I could also play along at Fab ’n’ Funky.  At least the pearls match the inks I used, not like those cardstocks.  I’m right down to the wire getting this card in, nothing like a bit of weekday speed crafting to set you up to get through hump day tomorrow!

Ingredients:

Embellishments

Flourish with a Bling Pearls ~ Rose Pink

Inks & Paints etc

Hero Ink ~ Unicorn White

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Fossilized Amber, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Picked Raspberry & Spun Sugar

Tsukineko VersaFine Clair ~ Shady Lane

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Burlap Cardstock ~ Ruby Red

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Coral Cream

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Herbal Garden Medium

Stamps

Stampin’ Up! ~ 149298 Good Morning Magnolia

Challenges

Fab ’n’ Funky #449 ~ Add Pearls / Gems...

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