…no flowers around them

Sharing a CAS birthday card featuring a pretty peony stamp from Studio Katia called Blooming Bunch.

For my card I’ve played both the sketch and inspiration picture from Fusion.  My peony bunch is the round element on sketch and I’ve used the monochromatic colours from the inspiration picture.  I love how the white on black colouring turned out.  You can’t really tell in the picture but the water colour I used has a lovely shimmer to it that makes the image even more beautiful in real life.  The only bit that didn’t quite turn out is the layer of green I put over the white on the leaves, numerous coats later and those leaves remained stubbornly white!

While I’ve kept the palette limited, I added some interest by layering my black cardstock over a silver mat and did the same with my sentiment strip.  Layers are the topping over at Seize theBirthday so I’m rocking both the regular ‘anything goes’ and topping.  Loving being able to do the double on two different challenges, the inspiration challenges provide is exactly why I love playing in them.

At Allsorts that want you to say it in flowers.  I seem to want to say it in peonies all the time, but we won’t talk about this stamp being NBUS from my trip to Tassie over Christmas (shout out to the two most awesome real bricks and mortar, smell the fresh paper and alcohol inks craft shops in Australia, Bev’s Cross Crafts and Ashcrafts and Gifts!) or the numerous other peony stamps I have in my stash.  Let’s just talk about peonies being such pretty, pretty flowers and the fact their starring presence on my card means I can also link up my card in the Allsorts’ challenge.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Silver

Inks & Paints etc

Close To My Heart Glitter Brush Pen ~ Mint Julep

Kuretake Starry Colors ~ No. 902 Red Gold & No. 906 White Gold

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Hero Arts Smooth Cardstock ~ Pitch Black

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft Cardstock Metallic ~ Silver

Stamps

Studio Katia ~ STKS033 Blooming Bunch

Challenges

Allsorts #554 ~ Say it with Flowers

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