Vibrant Echinacea on Kraft Card

Hey everyone, 

I have a card design to share today and I have to say, this is my first time creating a card this style and I absolutely love the result. I kept this design quite simple as I wanted to let the colours of the echinacea to ‘speak’. 

TUTORIAL:

I first created masks of the flowers from some printer paper and washi tape to hold the masks in place I did the masking and stamping technique to create a floral bundle image on to some Neenah desert storm card stock with my versamark grey ink. You can use any light neutral coloured ink to do this. Then, using my Arteza pro colour pencils I took my time colouring the images with some help with image references online. To bring out the colours, I used a white pencil to colour the base before adding the vibrant colours on top.

Once the colouring was done I wanted to add some highlights. To do this, I used my white gel pen. I add light short strokes on the petals and with my finger I swipe it off very lightly to create fine streaks. 

I re-masked the images and splattered some gold, black and white paint. I didn’t mind the smudges as I feel it gives the design a more organic look and I kinda like having some imperfections on the design. Once the paint has dried, I trimmed down the panel to 5x5 and mat it onto a slightly bigger ivory hammered card stock with foam tape. 

Finishing off, I add some slim gold mirror strips that I found In my scraps and decided to place them behind my gold embossed sentiment and add some metallic rhinestones before mounting the finished panel onto a 5 1/2 kraft card base.

This stamp set can be yours if you order this through Kickstarter, which is ending very soon. The new release is a great set of wild flower stamps, check out sunshine & Bee Designs website for more info and The little paper tree for all your crafting essentials & needs. 

x Ali x 

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_{Disclaimer: This card is created as part of my DT work and the stamp set featured are sponsored by Sunshine & Bee Designs. Products used to produce this card will be linked and highlighted (if available).}