Cleverprints Blog 4 - Sunshine and Flowers

 Sunshine and Flowers

Hi, welcome to this week's blog. 

Sunshine and flowers - an appropriate term when I was making this project but not so much today as it's raining. Flowers are still there though - one of the flowering cherries is well in bud and the long-established crocuses are in full bloom. Two examples today - the original and the 'not quite' copy. 

This is the original card, made from my stash of stamped images, coloured with aqua pencils. 

. . . And here is the example described below, coloured with water soluble crayons.

Materials:-

• Cleverprints Stamp Sets - Fantastic Fox, Hedgehugs, The Little Things, Sea Urchin, Patchwork Flower
• Water Soluble Crayons - Caran D'Ache
• Black Ink Pad
• White Gel Pen
• Self-adhesive gems
• White cardstock
• 6" x 6" card blank

Instructions:-

1. Stamp sea shell from Sea Urchin set and scribble selected colours in areas of image. Blend together with either a waterbrush or damp paint brush. Trim. 

2. Stamp leaves from 'The Little Things' set and pumpkins from 'Hedgehugs.'  Colour, blend and trim as in 1).

3) Repeat with flowers from 'Fantastic Fox. . . . .'

. . . . hedgehog from 'Hedgehugs and . . . 

. . . flower from 'Patchwork Flower.'

4) Arrange trimmed images onto 6" x 6" card blank and glue in place. 

5) *Rather than waste the off-cuts from the patchwork flower, they were layered onto the top right-hand corner. 

6) Add highlights with white gel pen and gems to flower centres. 

7) Stamp sentiment onto card. 

. . .And there we have it, a variation on a theme. 

Time to explore the different colouring mediums in your stash. 

Back in a few weeks' time.

Happy crafting!

Shelagh,

'The Making Lady'