Creative inspiration

Quick and easy with layering stamps, a stamping tool (I used my Misti) and the right colours of ink. The printed background paper comes from a magazine of quite some time ago, but was perfect for the complementary purple I wanted to use to off-set the cheerful yellows. The two large banners were cut, using the fishtail banners die. The banners on which the sentiment was stamped, were cut by hand. The pictures below illustrate the steps I followed with the stamping and die-cutting of the daffodils. I stamped one each of the three sizes of the daffodil, turned the...

I foiled a chipboard element, using the GoPress & Foil machine and blue-green heat-activated foil. The metal shim was needed to heat the chipboard. Then I used the "left-over" negative that resulted from the first foiling to foil onto a piece of white cardstock. The foiled image was die-cut using one of the Crealies double-stitch circle dies. The circle was cut up into 4 pieces to position on the corners of the white card base. The sentiment was die-cut from a piece of thick cardstock. I wanted it to be of similar thickness as the chipboard element, so I used...

Stamp Heartfelt Creations small carnations with Artistry Fancy Fuchsia stamp pad. (I used all the sizes on one large acrylic stamp block and stamped 5 times so that I could have lots of flowers to play around with.) Die-cut the stamped flowers with the matching dies. Lightly ink the edges of the petals with blossom tree ink and a dauber. Add the most prominent colour with the beautifully rich Taylored Expressions strawberry milkshake. Add random dark streaks with Altenew Purple wine. Lightly spray the flowers at the back with a spritzing bottle. Put into Basics mould and run through your...

I really enjoyed this project, combining Heartfelt Creations classic roses and the GoPress &Foil foiling technique. The printed background is a square cut from Kaisercraft Lilac Whisper range, mounted onto Curious metal silver ice card base. The flowers were stamped on shimmer cardstock in purple archival ink. They were coloured using a dauber and Taylored Expessions ink pads in Jelly donut , Lavender glaze and Artistry Fancy Fuchsia (towards the centres of the flowers). The flower petals were first shaped using the Basics mould from Heartfelt Creations, then shaped to form a cup using ball flower shaping tools and finished...