Colorful Blooms Grow Here ~ Beauty in Botanicals

Hi, friends!  It's design team Walter here on the blog with you today with my second card for the Beauty in Botanicals theme.  Botanicals, blooms, and nature itself are all filled with lots of amazing color as well as rich, deep tones.  I wanted to craft a project that celebrated both the rich deepness of the earth and bold color of blooms to illustrate that juxtaposition of the soil that breathes life and florals that give their thanks by beautifully blooming.  I think that I was able to achieve that.  What do you think?

Here's what I used to create it:

• Flower & Bird Sketches Art Rubber Stamp Sheet Set
  
• Leaves Collage reusable plastic Stencil
  
• Perfect Paints Clover Honey Polishing Plaster
• Concord & 9th Inks: Wildberry, Watermelon, and Creamsicle
• Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves Pigment Ink
• Distress Antique Linen Ink
• Brutus Monroe Apricot Tea Stain Spray
• Clear Acylic Bubbles
• Strip of Burlap
• Strip of Lace
• Double sided foam tape strips
• A2 card base
• A2 Cream card panel

Here's how I made it:

I started by stenciling the leaves onto the cream card panel with the Polishing Plaster.  Polishing Paster is a wonderful medium full of color and sparkle.  You may substitute grit paste for it if you don't have Polishing Plaster; however, it won't have the same sparkle.  I aligned the stencil and used a palette knife to spread the Polishing Plaster over it.

I used a heat tool to speed up the drying process.  Once dry, I spritzed the card panel with some Apricot Tea Stain Spray to age it a bit and then ran Antique Linen Distress Ink around the edges.  I then applied craft glue to the back of the burlap strip, wrapped it around the card panel and secured the end pieces of the strip on the back of the card panel.

Double sided foam tape strips were placed on the back of the card panel and the panel was adhered to the card base.

It was now time to stamp the flowers and sentiment.  I stamped them with the Fallen Leaves ink.  I cut the sentiment strip and blended Antique Linen Distress ink over the front of it.  I colored the florals by ink blending Wildberry ink at the top, moved into Watermelon ink, and then blended it all together with some Creamsicle ink.  I fussy cut the florals and used craft glue to adhere them in place on the burlap.  I glued the strip of lace over the florals and onto the burlap with craft glue and then used double sided foam tape strips to put the sentiment in place.  Three clear acrylic bubbles were added and the card was done!

Bright flowers bloom up from the earth (burlap) and provide the color to the rich earth tones that provide life.  The lace adds a light touch of beauty to it.

I hope that you enjoyed reading about my design, the symbolism of it, and how it came to life.  I'll see you here again soon.  Until then . . . be well!

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