CAS Colours & Sketches 530 – cornflower

Welcome to my crafty blog and our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This week it’s a colour palette and I’ve opted to use it with the cornflower, one of the new ‘wildflower’ stamps that ClarityCrafts have released as one of their returning Classics collection, picking up the layout from AAA Cards. 

I’ve kept it very simple on this one (as always!), letting the stamp do all the work! I stamped the flower image onto a strip of white card (from my off-cuts box), then added the common flower name by masking off the Latin name on the stamp before inking it. I shaded the flower and buds with blue and red Pergaliner pencils, then use ‘scattered straw’ Distress Ink and a waterbrush to fill in the frame around the flower. It’s best to do it in that order, so the card is dry when you use the pencils. 

I mounted the card strip onto a slightly larger one that I’d edged with a black Sharpie and then attached it to a 5×7 card blank.

These are lovely vintage-style floral images! There’s more inspiration from the CCAS design team over on the blog, and we’d love to see how you use our colours in your creations!

16 thoughts on “CAS Colours & Sketches 530 – cornflower”

  2. Gosh what a fabulous stamp, I love it, it reminds me of some of my earlier stamps that I no longer own. It is just perfect for the sketch challenge. Thanks for playing along with us at AAA Cards.

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  9. Very pretty cornflower! Great idea with the pencils and then adding the distress ink for the background, it make the whole image look like it’s painted with watercolors. Love seeing your work in the AAA Cards Challenge gallery, I hope to see more of your work there! Hugs!

    Kristin Sluhan. AAA Cards DT

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