Hello crafty friends. Here’s another look at one of the new Japanese floral two-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts – this time I’ve paired the ‘joy crescent’ with the butterflies from the Japanese ‘peace’ flowers set.

I started by stamping the outline floral circle from onto half a 6×6 card blank using black Archival ink. I used a sponge to blend ‘picked raspberry’ and ‘mowed lawn’ Distress Oxides onto the infill stamp, adding ‘wilted violet’ to the centre of the flowers with a cotton bud, then stamped it into place.

I covered the centre of the circle with a mask I’d cut from Clarity’s mask material using a nested circle die, then brushed ‘broken china’ across the clouds mask around the image for the sky. I mounte the topper onto a layer of Indian Summer companion paper and attached it to a 7×7 card blank

I stamped the butterfly form the ‘Japanese floral rounds – peace’ set twice onto scrap card and again blended the ‘picked raspberry’ and ‘wilted violet’ on the infill stamps to colour them, then fussy cut them and glued them onto the floral circle. The finishing touch was to add ‘joy’ in the centre of the circle.

These floral images are just so very pretty – I think they’re going to be getting a lot of use! In the meantime I’m heading over to a few challenges to share this one: Addicted to Stamps have got their ‘make your mark’ theme (anything that colours your cards) and I’ve realised this works for two aspects of TicTacToe‘s grid – stencil (I’ve used the clouds mask), square & ink blending from the top row, and ink blending, outdoors & critter from the right-hand column! The colours and theme also nicely pick up on The Card Concept‘s ‘April flowers’ photo.