‘Japanese tricolor’ monstera plant

Hello crafty friends.  I’m sitting firmly in my happy CAS space with today’s card using the fab little Swiss Cheese plant (otherwise known as a monstera) from set 1 of Clarity‘s brand new ‘potted plants‘ stamps.  Now, as you know, it’s Japan month over at Clarity and I was trying to think how I could work an oriental theme into these little plants – bonsai was an option, but then I came across a variety of the monstera plant called the ‘Japanese tricolor adasonii’!  Perfect!

The first stage of this was easy, as I embossed a frame onto the front of a 5×5 card blank useng one of Clarity’s embedders, then stamped the plant outline onto the card using ‘library green’ Archival ink. I wanted a texture feel to the pot, so inked up the infill stamp with both ‘rustic wilderness’ and ‘iced spruce’ Distress Oxides, tapping it straight onto the ink pads without any sponging. I added the leaves infill in ‘antique linen’, then used light and dark green Pergaliner pencils (B6 & B7) over the images to get the variegated look.

As the plant’s got a Japanese name, it felt only right to finish with one of the ‘bijou Japanese symbols’ stamps.

There seem to be lots of green & plant focused challenges around at the moment, so this one’s heading off to the galleries at Double D and Simply Clean & Simple.

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16 thoughts on “‘Japanese tricolor’ monstera plant”

  9. Love how you embossed the frame, gives such nice added dimension yet keeps your card so clean and simple. Thanks for joining us at Simply Clean & Simple!

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