Hello crafty friends and welcome to Wednesday! I’ve got another look at the new Dotted Blooms and Sentiment Stalks stamps for you, this time with the flowers from Set 2 – I think these are peonies, but I’m no garden expert so may well be wrong! Anyway, whatever they are I thought they were pretty and my layout for this card was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest a while back.

The first step was to cut a piece of premium card to 5×5 square and brushed ‘rustic wilderness’ Distress Oxide onto it, working upwards from the bottom left corner. I took several of the sentiments from both Dotted Blooms sets and stamped them in second generation ‘rustic wilderness’ to create a soft background.

I stamped two of the flowers in ‘candied apple’ Distress Oxide, then added the stems & leaves in ‘rustic wilderness’. I wanted the buds in both red & green and managed that by tapping the stamp on the corner of each inkpad to get both colours on it. Once the ink had dried, I shaded the images with Polychromo pencils (‘light cadmium red’ and ‘permanent green olive’).

I added the main sentiment in the ‘rustic wilderness’, doing it in two parts by masking one word each time so I could offset them rather than the straight line of the stamp. Finally, I added a mount of Rainbow River companion paper and attached it to a 6×6 card blank.

I’ve said it before, but I love the versatility of these stamp sets – so many flowers to choose from and they work in other ways than straight florals too (as you saw in Monday’s post!) Anyway, having stuck with a floral design today, I’m going to share this at 613 Avenue Create for their ‘May flowers’ theme and with Color Dare who inspired the red & green palette.