* Crazy Flowers

Hello!

I'm delighted that I had some time to play along at the Rubber Dance Challenge this month.

Every month there is a colour challenge or, if you prefer, an Anything Goes Challenge. Projects can be entered on the Facebook Page.

I managed to go along with the May colour challenge. Here is the card I created:

I used stamps from two Rubber Dance sets - the fabulous Crazy Flowers (set #1) and the beautiful script word 'Fleurs' from Antique Botanicals. I stamped my flower, stem and leaf images and coloured them with Copic markers, adding some white Posca paint pen highlights. I fussy cut the flowers and stems and ran a black marker all around the cut edges to mask any cutting imperfections.

The background is blended Distress Oxides (Scattered Straw, Fossilised Amber, Salty Ocean and Broken China). I used a stencil and applied the darker oxides to the centre of the background.  Once I was happy with the blending and stencilling, I splattered some water droplets to bleach out some of the colour and add texture. Then I added some black and white acrylic paint splatters and stamped the word Fleurs along the card edges using Broken China Distress Oxide. I inked the edge of the background in black archival ink and matted it onto kraft card. Finally it was fixed to a white card base.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Rubber Dance May Colour Challenge 30/05 WINNER
*Stamping Sensations In an English Country Garden  29/05
* Take It Make It AG 29/05
* The Happy Craft Challenge AG 30/05
* A Place to Start Favourite Technique 31/05 HONOURS
Copic marker colouring and Ink blending

Artistic Inspirations #215 AG 02/06
* A Gem of a Challenge #10 AG 03/06 (#2)
* Crafting from the Heart #244 AG 10/06

* Crafty Creations #391 AG 12/06

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