Art Impressions watering can thinking of you card

Hello everyone and welcome to Challenge #320 at Addicted to Stamps and more. This time it is out Photo Inspiration Challenge and we have this fabulous montage to get your creative juices flowing.

My eye was immediately drawn to the watering can picture so I came up with this card:-

I used a stamp set from Art Impressions and my Zig Real Brush markers. After stamping and colouring the watering can, I created a mask and then added the flowers and foliage by adding the colour directly to the stamps and spritzing water onto them before actually stamping the on the picture.

The sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers Thinking of You stamp set. 

Sadly, the Happy Little Stampers Store is closing down but you can still get some amazing bargains if you act soon.

I hope you are inspired by our pictures and will join us over in the ATSM gallery this time. You can also see more inspiration from my talented Teamies over there.

I'd like to play along at

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - square cards

Allsorts Challenge - Inspired by a song - I was inspired by the song Watering Can by Fivepenny Piece

Brown Sugar Challenge #284 - kindness or thankfulness

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Art Impressions and Christina Griffiths hexagon flowerpot get well card

Hello there and I hope you have enjoyed this bright, sunny day. At least I hope it has been sunny where you are! I'm here to share another challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More, and this time we have a photo to inspire you.

Sadly, I don't have any succulents stamps, so I went with flowers for my pot, and I loved stamping each little flower separately.

1) Die cut a medium stitched hexagon from the Fancy Nesting Hexagons by Christina Griffiths in white card. Then cut the largest die in green card and run it through again with the scroll pattern cut in die.

2) Stamp the pot from the Art Impressions Watercolour stamp set and then stamp it again on a post-it note and cut it out to use as a mask.

3) Colour the pot with Zig Clear Colour Brush pens and then mask it off while you stamp the flowers and foliage. I used a variety of leaves and flowers and stamped them using my Ziggies directly to the stamps until I had a pot of flowers that pleased me, and I then removed the mask.

4) Place the green hexagon on the base card and raise the flower panel onto it using fun foam.

5) Finish off by embossing the greeting from PTI Fillable Frames #10 in white EP, and cut it into a half banner shape.

Those Art Impressions stamps have been languishing in my stash for far too long, and I really enjoyed using them so you may see them pop up again soon.

There's lots of inspiration over on the ATSM blog, and I can't wait to see how you will be inspired by the photo.

I'd love to play at

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - All things bright and beautiful.

Penny Black and More June Challenge  - in the garden.

As You Like It challenge - Flora or Fauna and why. I chose flora because I had not used these stamps for ages and rediscovered how much fun they are to stamp.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x