The blue flower Enjoy, It's Your Day uses both blue and green vellum. Various papers were used to create the next blue flower and the leaves were also stamped on vellum. Lovely background leaves are used also.
You can't tell by the picture, but this peach flower is smaller than the others. Lots of variation in card size to create. Notice the patterned paper of the flower and leaf. Both are not really patterned paper, but created with the background stamps. This is a perfect way to get just the color combinations that you need.
Butterflies are very popular now and the sparkle added by the gems makes this card elegant.
Sorry that this card is sideways, but you get the idea. I like the simplicity of the shading done in a way similar to the "Northwoods technique" that we use. Use a slightly slick paper like the Northwoods parchment, stamp with black pigment ink. We prefer versifine ink and emboss with Northwoods embossing powder blended 2 parts black to 3 parts clear embossing powder. (Stamp Thyme does sell this blend). Use tombow markers to color the edges, then pull the color to blend with a water pen. Of course, crystals add just the right finishing touch.
Now here's the surprise. Look what you can do by adding Zentangle patterns to the flowers. Nice, eh?
Are you inspired yet?
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