The flower challenge - Daisies and a little note...

Hello friends!

Today, I would like to share with you my second entry to this month's the flower challenge. There are still a few days to enter, join us in the fun and check out their beautiful inspiration. 

Before I show you my card, here comes the supplies list:

*Blue shimmery card base and coordinated envelope (Action)

*Cosmo die from Simon Says Stamp

*Duckling and Lemon chiffon ink cubes/pads, also from SSS

*White cardstock (Hema)

*Cosmo background stamp from SSS

*Unicorn pigment ink FROM Hero Arts

*A little note stamp (SSS)

*Faded jeans Distress oxide ink pad

*Nested circle dies

And now, right to the point:

I started by stamping my background onto the cardbase with my unicorn ink. As it is a pigment ink, it takes longer to dry, so I did all my die cutting in the meantime. At the beginning, I had planned to create 3 daisies with 6 layered petals each with my cosmo die set, so I die cut 6 of each petals and 3 times the two layers of the Cosmo centers.

I did a little bit of ink blending onto my centers (lemon chiffon with a tiny bit of duckling in the middle for the pierced ones and duckling for the bottom layer).

This was at this stage when I changed my mind and thought to create the flowers a bit differently than I see them on Internet. I ended up alternating between full and dainty petals, randomly arranging the different petals shapes for a more natural look.

I love the result, I think these flowers are very original, although they still look like daisies - a bit 😁. I placed my petals in between the two layers of the flower centers. The duckling doesn't show up much, but it does sometimes. 

Then I stamped the sentiment with Faded Jean Distress Oxide and die cut it with a circle die which was smaller than the full sentiment. I don't have a die that fits exactly this sentiment, and I did not want to end up with a white border all around it. I created my arrangement, gluing two of my flowers directly onto the base. I added a bit of foam tape behind my sentiment, but I still wanted my flowers to be the focal point of my card, so I added two layers of foam tape behind the last one to tuck the sentiment under it. 

I cut the excess of the daisies and added some Nuvo drops (Limon cello color, although the ones on the background end up just transparent). 

What do you think? I am really happy with this card. It is a very unusual color scheme for me. I do love blue, but yellow not that much, although it starts making its way towards my heart. 

I would love to hear your opinion, don't forget to comment. 

See you soon with another post!! 

Comments

[TaeEun]

I love your cute cosmos flowers! Great design using the background stamp and cosmos dies together! Thank you so much for playing along at The Flower Challenge!