Happy Tuesday! Today’s card is another featuring the gorgeous floral outline stamp set by Tim Holtz. As I mentioned earlier, I played around with it and made a bunch of backgrounds. This card features one of my favorites. It really reminded me of fabric, which is why today’s challenge word is CHINTZ.
For this card, I once again used the new Prize Ribbon Distress Ink. I inked my stamp & misted it with water before stamping and repeated with a second stamp (there are three in this set) to create a pattern across my white card stock. I then took a water brush and rubbed some Scattered Straw Distress Ink on my craft sheet as a palette and added some loose color to the roses. I then took a bit of the blue and mixed it with the yellow that was left to blend a pretty pale green for the leaves. Once it was dry, I used a blending brush to add more Scattered Straw to the edges and splattered over the surface with some Prize Ribbon Distress Spray Stain.
You can sort of see in the close up photo that I did a bit of ‘flicking’ color off my brush after painting the leaves, but it’s very a very fine splatter which adds to the texture but didn’t do anything for the design 🙂
I finished the card by mounting on some dark blue Cardstock and adding a sentiment by Heffy Doodle. A bit of yellow twine and some bling finish it off! I think this is my favorite sentiment (and will probably be the most used) sentiment from this stamp set. I’m really the worst at making cards and not sending them… it’s forever a goal of mine to improve on that!
I hope you like my ‘chintz’ inspired card… can’t wait to see what others come up with!
Inky hugs,
Tara
I love that sentiment. Really cool card!