Floral Themed ATC and Card

The June prompt for the Clarity Crafts ATC swap was 'Roses are Red, Violets are Blue'.  As usual I made a coordinating card to accompany the ATC.

Trim a piece of Clarity stencil card to 2.5” x 3.5”. Add the Clarity ATC stamp to the back in Black Soot Distress Archival ink.

Add the Clarity NDC rose vase stamp (#123) to the front in the same ink.

Create a mask using a mask blank and mask up the image.

Spritz the background with Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, and Villainous Potion Distress Oxide sprays.

Once dry, add a stamped background in Petunia and Violet Archival inks using two of the Mixed Media Journaling stamps. Remove the mask.

Colour the image using Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer water colour pencils picked up off a mix mat with a water colour brush pen.

Finish off with a sentiment from the KISS Words stickers set.

For the card, die cut a topper from Clarity stencil card using the 4.5” nested squares die and a mat from black card using the corresponding picot die.

Add the three rose panels from the smaller SHAC Floral Panels stamp set to the topper in Black Soot Distress Archival ink.

Add the Rose sentiment from the larger set in the same ink.

Colour the images as the ATC.

Spritz round the edges of a 6” x 6” white card blank with Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, and Villainous Potion Distress Oxide sprays.

Once dry, add stamping in Petunia and Violet Archival inks using two of the Mixed Media Journaling stamps.

To finish, mat up the topper and add it to the front of the card.