Flower Birthday Card for CVC

Hello dear visitors!

I hope you had a beautiful May so far. Temperatures are slowly getting higher and more and more flowers start growing and blooming.

So I decided to make a flower card for my second take on the May Challenge at Country View Challenges.
And as the theme this month is "Opposites", I chose huge and tiny.

I started to create my background. First I picked DecoArt acrylic paints in different shades of pink and spread them on the watercolor paper. I made sure to vary the light and darker colors for more interest. When I was happy with the result, I took the tiny little flower stamps from the PaperArtsy stamp set Eclectika EEG22 by Emma Godfrey and stamped them randomly to the background. I used Archival ink Cactus Flower and Plum.

To make my focal point stand out more, I took DecoArt acrylic paint Buttermilk and painted a thin layer where I wanted to stamp them flower and the stamen.

For my focal point I took one of the lovely stamps from the stamp set STAMPBM27 from art by marlene I bought a while ago. I used my Tim Holtz stamping platform, stamped the flower with black Archival Ink and, when dry, I colored the flower with DecoArt acrylic paints in different shades of pink and purple. For some shades I used teal.

I left my stamp on the platform while coloring. That´s important, because acrylic paints are not translucent and you will loose some of the lines and details of your stamp. By leaving the stamp in place, you can stamp again your image onto the colored pic as often as needed and you will always hit exactly the same place again!

I accentuated parts of the flower with black and white posca pen and surrounded the flower white to make it stand out even more. Last I created some shading with a black charcoal pencil.

I really liked the result!

As it is a birthday card, I added stamped wishes. I wanted to merge the words with the background, so I stamped it on vellum and heat embossed the sentiment. Then I teared the paper and glued it with Matte Medium to the card.

At last I sprinkled watered down acrylic paint in black, white and teal on top, framed everything with Archival ink in Plum and glued the picture onto a card.

I hope you liked my - admittedly pretty pink - card and feel inspired to join in with our challenge this month, there are still some days left! Don´t forget to have a look at the gorgeous takes of my lovely teamies, there you can find many gorgeous ideas for the theme!

As usual you have the chance to win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop.

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful rest of May!