DIY Hanging Planter

Hello there, it's Jenny here again and my card today features a floral hanging plant which has been made using various stamp sets...

What sparked this idea was the round bottomed pot in Waffleflowers Spice Garden stamp set... I figured it would look good as a hanging pot and remembered the dotted pattern stamp in Avery Elle's Indigo set which would make a good macrame or chain style of hanger!
Now, the dotted border stamp does come as a strip of three on the one piece so I just cut a strip off carefully with my scissors... they can easily fit back together again.

I stamped and water-coloured the pot and did the same with leaves and flowers from Altenew's Doodle Blooms and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I cut a slit in the top of the pot so I could tuck the greenery down inside. Here's how I stamped the plant pot holder and arranged the leaves. The dotted border stamp is easy to curve and follow the shape of the pot and I used masking to help stamp the shorter pieces of the pattern.

I added a few flowers which are stamped in Altenews Limestone ink and just a touch of grey watercolour to give them a bit of shape and definition...

For the backdrop I added loose watercolour in shades of yellow distress ink with the smooshing technique and when it was dry I stamped the dotted border again to make the hanging chain/macrame. The sentiment is from Avery Elle's Fuchsia stamp set which I thought was quite a nice phrase for any occasion.


         

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Layered Fushias

Do you have a favourite flower? It's hard to choose but I think Fuchsias have to be up there amongst my top five!! With so many colour combinations and flower shapes it will be fun colouring up this beautiful Fuchsia stamp from Avery Elle...

I have used Inktense pencils to paint these leaves and flowers after stamping the image on watercolour card. I used the matching die to cut them out and then fussy cut a few extra flowers and leaves from a second image to layer over the first.

Some of the petals were fiddly to cut but definitely worth it for the finished result.
The thin frame is from Concord & 9th's Just Because die set... I think it helps to place the image so it's not just floating in the white space, before adhering the frame I sponged on bundled Sage distress ink to break up the white.

The sentiment is from MFT's Handwritten happiness.... did you spot the boo-boo?? Yep I accidentally touched the stamp to the card whilst hovering and deciding on placement so I just used a pen to touch up the lines and make it look part of the swirly font design!! Phew 😉

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x