Hello Veggies

Hi there, it's Jenny here and apologies for the title... I wasn't being cheeky!! Lol
I have a one layer card to share with you today that involves a lot of lovely stamping.... my favourite ;)

Next Monday sees the start of National Allotment week so I thought I'd go veggie with my card and stamp an 'all over' pattern with Lawn Fawn's Rooting for You set. We have a pretty productive allotment down the bottom of the garden.... hubbies pride and joy, so I can't resist a stamp set like this one. I haven't added the faces and used the rock n roll technique to add extra colours and shading the the solid stamps.

I'm no expert on pattern building but I've tried to use the rule of placing the same images in a rough triangular shape as this seems to help with the pattern repeat and is more pleasing to the eye. When I had finished I thought the gaps looked more spacious in some areas so I used one of the typed words from the set and a few dots to fill in the larger spaces.... rather than using a dot stamp I pressed my embossing stylus into the ink and made a mark with that instead!

I was tempted to leave it as a notelet but then decided a simple Hello would look good, I've layered three die-cuts from the Quote Tag dies set and adhered them to the card front.
When I had finished stamping out this design my inky fingers looked like I'd spent time in the garden.... you can be a green fingered gardener and stamper ;)


                                

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Spotlighting a Background

Good Monday morning

Do you like background stamps?... I do, I love them for adding subtle patterns to card bases with tone on tone colours, small geometric patterns and that type of design so I was most surprised that I was drawn to the Bundles of Blossoms background from MFT's latest release. It has lots of detail but would still easily melt into the background with the right colour ink... but I thought I'd make these whimsy flowers the feature on my card instead..

The thin lines and busy pattern lends itself to simple colouring as well as more detailed shading so I stamped the background out and die cut a circle of the pattern and started colouring with my pencils.

When I'd finished I stamped the background again, I matched up the coloured circle of pattern on top so I could work out where to cut a slightly smaller circle in the black & white panel. Once I'd done that, I lined the pattern up behind the b&w piece and used low tack tape to hold it in place so I could trim to size and then adhere it to my card base.... the top layer is mounted on foam tape. I added a die-cut 'hello' from Paper Smooches which has had a liberal application of shimmer from a black wink of stella pen which I also used in various spots on the coloured piece too.

                


To simplify the spotlight design you could adhere the coloured circle above the b&w panel .... or for a one layer card just inlay the die-cut circle back into the original patterned panel.

Thanks for stopping by, see you next week :)
Jenny x