It’s the middle of summer and all the flowers here are in bloom. I thought I’d bring you a floral card with non-traditional colors today for Mojo Monday. 
Today’s sketch had me immediately reach for all my floral stamps. Did you happen to see my card last week with the amazing floral garden? If not, check it out here. But first see all the creative tips listed below.
Here is today’s Mojo Monday sketch from the Challenge Blog and my interpretation:
As you can see, I strayed a tiny bit and excluded the scallop border. I planned on including it, but didn’t want to take away any further from the pretty flower background I created.
Creative Tips –
- Mask various flower stamps that you have to create your own background. Alternate open images with tighter ones for a filled out look.
- Don’t feel you need to stick to traditional flower colors. Here you see Baked Brown Sugar.
- I kept playing with which colors to put in the background, and finally decided on adding a little texture to Vellum as a subtle piece. To create this cross-hatch pattern, alternate a striped embossing folder to make the x’s.
- Do you have stamps that are tucked way in the back and forgotten about? My filigree background stamp seems to be one of those. I wanted something with a romantic feel, so I embossed the pattern on a piece of Marina Mist card stock in versamark and clear embossing powder. It compliments the flowers, yet stands on its own.
- The greetings from this set are cool. I love the boldness of chosen words and chose to highlight them. I didn’t have a baked brown sugar marker, so I inked up the entire image with an ink pad and removed the ink from where I needed with a blender pen. I then colored those words in with a marker that I did have.
- I’m sure you’ve noticed that I rarely use just plain butterflies. Here you see several stamped with floral images and then punched out. It gives a little character to the wings and looks pretty cool!
- For a finishing touch, distress your edge of the greeting, add some pearls and pop up your card front.
This clean and simple project completely works for me. It’s loaded with various techniques, and works – even with non-traditional garden floral colors!
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Like I was telling you, I was smack dab in the middle of building web pages and I couldn’t see straight or think clearly. I decided I needed to clear my head, so I whipped out some watercolor paper, clear embossing powder, my two aqua painters, a paint palette and some watercolor pencils. A little while later…I had this:
