Mum

It will be Mother's Day on the 2nd Sunday in May for us here in Australia, and whilst it has been many years since Mr Fixit and myself lost our Mums, my Mum has been on my mind of late..... so I made a card for her 💗

 

I had another play with the Altenew BAF Lavender stamp & die set.  When I first used this set, I found it a little difficult to line up the stem exactly if you wanted to die cut the whole flower .... so I found a work around!    I die-cut first!   LOL

 

I cut out as many flowers as I needed.  I kept one of the 'background' holes and placed it in my Couture Creations Stamping Platform, then placed the die-cut in the hole.  Using the stamping platform, I was then able to align the stamps exactly where needed.   This was really useful for doing a batch of flowers at the same time.  The process is:  stamp the first layer, remove die-cut, then place a new die-cut in the hole, re-ink & stamp again.  Then when ready for second layer, line up second layer & repeat the process. 
 

Once I had finished stamping a batch of flowers, I could then get down to the layout of the card.  I wanted it fairly simple ....... so an ink spattered background using the same colours from the flowers seemed just right.

 

 

The flowers were arranged and attached at slightly different layers using foam dots.  'MUM' was die-cut in white cardstock and ink blended with a brush using the darker purple ink and the 'shadow' was die-cut out of vellum.

A tiny splattering of 'Kindy Glitz'/Stickles' was the final touch!

I think that our Mums would have loved a card like this.

 

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Linking With the following challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge #3

The Flower Challenge #78 Stencils or Dies

Happy Little Stampers AG with Dies

Cardz 4 Galz #194 Use Vellum

 

 

 

ITEMS USED

Stamps/Dies:  Altenew BAF Lavender, MUM (unbranded)

Inks:  Colorbox Pigment Inks, Ranger Distress Inks

Tools:  Cuttlebug, Couture Creations Stamping Platform

Embellishments:  Kindy Glitz/Stickles

Cardstock/papers:  250gsm white, Vellum

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