Summer Time - Clarissa, DT

Hello friends, summer has finally arrived here in New Zealand, though we still have cool temperatures in the mornings. I thought of making a card with flowers, as I have been thinking of inking this Simon Says Stamp - Summer Flowers.

I planned around this challenge when I chose my colours as I picked my favourite summer dress below, see floral pattern on the right.

I stamped my images on watercolour paper with tea dye distress ink for no line colouring. I used my Arteza real brush markers and used the tip to tip technique as inspired by the amazing Mona Tóth video tutorial to add a color beside another color to get better transition. Then, I also did dip the brush tip of my marker in very little water to blend the colour in areas where I want the color to show from light to dark tones. Once finished, I accented the corners and shadows with prismacolor pencils. Here is my first panel done.

Here goes my story about a few mistakes while making this card. Stuck this to light grey cardstock and made the mistake of embossing after it which resulted in unfinished lines, so I ended up tracing over the embossing with a fine liner. Next, I decided to make this into a shaker card as well, as my previous entry link doesn't work anymore because I had changed my blog name.

When I added the shaker part, it covered my coloured flowers, so I decided to remove the shaker part very slowly (ahhhh) glad that the foam tame has not stuck well yet, and changed my card into a trifold shaker card, with the shaker part separate, with ample space for writing a note inside. A win win in the end (sigh of relief). For the shaker part, I embossed the words "let's celebrate" and stacked the "you" word twice and ink blended it using walnut stain, wild honey, and carved pumpkin.

Here is my finished card:

Other materials used: you die  - MFT YOU trio die-namics

Uniquely Creative Delicate borders die

Let's Celebrate sentiment - MFT More essential sentiments

Card entered into the following challenges:

Timeout Challenges #153 - Items in your wardrobe

AAA Birthday Card Challenges #9 - A shaker card

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge - Something new and shiny

Here is my card in action

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.