Floral Essence Watercolour

Floral Essence stamp set in watercolour mode

Continuing my quest to use the Floral Essence stamp set!

Rather than re-invent the wheel, I used the same layout as I did for my black and gold version but stamped onto Watercolor Paper with Lovely Lipstick and Call Me Clover inks.

I thought about using the fluffy coordinating flower centres but decided they looked too heavy for this watercolour effect of the flowers.  So I watercoloured the flower centres with Crushed Curry and a touch of Lovely Lipstick and added some more Call Me Clover and Lovely Lipstick to complete and shade the flowers.

Then I added just a touch of Mint Macaron to the background.

When it was all dry, I stamped the greeting (from Good Morning Magnolia) with Lovely Lipstick ink and adhered the stamped panel and a layer of Lovely Lipstick to the Mint Macaron card base.

My usual practice is to create the card front and then afterwards figure out the colours I'll use for the card base, layers, ribbon and so on.  That's one of the great things about Stampin' Up! - I can do it that way because I know that I've got a cardstock to coordinate with any ink I use and vice versa.

Playing with colours to decide how to construct my card

So this is what I do - I just pull out card (often just scraps), look and compare.  I tried a layer of Crushed Curry on a Lovely Lipstick base and then tried reversing it before settling on the Mint Macaron card.  Did I get it right?  I don't know - I was very drawn to the Lovely Lipstick base with Crushed Curry layer but I must have been in a mood for elegance and understatement!

Trying out a base of Crushed Curry with a layer of Lovely Lipstick

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase from my online store

Floral Essence Photopolymer Stamp Set

$30.00

Good Morning Magnolia Cling Stamp Set

$63.00

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

$15.75

Lovely Lipstick A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Call Me Clover Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00