Uniko BA Inspiration Post Featuring Spring Botanicals - Tulip

Good morning, how was your weekend? Mine was not what I had anticipated as a workshop I was helping at got cancelled at the last minute, so I had some time to play in my own craftroom! 

I still have onion sets and shallots to get in the veg beds but it has been SO wet these last weeks, that they are best left until it dries up or if not I will have to put them into individual cells until this deluge is over! 

Anyway, I hunkered down in my craft room for some watercolour painting to make a card for an old friend, here is the end result.

I was inspired by a card that popped up on my Pinterest feed and one that Bev made before Christmas and decided to mix my Uniko stash with Waffle Flower's Postage stamp die set.

On a panel of Mixed Media paper, I used the stencil from the die set to plan my placement of the tulips, sketching in the open areas lightly with a pencil. Next, I stamped using some masking, a bunch of Uniko's Spring Botanicals- Tulips with Memento Toffee Crunch.

I used some watercolours to paint the blooms and was about to cut the Postage Stamp panel when I realised I'd had the stencil the wrong way around and my planned design wouldn't work!

So with a little bit of thought, I decided to cut the panel anyway and see what I got. Instead of placing my panel face down, I placed the wrong side face down into the die panel. I had initially intended to cut out each of the panels along the stitched lines and place them on a new die cut panel, but now couldn't do that but with the help of an old fashioned embossing tool and a foam mat, I sort of rescued it with some manual embossing!

To cover where the masking hadn't worked I inked through the stencil with some Mustard Deed DI, then stamped a few bits in Toffee Crunch at strategic places.

I'd purposefully left the small rectangle in the bottom right clear so that I could stamp my sentiment, Doodle Flowers in more Toffee Crunch.

The die cut panel was mounted on some black card and then onto a trimmed down 5 x 7inch white card base. The black seves to hi-light the die cut as well as masking the different white of the MM paper.

Well the rain has stopped for the moment but for how long is anyone's guess. So that's all for the moment, see you soon.

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