Cornflower Meadow

This week’s DT make uses my favourite stencil from the new release, Wildflowers, together with the cute mini-dragonfly from Brighter Days.  As soon as I saw that stencil, cornflowers were what sprang to mind.  I made a similar card for my sample, which you can see here.

For my CAS make, I started by selecting a light and dark shade of cornflower blue and green inks and small blending brushes.

The flowers on the stencil are on the right but I wanted mine central so I stencilled those in first, moving the stencil as required.

Next, I used my greens to add the leaves and grasses.

After cleaning the stencil, I flipped it over and stencilled more grasses.

To create depth, I lightly stencilled distant flowers using just the remaining ink on the blending brush.  I tried not to go over the green so that the grasses remain in the foreground.  I also added a few more grasses in any bare patches.

To ground the scene, I blended more green ink just along the bottom of the panel.  To create some atmosphere, I smooshed the light green and dark blue inks onto an acrylic block, spritzed with water and use my fan brush to flick some splatters.

At this stage, I decided that the three central flowers were not enough so added a couple more then added the sentiment and mini-dragonflies, from Brighter Days.  I stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and heat-set with clear embossing powder.

The panel was double mounted on blue card to bring out the cornflowers and then onto black before attaching to a square card blank.  A few rhinestones finished the card.