End of Summer
Over at Visible Image this week, our Design Team theme is End of Summer. For my inspiration, I’ve chosen the zinnias and sunflowers in my garden that are blooming their socks off and will continue to do so until the first frosts. I grew these from seed and have loved watching them develop through the various stages. For my non-card make, I decided to have a play in my art journal, something I don’t often do and it pushed me a bit out of my comfort zone. On a double page spread, I stamped all the elements using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and the Sunflower Grunge , Daisy Grunge and Create Happiness stamp sets. The flower in Create Happiness is actually a gerbera but it’s close enough to a zinnia for me! The pages were sprayed with Distress Spray Stains and a gold mica shimmer. They turned out a bit dark but I thought I could lift some of the colour out. That didn’t work, so lesson one of today’s make was that the mica spray seems to s...