Dashing Daffodils

Welcome to my DT post where my brief was “Spring Birthday” on a DL card.  I wanted to use the Golden Daffodils stamp set so having the DL card in landscape format suited my plan for a field of daffs.  When I started the card, it was sunshine and blue skies but as I’m writing it up, it’s torrential rain (again!) so the sentiment seems even more appropriate.

After cutting a panel, I stamped and clear heat-embossing the flower bunch, varying the height for interest.

The single daffodil head was stamped in the spaces, and I masked one so I could stamp the stems and leaves from the main bunch beneath it.

As I’d clear heat-embossed the stamping, I was free to choose my colouring medium so I decided on selection of alcohol markers.

I fancied the background being a bright blue to contrast with the daffs and was going to watercolour it but, as I’d chopped my panel to the required size, I couldn’t tape it down.  Instead, I found a couple of little used alcohol markers and coloured the background with them, adding some darker areas and blending them out with the lighter pen.  This used a lot of ink and would have been loads quicker to paint!

For dimension, I applied stencil paste through the Windows stencil in patches and set aside to dry.  With this paste, I could tell when it was dry as it turned clear.

Using a dry paintbrush, I dusted gold mica powder lightly over the stencilled areas.  Although the paste is dry, the texture allows the very fine powder to stick to it.  To finish, I spattered with some Dr Ph Martin’s Bleedproof White, matted the panel on black and then glued to a DL card blank.  The sentiment was stamped, trimmed and attached using thin foam tape.