Peony bouquet

I haven’t made very many cards at all this year, just ones for close family — the ones I can’t avoid doing 🙂 And it’s not that I haven’t been feeling creative, I’ve done plenty of mixed media and a bit of relaxing colouring. And I can’t even use the excuse of having too many in my stash (I do, but they’re mostly ones I’ve made for fun or to try something out and not necessarily ones that are appropriate for the people I regularly send cards to). I just haven’t felt like making cards.

But there are some people, in this case my other half’s mum, who have to get a card. I wasn’t feeling very inspired but luckily I have a supply of Power Poppy digi stamps that I haven’t used yet and so I coloured up this bowl of beauty. I added a large heat-embossed sentiment over the top and layered it onto a card base with a piece of patterned paper.

Copic markers:

tree peony petals – B23, R59, R46, R27
tree peony centre – BV31, Y38, Y15, Y02
tree peony leaves – G29, G46, YG93
hellebore petals – YG95, RV66, RV29, RV34
hellebore centre – YG00, YG23
hellebore leaves – R14, YG97, YG95, YG93
bluebell petals – R02, BV04, BV02
bluebell centre – Y02
bluebell stems – YG25, TG21
ferns – R85, YG67, YG25, YG63
central gaps – BG72

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Justrite – extra grand sentiments
• digital stamps:
  Power Poppy – bowl of beauty
• inks:
  Versamark
• embossing powder:
  Wow – metallic gold rich pale superfine
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white 216gsm
  Hunkydory Adorable Scorable – cotton white
  Hunkydory – beautifully bright backgrounds stamping pad