Friday, July 4, 2025

Bloom With Happiness for The Flower Challenge

Hello friends!  It's a new month over at the Flower Challenge and this time we have a color challenge.


I love this combination of orange and aqua/light blue and decided to use a beautiful floral stamp that I had yet to ink up.  


The stamp is Altenew's Flourishing Bouquet and it is ginormus, so large I had to use my Memory Misti and a full sheet of white cardstock.  The cool thing is that you can then cut the panel in quarters and have four card fronts, so that is why I decided to get it.  

After stamping I used the coordinating stencils to color the image.  I made a boo boo using the first stencil, inking up a leaf in orange, and I couldn't fix that.  So, I completed the remainder of the stenciling, then cut the panel in half so that I could get one 5" x 7" panel from the side with the mistake and two A2 panels from the other (one of which you'll see for my reminder card on the 15th).  I stamped the sentiment, added the larger panel to an A7 card base and finished it off with some gems.  I do love this to bits, with the flourished image in these colors!


What are you inspired to make with these colors?  I think our gallery will be beautiful this month and I hope you'll add your card to it!  Be sure to visit the challenge where my amazingly talented teammates have some beautiful cards to share.  The challenge will remain open until Friday, July 25th.  I hope to see your card in the gallery!

Stef

PS Happy Independence Day to all those in the US!

  • Altenew Flourishing Bouquet stamps and stencils
  • Kristina Werner Kristina's Essential Dies
  • Altenew Dew Drops, Aqualicious, Galactic Stream, Chamomile, Snapdragon and Mardarin Burst inks
  • SSS Surf Dazzling Diamonds

5 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

Absolutely beautiful!

baileyrosy.com said...

Coloured to perfection ! An absolutely beautiful card.

Marie

Marcia Hill said...

This is a stunner of a card Stef! You've captured the inspiration colors beautifully with your florals my friend...LOVE this!! Hugs. :0)

Bobby said...

Getting four cards would definitely be an incentive to get the stamp set, Stephanie, not to mention how beautiful it is when stenciled.

Loll said...

WOW! AMAZING card Stef. Looking forward to seeing more of these! :) This colour combo is fantastic ... love the shades of orange and blue and you have used. This is also a gorgeous stamp and stencil set and you must be please with your first time using it. xx