Field of daisies

At last… a new card!  This card was something of an experiment, because I was watercolouring the background.  I love the look of watercolouring but I am far from an expert in the technique so I just play around with the colours and hope for the best.  I totally covered the watercolour paper with water and then dropped drips of Brocade Blue ink in the sky area and guided them with my paint brush.  I wanted dark and light areas so I removed ink in some places with paper towel and added more in other places.  On the bottom two thirds I dropped Garden Green ink and kept the coverage fairly uniform.  After it had dried a little I turned the Garden Green ink pad on its side and “painted” the grass.

To create the daisy feature I inked the stamp with versamark and then drew yellow centres with the So Saffron marker and stalks in Garden Green.  I embossed in clear before sponging the background with Bashful Blue and Ballet Blue.   I thought the hemp twine was appropriate for my country scene and added the knots so it would look  a little like a fence.  The left side of the card is scored so it opens like a folio.  The daisies  are stamped on Whisper White but the card base and the distressed matte are Confetti White.

I am so pleased you dropped in ( and pleased I finally managed to post!).

Supplies:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Inks: Garden Green and Brocade Blue reinkers, Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, versamark
Cardstock: Whisper White, Confetti White, Watercolour paper
Also: Natural hemp twine