Hearts and Flowers

I don't know about you, but I am always inspired by the kind of cards that you can make using only inks and stamps, as opposed to my usual style which includes a whole lot of colouring.

I have collected a lovely batch of little stamps over the years, from both Stamps by Judith and Cardio…they are real staples in my world as I use them a lot for fillers and backgrounds, but occasionally I will go for it and make a card using just the stamps. Call it my attempt at being artistic!!

So here's a card I made a while back now, using Stamps by Judith stamps and 'sticks'.

The heart is free form stamped using a little sprig stamp which I used to create first and second generation images. To create the effect I made a heart template out of scrap paper and then put  it on the card and stamped around the edges to get a basic shape. I then removed the template and filled the heart out before adding flowers and pearls for the centres.

Finally I used a what is actually a little snowflake stamp to make the border, but if you press it down harder it looks like one of those spiky flowers.

I hope you like my attempt at 'art', and here are some challenges that I would like to enter:

http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/challenge-51-pearls.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/with-heart.html
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-228.html
http://cinspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/challenge-314-anything-goes-option-of.html
http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/90-sentimentally-yours-stamping-boutique.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/challenge107_22.html
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/challenge-68-its-spring.html

Thanks for visiting  :-)

Sharon