August We love stamping - flowers

Good Morning everyone

Welcome to August.  Over at We Love Stamping the theme this month is 

FLOWERS

So nice and easy but you can always go with the anything goes as long as you use stamping - rubber, clear or digi 

Our Prize this month is a £25 voucher from Personal Impressions  who stock various different brands.

6.5x6.5" kraft card blank.  I first took the stamperia wooden foliage panel and sprayed with inks to colour - more details on this down below.

I mounted it onto the cardfront - being about 5mm thick this adds a lovely depth to the card but its also super light weight.  I stamped the lily onto white card with versafine clair teal ink and watercoloured with distress inks and cut out.

I die cut a circle from white cardstock and put through a sizzix embossing folder, i adhered this to the card front and added the lily with pinflair glue gel.

I die cut the sentiment twice, once from card inked with the same inks i used to colour the lily and once from the white card to give a drop shadow and help it stand out, these i added to a strip of kraft card and then the card front. 

Difficult to show but one of the sprays i used on the background has mica so a lovely shimmer & sparkle when the light hits it.

and as i got a 2nd background when I sprayed the woodchip I made another card

I matted the background onto 6.52 square card blank.  Die cut a circle from white card using and embossed, this i added to the bottom left of the inked background and added the lily on top.  Stamped sentiment onto card inked with the same distress inks used to colour the lily, die cut into a circle and matted onto a larger circle die cut from white.  Gems added to finish.

Old lily of the valley (LOTV) sentiment stamp reads 'sending you sunshine all year through' which is rather lovely

This is the stamperia decorative chip i used, its very light so i guess like a balsa wood

I placed it onto white card and sprayed with cosmic shimmer airless misters in greens, yellow and pink, you then get the pattern onto the white card as well - so no ink wasted and a free background for another project.  I did wonder how well the woodchip would take the wet inks but it stood up to them well, I didn't over saturate, just sprayed enough to cover.  

Items Used:

Pennyblack slapstick cling stamp 'tiger lily' 

LOTV sentiment stamp 

Stamperia decorative chip

Ranger distress Inks - squeezed lemonade, wild honey, ripe persimmon, twisted citron, mowed grass

Versafine Clair ink 'warm breeze'

Cosmic Shimmer airless misters

MFT Circle die

hello sentiment die (maybe Simon says?)

Sizzix honeycomb & swirl embossing folders (very old)

CraftUK ltd kraft card

The prize this month is an amazing £25 voucher for personal impressions craft store where they are lots of gorgeous crafty products & brands to tempt you.

So hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and be in with a chance of winning just make sure to use stamping on your project with a theme of Flowers or anything goes option. 

Its my middle nieces birthday today so of course its raining, my birthday is in august too and growing up I remember way more wet birthdays than dry ones. I hope you all have a great week whatever your plans are.   Emma

I love to enter card 1 into the following:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/07/ellibelles-garden-party-no-5-anything.html #2 entry

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https://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/2025/07/551-sparke-shine-patties-creations.html - used mica shimmer sprays in the background

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https://girlzandtheartofletters.blogspot.com/2025/07/challenge-6-de-letter-van-f-van.html - F is for flowers, foliage & friendship

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-challenge.html

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