Jul 19, 2025

Overgrown Wonder

Hello everyone, it's the start of a new challenge at Allsorts and Lynn is hosting with her optional theme of "Flowers". We'd love to see all your floral creation and of course the option of Anything Goes is there too. Prizes are from Aall and Create and you have 2 weeks to join in.

A few months ago I won this beautiful stamp by Aall and Create - Overgrown Wonder, and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to ink it up. It's such a detailed stamp and instead of coloring all the fine details I decided to use a homemade circles stencil (made out of an acetate sheet and a variety of circle punches) and various colors of ink on the background, then I stamped the image directly onto the colorful background. After mounting this onto a black mat I used a simple but matching background paper I've had in my stash for a long time. On this background I used stamps from the set Fly Free (also by Aall and Create but retired). The sentiment "Fly Free" is part of this set and the cut out sentiment is from Tim Holtz' Tiny Text stamp set. A white card base and some stickyback enamel dots on the butterfly body finish off the card.

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3 comments:

Pauline C said...

Beautiful floral butterfly Ellie - well done for winning it - and great use of the bokeh technique - it really showcases the detailed stamp beautifully xx

brenda said...

A lovely colourful background for the A&C stamps Ellie, there is so much detail on it and works very well left uncoloured.

B x

Liz said...

Beautiful card Ellie, I love the background you’ve created behind the lovely stamped image.
Liz xx

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