DCM - May elemental inspiration

Morning!

It's been a while since I shared a card project, but my mojo thankfully has returned for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge. Miri has chosen the fab image for our elemental inspiration dare this month:

For my elements I chose the aqua blue, yellow, and grey colour palette, florals, and black dots:

Stamps: Concord & 9th - Painted Peony, Concord & 9th - Botanical Turnabout, Concord & 9th - Paint Swash Turnabout
Dies: Concord & 9th - Painted Peony, Pinkfresh Studio - Diagonal Stitched Rectangles, The Stamp Market - Oblong Hexagon

I started off by creating the blue background with the Paint Swash Turnabout stamp and Lawn Fawn Kiddie Pool ink layered up for 3 rotations of the stamp, leaving areas to go in with the spotty stamp in Onyx black ink and randomly fill in some of the white gaps.

I set the background aside to dry while I inked up the Painted Peony stamps in various colours from the Concord & 9th ink cube set.

For the large peony I used Pinkfresh Sweet Mustard ink for the bottom and middle layer, then Altenew Honey Drizzle for the last layer.

I used my go-to diagonal stitched rectangle die to cut the background to size, and added a grey oblong to make the floral element really stand out against the background.

Press and Seal was of course deployed to keep the floral spray in place so I could stick it down right where I wanted it. It also made it easier to line everything up in the Misti so I could add the sentiment from the Botanical Turnabout stamp set just so...

Once everything was assembled I added some sequins from the Blossom set by Lucy's Things as a finishing touch.

Make sure you check out the wonderful projects from the rest of the design team, and play along if you can!

Happy crafting!

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Concord & 9th - Painted Peony stamps Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC | SHC	Concord & 9th - Botanical Turnabout stamp Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC	Concord & 9th - Paint Swash Turnabout stamp Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC | SHC	Concord & 9th - Painted Peony dies Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC | SHC
Pinkfresh Studio - Diagonal Stitched Rectangles dies Shop at: EH | MISC | SBC	The Stamp Market - Oblong Hexagon dies Shop at: MISC	Altenew - Honey Drizzle dye ink Shop at: MISC	Lawn Fawn - Kiddie Pool ink pad Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC
Pinkfresh Studio - Sweet Mustard ink pad Shop at: MISC | SBC	Versafine - Onyx Black ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Altenew - Pocketful of Sunshine ink cube set Shop at: EH | MISC | SHC	Concord & 9th - Ink cube set Shop at: EH | MISC | SHC
Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: AZ | EH | SSS	Simon Says Stamp - Fog cardstock Shop at: SSS	Ranger - Multi-Medium Matte adhesive Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tombow - Mono-Multi liquid glue Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ | EH	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC	MISTI stamping tool Shop at: EH | SBC	Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ | SBC
Thermoweb iCraft - Purple tape for die-cutting - 1 1/2" Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC

Comments

[Miri]

Superpretty! I love all the bold colours you combined and the huge and bright yellow flower... and the sparkly sequins :-)