Alexandra Renke DIY Flowers for Inkspirational Challenge #367

Happy Monday.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I managed to get into my craft room and make some cards yesterday. I went looking for some inspiration and saw a great challenge across at Inkspirational. I loved the idea of the palette of flowers and went looking for something in my stash that would work. After some dilly-dallying, I decided to ink up a set that I bought years ago called DIY Flowers and it’s from Alexandra Renke. I have no idea why, but it has been sitting in my craft stash and has never been inked! Sacrilege! I thought it was ideal for the inspiration photo.

Here’s a sneak peek:

I love the fact that this set combines both art/craft accessories and flowers! Which seemed perfect for the inspiration photo:

I began by stamping and coloring the individual elements. As I don’t have matching dies, I needed to fussy cut around each of the floral/art pieces.

I then die-cut a focal layer from an Altenew set called Mix and Match Frames. I added yellow ink blending to the top of that layer, and pink to the bottom. I wanted to echo the colors of the florals and that doing it on the focal layer would be the best approach.

I found a sentiment from Spellbinders Typewriter Adventures. I got this set on sale at Spellbinders and, even though I didn’t get any of the other stamps that went with this collection, I have found that this has quickly become my go to sentiment set. It covers so many different occasions and the size is perfect. I am so pleased I managed to get it before it disappeared from Spellbinders online store!

Once the focal layer was complete, I added some spare cardstock behind it and adhered it to the card base. I’ve stopped using foam for layers behind panels as I find it a) expensive, b) unreliable through the post c) I never seem to have the right size piece to fit and d) never quite find the right glue for it! Something I never have a shortage of? Cardstock pieces! I also know they work through the post, I have the right glue for them, and I can easily cut them to size.

I then used foam dots to pop up the floral parts of the images and adhered the rest of the elements to the focal layer.

Here’s my card:

Having made this card I cannot work out why it has taken me so long to use this set!!!

I am hoping to be back tomorrow with another card. In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Card recipe:

• Stamps: DIY Flowers – Alexandra Renke
• Dies: Mix and Match – Altenew

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