One of the (many) great things about going to a weekend crop is sharing supplies. Sadly I was having one of those inspiration free days which occur every now and then. When that happens I usually make a copy of a card or just wait until the next day but on Saturday, I went to talk to some of my friends for inspiration. Barb had the Stampin’ Up! Love is Kindness set, which she hadn’t even used but she lent it to me. There is a sentiment on the stamp which means that the tulips are supposed to be upright but Brian King pointed out that they looked better lying down. It hadn’t occurred to me until I read his post but he’s 100% right! So I masked the sentiment and stamped the tulips in memento black ink on very vanilla. I used memento black because I was planning to use the blendabilities to colour the image and other inks would not hold fast.

I coloured the tulips in the two lightest shades of melon mambo. I outlined the petals in the darker colour as well as colouring in the small part of the third petal. Then using the lightest shade I finished the two biggest petals, blending the two colours together. For the leaves and stalks, I used wild wasabi but this time it’s only one shade. I decided to leave lots of space around the image and stuck the 5.25″ by 4″ card onto a base of melon mambo. I lined the envelope using the envelope liners framelits and the backgrounds DSP from the Brights collection.