Having finally started playing with the Avant Garden set, I continued! This time I created a veritable bower of flowers to frame a sentiment from Suite Sentiments, a set which has 11 incredibly versatile sentiments.

I inked up the flower stamp in daffodil delight and lightly touched a real red sponge dauber onto the middle before stamping. This meant cleaning the stamp off each time so as not to get real red onto my daffodil delight ink pad, but worth it. I stamped a few extra ones on scrap paper to test whether I needed the stamens, but they detracted from the look. Right, no stamens!  I then realised that since the colours had merged to make more of an orange, a real red sentiment was going to be jarring but a daffodil delight one would be too pale – so I inked up the sentiment and grabbed the sponge dauber again and added some real red to the sentiment before stamping. I really like how this came out.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz