TFJ: Summer Fun

- July 14, 2023

Today for TFJ Inspiration Ave Blog we are creating to the theme of “Summer Fun”. When I think of summer, I picture a field of sunflowers out in the bright sunlight. For me summer fun looks like quiet moments outside, reading a book or creating art. So today I will be creating a card featuring some watercolored sunflowers and a simple distress ink watercolor background.

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Supplies used: wild, flower stems #1, distress reinkers rustic wilderness, twisted citron, forest moss, salty ocean, mermaid lagoon, mustard seed, fossilized amber, and walnut stain, Idea-ology velvet trim, metallic sticker book, and stress, watercolor paper, TH fine detailed water brush, collage medium.

To start the project I’m first going to be die cutting five flowers from the wild flower stems number one set. I die cut these flowers from mixedmedia cardstock.

Next with the distress reinker I painted each of the flowers using the Tim Holtz fine detailer water brush. The colours that are used for the flower include mustard seed, fossilized amber, and walnut stain. On the stems are used rustic wilderness and twisted citron.

Now, for the background for the background, I’m going to be doing a simple wash using one of the larger ranger TH collage brushes. This will allow me to do a quick wash on our card base which is made from distress watercolor cardstock. For colors, I am using rustic wilderness, forest moss, and twisted citron for the grass.

Next, I glued all of the wildflowers onto the card front with some collage medium.

After gluing I cut down the watercolour cardstock to 5” x 3 3/4”. I also decided to layer the card with a 4.25in x5.5in piece of worn wall paper and then a layer of 5.25x4in layer of distress heavy white cardstock.

Now I’m going to add a piece of velvet trim around the base of the watercolour cardstock. To attach the boat trim I used at ATG gun to add adhesive to the back of the velvet before sticking it to the card front.