The Crafty Individuals floral stamp is CI- 385, designed by Linda Edwards. I really love it. It's the stamp shown in the bottom left hand corner card coloured in greens and yellows. The poppy one next to it in yellow, pink and purple is from one of the new PA stamp sets: HP1605. A lovely new assortment of gorgeous images! Almost all the others is an assortment of randomly chosen JoFy floral stamps, selected from a range of her sets. I have so many of her sets I can't remember which sets I've selected from lol! To create the background and colour the images I've used 'Wink of Stella' pens. I watched a demo by Sheena Douglas who made a washy background using Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens to create a multi coloured background. She scribbled the pens directly onto the paper then blended the colour out with a water brush. It leaves a lovely sparkly wash across the paper. So I tried the same with these gorgeous sparkly pens. I added more colours and they blended beautifully with each other, overlapping to create more colours. Now it took some experimenting to find a watercolour paper that would allow for a good blending of the colours and not leave streaks. Amazingly, the only one that worked was the cheapest watercolour pad that I'd bought from 'The Works' for my Grandfairies to paint on! 'Crawford and Black'. I tried Ranger, Crafters Companion, PA and even Arches hot pressed. None of these blended the streaks out! So, there we are! Lots of cards in stock for all the birthdays still to come. The photos certainly show how bright and Spring-like the colours are but I haven't managed to catch the sparkle. You'll just have to believe me that it's there and it's gorgeous!
