Get Inky! Challenge Inspiration

Hello there - have you arrived here from the Blue Moon Crafting Station?

If so it's because you were interested in my DT inspiration for the new Get Inky! Challenge -

Stamping with Flowers - for Mothers' Day.

Actually it is my Mum's Birthday today so it really is my Mother's Day!

I would so like to be in England delivering a bouquet of flowers -

 Interflora will just have to do it for me!

As you can see there are three ideas here - and as you know my style is usually pretty 'CAS'!

I started with a 'jamjar' stamp from Get Inky!

 (It made me think of the wildflowers I used to pick Mum when I was a child, stuffed in a jamjar!) 

I stuck five narrow strips of green paper, to act as 'stems', on a cream tall rectangular card base.

I masked the stems with little pieces of paper so that when I stamped over with the jar the flowers would look as though they were inside.

Then I painted with blue water colour to give the impression of some 'water'.

This was the base for each of my three ideas...

To my first card I added 5 flowers from my embellishment box -

 still a few left from shopping trips to Naiff Street Souq in Dubai!

For my second card I made some 'tulips' - one of my favourite flowers

 and the flowers I always buy for my Mum when I can - especially orange ones!

I punched 5 hearts, cut them in half and rearranged them as shown:

I am not sure if this counts as three colours - I used three but then had black and the card base...

 but I would like to submit it to

Less is more Challenge week 170

For my third card once again I used a Get Inky! stamp - really a sun,but it struck me

 that it could be a wild flower!

I stamped the suns on the same cardstock as the tulips with

 Hero Arts 'soft canteloupe' Shadow ink - my favourite! - and fussy cut them out!

 To finish I added some 'buttons' from my button box and a bow made with the fork method - I mentioned it on a previous blog.

I will link this final card to

Through the craftroom door challenge
My crafty Creations
Pinspirational Challenges - flowers!

Well...three simple ideas...what will you come up with?

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Happy Crafting!