Clematis card

Remember the clematis pictures? Well, I worked out how to mount them to make a greetings card 🙂

Mounted picture of clematis

I marked and then cut a rectangular frame (green section), and cut out all the background outside of the frame. I then matted that onto black card with a narrow border. That was then matted onto hand-coloured glossy card with wider margins, before mounting the whole thing onto a square, textured white card. The glossy card was sprayed with Adirondack Color Wash (cranberry, wild plum and denim), then water to merge and activate the colours, and then a sheet of kitchen roll laid onto it and then pulled off leaving the quilted texture in the wet ink. I’m rather pleased with the results 🙂

Colouring Clematis

Blue Clematis

Clematis ‘Carnival’, ‘Oh la la’ and ‘Nelly Moser’

My evening project – finishing off these beauties. One stamp design, three different colour-ways using Letraset ProMarkers to colour. Image is stamped in Tsukineko’s Memento Tuxedo Black, and I use Ryman’s Bright White coated card. Colour reference came from photos of clematis on a quick Google image search. Each took around 30-40 minutes to colour. Not sure yet how to mount these to make greetings cards, but I’ll be sure to share in due course. The stamp is from Circa Design (XM-IM-49 POINT) and was sold as a second for a bargain £1 at a craft fair, though I can’t see any blemishes. Confusingly they list it under Christmas as an image of poinsettia…

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