Flowers and Lace

It's here! NBUS (Never Before Usced Schtuff) has its very own blog with monthly challenges - and what perfect timing, as so many of us seem to be using lockdown to explore our unplayed-with supplies.

Here I've mixed some of my oldest NBUS with some of my newest - the doiley stamp is from a Dovecraft stamp set that must be 7 or 8 years old yet has never seen ink (well, I generally use REAL lace but I'm almost out of it and browsing the shops for more isn't an option right now), and the flowers corner and sentiment from a set that came with the latest issue of Creative Stamping.

I used the misti and a square template I have made with the centre and diagonals marked to position the stamps, and stamped the doiley in the centre and the blossom spray at the corners, turning the card four times to get the corner sprays in exactly the right position. Then I coloured the sprays with Promarkers, using two shades of pink for the flowers and making delicate, feathery strokes on the upper side of the petals to allow a little of the white card to show through giving the petals highlights then using a solid colour for the rolled -over undersides at the edges. I edged the panel and base card with a touch of the same pink ink I'd used to stamp the doiley.

I am sharing this with

Allsorts Challenge - Something old, something new 

Passion For Promarkers - Flowers and Lace 

Inkspirational - Spring 



NBUS - Challenge 13 (challenge 13 in a new challenge? It's a long story and you probably already know it.)