CTMH Flowers for You SOTM Blog Hop - May 2021

Welcome to the May 2021 SOTM Blog Hop featuring the stamp set Flowers for You. This month we have almost 20 CTMH Makers sharing projects created with the CTMH Stamp Of The Month Flowers for You. Keep visiting the next blog (typically via a link near the bottom of the post) to get back to the blog where you started.

Flowers for You - May 2021 SOTM

You should have arrived here from ***Crafty Happy by Darlys Recker***. If you get lost along the way, Melinda Everitt also keeps a list of all participants on her blog at If You Bling It.

Flowers for You Stamp Set

For today's hop I created this card. 

card created with Flowers for You

Something about the floral cluster and the new Circle Thin Cuts screamed at me to combine them which caused me to carry round shapes through much of my card. I was inspired by the gently falling "drops" on some of the You Are Enough papers to do something with Texture Paste. To create a stencil, I opened Design Space, created a 4.5" x 5.75" rectangle and then just started adding circles in various sizes and tried to randomly place them in my rectangle, leaving about 1/4" border around the edges (to allow room to tape down the stencil). My floating circles stencil Design Space project uses free shapes if you would like to use it.

I mixed some Opaque Matte Texture Paste with some Blue Belle re-inker. It looked more blue to me when I was working in the dark and when I set the pieces aside to dry overnight. In the morning the color reminded me of Glacier. Maybe adding tap water (my paste was getting a little dry) altered the color a bit?

I used colors from You Are Enough as inspiration for coloring the floral cluster with Watercolor Pencils. I used a gray pencil on top of the blue because to me it makes it look a little more like Blue Belle. Even though the leaves were black from stamping, I colored them so the veins would have a Glacier tint. I matted the floral cluster on the light side of Glacer using Thin 3-D Foam tape between the layers and to lift both off the card base.

So the layers we more pronounced against the white card base I inked the edges of the You Are Enough paper with Blue Belle and the piece of White Daisy with Glacier. I stamped the sentiment on the light side of Peach and dovetailed using Hexagon Thin Cuts. If you missed the technique I shared for dovetailing with the Hexagon Thin Cuts, you will find it here.

Before you head to ***Krista's Crafty Corner by Krista Hershberger***, the supplies I used to create my project are listed below.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart except where noted:

• My Acrylix™ Stamp Sets: Flowers for You — May Stamp of the Month (S2105)
  
• Patterned Paper: You Are Enough Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet (CC5219) or You Are Enough Paper Packet (CC52110)
  
• Cardstock: White Daisy (X6046), You Are Enough Coordinating Cardstock (CC52111) or Peach (X6044), Glacier (X5978)
  
• Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pads: Black (Z2805), Blue Belle (Z6519), Glacier (Z2841)
• Exclusive Inks™ Re-inker: Blue Belle (Z7519)
  
• White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack (X254)
• Mixed Media: Stencil Sheets (Z4244), Palette Knives (Z4247), Opaque Matte Texture Paste (Z4245), 
  
• Thin Cuts: Stitched Hexagons (Z3678), Circles (Z3943)
  
• Die-cutting & Embossing Machine (HB1080)
• Cricut® Maker™ (HB1076)
  
• Supplies not from Close To My Heart: Lifecycle Crafts Nesting Circles (I needed a larger circle too)
  

If you are not already working with a CTMH Maker, you may purchase all of the supplies I used at my eCommerce website.

If you have a few moments, please leave a comment letting me know what you think of my card. I hope you are enjoying all of the projects created with Flowers for You. Thanks for hopping with us!

So you do not have to scroll back up, the next stop on the hop is ***Krista's Crafty Corner by Krista Hershberger***.