Cherish Flower Panel

Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend! It was Mother's Day here yesterday, and Anton and I went to see Avengers: Endgame, had a bite to eat afterwords and took some fun photo-booth photos. 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Frame It challenge. Don't miss the project by our May guest designer Ashley with her pretty blog She Is Crafty.

I wanted to use one of Tim's Lace Baseboard Frames, and decided to frame a recent photo and mount it on a canvas panel. Here, I went for mainly soft and neutral colors with a few spots of red. The panel is 9.7 x 6.3 in.

Start by die cutting the Wildflower Stems #2 from watercolor paper.

 

Watercolor them with Distress Ink, by first smearing the ink on a non-stick craft sheet and then misting with water. Pick the ink up with a paint brush.

The panel was first coated with gesso and then painted with watered-down Distress Paints.

When dry, I stamped it with the SSS You Matter Background stamp, which I like very much. And later also dry brushed some brown paint around the edges.

It is easy to position the You Matter stamp so that some more important words stand out.

Leave a bit of the paper white, as highlights.

The sentiment was stamped with the SSS Love Messages set, and I also die cut a word from Schoolhouse Red paper, using Tim's Handwritten Love set. There is also a piece of Ruler Ribbon. I always had a thing for ruler-themed products.

The Gumdrop Hearts were colored with Poppyfield alcohol ink.

Here you get a better look at the layers. There is one layer of watercolor paper embossed with the Courtyard folder and inked with Bundled Sage. Then there is a piece of kraft paper, followed by a piece of natural sticky-back canvas and, at the front, the pretty Lace Baseboard Frame.

I hope you will join us this week in our Frame It challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for stopping by here today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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