Hello and welcome to Crew member Wednesday! Today is the first post for Hermien. As the theme for this forst month is "This is me", Hermien is sharing a very touching story about her personal life and explains why she used this particular stamp set to create these beautiful cards!
The first post this month had to say something about myself. That was a small struggle for what do you tell on the www? Cozy married to Henk, living in the high north, employee of the cat .. some hassle with health, which causes that I can not work anymore, but never bored.. etcetc (you already read my introduction post) People who know me well also know Fleur, our daughter who was stillborn, a devastating event in our life..she would have been 15 in December....
Every time I see/hear the name or the word Fleur, my heart makes a little jump, the reason I wanted this beautiful stamp set, by Birgit's hand, in French language Tu sais je connais une Fleur unique au monde (You know I know a unique Fleur (flower) in the world)!
BEAUTIFUL and therefore a beautiful flower on these two cards, one with that beautiful text and in the background some butterflies ...
The other one with the rainbow text from Birgit's stamp set "Leafs".
Together in one pic:
How to....?
I took a sheet of 300grs watercolour paper (30x40cm) and randomly applied some blue and turkois paint. I used a brayer to spread the paint
I leave a lot of white space, so I can play with more colors, stencils or stamps later! I took the first stencil (Triangle Mesh) and applied blue and turkois paint with a small sponge. Than I used the beautiful flower stencils (2 Flowers) and white gesso to finish my background. Now the background is ready to cut into 12 pieces (10x10cm).
And than I chose one and started painting, stamping, doodling, the first card was not covered, I liked the background as it was, so I only stamped and added some doodling (I stamped the tulip on a seperated painted paper, cut it and glued it onto the card).
The second card was stamped with the same tulip stamp, you can see the background shining trough, than I covered the whole card with three different colors and stamped and doodled over it.
Hope you enjoy!
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Stamps and stencils used in these projects:
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