Hobby Art Sunflowers

I have been lucky enough to spend a day crafting with Lisa Baker and enjoyed using the gorgeous Hobby Art Sunflowers stamp collection. When you first look at the set, as with lost of the Hobby Art collection, I don't think you realise its full potential. Once you start using each individual stamp you then start to realise just how much you can do with it!
The first project to the left, is a set of mini wooden frames each with a picture to showcase. The frames were all painted with gesso and once dry, some treasure gold was rubbed over gently with my fingers. This adds a really soft sheen and shows up that lovely irregularity that wood has.
The top frame utilises the scenery element and cleverly adds dimension and perspective by adding the larger sunflowers on the outside of the frame directly on the wood. The second follows this through, coloured with Promarkers and the last one uses the biggest flower head. We also added some hints of sparkle with a clear Wink of Stella brush pen.

This second project was a really simple, but effective, tag style card. Co-ordinations card has been used to pick out the yellow in the sunflowers and add some layers to the composition. The flower itself was coloured with Promarkers again, and a little tumbled glass was used for definition on the outside of the square. The flower 'tile' was then triple embossed with UTEE.

The card to my left here really surprised me and reminded me of some old techniques which I had somehow stopped using, or forgotten!

Again we have used some lovely co-ordinations card to pick out the main colours used. The main centre piece was first stamped fully with a script style stamp. At this point we then used Versamark ink to stamp a flower on each corner of the card. These were then embossed with clear embossing powder. Doing the project this way around allows you to see the brown script directly against the white paper and creates a really funky effect! Next we took vintage photo distress ink and mustard seed to colour the piece, getting darker towards the outside. The darker ink was then used to stamp the same flower used earlier, on the paper over-lapping the text and the other flowers. As the first ones were embossed, any ink on the flowers could be wiped away! Ingenious!

 

Our project to my right now, goes back to using a DL size card and composing a panel in any way you like using the lovely stamp collection. The leaves at the front and the large flowers are in the foreground and then the scene behind is stamped with the scenery elements. Promarkers and Wink of Stella feature again, along with some distress ink for the large field areas and the blue sky. The main sunflower heads have also been paper pieced to add some depth.

This final one is a square 6x6 card base made using a kind of sparkly, smooth craft card. The background has been coloured lightly with distress ink and the largest flower head randomly stamped around the outside with vintage photo distress ink. These have been watercoloured to give a softer effect compared to using Promarkers. The additional sentiment panel and the feature flower at the bottom have however been stamped and embossed with black ink and clear embossing powder. The images have been coloured with the Promarkers to show the different effect. The flowers have all been gone over with clear Wink of Stella.

It was a lovely day and I would recommend a craft day with Lisa to anyone!