Cornflowers
Posted: June 20, 2024 Filed under: AALL & Create, cornflower, Foiled Fox store, The Foiled Fox | Tags: AALL & Create, Fabriano Watercolour Paper, Ranger Distress inks 7 Comments
I have cornflowers growing in my garden but they are still quite small seedlings so no signs of flowers at this stage. I am hoping they will bloom some time this summer. Meanwhile I’ve been stamping some, in blue of course. I had blue cornflowers in my wedding bouquet and flower crown so they are quite special to me.
I’ve teamed up with the Foiled Fox to bring you this post and it is wonderful to be collaborating with them again. The stamps featured on today’s cards are from AALL & Create; the set is called ‘Cornflower‘ and includes two flower stamps and two sentiments.
I’ve stamped the solid cornflower stamp repeatedly to create these two cards using a couple of techniques to make the flowers look different. The stem on the stamp is thin and bendable so I was able to make the flowers lean left or right and even have a wiggle in the stem! I inked the petals with both prize ribbon and salty ocean distress inks, spritzing the stamp before pressing it on the hot pressed watercolour panel so the inks blended. I also did some second generation stamping to get paler impressions of the flowers.
You might know that I love typewriter font so I was very happy to see a couple of word stamps in a slightly distressed typewriter font. I added them with versafine clair nocturne ink because it is such a crisp reliable ink. Thanks for dropping in; I hope you will go and check out the wealth of inspiration on the Foiled Fox blog and have a browse around their lovely online store while you’re there. (Naturally this post includes affiliate links, feel free to use them.)
Heather Telford 
beautiful flowers…. I can see why you like them so much. Looks like a very versatile stamp too.
Beautifully done Heather…amazing that you only used the two stamps!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
I love cornflower. They are so “friendly” and just make you happy. Thanks for sharing.
Cornflowers are such a pretty blue and you have managed to capture that vibrancy in your stamping Heather, and a great idea to bend the stem to give them a different look, and great with one card portrait and the other landscape which in itself gives a different look to the finished cards. x
Love this card and will save this post until I can get that stamp! How fun and what a gorgeous shade of blue. These look like they were fun to do too. Love the sentiments you paired with your image too.
Your garden will be beautiful if your cornflowers bloom as beautifully as these! I need to remember how well these two blues blend.
LOVE your field of cornflowers Heather. The colours are saturated and gorgeous. Always great to get two cards done at once. xx