The theme at UK Stampers Forum is Spring Flowers and I decided to join in again this month as I got in the mood to get painty and this is what I fancied making!
Admittedly at first glance these may not appear particularly spring like (usually would have gone yellow for daffodils or white for snowdrops) but my mojo wanted to play with purples so let’s think I was inspired by purple crocus instead even if the shapes of the flower are far from crocus like!
Ah well some days you just got to go with the mojo and where it decided to go and forget the rules!
Also the rule for UK stampers forum is stamping and whilst there is stamping in the background it is barely visible from the way I ended up finishing the ATCs. Oops! Again it is where the mojo took me and I went with it!
The backgrounds were made individually using four different Paperartsy paints, some Dylusions spray inks and posca pens with some stampin up ink used for the stamping and the edging. Whilst the dye ink sits on the paint at first it will eventually settle and dry but be warned if using a dye ink on paint it can smear – not really an issue for this style of making but worth noting regardless.
After making the three backgrounds I added die cut vellum and the flowers that I die cut from some watercolour cardstock I had coloured using both the Dylusions spray ink and brushos giving them different purple colours.
I added some thread in a purple colour underneath the sentiment for each – these were sticker labels adhered to some painted paper and cut out.
Then I added the purple enamel accents as final embellishment and called them done!
I did also make a card using the piece of paper I had been using as a palette but will share that another day!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Last minute edit … the photos I don’t think showed the colours well so the next morning took this which seems more true colours … well that’s what I think anyway!
Inkyfingeredcat 
Love these!