Flowering Zinnias

Published on April 4, 2024April 2, 2024 by Michele Jutrisa

Our theme this month for the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop is a ‘Water colour Challenge’ by Julia and I am using the Simply Zinnias Bundle by Stampin’ Up!®. The Simply Zinnias Bundle is part of Flowering Zinnias Suite Collection in the Online Exclusives.

Zinnias are beautiful and vibrant flowers, so I have tried to replicate with in my water colour flowers.

How to….

Flowers & Leaves
- Using the Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper, I cut 3 sheets in half and coloured each sheet in a different colour. The bottles of Reinkers are the best to use for this technique as you may require a few drops of colour to get the depth of colour you want. Work with one sheet and one colour at a time, wet the sheet of water colour paper generously with a spray bottle of water. With a water painter add ink to the wet surface and let the colour spread. Don’t worry if the colour isn’t even, you want it to have texture – light and dark areas. Tilt the paper so the ink flows all over the paper, add more colour if you want more depth. I used the same technique in another card earlier in the year – Paper Florist Dies.
- Once the water colour paper is dry die cut flowers and leaves.
- The colours I used are..
  - Sweet Sorbet
  - Daffodil Delight
  - Orchid Oasis
  - Granny Apple Green
  - Mossy Meadow
- The flower centers & stamen I cut from cardstock – Basic Black, Sweet Sorbet, Daffodil Delight and Orchid Oasis. The stamenn I also brushed with Wink of Stella for a bit of sparkle.
- Adhere all the flowers together and set aside.
Zinnia 3D Embossing Folder
- The Basic White card front I embossed with the Zinnia 3D Embossing Folder. This is a stunning embossing folder of zinnia flowers and leaves in a outline image. This just gives some texture behind the flowers and the impression of the flowerbed of Zinnias.
Sentiment
- The sentiment I used the Sweetly Scripted Stamp set and stamped the Happy Birthday in Memento Tuxedo Black.
Card Insert
- The card insert I stamped with the Zinnia flower stamp in Memento Tuxedo Black in the bottom right corner
- The insert was matted with Basic Black cardstock

Measurements Used

	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Basic White Thick	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Basic Black	4 x 5¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Front	Basic White	3⅞ x 5⅛	9.7 x 14.1cm
Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper		3 sheets cut in half
Flower Centers	Basic Black	2 x 2”	5 x 5cm
Flower Stamen	Sweet Sorbet, Orchid Oasis Daffodil Delight	1 x 1” each colour	3 x 3cm each colour
Sentiment	Basic White	¾ x 4”	2 x 10cm

Insert Mat	Basic Black	4 x 5¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Insert	Basic White	3⅞ x 5⅛	9.7 x 14.1cm

Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!

Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

This month Julia has given us this Water Colour Challenge to play with

Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!

You may be starting here or have come from someone else’s blog – either way there is a list below to help you move around all the different blogs and get many amazing ideas.

.