It was time to work on another lesson 2 menu and I started this time at the beginning of the list.  After watching the lesson video and taking a look at the card inspiration I was ready to begin.  I used a new stamp set from Altenew called Garden Sillouette.  I ordered this set as liked the selection of solid flowers, leaves, branches and the canning jar and vase stamps.

As the lesson focus was using a stencil I had to create one first. I used a piece of stencil paper from a pad that was from Melissa and Doug.  That was a great find one day.  I used two different leaf dies from the set to die cut five branches.  Next I used white card stock and my MISTI tool to ink the flowers using Tombow marker 553 and 192  for the stem.  I had to add more ink from the markers to get a darker image and for the final stamp I spritzed the flowers with water to blend the ink a bit.  I then die cut the coordinating from white paper for the three flowers.  I lightly sprayed each die cut using Pixie spray and covered each flower. I layered the stencil on top , used paper tape to secure it and used a foam bleding pad and Altenew firefly green dye ink to add color to  the branches. Now the flowers are in the foreground and the branches are in the background.

I added a  strip of black and white stripe paper  from paper pad fromMy I avorite Things.  I used the Thanks stamp from the set for the sentiment and banner die and a coordinating blue banner die cut as well.  I used my favorite stitched edge rectangle die from My Favorite Things  and then attached it to horizontal A2 card base.  I splattered the piece with water diluted light blue ink using the Tombow marker I used on the flowers.  Simple card layout using only a few colors.

Supplies-

• Altentew Garden Silouette stamps and coordinating dies

• Altenew dye ink Firefly green ink cube

• Tombow markers 553 and 192

• Ranger foam blending tool

• My Favorite Things  mini banner dies, stitched rectangle die

• My Favorite Things black and white stripe paper pad

• White card stock and strip of blue

• Versafine black ink

• Pixie spray adhesive

• Fan brush for ink splatters

• MISTI stamping platform