Sunset Daisy Birthday Card

 For this birthday card,  I used the beautiful daisy days stamp set from Paper Rose Studio. I tried to recreate the osteospermum I recently bought. 

I'm entering this card in the flower challenge "use a shape". I've used a hexagon.

The flowers were stamped onto neenah desert storm cardstock using brown ink. I then used prismacolor pencils to colour the images. I started with violet at the base of the petals and then moved to orange and then yellow, all with a flicking motion. I then added black to the very base of the petal to darken the purple.  I then repeated all the colours. The flower centres, I coloured brown making it darker around the edge. I then added dots using a white gel pen.

I then struggled with the background,  trying different colours until I settled on orange.

On the orange cardstock I stamped the flower and leaves in versamark ink for a watermark effect. This panel was cut slightly smaller than my cardbase and the edges were inked with vintage photo distress ink.

The hexagon is 3 layers of cardstock for a little dimension.

The sentiment is from Paper Rose Studio sentiments.  I cut it to size and inked around the edge with orange ink and then adhered it to white cardstock slightly bigger. 

The leaves and 2 flowers are adhered directly to the hexagon and the third flower is on foam tape.

I finished with glossy accents on the flower centres and orange nuvo drops.

Thanks for stopping by,

Helen xo