Colour burst

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Cheerful pansies always make one aware of a burst of colour. These are just so colourful in yellow and purples, especially with the addition of the yellow bush stamens as bunches of small flowers.

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The Heartfelt Creations cheerful pansies were stamped with Distress ink in seedless preserves. The co-ordinating dies were used to cut them out. Their centres were then coloured with a dauber and Ranger archival ink in buttercup yellow. Next, I used a Copic marker Y35 to add brighter yellow stripes in the centre, flipping the pen from the centre outwards so the lines would be thinner as they radiate away from the centre. I left the inner ckentres in the light yellow for a bit of contrast.
The edges were coloured with a dauber and the seedless preserves ink, working from the outside to the inside. This results in a nice dark edges. The pictures below show colouring before die-cutting but I experimented and got better results by fist cutting amd then colouring.

Although a lovely mould is available that helps with texture and shaping many flowers simultaneosly, I was in a relaxed mood and shaped them by hand using a ball tool.
The flowers were assembled by sliding the 2-petal piece behind the twonlower petals, and glueing the two pieces together. Heartfelt Creations has a video showing how to do this.
Leaves were stamped using Artistry green garland and colouring with that and Distress oxide in key lime. I dabbed a few yellow spots randomly.
The card base is 14,5x14,5cm and I used one of the pretty printed squares from the Burst of soring paper back as background.
All Hearfelt Creations products can be bought in our online store www.purp,emagnolia.co.za/collections/heartfelt-creations. The inks are available in the Ink category and the bunch stamens can be found at www.purplemagnolia.co.za/collections/foamiran.
I hope you are inspired by this post to go and create colourful pansies. If so, please let me know in the comments how this card and tutorial made you feel.
Thank you for visiting. May you enjoy a cheerful day.
Marie Smith