Succulent Background – Rachel Vass Designs

Hi everyone! I am super excited to share with you a new release from Rachel Vass designs, Succulent Background! I love background stamps and this one is a beauty to color. This is one of the new release stamps – you can find this stamp, along with many other beautiful stamps at Rachel’s etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/rachelvassdesigns I am also entering this into the Flower challenge #42 – the theme is Anything Goes. You could even win some of Rachel’s digital stamps! YEAH!

I started by printing this stamp on Bristol smooth paper. I usually wait for 24 hours when using my water based markers to ensure my image is dry, I generally have no difficulties using my water based markers this way! I love plants and succulents so this was so fun to color. I used my Tombow dual brush pens and using colored pencils for the nooks and crannies. I chose to color the succulents in more realistic colors, but wanted to do 2 main colored plants. Once I was done coloring I cut the image using an A2 card based panel using a Gina Marie die. I then cut my image again using the next smaller sized die. I wanted to position one layer of the background using foam tape. I then chose a sentiment from the set as well.

I mounted the card outer frame on an A2 sized card based panel in black and then used foam tape for the center portion of the card. Once this part of my card was complete I felt like I needed a little more. So I decided to add a strip of glitter card stock to the middle section of my card. I used foam adhesive on my sentiment as well and my card was completed!

I hope you enjoyed this card and seeing this beautiful new release from Rachel Vass!

Be sure to visit Rachel’s Etsy store for this beautiful new release and more.