Snippet flower garden

 

I dug out this stencil which I haven't used in a very long time. I realised it was suited to the reverse stencil technique. When I bought it (10+ years ago and new to stencilling) I hadn't realised the foliage wouldn't be green if used the traditional way. To remedy that I randomly put shades of green ink in the areas where the foliage would be and then placed the stencil over and applied black ink. 

Yet again I found the black to be too dark! So I splashed some water and toned it down. Then I used a Phill Martin sentiment stamp and embossed in white to lighten the area. My finishing touch are flowers cut from snippets. Some are old TL and probably from advent calendars, but also using a new die set from Pocket Full of Happiness. These are only part of the set and hopefully I will be showcasing the full die set soon.

Here are my snippets and also my little pot of snippet dots from other makes which came in useful for some of the flower centres on this card.

I'm off to the Snippets Playground challenge with this card, also as the stencil really was very neglected I'm entering at The Neglected Stuff Challenge too.