For this week's Fandom Friday I finally got to play with the Ghastly Greenery bundle from Scrappy Boy Stamps, and if you know me at all you already know I cannot resist anything inspired by a certain man eating plant musical! I die cut everything from the A2 Man Eating Plant die set using a mix of cardstock from Cardstock Warehouse and Lawn Fawn, starting with a light pistachio green for all the leaves and the plant head, then shaded everything with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink using Trinity Stamps sidekick brushes for the smaller pieces and a larger blending brush for the plant head before adding green ink splatter from my glass board and pearl pigment watercolor splatter for extra texture and shine.
For the mouth I used Seedless Preserves Distress Ink to build up the inner mouth and lip area using a photo from the movie musical as my coloring reference, tinted the Madero Beach cardstock lips with Saltwater Taffy, colored the lilac tongue heavier toward the inside, and gave the pumpkin cardstock pot a terracotta feel with Fired Brick Distress Ink around the edges before assembling all the pieces together using the outline die as a placement guide.
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For the background I stamped the Ghastly Greenery 6x6" background stamp onto kraft cardstock in Pinecone VersaFine Clair ink using a fun backwards MISTI trick, securing the cardstock to the MISTI door with repositionable tape so I could stamp it cleanly and re-stamp if needed, then trimmed the panel down to 4x5-1/4" for a subtle tonal look behind the plant. I adhered the background panel to a top folding A2 card base, popped the assembled plant up with 1mm foam adhesive, and used liquid glue to tack down all the delicate vines and roots so nothing would snag or sag. On the inside I stamped "Feed Me" in Tulip Red and "Sending You a Little Shop of Love" in Pinecone VersaFine Clair ink, using my grid mat to get everything centered, and I think that sentiment is just absolutely perfect for this card!
