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Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Funky Flowers


 Good morning, there's a new challenge at FAB 'n' FUNKY, 
Pat K, our lovely host for this fortnight, has chosen the theme of
 MONOCHROMATIC 
(shades of one colour)

I love the look of monochromatic designs, there's something so 'together' about them! I  chose to use brown tones and several floral stamps from different companies. 
First I smooshed the background with D. Oxides and added some stencilled leaves and grasses along the bottom edge. I stamped the funky flowers (Hobby Art) stems and leaves  using brown Versafine Clair and coloured them with watercolour markers, adding some details with a white gel pen, masked them where necessary to add the swirl stamps ( a company called Autumn Leaves) and second generation stamping of some TH silhouette stamps to fill the spaces.  The little bees are from Lavinia. I doodled the border to finish.
There are loads of the Hobby Art  and Autumn Leaves stamps still uninked although both sets are far from new so I'm planning to make similar cards in different colours. One day.
There's more to see over at Fab'n' Funky from my lovely teamies and we'd be delighted to have you play along 
Thanks for visiting.
Chris
x

Challenge entries:
avenue613 May Challenge
allsorts #849


23 comments:

meg said...

Beautiful Brown tones on the gorgeous flowers and fabulous background Chris

Liz said...

Great funky floral design Chris, it looks beautiful in shades of brown. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge using the Monochromatic option.
Liz xx

Chrissy said...

Fabulous background and I love those flowers and bees and white details, gorgeous card..

luv CHRISSYxx

Chrissy said...

Back again, thank you so much for sharing with us at Little Red Wagon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

GerJanne said...

Just love the card in monocromatic! Thanks for joining us at DAK!

Janette said...

I love the Zentangle bits you added, that struck me right away, I just love it. What a gorgeous colour you chose and the flowers are beautiful too. A really gorgeous card Chris. xx

Pauline C said...

Brilliant monochromatic card, I love the unusual colour scheme for florals - it really catches the eye in a sophisticated way. Fab doodling too xx

pinky said...

You have captured the monochromatic theme so beautifully Chris. I love the colour tones you went with and your gorgeous stamping. The border really adds to it all. Just gorgeous!

Linby said...

oh I love this so much! Great use of mono colourway and the quirky border really suits the stamps.

Gail L said...

Those funky flowers are fabulous!
Thank you for joining us at Allsorts!

crafty-stamper said...

Fabulous monochrome card, love all the brown tones, love the doodled borders, beautiful flowers and little Bees.
Carol x

aussie aNNie said...

This is a great card xx

Colien said...

Wonderful card, love the beautiful flowers!
Thanks for joining our monochrome-challenge on the 4 Season blog.
grtz Colien

Pat K said...

Oh this is so lovely Chris. Beautiful combo of shades of brown and fab design. xx

Alena Christin said...

A very beautiful card. Love the Zentangle and the brown colors.
Thank you for taking part in the Mirtillamente challenge!
Good luck and I hope to see you again.
Alena DT Mirtillamente

Bernadet said...

Oooh wowww, what a great flowers Chris.
Love the colours

Bernadet said...

Me again;) Thanks for joining us at 613Avenue Create!

Lisa said...

The brown monochromatic palette gives your floral design such a warm, earthy richness, and the layered stamping, soft inking, and little bees all come together so smoothly while the doodled border adds the perfect finishing touch to your beautifully detailed panel.

Mrs.B said...

Love the neutral shades you've used for the flowers making the white highlights really pop. It's a lovely card Chris. Avril x

Pat said...

Beautiful card with all your shades of Brown Chris. Great background and beautiful edging all around the card.

Pat xx

Jackie C said...


Thank you for your contributions to Mirtillamente; we enjoy seeing everyone's submissions. Our community thrives on creativity! Wishing you the best of luck, and we hope you'll visit us again.
Warm regards,
Jackie,
Mirtillamente Design Team

Deanne Saunders said...

Lovely card!!! Thanks so much for participating in our 613 AVENUE CREATE challenge!!! I appreciate that you play along and I enjoy visiting your blog!! Have a happy crafty day!! Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper

Nelly said...

Superleuke kaart heb je gemaakt. Bedankt voor je deelname aan de challenge van 4-SCB.

Groetjes Nelly