Sunday, 8 November 2015

Okra Anyone?

When I first joined Slimming World, I tried quite a few new (to me) vegetables and one of them was okra. It didn't taste of much but it was something different. We had a stir fry at lunchtime and I remembered seeing somewhere about stamping with them so I kept the offcuts and I've just had a play. Oh my, such pretty little flowers and you can have a lot of different sizes from just one finger

I've used my Brilliance Rocket Red Gold ink pad. This is one of my all time favourites as it's such a rich colour with lots of shimmer and I've got a couple of them so I've used the oldest for this. The splatters are Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mist




Difficult to capture in a photo but this shimmer is why I love this ink pad


If you do give this a go, I wouldn't recommend using your best ink pad. Okra has a slightly slimy inside and despite wiping it away, it still oozes a little. Also, for the better definition, it's best to remove any visible seeds although they can add detail to the petals

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Okra snippets
CAS on Sunday - Use a Tag
Less Is More - Fire Colour Challenge

9 comments:

  1. Oh such a clever idea and loving the rocket red/gold ink x

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  2. Would have never thought that your flowers were stamped with okra,beautiful and clear ..can see me using these in the nursery that I work at too so thanks for the idea!

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  3. Oh how clever Kim! Ha, you'll be doing potato stamps next :) Really pretty result.

    Sorry I'm a bit late commenting!

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  4. How clever! Beautifully done! I think that's the only Brilliance ink pad I don't own, for some reason.

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  5. What an incredibly clever idea. Love your pretty tag card. Barbxx

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  6. Super pretty and an elegant take on the fire colour challenge
    thanks so much for playing along this week!
    Sarah xx
    Less is More

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  7. What a brilliant idea... it takes me back to when we used to use fruit and veg to stamp with when I was teaching infants... we never used okra though... it was a bit too exotic for those days!
    This makes a fabulous design.
    love it!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  8. What a pretty flower from your okra - super design!
    Thank you for joining us
    Anne
    "Less is More"

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  9. What a genius idea and great results too!
    Thanks for sharing with us.
    Anita x
    Less is More

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