Creating Backgrounds with Small Stamps - FS640

Congratulations to this week's Splitcoaststampers' stamper Cheryl (Motherload). 

Cheryl is a scrapbooker and I chose this layout as my inspiration:

I started by stamping the main image from the new Essentials by Ellen Mondo Wildflowers set and then created a mask.

With the mask in place, I used a dotted stencil to help me position my grid of smaller flowers, stamped in Catherine Pooler Twilight ink. My stencil is so old, I have lost track of who made it, but I've linked a similar one below.

Once I had all the stamping done, I coloured the flowers with Copic markers and highlighted them with Star Dust stickles.

As a finishing touch, I filled in the background flowers' centres with something new to me - Tonic Dream Drops in Indigo Eclipse. This photo does not do them justice - they are iridescent and so shimmery, with just the right amount of dimension.

There is a quick video on my Instagram grid showing how I made this.

I used: