Moon Carrots and Alliums

Well, good morning! Thanks to all who entered yesterday’s blog competition. It’s still wide open, and you’ve got until I start next Monday’s post to enter. If you happened to miss it, you can read it and enter the competition here: https://www.claritymattersblog.com/2020/06/29/salty-air-and-corsets/. There’s a Claritystamp set in it for one lucky winner!

And, just to be kind, I thought I’d give you one last little clue regarding the mystery location of yesterday’s post. And the clue is Moon Carrots.

That’s right, Moon Carrots, or Seseli Gummiferum if you like the Latin names of plants. My Saturday coastal location was one of only six places in the entire country where these weird nobbly, bobbly little plants are known to blossom!

Does that help? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But I bet you’re all going to google Moon Carrots now 😉

Anyway, part of the reason Moon Carrots came to mind is that I came across this video on the Clarity YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0-ASamUovA&t=58s

It’s a simple, easy and fun little tutorial using some of our elegant Allium stamps and our elegant Gilding Flakes. And, there was just something about the vague shape of an allium that reminded me of Moon Carrots. Maybe that fact that they are both quite tall, big round heads made up of a cluster of individual strands. You tell me? Do you see a similarity? Let me know in the comments.

Watch here

Anyway, it’s a great little video. It’s elegant in its simplicity and the end result is a striking, high-contrast, six-panel design with a little strip under the bottom. Really cool. It’s the kind of thing you’d hang on the wall rather than send as a card, and has this really opulent, fine art feel about it. Oh yeah, and there’s 20% OFF everything you need to create this delightful design on your own. So check out our offer page, here!

So, why not watch, enjoy and reproduce yourself. Just don’t try to eat Moon Carrots as a healthy snack, I don’t think it’s a vegetable…

Well, that’s all from me then. Over and out.

Stuart.

7 thoughts on “Moon Carrots and Alliums

  • 30th June 2020 at 11:27 am
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    Thank you, Stuart, for bringing this tutorial to our attention – lovely result. I had not come across it before and will definitely give it a try at some point; no doubt it will work with other stamps.
    Best regards, Jutta

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  • 30th June 2020 at 12:41 pm
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    Wonderful tutorial. I love those allium stamps. I’ll have to try this one soon. I did spend lots of time investigating Moon Carrots. They would never work in my yard as it is too damp and shady, but they are beautiful.

    I do have one question though, what kind of glue do you use to attach this to the card? Gilding flakes rub off and that’s the side that gets glued. Will any wet glue work?

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  • 30th June 2020 at 1:04 pm
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    Love these stamps! Ive never been brave enough to try adhesive sheet and gliding flakes but it looks so easy.

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  • 30th June 2020 at 4:55 pm
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    Well I had never heard of Moon Carrots. What strange plants. You are so right reckon I shall Google them. I have the alium stamp and have done the gilding flake technique. I use the stamp a lot. X X

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  • 30th June 2020 at 8:49 pm
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    Love the demo. I looked up moon carrots and found there are nine suppliers, if you want to grow them. The rust that grows on them was thought to be extinct but has been rediscovered on the ones on your site. I know it is endangered but I’d rather grow common veg. I’m quite happy if that is a heritage variety. Kew can grow the rust!

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  • 30th June 2020 at 9:41 pm
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    I have never seen any moon carrots, but they don’t grow up in here in Scotland, probably due to our latitude as well as soil type.. Having done a wee bit of research on them just now, they seem to be a very interesting plant along side the rare mould that grows with them. I think that you saw them on the South Downs.

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  • 30th June 2020 at 10:26 pm
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    Love these allium stamps but haven’t tried this technique with them. Would make a nice piece of art to hang on the wall & other stamps could be used in the same way – you have set my brain into overdrive now !! Could make nice gifts for that event at the end of year that we can make now whilst still not able to go out to shop freely.
    The Moon Carrots look interesting – not something I had heard of so looked it up on Google.

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