STAMPlorations 4th Birthday Blog Hop ft. Fancy Frangipanis

Good morning and welcome to STAMPlorations' 4th Birthday blog hop! This new release includes some really gorgeous floral stamps, and for today's card I'm showcasing In Bloom: Fancy Frangipanis! It's my personal favorite out of the entire release. :-)

I started off by heat embossing the image with white embossing powder. Then I watercolored it with ZIG clean color real brush pens. I decided that I wanted to add some dimension to the flowers, so I cut them apart from the leaves and foam mounted them.

The sentiment and die are also part of this new release. The sentiment is from Bold Sentiments: Charming set and the die is Charming CUTplorations word die.


I then added some washi tape and gold thread to the top part of the card, and embellished it with some enamel dots and pearls. I really like how this card turned out, and I hope you enjoyed it, too! Be sure to check out my other post for this hop, and have wonderful day!

Challenges Entered: 


SSS Wednesday: ATG / Word Art Wednesday: ATG / STAMPlorations: ATG


7Kids: ATG (I used Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock)

Modern Rose Card ft. Winnie & Walter

Hello! I have one last Winnie & Walter card to share with you. This one features the In Bloom: Julie's Roses set. I was partially inspired by a card I created earlier:



I really like the pop of color against the bold black patterned background. I colored the rose image with RV32, RV34, R56, R59 Copics and the leaves with YG23, YG25, YG17. 

I then added some sparkle and shine to the rose with Wink of Stella and glossy accent. I embossed the sentiment white embossing powder. To finish off the card, I adhered some sequins and rhinestones and also added a strip of green glitter cardstock to the bottom of the panel. This is definitely a quicker and easier card I've made in a while. But with such a bold patterned background, you really don't have to do much. :) Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Challenges Entered: 

Winnie & Walter 3rd Birthday Bash: Three Challenge (3 word sentiment & 3 colors: pink, wine red and green) / Sequin Challenge / Bright Colors Challenge / Mood Board Challenge (Inspired by the flowers and the bold black-and-white pattern in the bottom left corner. Shown below) // Paru's Card Making Challenges: 3 colors

    
Time Out: Love/Friendship (I chose the friendship theme) / Krumspring: Shapes / Krumspring: Flowers
  
Penny Black and More: ATG / 7 Kids: ATG (I used Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink)

Floral Background Card ft. Winnie & Walter

EDIT: Happy Little Stampers Favorite

Hello and good morning! Can you tell that I'm a little addicted to my ZIG Clean Color Real Brush pens lately? After playing with them for a couple days now, I think I'm more comfortable layering and mixing different colors. So here is my watercolored floral background card. 


I was inspired by STAMPloration's sketch. 

I absolutely love the bold word dies from Winnie & Walter. For today's card I die cut the "love" one from white cardstock and silver glitter cardstock. Then I covered the entire silver die cut with my C7 Copic marker so that it has a gunmetal look. The glitter die cut serves more like shadow and I think it really helps the white die cut pop against the busy background. I foam mounted the word die as well. 

Since the floral background was watercolored in gray and the glitter die cut has a similar hue, I decided to add some vellum. Instead of just adhering a plain strip of vellum behind the word dies, I adhered three strips with torn edges. I also mounted the vellum layers with clear Kool Tak foam so they look more dimensional. Then I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from W&W's So Tweet set and embellished the card with a few sequins and rhinestones. The coloring process was really therapeutic and I had a lot of fun creating this card. I hope you've enjoyed looking at it, too. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges Entered:
  
Winnie & Walter 3rd Birthday Bash: Three Challenge (Three layers of vellum) / Sequin Challenge / Bright Colors Challenge / Mood Board Challenge (Inspired by the florals and colors) / Pattern Making Challenge // Dies R Us: Something New (First time tearing vellum and layering them)

 
STAMPlorations: Sketch / SSS Wednesday: ATG / Happy Little Stampers: Watercolor
    
Time Out: Love/Friendship (I chose the love theme) / Krumspring: Flowers / 7 Kids: ATG

Spotlight Stamping Floral Card ft. Winnie & Walter

Hello! Today I want to share with you my second entry to Ksenija's Chasing Mojo Challenge.

I was inspired by Olgamoss's creation: I love the bright, vibrant colors and how she stamped some of her images off the edge. I decided to incorporate highlight stamping into my card and colored the extended images in gray scale. I hope you enjoy my CASEd version!

The floral images I'm using today are from Winnie & Walter's In Bloom: Addie's Garden set. I colored them with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush pens. 

The sentiments are from W&W's My Precious set. After heat embossing them, I used a white gel pen to trace along the letters that are overlapping the floral images.

I adhered some sequins and rhinestones, and that finishes off today's card. 

Challenges Entered:

Paru's Card Making Challenges: Love // Winnie & Walter 3rd Birthday Bash: Three Challenge (3 flowers + 3 sequins) / Sequin Challenge / Bright Colors Challenge / Mood Board Challenge (Inspired by the colors and the florals)


 Happy Little Stampers: Watercolor ATG

Ombre Lotus CAS Card ft. STAMPlorations

EDIT: Winner at Happy Little Stampers

I'm guest designing over at STAMPlorations, and this month's Theme & Sketch challenge theme is STAMPS & 3 of Anything. I decided to use the Lotus Love stamp set and create a card with 3 lotuses and 3 sentiments. 



I'm also CASEing the highlight stamping/coloring technique on Joyce's card over at Happy Little Stampers. This is a technique I wanted to try out for a long time, and I'll definitely make more cards with this technique in the future!


I usually watercolor my images since I'm not so good with Copics, but for this card I decided to give it another try. The colors I'm using today are BG10, BG15, and BG18 for the lotuses, and C1, C3, C5 for the ombre gray background. I think I'm slowing getting better at Copic coloring, at least the ombre flowers and background don't look too terrible, right? 


For the sentiments I decided to do an ombre effect as well. I stamped the top sentiment with Soft Granite Hero Arts Shadow Ink, and double stamped the middle sentiment with the same ink. For the bottom sentiment I used Charcoal Hero Arts Shadow Ink.

I hope my creation has given you some inspiration, and thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges Entered: 

Addicted to CAS: Ombre / HLS: CASE the Designer / STAMPlorations: ATG