![]() ![]() I know I’ve mentioned before that when I choose colors for my cards, I try to use the ones that are opposites on the color wheel for the most visual impact! Blue and orange are always so striking together! Anyway, when I finished coloring the flower and leaves, I filled in the background with an aqua marker and lots more water to spread the ink. I then began coloring with my Zig markers, layer upon layer, using a wet paintbrush to move and soften the color. HA!! As usual, I strayed from the plan! Sigh! On a piece of watercolor card stock, I stamped and heat-embossed in white the blossom and leaves from Altenew’s Crown Blooms set, masking the flower in order to place the other images. There are so many amazing card artists whose work I admire, and especially those who can create clean and simple cards! I don’t think I can create “clean and simple” if my life depended on it! I started this card thinking I would keep it really simple, one layer, no texture. I really love this whimsical card with floating succulents and hope you do too! Thanks for stopping by! Just below it I embossed the “You” directly to my panel. I embossed “Dreaming of” in gold onto a strip of black card stock then trimmed it down and mounted it with a bit of foam tape to my card. Before I adhered them to the panel, I added strips of washi tape from Wendy Vecchi’s Washi Tape Assortment 2– the watercolor-y design just perfectly coordinated with my card! I also like how the straight lines of the tape nicely balanced out the organic shapes of the succulents and the flowy script of the sentiment! “Dreaming of You” seemed the most appropriate sentiment for this galaxy card and it’s from Simon Says Stamp’s Seeing Stars set. ![]() This card kinda makes me laugh!! Like, whut?! Succulents floating in outer space?! Really, Sharon? Yes, really!! □ As I was playing with my new supplies from Ranger Ink and Wendy Vecchi I decided to go out of my comfort zone and do something a bit silly! It all started when I made this galaxy background by blending all of my new Wendy Vecchi’s Blendable inks onto a panel of Perfect White cardstock and covering them with a layer of Black Soot distress ink! I added spatters of white craft paint and then gold from Gansai Tambi’s Starry Colors palette! But what next?! The sweet succulent from Wendy Vecchi’s Flower Pot Stamp/Die/Stencil set was just begging to be featured on a card again, so I heat-embossed a bunch of them in gold, colored them with Zig markers then cut them out. The two junior bridesmaids will receive this card in the mail, asking them to join the wedding party I’m not sure how old the girls are but I think they’ll feel very special to be asked to participate and also to get their own personalized request card! I enjoyed spending time just coloring and creating in my stamp room to fill this order and hope to share more cards with you soon! Thanks for visiting! I added a layer of navy behind the colored panel then mounted that to a white base card, This is the final card made for her matron of honor and three bridesmaids I added more red and a hint of red/orange ink to the blossoms to deepen the colors and then outlined the images with a gray marker to ground the design. I mounted this to a base of navy card stock which made the white really pop! The third and last choice was created using Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Flowers again, but this time I created a border at the top and bottom of the card using permanent black ink, then colored with Copic markers, trying to feature reds, pinks and a hint of blue. ![]() I colored the wild roses with Copics, making the leaves two shades of blue and finally, added a dotted background with a gray Copic marker after outlining the overall design with the same gray marker. ![]() A white card base kept the overall design sweet and simple! For her next option, I used a new set from Stampendous called Wild Rose Cling and it’s simple spray of blossoms was stamped with black ink onto two corners of my panel. I inked up the stamp with Stampin Up’s Not Quite Navy and stamped it on the top and bottom of a panel of white card stock then created a watercolor effect with a damp paintbrush. I created three designs for her to choose from! The first card was made with the main image from Simon Says Stamp’s Beautiful Flowers. It’s been such a long time since I’ve posted here but the new year is a great time to start afresh! A friend recently asked me to make her bridesmaid-request cards and we had fun sharing inspirational ideas from Pinterest! She wanted each card to be personalized so I created the wording on the computer then printed each one out. ![]()
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