Floral Essence Bundle

A bright and happy card featuring the Floral Essence Bundle

It's my belief that the colours I reach for often provide an indication of my mood, emotions, mental state.  For example, I noticed that I used a lot of black and grey during the worst of my "cancer phase" and that I made a lot of monochrome cards.  I don't have a problem with that - I happen to like black and monochrome - but found it interesting.

So - I'm seeing this card as perhaps the harbinger of better times ahead.  

Today I'm celebrating!

Those gorgeously furry Perennial Essence Floral Centres really add depth and a fun element to the card

If you're wondering about that background ... to an extent, so am I!  I forgot to write down the steps I took as I went!

I know I gave a piece of watercolour paper a really good spritzing with water and then stamped some of the flowers with Lovely Lipstick ink - hoping for a soft, blended effect that didn't eventuate.  So then I re-spritzed and smooshed into some drops of Mango Melody and Lovely Lipstick inks. 

Still unhappy with the result, I put Lovely Lipstick ink onto the raised side of the Parisian Flourish embossing folder and used it to stamp onto my, still wet, piece of watercolour paper.  

I think that's it.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase from my online store

Floral Essence Bundle

$54.75

Leaf Punch

$28.00

Parisian Flourish 3D Embossing Folder

$17.00

Perennial Essence Floral Centers

$10.50

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

$15.75

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Lovely Lipstick A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Grapefruit Grove A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Call Me Clover Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Call Me Clover A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Mango Melody A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Golden Glitz Dashing Deer

A Dashing Deer Christmas card with a Golden Glitz watercolour background

In a previous post I shared how I made some Golden Glitz watercolour backgrounds.  This card uses another piece of the background.

I stamped the deer onto Blackberry Bliss card with Golden Glitz metallic ink (using my Stamparatus so that I could overstamp for better coverage) and cut it out with the coordinating Detailed Deer die.

I gold heat embossed the greeting and cut it out with one of the Merry Christmas dies, deciding to sponge the edges with gold ink to soften the look.

As always, I cut out the centre of the Gold Foil layer for use in another project.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products are available for purchase from my online store

Dashing Deer Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$38.00

Detailed Deer Dies

$59.00

Stamparatus

$85.00

Golden Glitz Delicata Metallic Ink Pad

$19.25

Gold Foil Sheets

$8.75

Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Versamark Pad

$16.50

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$10.50

Merry Christmas Dies

$49.00

Beautiful Day For A Golden Rose

This card is gloriously rich in gold!

This card makes me so happy that it was hard to give it away!  It uses another of the watercolour backgrounds with Golden Glitz that I made recently.  This one used Blushing Bride cardstock.

Once the background was very dry, I gave it a wipe with my Embossing Buddy and then gold heat embossed the flower from the Beautiful Day stamp set.

I painted the flower with Real Red, Garden Green and Blackberry Bliss inks and then added highlights with Golden Glitz metallic ink.  I squeezed some of the gold ink onto a block so that I could paint it onto the edges of the petals quite thickly and then softly blend it back towards the inner part of the petal.

I added a shadow under the flower with Garden Green ink.

Then I decided that the background was just a little too plain, so I stamped on some foliage from the Botanical Bliss stamp set with Golden Glitz metallic ink.

The greeting is also from the Botanical Bliss stamp set and I gold heat embossed it onto Blackberry Bliss card before cutting it out with one of the dies in the Beautiful Boughs die set.  I sponged some more of the Golden Glitz metallic ink around the edge before attaching it to the card front.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products are available for purchase from my online store

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

$15.75

Golden Glitz Delicata Metallic Ink Refill

$15.75

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Stampin' Spritzer

$5.00

Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Beautiful Boughs Dies

$61.00

Versamark Pad

$16.50

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$10.50

Botanical Bliss Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$33.00

Beautiful Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$37.00

Gold Swirl Christmas Card with Foliage: Watercolour background with metallic ink

Simple die cuts to complement the gorgeous rich watercolour background in this non-traditional Christmas card

So this is how I used the other half of the watercolour background I made the other day.

As before, I didn't want to cover up that gorgeous rich background with shimmery Golden Glitz ink, so I kept the decorations minimalist.

I shortened the Gold Foil Stitched Rectangle using this method.

I made lots of different backgrounds with the same ink "puddle"

Close up of the rich gold shimmer

Please see my previous post for more details about creating the background.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!  (more cards are on their way using the other shimmery gold backgrounds)
Stephanie

Product List - All products available for purchase in my online store

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

$15.75

Golden Glitz Delicata Metallic Ink Refill

$15.75

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

$6.50

Stampin' Spritzer

$5.00

Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Gold Foil Sheets

$8.75

Frosted Bouquet Dies

$57.00

Beautiful Boughs Dies

$61.00

Stitched Rectangle Dies

$61.00

Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00