My card uses some lovely, water colored, Gardenia images. Usually gardenias are white, but with amazing stamps, they can be any color you want. I chose the pinky-purple colors. I love this greeting and it can be used for so many occasions..get well, thinking of you, birthday, or just because.
A big congrats to Charlene, the newest Featured Stamper FS949! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I liked the cascading flowers so I kept that. But I used different images, dies, colors & turned mine horizontal.
After stamping the gardenia blooms twice w/ waterproof ink, I took out a water color set & a couple of small paintbrushes. Water was floated into the blooms, then the pinks were dropped in at the centers, & a lt blue at the outer edges. I let this dry a minute or two, then added darker pink in the middle & a little blue-violet at the outside edges then added a bit of water in the centers to pull the paint towards it. The leaves were done w/ a couple of greens. After they dried, I die cut them. The greeting was stamped & only the word “sparkle” was heat embossed w/ black glittery powder onto a deckle cut white panel. I wanted a little sparkle on the flowers, too, so I used a clear Wink of Stella over the blooms, A cornflower blue panel was die cut & added under the greeting panel. One image of the gardenias was popped up & added on top of the greeting, & the other was cut apart & tucked underneath the same panel.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Supplies:
| Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Gardenia Floral set |
| Paper: Staples 110# white, cornflower blue |
| Ink: Versaclair nocturne |
| Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Gardenia Floral set, Rectangles, Sm. Stitch Rectangles, Deckled Rectangles dies, MISTI, water colors, Ranger embossing powder, clear Wink of Stella pen |
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