Hello friends! It's the first Sunday of the month of May (wow are the weeks rolling by!) and the lovely Jaydee is hosting our theme challenge to create a feminine card.
For my card, I used some components of the Simon Says Stamp March card kit. Take a look!
While flowers don't necessarily have to be used solely on feminine cards, that's the way it usually ends up on my cards. I also used a paper doily to "wrap" the flowers and a scallop border die to trim the background panel for lots of feminine detail.
The flowers, doily, twine and sentiment strip were all from the kit and those things are still available separately at SSS. I normally use a stamp positioner for stamping but for the technique I used for the flowers, leaves and dies, I pulled out some acrylic blocks. The stamps were inked up, then I used a sprayer to add a mist of water before stamping on watercolor paper. I found I had to aim carefully to use just one spray, because more than that caused the images to be blurry, and that wasn't the look I was going for.
After drying, the stamped images were cut out with the coordinating dies. After adhering them together in the design I wanted, they were tucked into the doily, which was then glued shut and added to the pink background panel. Next came the sentiment strip and a jute twine bow, with the final touch being the addition of a few sparkling gems.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you'll take a moment to visit the challenge blog, where my talented teammates have some gorgeous inspiration for you! The challenge will remain open until Friday, May 7th at 3pm. We'd love to have you join us this week!
Stef
- Simon Says Stamp Watercolor Bouquet Stamps and Dies
- SSS Eyelet Layer Frame Die
- SSS XL EZ Strips sentiment and banner die
- Honey Bee Stamps Aurora Borealis gems
8 comments:
I love your softly-colored flowers and you're quite brave using that spray method, LOL! I guess I have a heavy hand! That pink background die is just delightful as well, but the doily stole my heart! Beautiful!
You ladies are so talented and a joy to see how your cards are displayed with such awesome colors and placement of cards.
Wow, Stef! I am always impressed with your coloring techniques. I love how you wrapped these lovely flowers in the doily. What a great design element! This is such a beautiful card that anyone would love to receive. Have a wonderful week!
Feminine and quite lovely!
I love the cheerful colors in the flower bouquet!
I like the happy colours in your bouquet. The scallop edged, pink backdrop show them to great advantage. Lovely, feminine card. It's Mother's Day here next weekend and it would be a great card for that with a different sentiment. :-)
Such a lovely bouquet, Stef! I like your technique for spritzing the stamps; I ended up with lots of orange and brown ink all over my table this week from an experiment with watercolor paper and a spritzer, haha! That doily to wrap the bouquet is such an inspired choice and I love the detail around the scallops on the pink background. Have a wonderful week!
Your bunch of colourful blooms makes for a lovely bouquet Stef and I'm impressed with your colouring technique - that sort of thing is just a disaster waiting to happen for me! The scalloped pink base adds the perfect finishing touch too. Lovely!
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