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Showing posts with label Beautiful Flowers stamp set. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beautiful Flowers stamp set. Show all posts

August 14, 2018

Happy


Splatters and Sprinkles is the theme this week at Simon's Monday Challenge Blog. The paper I used for this greeting card (Modascrap Fly & Scrap) already had splatters which is good because I am somewhat (very) splatter-phobic.

I married it with a snail (Un Escagrot by Carabelle) cut-out and tinted to match the foreground and some washi tape.

The sentiment came from Simon (Beautiful Flowers) and the keyboard stamping is by Tim Holtz (Documented).

July 08, 2018

Beautiful


A recent purchase (Beautiful Flowers stamp set by Simon Says Stamp) has captured my interest more than most these days. The main flower grouping is really fun to experiment with and the detail is exceptional.

This time, I've stamped the image onto old book paper using brown ink. After it was fussy-cut, I mounted it on a background made with papers from the Wallflower Paper Stash and trimmed it with washi tape.

I filled in the embossed text with white Perfect Pearls and also dabbed it on the flower centers and some of the stamen.

May 27, 2018

Thanks ...


After working on this card, I now have new respect for the challenges that this art form presents and for the artisans who make it look so effortless.

Mixed-media? No problem--you can just paint over a part you don't like. Card making requires more planning and if you make a mistake sometimes you just have to start over.

But practice makes perfect, right? So I plan to do just that and purchased the June Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp. It features a lovely stamp set called Beautiful Flowers and I have used it for this card.

The kit came with three dots (red, yellow, blue) of an artist-grade watercolor paint from Daniel Smith and this was the only paint I used to tint this stamping.

Using the science of complimentary colors becomes critical in this scenario because you must tone down the primary pigments for the colors to look more natural.


The border was made with kraft paper using the new Tim Holtz 3D embossing folder called Botanical (also included in the kit) and machine-stitching provided some accent.

Otherwise, it's a bit of a plain jane but I didn't think it needed anything else since the flower image is such a show stopper. Thanks to this new stamp set, I now have some sentiment stamps that I was sorely lacking which will help me with my new quest in card-making.