Welceom to my crafty blog and a rainbow of flowers courtesy of the ‘fresh florals’ stamps & dies by Julie Hickey Designs. I was inspired by one of Julie’s own cards, picking up the ‘rainbow’ theme from both Just Us Girls and Can You Handle The Pressure
I started with a piece of watercolour card that I’d cut to fit a slimline (UK DL size) card. I used a waterbrush to add Distress Oxide inks in ‘picked raspberry’, ‘ripe persimmon’, ‘squeezed lemonade’, ‘mowed lawn’ and broken china’. I spritzed the card heavily with water so that the inks ran, then set it aside to dry. Once ready, I added a strip of black card along each of the long sides and glued it to the card blank. (I forgot to take a photo at this point, but you can get the idea of the effect before I attached all the flowers)
I stamped the ‘fresh florals’ daisy five times onto watercolour card and coloured each of them with one of the inks. Once dry, I die cut them all, then ran them through a ‘swiss dots’ embossing folder. I used an embossing ball tool on the reverse of the flowers to make the centres pop a little and curled the petals with a bone folder. I then glued each of them to the card front to sit on the matching part of the background.
I added black Stickles glitter glue to the centre of each flower and finished with an appropriate word sticker from Clarity.
It’s such a cheerful card – certain to brighten anyone’s day!
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Love how you embossed the flowers. Your card looks so springy and cheerful, which we all need these days as the weather can’t decide if it is to be warm or freezing.😊
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Thanks Shirley!
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Oh Deb this is absolutely beautiful! What a clever design idea … love it! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Can You Handle the Pressure challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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Thank you so much!
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💙🌼💙this!! I saw this on Can you Handle the Pressure Challenge and came by for a closer look. I host a new challenge, Park Hopping My Happy Place Challenge. It is anything goes inspired by a theme park. Your card reminds me of the Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot, Disneyworld, FL. I hope you’ll join the fun! Have a creative weekend. Join at https://parkhoppingmyhappyplace.com/ . Cheers, Makira
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Thanks so much, Makira!
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I love how the color of your lovely flowers spills over onto the background, Deborah. This is such a beautiful card. Thanks for sharing it with us at Just Us Girls.
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Thank you!
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Beautiful card and the method you used to create it was inspiring.
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Thanks so much!
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Beautiful! Thank you for sharing with us at CYHTP Embossing Folder Challenge.
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Thank you
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Congrats on your big win at Can You Handle the Pressure. Love the soft colors and the stand out flowers.
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Thanks so much!
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