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Today, I am taking part in an IG hop to celebrate the 17th birthday of Creative Worship Stamps (formerly Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps). Make sure you visit my Instagram to join in on the hop and be in with a chance to win!
I made two cards, both with shades of purple, pink and orange, but very different looks!
I've been trying to mix up my colour palettes a little bit recently. Don't worry, my favourite colours are still blue and rainbow, but there's noting wrong with trying out something different once in a while.
I made a 6x6 panel with this background stamp, so got two cards for the price of one!
Day 6 in the current Online Card Class, Spring Card Camp 2, has a video from Laurie Willison and a photo tutorial from Jeff Lindberg, and is all about colour blocking.
I made my card a little differently to theirs - I cut my pieces of coloured cardstock and adhered then together before stamping on them.
I used a leafy stamp from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, and a sentiment from Taylored Expressions. I was also inspired by a card recently posted by my friend, Gayatri Murali, so my card is a bit of a mash up of the colour blocking technique and Gayatri's card.
I white embossed a flower from Fantastic Flowers from Sweet n Sassy Stamps, and I coloured it with Zig markers and water. I then used the Splash layering stencil from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous to add some texture around the floral image. I stamped and clear embossed a sentiment from Gina K onto vellum and wrapped it around the panel, and finished with some white enamel dots.
I made these cards after multiple blog comments, Instagram comments and emails asking if I had made a video showing how to make certain cards using alcohol pearls and alcohol inks. I decided I hadn't made a video in a while, so I did!
I used alcohol pearls in the colours Deception, Splendor, Alchemy, Sublime, Tranquil and Villainous. I stamped and white embossed over the alcohol pearls - I give some tips on embossing on vellum int the video.
For the first card, I used the Kind Soul stamp set from Wplus9, and a sentiment from Sketched Flowers from Simon Says Stamp.
For the 2nd card, I used the large flower from Fantastic Flowers from Sweet n Sassy Stamps, and a sentiment from the same Simon Says Stamp set.
For the third card, I didn't do any embossing on the Yupo, but I stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts in Versafine Onyx Black onto a strip of vellum and embossed with clear embossing powder.
For this card, I used the Fantastic Flowers stamp set, white embossed onto watercolour cardstock. I then used the ink smoooshing technique to add some red, pale orange and pink with Distress Inks, and then added shading using matching Copic markers. I cut the panel down to allow for some white borders on either side, and added a white embossed sentiment from the June stamp of the month, Happy Irises.
I am very excited to be a guest of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for June!
I know that Irises come in heaps of lovely colours, but I always gravitate to the blue and yellow ones :) . I used the June stamp of the month, Happy Irises, and I masked and white embossed the large iris from this set multiple times, before adding colour using Zig markers and water.
I absolutely adore this "Bookmark Bits & Pieces" stamp set - maybe because I am a member of a bookclub and often make bookmarks for my bookclub friends! The bookmark is made using a punch from Stampin' Up.
For this card, I used the stamp of the month for June, Happy Irises. I stamped the main iris image using Shadow Inks from Hero Arts, and then added some details using Derwent pencils and some Wink of Stella. The sentiment is stamped in Versafine Onyx Black. I matted this panel on some purple cardstock, and added this over the cardbase that I'd inked with Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink, and then stamped the same iris stamp over this with white pigment ink.
I am super excited to be a guest of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for June!
I totally love this quote from Dr Seuss that Korin has included in the "Bookmarks Bits & Pieces" set. It's hard to see in the photo, but I added some curvy lines of pale colour from top to botttom. They're not in rainbow order (I love rainbows, but when the colours are not in rainbow order, I start to twitch) because they're in the same order as one of the images in the book "Oh, the places you'll go!"
I wanted the little ladybird to be sitting on a leaf, so I used a leaf image from the "Fantastic Flowers" set.
I am so excited to be a guest of Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for June! They have such a wide variety of pretty floral stamps, but I couldn't resist this large floral image.
I used the large flower in the Fabulous Flowers set for this card - white embossed onto watercolour cardstock and then coloured with Zig clean color real brush markers and water. The sentiment is from the June stamp of the month, Happy Irises.
