Delft blue bouquet

I recently saw some lovely Delft pottery online, so I had to recreate the look on a card!

I used my favourite bouquet stamp from Concord and 9th, stamped in Navy ink from Hero Arts and then coloured with some blue Copic markers. The sentiment from Hero Arts is stamped in Sapphire ink from Pink Fresh Studio. I finished with some sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

I didn't have matching cardstock for a mat, so I swiped the Sapphire ink around the edges of my card base to make it look like I had some!

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Stained glass card for Paper Rose

I have a card for Paper Rose today, using the Poppy decorative background die.

I used embossing pads to make an impression of the die onto a panel of white cardstock. I then coloured the panel with Copic markers - reds for the flowers and blue-greens for the background.
I then covered the entire panel with Versamark ink, and added clear embossing powder and heat set. I repeated the Versamark and embossing three more times, and on the last one, I added a little sprinkling of clear glitter embossing powder on the flowers as well.
I cut the die from 3 more layers of white cardstock, and then from gold mirror cardstock, and layered them up on top of the coloured and embossed panel. I finished with the layered Hello die cut from black cardstock and gold mirror cardstock, and then a sentiment from the Black and White Sentiment Sheets.
I adhered the entire panel onto a top folding white card base that I cut down to be the same size as the panel.

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Hello for Picket Fence

Picket Fence Studios is having a sale for the 4th of July weekend, so I'm celebrating with card for you today that is Red, White and Blue!

I made a panel of yupo with Watermelon and Sailboat Blue Tim Holtz alcohol inks, then added the Hello word die and the stamped sentiment from Peach and Piper Checking the Post.

Don't miss out on this awesome sale from Picket Fence Studios!

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Red Roses for Picket Fence Studio

I have a post up on the Picket Fence Studios blog today - here's a sneak peek: 

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Everything old is new again at A Blog Named Hero

The challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to combine an older Hero Arts stamp with something newer. Whenever I get a chance to use retired Hero Arts products, I always reach for the Flower Dot Pattern Background stamp. I usually white emboss it, but I did something different this time.

I created an ombre background using Distress Oxide inks and my Life Changing Blender Brushes. I then took the Flower Dot Pattern background stamp and sprayed the stamp with Perfect Pearls in water, then pressed my inky cardstock onto the stamp. I got a cool reaction with the ink reacting to the water, but also bit of the Perfect Pearls shining out. The sentiment is from the newer Smile Stamp & cut set. I finished with some sequins.

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