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Good morning! I am so thrilled to be helping Concord & 9th celebrate their first birthday! It’s hard to believe they’ve only been in the industry for a year because they’re everywhere (in a good way)! 😉 Greg and Angie are ridiculously kind and I love how supportive they are of crafters and other companies! I’m so thankful for the opportunity to join in on their month-long birthday bash! And, as with all great parties, there are prizes! You’ll find more information on that at the bottom of my post! 🙂
I’ve been a big fan of Concord & 9th ever since Kymona introduced me to them last September! Here are some of my favorite cards using their stamps and dies:
And here’s what I created for their birthday bash!
I wanted something bright and cheerful and I had a lot of fun getting distress ink all over my fingers (and some on my cards)!
For the first card I blended festive berries, picked raspberry, abandoned coral, and dried marigold distress ink onto a piece of cardstock. Then I flicked water over the card twice blotting the first drops after 10 seconds and the second drops after 30 seconds. Once it dried completely I flicked white paint over the card and let it dry overnight. The next day I prepped it with a powder tool and then stamped the flowers from Wildflower with versamark and heat-embossed them with white embossing powder. Then I went over the flowers with a spectrum noir clear glitter brush for a little extra sparkle. Can you see all that shimmer?
I stamped the sentiment from Beautiful Words and Layers of Love onto black cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed them with white embossing powder. I fussy cut it to down to a label and adhered it to my card with foam mounting tape. To finish the card I added a mix of clear droplets and sparkling clear sequins.
For my second card I used seedless preserves, mermaid lagoon, and salty ocean distress ink. I used the same Wildflower stamp set for the background and Layers of Love for the sentiment.
So, happy birthday Concord & 9th!! I wish you MANY MANY more years of success!!
Concord & 9th has quite the birthday bash planned this month! Every day of August there’s a special guest (or two!) who will be giving away a $20 gift card to Concord & 9th! Leave a comment on my post before 11:59PM EST on August 8th for a chance to win! You can also visit the Concord & 9th blog to enter everyone’s giveaway each day! 😉
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Beautiful cards – love your color combos ! Will have to try this – it looks so gorgeous, but your instructions make it sound easy enough that even I can do it ! Thanks for the inspiration and sharing in Concord&9th’s celebration !
I love the beautiful color combos you chose for these gorgeous cards!!
Love your gorgeous color blending! And thanks for the tip about your process. I just made a card today with that set. Think I’ll leave it out and give your technique a try!
Oooh my…you have used some lovely colours to blend with on your cards.
My favorite is the blue/purple one..just wauw!!!!
Gorgeous! Love the awesome backgrounds & that awesome stamp set!
These backgrounds are gorgeous!
Love this company!! Your cards are beautiful!!
I love these, Jessica!!! Your blending is fantastic, and I love that you did both a warm and a cool version.
Such amazingly beautiful cards! Well done, thanks for the inspiration ?
Hi Jess,
I love distress inks but I can’t seem to get them to blend and mesh like you did on these fabulous colored cards!!! The white embossing really stands out on your cards! I think both of the cards are beautiful but myy favorite colors would have to be the cool colors!!! TFS
Stunning cards and you make it look so easy breezy. Love this technique! TFS hugs Kristina
So very beautiful cards!!!
Love you colors. Beautiful cards.
These are so lovely! Love distress inks!
I just love your work Jessica!! These are so gorgeous. Happy birthday Concord & 9th!!
These are so pretty! I love the resist and that gorgeous inking!
I love the layered dies and the night sky looks amazing, what a beautiful scene!
Never heard of concord & 9th. Thanks for sharing about this line. Love the cards you created!!
Love the color combos, Thanks for the great ideas!
Your cards are so beautiful!! I love the backgrounds and how you used that fabulous stamp set! Thanks for the inspiration!
Beautiful wildflowers designs. Your cards are gorgeous and the colors are amazing.
Really pretty cards…love your past ones and the new ones with inked backgrounds.
Gorgeous cards! I love the color combo’s you used to do your ink blending with. I have the Spectrum Noir glitter brush and use it just like you did here but I just ordered some Spectrum Noir sparkle markers (metallics) yesterday! I hope I like them. Have you tried them yet?
Lovely backgrounds…your colouring is always spot on!…Thanks for the inspiration, Di xx
Beautiful cards. Love the colours.