Good morning! Today I’m joining two of my favorite crafty people: Gina Krupsky and Lydia Fiedler for a mini blog hop to celebrate the March release from Gina K Designs! There’s a giveaway at each hop stop so make sure to check out the details at the bottom of this post! But first off, have you checked out Gina’s fabulous new release?
Here’s what I created using Hello Beautiful and Lettered and Lovely:
This is one of those times that I wish I could show you all this card in person because the camera just can’t capture the shine of that beautiful sentiment!! I started by stamping the flowers from Hello Beautiful with versamark on watercolor paper and heat-embossing them with silver tinsel embossing powder. I used post-it masks to mask the flowers to stamp the foliage. Then I stamped the sentiment from Lettered and Lovely with versamark and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.
Then I taped the watercolor paper down to my cutting board and started watercoloring! I used just two shades of red (rose madder and permanent rose) and one blue shade (indigo) from my Mijello mission gold watercolors for the background. I started by adding paint to the center of each flower and then using a clean damp brush to blend the color to the edge of each petal. I added a few layers of color to deepen the center of the flowers. Then I watercolored the background following the same basic steps but adding color to the edge of the panel and blending inward towards the center. Once I got a basic wash of color across the panel I went back and added more color around each flower and blended it out.
Once it was totally dry I masked the flowers with post-its and flicked the panel with white paint. I let it dry completely and then went over each flower with my spectrum noir clear sparkle brush. Once that dried I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25″ and adhered it to a dark navy card base. Finally I added a few gems to finish the card with a little more sparkle! Seriously guys, this is such a sparkly card…I so wish I could send it to all of you! 😉
Gina is graciously giving each of us a $25 gift certificate to give away! Leave your comments before 11:59PM EST on April 1st, 2018 and the winners will be announced on the Gina K Designs blog on April 2nd! Here are all the stops on our mini hop! 🙂
Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!
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The stamp set is so perfect – the card colors are just amazing! A must have.
Love your beautiful card very nice.
Thanks for sharing inspiration with Gina K lovely new release. Have a blessed day!
Kimberly
Jessica, I love the coloring used in your card. Just beautiful.
Awesome designs and colors! Must try them out. Thanks for the inspiration!
That’s a fantastic card, so gorgeous !
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This is incredibly beautiful!
Your card is beautiful, especially your colouring of the flowers, and I love all the silver touches. The sentiments in the new set are wonderful.
Love your card! I also love that you used silver embossing powder.
I love your cards so much. I specially love with they have that silver shine in them- such a great final touch! 🙂
Absolutely beautiful! Love your choice of colors!
Simply STUNNING!!! I love the silver, and those flowers just pop with that gorgeous background. Great inspiration!!!
oh my! luv’n that background!!!
I love the bright colors. And the bit of bling. Your right I bet this is absolutely gorgeous in person. Thanks for Sharing.
Absolutely gorgeous. Love the colour and technique used.
Absolutely gorgeous card. Love everything about it.
Really pretty card!
Love the sparkle
Jessica, your card is gorgeous! Love your coloring! Thank you!
So pretty. I think I need to add that stamp set to my collection!
So lovely card – love the floral embellishments:)
I love, love LOVE this sentiment and the pretty card you made showcases it beautifully. Thanks for the great inspiration.
Love this card. Especially the embossing.
Beautiful job watercoloring. I like all of the sparkle and shine. The speckles are great too. Nice that you want to send a card to us all…but that would be a whole lot of cards 😉
stunning work.. just love your design and colors..
This would even make a nice card for Christmas.