Good morning! We are honored to be partnering with our good friend, Gina K, to release this incredibly gorgeous stamp set Friendship Blooms as part of our ongoing 45th Anniversary celebration!
Here’s what I created using the new set!
I decided to keep my card simple and allow the gorgeous stamp to shine! I started by using my MISTI to stamp the arrangement onto a piece of Azalea Hero Hues cardstock with versamark just to give me an outline of the stamp. Then I blasted it with a heat gun so the ink wouldn’t smear. Next I took two darker polychromos colored pencils, madder and pink carmine and lightly shaded the flowers.
Again I didn’t want to take much away from the details of the stamp so I kept at it with a very light hand. Once I was finished I placed the panel back in my MISTI and restamped it with versamark. This time I heat-embossed it with white satin pearl embossing powder. Stamping over the colored cardstock gave it a slightly pink hint. I stamped the sentiment from Friendship Blooms onto the panel with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I trimmed the panel down and adhered it to a white top-folding card base. Finally I finished the card with a few rosewater jewel drops and a layer of spectrum noir clear sparkle over the flowers.
To celebrate the release we giving away a Friendship Blooms set to one lucky commenter! Leave a comment on all the hop stops by Sunday, August 4 at 11:59pm PST and one winner will be chosen randomly from a hop stop and announced next week on the Hero blog!! You should have arrived from Michelle and Janette is your next stop!
Thanks so much for stopping by, have a fantastic day, and enjoy the hop!
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Beautiful card-love this color!
Love the azalea cardstock!
Love the color of the card! Great way to showcase this beautiful stamp set! Going back and heat embossing after coloring really adds so much! Great idea thanks for sharing.
Love how you only used part of the flower design.
The light shading gives them a lot of dimension.
Beautiful card. thanks for sharing
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Another beautiful idea. Thanks for sharing your ideas and talent.
I love your design. Simple, but elegant.
GORGEOUS! I love how this big bold flower stamp works with this technique!
Beautiful card – I love the bold pink of the card base – so pretty!
Gorgeous new stamp set and I love how you used it here! Bold and subtle at the same time 🙂
Awesome card and pretty pink.
Your cards are always beautiful. Like how you didn’t emboss until the end. Great idea.
Just a gorgeous card! LOVE this new stamp…it’s just stunning! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Quite beautiful!!
This set seems to lend itself to tone on tone applications. I like the size of this stamp.
I love the colors of this card! So pretty!
Wow, this stamp is so versatile! I love seeing what all of you have made, it’s so fun to see the creativity. Thanks for sharing with us!!
Wonderful card! And the stamp set is Beautiful ❤️
Embossing plus colored pencils in a monochromatic tone really showcases the blooms and made for a fabulous card!
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful card
Simple but the pop of color makes the stamp set shine. Pretty card.
So pretty and feminine Jessica! A great way to let the flowers shine on their own. Love the idea of heat embossing after the colouring. Thanks so much for sharing and the wonderful inspiration!.
Beautiful card. I love the simplicity of the design.
Beautiful card!
This turned out lovely with just enough shading with the pencils.