Good morning! Today I’m hopping along to celebrate the March release from Pinkfresh Studio and it is full of gorgeous florals!! I’m sharing a card using the pretty Bougainvillea cling stamp!
To start I smooshed distress inks in dried marigold, festive berries, and abandoned coral onto a piece of scrap plastic and then pressed it to a piece of watercolor paper. I repeated the process a few times until I had a soft background. Then I stamped the Bougainvillea cling stamp onto the paper and heat-embossed it with gold glitter embossing powder.
I watercolored the flowers with abandoned coral and festive berries distress ink and the foliage with chipped sapphire and black soot distress ink but realized quickly that I had applied too much color in my first layer and hadn’t given myself much room to go from there. So I switched to using copic markers to add some shading to the leaves and petals. I wish I could have finished the card with watercolors but it’s good to be flexible, right?!
Once my panel was done I trimmed it down to 4″ by 5.25″ and adhered it to a navy card base. I stamped a sentiment from My Favorite Things to Say Volume 2 heat-embossed with gold embossing powder on navy cardstock. Then I added a tangle of gold thread onto the back and adhered it to the panel with foam mounting tape. A few metallic gold sequins finished the card with a little extra sparkle!
And that’s it for me! Make sure to check out the new release and all the giveaway details below!
To celebrate the release, Pinkfresh Studio is hosting several giveaways! They will be giving away the full release on their blog and YouTube channel and ten $25 gift cards! Make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop for the most chances to win! Please comment before April 4th and the winners will be announced on the Pinkfresh Studio blog on April 5th! You can find the hop list below!
Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!!
I love the bold colors you used! Chipped sapphire for leaves! I gotta try that!
Oh wow !! Such a beautiful, striking card!
Your card is absolutely gorgeous! The colors are amazing. This is such a fantastic release.
Thanks for explaining your card process. We sometimes think you designers get it all perfect the first time. I’m glad we can all be human and go with the flow when it’s necessary to change course in crafting. Thanks for a beautiful card project!
Love your card!
I love your choice of colors on this beautiful card!!
The variety of your ideas always astonishes me! The colors, the embossing, funky pile of string and details are great.
Beautiful! Your coloring, be it water colors or markers, is perfect. Love the deeper colors.
Your card is stunning. Love the red, gray, and gold combinations. I will have to try that out. Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful card. Loved the color combo and the extra details you added.
What a stunner!!!!! Very striking card. I just love it!!!!
Stunning, Jessica, I love it!
So, so pretty!
I don’t remember the last time I was this excited about a product release! SO glad to see these new hot foil pieces! Your card is absolutely stunning! LOVE that color combination!
Stunning! Love the mix of red and gold!!
Jessica I love these colors together
This is so gorgeous! The beautiful coloring and the gold glitter embossing powder combination is just perfect!
Really pretty! The combination of watercoloring and Copics adds some gorgeous depth/color!
WOWZERS, Jessica…this is a real stunner. Thanks for the FAB Pinkfresh inspiration.
This is a gorgeous foiled card!
Beautiful card and recovery with the copic markers. Thank you for sharing how you created this card.
Love this color combo. Different and beautiful.
Love this color combo! Very different and beautiful.
Beautiful colors! Thanks for sharing the smooshing technique. I’ll have to try it.
wow, absolutely beautiful!