Good morning! I’m super excited to be a guest-designer for the May release from Pretty Pink Posh! Have you checked out the new release yet? It’s got something for everybody!! Cute puppies, gorgeous flowers, beautiful sentiments! I created two cards today using the Flourishing Fuchsias set!
I wanted to try two different mediums with the floral stamps…my first card uses Mijello Mission Gold watercolors.
I started by stamping the leaves and flowers with versamark and heat-embossing them with gold tinsel embossing powder. I decided to play with an unusual card size so I trimmed my watercolor paper down to 3″ by 7″. I painted the flowers with my mission gold watercolors and attempted to add some shading…watercolors still give me trouble. I also added a halo of pink around the stamped images. Once it was dry I masked the images again and added splatters of dark and light pink.
I stamped the sentiment from Simply Sayings: Life and heat-embossed it with the same gold tinsel embossing powder. Next I took a piece of watercolor paper and painted a pink ombre wash across the paper. Once it dried I trimmed it down to 3 1/4″ by 7 1/4″. I adhered the watercolored fuchsias over the ombre panel and then added metallic gold jewels to finish the card.
My second card uses polychromos colored pencils on colored cardstock! I started by stamping the images onto black cardstock with white pigment ink. I blasted it with a heat gun to make sure the white ink wouldn’t smudge and then put down a thick layer of white colored pencil as the base. Next I colored the images using my white pencil to blend the colors together.
When I was testing colors to see if I liked the way they blended together I came up with the idea for my sentiment. On a second piece of black cardstock I colored a rectangle with my white colored pencil. Then I laid down four shades of pink in an ombre blend. I die-cut the ‘Get Well Soon’ sentiment from the colored pencil panel and then pressed a versamark pad over the die cut words. I heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder and then repeated the process twice to build up a nice, smooth layer of clear embossing powder. I adhered the sentiment to the fuchsia background and then trimmed the panel down by a 1/4 inch. I adhered that panel to a black card base and then finished it with a few amethyst jewels!
I ran out of time but I had hoped to create another card using copic markers for a third medium. I’m still hoping to get that done this weekend I’ll share it if I find time! 😉
There are four $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day). Winners will be picked randomly from comments left along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PDT on 5/14/2018 and the winners will be announced on the PPP blog! Here are all the stops on the hop today:
- Pretty Pink Posh blog
- Kelly Latevola
- Yana Smakula
- Laurie Willison
- Suzy Plantamura
- Melody Rupple
- Alexandra Stapleton- Smith
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Heather Hoffman
- Crystal Thompson
- Joni Andaya
- Lydia Fiedler
- Mindy Baxter
- Yoonsun Hur
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Such beautiful cards. This release has so much goodness in it 🙂
Beautiful cards. I like the embossing and watercoloring on the first and the coloring on dark cardstock is striking.
Your cards are simply stunning! Love them both.
Such stunning cards, love your style!
Love the fuschia on the black paper.
the colors are muted and beautiful.
thanks for sharing.
Great work on your cards. Thanks for sharing.
Love the card done on black especially!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great cards! Thank you for the inspiration!
Both cards are stunning
Both of your cards are fabulous but I love the gold embossing powder with watercolors it’s just stunning!
Beautiful cards! I love polychromos on dark cardstock
Love, love, love the cards! The black one is super so pretty and the slim one is so much fun, love the size.
Both cards are sweet!
Beautiful cards. The black one is particularly stunning.
All cards are lovely. Black cards is particularly stunning.
OMG, I am in love with both of these jaw-dropping,
spectacular cards. Beautiful work.
The purple fuchsias against the black card is such a dramatic look that is strikingly beautiful. thanks for sharing.
Stunning cards! Love the black card. Thanks for sharing.
Wow Jessica your cards are gorgeous!!!! I love them both!! The black is stunning and the Tall one is also amazing! Amazing job. I love the May release
Absolutely beautiful cards! Especially the gold embossing.
both of these are amazing and those florals look outstanding with the watercolors !
Your cards are stunning!! I love the black card! Your coloring is so pretty!
The black card is just stunning. It really catches your eye! Great cards!!
Ohhhh, the dark paper works great with the colored pencils! And, the little jewels!!!
Forgot to mention your water coloring is beautiful, as always!