Good morning! I’m excited to be hopping along with Simon Says Stamp to celebrate the Friends release! The release went live last month but we’re continuing the celebration with even more inspiration! 🙂
As you probably know I’m a bit obsessed with my alcohol inks these days and I decided to pair some of the new SSS dies with a simple alcohol inked background! I started by mixing alcohol ink blending solution with alcohol inks in wild plum, raspberry, purple twilight, flamingo, and watermelon! I let the blending solution and alcohol ink mix pretty organically and left the sharp contrasts and edges where the colors met. I picked out my favorite areas of the panel and trimmed them down to 4 inch squares. (You can see what I did with the leftover scrap here)! 😉
Then I die-cut the Cosmo Flower frame die from white cardstock but made sure to tilt the die at an angle for a different look. I’m a little bit of a perfectionist when it comes to lining up dies and stuff so purposefully tilting a die takes away the need to make it perfect! 😉 I die-cut the sentiments using the Hello Gorgeous and Happy Birthday dies and black cardstock. I die-cut each twice and layered them together with glossy accents.Then I adhered the sentiments to the card panels and finished the cards with a few black crystals!
P.S. I recently received the Gemini Jr and I used it for this card…holy moly, that thing is AMAZING! I am so excited to not be hand-cranking my dies through anymore…I’ll definitely share more about it soon!
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Gorgeous card! Thanks!
I love the idea that you mixed up your own concoction of alcohol inks for the first card. It is so beautiful! Thanks for sharing! Karen
I really need to get some alcohol inks! Those are gorgeous cards.
Very elegant cards and simple to make. Love to make backgrounds from alcohol inks so now I have something to do with the finished backgrounds.
your cards are so pretty, tfs
Love the beautiful look of the alcohol inks, but I don’t own any yet 🙂 I love the Hello Gorgeous font too!
That alcohol background and white foreground makes a card that pops!
I love your cards. They are so beautiful!
very beautiful and elegant cards.
That die is so intricate! Thanks for sharing your design with us!
WOW! Simply beautiful, Jessica.
vERY NICE!
Ohhhhhhh, so beautiful, so pretty, loving the cards and the inks.
Such sweets cards. Thank you for all the wonderful inspiration.
Pretty cards. I love the look of alcohol inked backgrounds. These big flower dies from this release are beautiful. Want them all.
Beautiful! Love your blog!
Your alcohol ink obsession just gave you two utterly stunning card. I could use some obsession right now. Great cards. Thanks for sharing.
Very. very nice!
This die is beautiful and I love your cards. There is an elegant flair. Thanks for sharing.
I was looking at this die and now seeing what beautiful creations can be achieved its now on my wish list. Beautiful card! Thx for sharing!
Beautiful cards! Your alcohol inks backgrounds are stunning with the diecuts.
So delicate and bold!
LOVE the birthday card. So different and cute.
You’ve convinced me that I need this die! Love your cards!