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 color behind that die.
Sooo BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Beautiful card! It’s such a pretty die to begin with and looks fantastic with the alcohol inked background! I like how you used the scrap to create another card!
Wow! What gorgeous cards! The water color background is just stunning and looks so good with the new die cut with white paper! Thanks for sharing about the gemini jr – I am in the market for a new machine!
Absolutely beautiful! Your backgrounds are stunning! You always inspire!
Hi, Jess. This is the first time I have seen your work, and I love it. Your card just pops with color and makes me happy.
Great alcohol ink background – it almost looks like a rose!
Wow! Your cards are beautiful! I LOVE the white die cut flower on the bright pretty color background.
Love how you used the alcohol inks for the background! Beautiful card.
Beautiful cards, I love the alcohol ink background. The purples and pinks are my favorite colors. The flower is great contrast.
Great and colorful cards !!
These are gorgeous! Great color combo. And keep on with the alcohol inks! It’s been fun!
Wow Jessica, this is awesome. Love the vibrant colours with the simplicity of the gorgeous Flower Frame Die. Thanks for this inspiration.
Those are my favorite dies! The cards are beautiful.
Your backgrounds are beautiful. I love the design of the happy birthday stamp, the font is unique.
Beautiful cards.
This flower die is my absolute fave of the new release 🙂 Your inked background is so pretty!
I love the colors. Will be back!
Absolutely stunning!
This colour combo is so striking! Love it!
I’ve never used alcohol inks, I’m thinking that I would like to try. Love this die!!
So elegant and pretty.
Thanks for your inspiration. I have had my eye on the cosmo die cut and wondered how it looked.
I really like this die and this very simple, but stately, card. I also like the second one that started the background in the center and worked out toward the edge of the card. Too bad the one die is sold out.😒
I really like your idea to twist the die, to overcome perfectionism. I will be using that advice. Beautifully done, too.