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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I totally understand the “everything needs to be lined up perfectly” theory. Mine comes from my sewing background. Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards. I need to get my alcohol inks out and play again – I wonder where I put that yupo paper. thanks for sharing your creativity.
Stunning cards!
Beautiful cards! The alcohol panels look like close up photos of roses, they’re gorgeous. Even your scraps were beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
I love the backgrounds you created, they almost look like pink flower petals behind the beautiful die cut flower. Lovely!!! Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful cards! I love that flower die! Thank you for sharing!
Love the alcohol ink backgroundand how it shows off the flower.
Jessica, your cards are colorful masterpieces. Thank you.
After seeing some YouTube videos, I recently bought some alcohol inks to try out. I look forward to seeing more of your work as I learn the craft.
The cards are beautiful, Jessica!
Love that beautiful die and how you used it.
Beautiful! You enabled me once again!
I, too, am becoming obsesses with alcohol inks, and your background is gorgeous. The Cosmo die is so pretty. Beautiful card.
I really like the colors you used for the background of your card, it was a perfect match for the cosmo flower die!
Wow Jessica! Beautiful backgrounds! This is one of my favorite dies of the collection.
Love the alcohol ink background on the cards the color is beautiful.
Such a vibrant card. Wish I was a good enough card maker to attempt this. Good job
Adore these cards. You made the die look so beautiful with those backgrounds – the organic blend, the colours, they just look fresh and modern. So gorgeous!
Love the Cosmo Flower Frame and your beautiful backgrounds really make it pop! Gorgeous!
love this card and this die!
Such beautiful cards. Great release
Wonderful release and beautiful inspiration!
Wow, these are absolutely beautiful! Love those backgrounds, and tilting the flower die is such a great idea!
WoW! Love the colors and the cutout!
The flower die is gorgeous!!!
I love alcohol inks. Your card is beautiful!