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!
To celebrate Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 gift certificate to EVERY stop on the hop!! 🙂 Leave your comments before 11:59PM EST on Sunday, January 14th and the winners will be announced on the Simon Says Stamp blog next week!
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Gorgeous cards, love the die, wow! Thanks for sharing.
Love the card! So pretty. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful elegant cards! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful cards. Love the clean black and white with the pop of hot pinks.
I love playing with alcohol inks. The lovely dies in white add such a striking contrast along with the black lettering!
Thank you for sharing your work. Beautiful card!
Just beautiful in every way.
Hi Jessica, love your love for alcohol inks, you encourage me to use mine more ! The cards are so pretty… that color combo for inks is is fabulous !
Simply beautiful! I love your backgrounds and the way you used the die. 🙂
Beautiful cards! Love the backgrounds you created for the flower die!
Your cards are simply beautiful !
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Beautiful design!
Beautiful!! I love all the vibrate colours you use on your cards!
Wonderful die cut and I LOVE that bold color. Beautiful cards.
The background is FAB_U_LOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cosmos flower frames are GORGEOUS too !!
So bold and vibrant! Love it!
LOVE these…and the boldness of the colors! Gorgeous.
Beautiful cards! I love the alcohol ink backgrounds! So pretty with the die!
OMG! I love your inked background! Absolutely beautiful cards! 😍
Stunning, deep background really accents the floral die, nice work!
Those alcohol inks are beautiful! The background really pops! Gorgeous die cut!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these flower background dies and LOVE how you used them!
Gorgeous! I didn’t release the flowers were this large… Nicely done
Love the bold and vibrant colors. TFS