Heart's Delight Cards: Birthday Blooms

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Friday, March 9, 2018

My Inky Friends Find Hidden Gems

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I love the theme of this Inky Friends hop - Hidden Gems! There are SO MANY hidden gems in the catalog - stamp sets or products you may have overlooked the first (hundred) times through, or ones that you may have used once or twice, and then it sits forgotten on the shelf.

Sara at Lily's Ink Pad is before me on the line up. Didn't she make you re-think Five for All? To see the whole blog roll you can click the banner above, or just follow the links at the bottom of each blog post to see each and every one!

My "hidden gem" is the Birthday Blooms stamp set. I used it a few times when it came out, then lost interest. But now that no line watercoloring is trendy, it's time to dust it off and use it again!

http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=140658&dbwsdemoid=2054459

The first card makes use of the sample I painted a few days ago. I wanted to send a thank you to a new friend, so I hope this is going to make her smile. The flowers are Flirty Flamingo with Sweet Sugarplum shading, and the leaves are Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Fresh Fig.

Heart's Delight Cards, Birthday Blooms, MIF Hidden Gems, Stampin' Up!

I am SO HAPPY that the Basket Weave embossing folder is going to carry over! I love the deep impression that it gives the cardstock, and think it's the perfect background for any floral image.

The Old Olive striped paper in Delightful Daisy DSP coordinated with the leaves, and so did the Lemon Lime Twist mini stripe ribbon. The blossoms were mounted on gold glimmer paper and popped up on dimensionals, as was the greeting from Thankful Thoughts.

Keeping the no line watercolor theme going, I painted the little single flower in Birthday Blooms the same way. It was stamped first in Sahara Sand (stamped off once), then colored with Daffodil Delight and Old Olive using a water brush.

I thought the simplicity of the image needed to be highlighted, and what goes better with yellow than black and white?

Did you notice the little yellow ribbon? That's some Whisper White 1/8" sheer ribbon colored with a Light Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends marker. I think it's great that we can customize embellishments with those markers!

I truly appreciate you stopping by today, and hope you have been inspired. Now it's off to see what Sharleen has done with Jar of Love!

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Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Watercolor Paper

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper

Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

Petal Passion Designer Series Paper

Gold Glimmer Paper

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin' Pad

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin' Pad

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

Lemon Lime Twist 3/8" (1 Cm) Mini Striped Ribbon

Whisper White 1/8" Sheer Ribbon

Daffodil Delight Light Stampin' Blends Marker

Monday, March 5, 2018

Birthday Blooms Thanks

Heart's Delight Cards, Birthday Blooms, No Line Watercolor, Stampin' Up!

Played some more with no line watercoloring, but this time I used all Stampin' Up! products. The flowers in Birthday Blooms are perfect for coloring, whether you are using Stampin' Blends (image stamped in Memento ink), or watercoloring (image stamped in Basic Black Archival), or no line watercoloring (image stamped in light colored ink).

For this card I used Sahara Sand to stamp the image, then colored it with Flirty Flamingo and Pear Pizzazz as the base colors. Trust me when I say "Don't be afraid of the colors!" because just those two colors, even when shaded, are going to look rather flat. You need to add more colors to really make the image pop.

Here I added Crushed Curry, not only to the leaves, but to the blossom, as well. I liked the warm glow that it gave. I also added some Old Olive to the leaves for more contrast.

I stamped another image after the one for the card without re-inking the stamp, so the lines were even lighter. Here is what it looked like with just the Flirty Flamingo and Pear Pizzazz added. It's pretty, but kind of blah.

In this photo, I added Sweet Sugarplum to the blossoms and, wait for it.....Fresh Fig to the leaves! There is also some Old Olive and Daffodil Delight in the leaves, but that Fresh Fig really makes them stand out. Since the stamped lines were so light, the veins in the leaves got lost when I colored them, so I added some with the fine detail water brush.

I think I like the Sweet Sugarplum shading better than the Crushed Curry! What do you think?

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Monday, December 11, 2017

Birthday Blooms Stained Glass

I revived an old technique for this card, but with a twist. The Stained Glass technique usually involves heat embossing vellum, and then coloring the back of the vellum with markers. But for this card, I used the Stampin' Blends alcohol markers on the front, and the colors are so much more vibrant!

A huge advantage to using the alcohol markers is, if you accidentally get ink on the embossed lines, or even outside the embossed lines, it is incredibly easy to clean it off with the Color Lifter. I mean like "piece of cake" easy! I did cheat a little with some contraband - the cut out in the center was made with a Spellbinders Nestabilities Deckled Rectangle die. It was so much easier than trying to tear it!

If you click on any of the photos and zoom in, you can see how it really does look like stained glass. I deliberately made it streaky to give it depth and texture. I could have easily laid down smooth color, but really wanted the stained glass look to look like.... stained glass. Make sense?

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