I have spent a lot of time in my garden this year tending to my blooms, some of which, like the Inspiration Challenge are pink in colour.
Today is a rainy day, so I am tending to some different flowers, making them into a card and submitting it to the Inspiration challenge at Hand Stamped sentiment. In the Inspiration picture I see shades of pink, swirls of gold, and various shades of bright green - thus my colour scheme of Flirty Flamingo. gold foil, Blushing Bride, and Granny Apple Green. I also used some Heat and Stick powder to add Gold Flakes to the embossed layer.
The card base is Basic White layered with Flirty Flamingo, and then Blushing Bride embossed with the Pretty in Flower Embossing Folder.
Along the left edge of this embossed layer was added a 1/8 by 5" strip of gold foil. Some Gilded Flakes was also added to this layer.
Adding Gilded Flakes:
To do this I swiped a Versa Mark ink pad randomly across the surface of the embossed piece, and added Heat and Stick powder. After activating this powder with the heat tool, the Gilded Flakes were added. See below.
For the focal image I used the floral and jar image from the Jar of Flowers stamp set, as well as the Jar Punch.
Both the flower and jar were stamped separately. The flowers were stamped with Black Memento ink onto some Basic White card stock. The jar was stamped on Flirty Flamingo card stock with Versa Mark and embossed with Gold embossing powder. The jar was then painted with White shimmer paint. When the paint was dry it was punched with the Jar Punch.
The flowers were coloured with Stampin' Blends (Flirty Flaming, and Granny Apple Green. Some Gilded Flakes were added to the flower centers, as well as the flower sprigs.
I also added some extra die cuts that I made using a Curvy Die. These were die cut in Gold Foil and Granny Apple Green.
The flowers were added to the jar top and together the unit was added to a piece of Basic White card stock die cut with a Contour Scallop die using dimensionals. Some gold trim was wrapped around the jar top and a bow made with the same trim was added to the front
The Scallop Contour die was then added to the embossed card front using dimensionals. Some gilded gems were added to the die cut.
The sentiment is from "Many Messages" and is added extending from the junction of the flower and the jar.
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Jar of Flowers, Many Messages
Inks: Black Memento, Versa Mark, Stampin' Blends ( Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green)
Papers: Thick Basic White, Basic White, Flirty Flamingo, Granny Apple Green Gold Foil
Accessories: Pretty in Flowers Embossing Folder, Heat & Stick powder, Gilded Flakes, Gold twine, Curvy Die, Jar Punch, Many Messages die, Gilded Gems, Scallop Contour due
