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Birthday Blooms and Watercolor Pencils

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Sandi MacIver – Stampin with Sandi – Birthday Blooms and Watercolor Pencils

Birthday Blooms and Watercolor pencils by Sandi @ stampinwithsandi.com

I had an entire stamping day on Saturday  Whoo Hoo and I was just cranking out cards.  Don’t you love it when you can spend a whole day doing that?  This is one of them and I combined a few challenges for this card.

NOTE – the Retiring Products Lists came out yesterday for the Annual Catalogue and the Occasions Catalogue – details here – and sadly, This Birthday Blooms Stamp Set is about to retire, so if you don’t have it yet, you may want to grab it soon

Tic Tac Toe Challenge and I went from the bottom left corner up to the top right, I have layers, I used a punch and I have stripes.

The second was The Card Concept and from this  image I was inspired by the floral icing and the colours – and was wishing I had one to snack on too, haha…

Third, the SUO Challenge this week – use your favourite  flower stamp

http://thecardconcept.blogspot.ca/2018/04/the-card-concept-90-sweet-treats.html

How I created the Birthday Blooms and Watercolor Pencils Card:

  • I started by white heat embossing the image onto a piece of Smoky Slate c/s 3-1/2 x 5-1/4.
  • I stamped the image in Archival Black Ink onto a piece of Whisper White 3 x 3-1/2.  Coloured it with the Stampin Up Watercolor Pencils and cut it out.
  • NOTE – I didn’t use water to blend the colours, I used a blender pen and when I finished adding all the colours; I used the White pencil to blend the colours – try it – for a completely different look….
  • The card Base is Crumb Cake 4-1/4 x 11, scored and folded at 5-1/2 and I used a half inch strip of Tutti Frutti Designer paper to incorporate the stripes and then added the embossed background piece.
  • I used Dimensionals to pop up my art piece to add interest
  • For the sentiment, I white embossed it onto a strip of Basic Black 1 x 2-1/2 and then used my Banner Triple Punch to flag tail the end.
  • I embellished with a few Glitter & Clear Epoxy Shapes.

http://thecardconcept.blogspot.ca/2018/04/the-card-concept-90-sweet-treats.html

Check out the Birthday Blooms – Spotlight Technique card here:

Check out the Birthday Blooms – Triple Panel Card here

COME BACK SUNDAY – for my “FREE PDF SUNDAY” post to download the PDF file for today’s card.

for the Birthday Blooms and Watercolor Pencils Card:

 

Birthday Blooms Wood-Mount Stamp Set

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Watercolor Pencils

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

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

Tutti-Frutti 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

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

Banner Triple Punch

Glitter & Clear Epoxy Shapes

Heat Tool

Embossing Buddy

White Stampin' Emboss Powder


I hope you enjoyed today’s project and thanks so much for stopping in to visit.

Wishing you Happy Stamping.

 

 

Comments

  1. Wow, this card is absolutely stunning, love it, I love this rose and will have to give this technique a try. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂

    • thank you Anne, do give it a try, it really blends everything nicely and lightens the spots you want lightened.

    • Thanks Amy, it’s actually on Smoky Slate card stock but it sure looks like vellum doesn’t it.

  3. This is gorgeous!! Love your watercolor pencil technique as well as all of your other finishing touches!! Thanks for sharing with us at The Card Concept- hugs and I hope you are able to join us again soon!!

  4. I love your card, Sandi! Your coloring is gorgeous. Thank you for joining us at Tic Tac Toe Challenge this week!

  5. Sandi, WOW!!!! This is such a gorgeous card! Your coloring is amazing and all the papers you used are just perfection! Not to mention we used the same stamp set today….LOL

    • haha, thanks Eva, and I saw that, great minds think alike….I love that stamp and am really going to miss it

  6. Gorgeous card. I love this stamp set and am so glad that I already have it.
    Thanks for the inspiration.

    • Thank you Joann, I’m so glad you liked it, and yeah that you have it, it’s a lovely one to colour

  7. Just gorgeous, as always! Your coloring is always perfect! I bought that stamp set and like so many others … it’s languishing uninked somewhere in a box 🙂 I’ll be saving this card to case one day. I am pretty sad that it’s retiring, it’s a really pretty bold set. Way to go with getting 3 challenges into one pretty package too!

    • i agree, it’s a keeper, and thanks, you noticed I snuck in 3 challenges, haha…..it was a challenge for sure!