Good morning! Today I’m joining two of my favorite crafty people: Gina Krupsky and Lydia Fiedler for a mini blog hop to celebrate the March release from Gina K Designs! There’s a giveaway at each hop stop so make sure to check out the details at the bottom of this post! But first off, have you checked out Gina’s fabulous new release?
Here’s what I created using Hello Beautiful and Lettered and Lovely:
This is one of those times that I wish I could show you all this card in person because the camera just can’t capture the shine of that beautiful sentiment!! I started by stamping the flowers from Hello Beautiful with versamark on watercolor paper and heat-embossing them with silver tinsel embossing powder. I used post-it masks to mask the flowers to stamp the foliage. Then I stamped the sentiment from Lettered and Lovely with versamark and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.
Then I taped the watercolor paper down to my cutting board and started watercoloring! I used just two shades of red (rose madder and permanent rose) and one blue shade (indigo) from my Mijello mission gold watercolors for the background. I started by adding paint to the center of each flower and then using a clean damp brush to blend the color to the edge of each petal. I added a few layers of color to deepen the center of the flowers. Then I watercolored the background following the same basic steps but adding color to the edge of the panel and blending inward towards the center. Once I got a basic wash of color across the panel I went back and added more color around each flower and blended it out.
Once it was totally dry I masked the flowers with post-its and flicked the panel with white paint. I let it dry completely and then went over each flower with my spectrum noir clear sparkle brush. Once that dried I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25″ and adhered it to a dark navy card base. Finally I added a few gems to finish the card with a little more sparkle! Seriously guys, this is such a sparkly card…I so wish I could send it to all of you! 😉
Gina is graciously giving each of us a $25 gift certificate to give away! Leave your comments before 11:59PM EST on April 1st, 2018 and the winners will be announced on the Gina K Designs blog on April 2nd! Here are all the stops on our mini hop! 🙂
Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!
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Beautiful, Jessica! The colors are so striking together!
Oh wow your card is stunning. Love the colors Thank you
I love how you used watercolors to showcase these stamps! Stunning! Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
This is so sparkly and gorgeous. I love how blue and silver interact for background.
This is stunning!!! The silver looks amazing with the red and blue!!! Simply stunning card!
Absolutely beautiful!! Love the colors!!
Well that’s insanely stunning!
That makes me itch to touch it! Beautiful
Beautiful card! I love your use of the silver tinsel embossing powder.
What a gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing.
Love your card! Everything about it so eye catching and I would love to see it in person!
This is so beautiful!
Hi, Jess this card is gorgeous. I love the watercoloring mixed with the sentiment. Simply stunning. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing the lovely card. Cannot believe you say it’s better in person. Thanks to you and Gina K. for the blog hop!!
WOW! So stunning. This card is fantastic. What wonderful stamp sets.
love the colors you that you chosen for this card. Very Pretty
Amazing. Very beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely! I’m guessing these flowers were made with watercoloring in mind?
What a beautiful card. Love all the sparkle!
Gorgeous card! I do with I could see it in person to fully appreciate your beautiful work.
What a lovely card! I love the way you used the silver embossing powder with watercolor in the flowers and for the background. This is my favorite stamp set from the release. Thanks for the inspiration.
I’ve never used silver embossing powder before, except for Christmas. This has inspired me to branch out…
Breathtaking is the only way I know to express my thoughts about this card! You have inspired me to try something like this once the “Easter dust” has settled at my house. Putting the bunny stamps (and grandchildren) back in their cages. Not that I don’t love and enjoy them, but it’s time to make something really pretty. Thanks for this beautiful inspiration.
WOW! So beautiful!!
Love it!! Great card and ideas