Good morning! We are honored to be partnering with our good friends over at Pinkfresh Studios to release this amazingly gorgeous stamp set, You Make a Difference, as part of our ongoing 45th Anniversary celebration!
Here’s what I created using You Make a Difference:
I love the softness of the floral image and decided to to create a somewhat impressionistic card using soft blending and soft edges with a pop of sparkly gold. To start I placed the stamp in my MISTI and stamped it with a no-line ink onto strathmore bristol cardstock. I left the stamp on my MISTI lid and removed the cardstock. First I started by blending worn lipstick distress oxide ink around the edges of the stamp fading to light pink and white in the center.
Then I took tiny pointed cotton swabs, dipped them in various colors of distress oxide ink and used the tips to apply color to the flowers in light circular motions. I focused more of the color on the centers of the flowers and faded out to the edges. The edges aren’t perfect but that’s not what I was aiming for…I wanted that soft, unfocused look that just hints at the idea of flowers and foliage! Once I was happy with the color application I placed the panel back in my MISTI and restamped it with versamark before heat-embossed it with gold tinsel embossing powder. I also stamped the sentiment in the center with versamark and heat-embossed that with gold embossing powder to make the smaller words a little easier to read. Finally I trimmed the panel down, adhered it to a white card base, and finished the card with a few metallic gold sequins!
And that’s it!
To celebrate the release we have three great prizes! One random commenter will win the You Make a Difference stamp set, one will win a $25 gift card to Hero Arts and one will win a $25 gift card to Pinkfresh Studios!! Leave a comment on all the hop stops by Sunday, August 18 at 11:59pm PST and one winner will be chosen randomly from a hop stop and announced next week on the Hero blog!! You should have arrived from Jennifer and Kelly is your next stop!
Thanks so much for stopping by, have a fabulous day, and enjoy the hop!
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pretty card – love the softness of the blended edges
Love the pink and gold.
All the sparkle is beautiful
Lovely card!! I love the distress oxide blending and the gold embossing. The coloring of the flowers is awesome. All this made for a spectacular card!!
Card is absolutely gorgeous…love the color palette!
Lovely card. The gold just works!
Absolutely stunning! I wish I had extra money to buy those Oxide ink pads. They make a card look stunning.
Thanks so much for the inspiration.
OHHH! Looks great embossed in sparkly GOLD!!
The gold embossing powder adds such elegance!
Delicate and stunning. Such a beautiful card!
Ooh the gold embossing and ink blending are awesome!! <3
Beautiful card.. Love the light pink colors with gold embossing powder.
Oh my, Jessica! This card is so, so soft and serene! I love it. Thank you for the detailed instructions and for the inspiration!
Jessica, this is just gorgeous. Great idea to use gold. And the soft shading looks wonderful.
Gorgeous. Love the soft and feminine look with the pink and gold tones.
Absolutely stunning! Love the softness of the color with the gold embossing.
Such an elegant card! Love the colors!
Love your peachy-pink color combo on this gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing with us.
Oh my! I love the pink background and the gold embossing! Such a wonderful stamp set–both the flowers and the sentiments are incredibly versatile and lovely.
So soft and beautiful!
This is a great stamp set & the sentiments are too! Your card is soft & feminine. Love it. AND my birthday is 8/18, so maybe I’ll receive an email with a surprise for me. Wouldn’t that be a treat?
This card just whispers to me! Love the colors and soft feel of it! Terrific new stamp set!
Loving this new stamp set and what you have done with it is absolutely breathtaking! The softness and sweet feel of it is so relaxing!
Pretty
Really like your color choice for this card, so very pretty.