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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Awesome! Such great artistry, and unique from the other designs that have used this stamp. Nicely done!
Beautiful card!
The gold accents add so much, elegant card.
Love the worn lipstick on this card. Such a wonderful stamp!
How gorgeous this is using a beautiful color and gold embossing. Your attention to detail with all the coloring sets it apart.:)
This is lovely. The embossing powder is a great touch.
I love the pink with the gold embossing. 🙂
I love the pale pinks you used on your card.
Had to investigate what no line ink was. That stuff is pretty special and so is your card. Love the soft pink and gold together. So pretty.
Wow, this is gorgeous!
Love the soft colors and
how you made the flowers.
Carla from Utah
Such a beautiful card! Love the design and colors!
Nice stamp set. Definitely would to win to add it to my stamp collection. Thanks for the chance to win. : )
Love this lipstick pink and gold embossed look
Your card is so soft and delicate looking Jess! So pretty and special! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring our creativity.
Love the softness of your card.
Beautiful creation with this new stamp. Looking at this stamp it reminds me of french expression: JE SÈME À TOUT VENT in English it could say: I SOW WITH ANY WIND.
I saw different ways of using this stamp. GREAT
Merci, thank you
Yolande
Very pretty card! Thanks for sharing.
This is so so pretty – that gold embossing powder is perfect for this stamp !
I love the colours of your beautiful card they are gorgeous!
So very lovely!
I adore how you’ve used soft colors on this card – it’s gorgeous!
Beautiful card! The gold embossing is so elegant and classy and I love the pink ink blending.
Lovely card!
Such a pretty card Jess!
Love the pinks and gold stamping. Gorgeous card.