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Good morning and Happy World Card Making Day! I am excited to be joining in a massive blog hop for a good cause! Catherine Pooler and Chaitali Narla have collaborated on a new stamp set for Catherine Pooler Designs called Hello World and for one week (starting right now!) all sales of this stamp set and the coordinating dies will be donated to the cause they’ve chosen! Fellow crafter, Jennifer Ingle’s, husband works in an urban school system and is trying to raise money to purchase computers for his middle school classroom. You can find more information about the fundraiser here.
I love the big ‘hello’ in the middle of the set and focused on that for my cards!
First I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Next I wet a loose shape on the paper around the sentiment and then added watercolors. I allowed the colors to mix and then set it aside to dry. Once it was totally dry I splattered it with black ink.
Next I stamped the rest of the sentiment on black cardstock and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I trimmed it down to label size and adhered it with foam mounting tape. Then I stamped the stripey border from Yay Stripes onto my card base with black ink, trimmed my watercolor panel, and adhered it to the card base. Finally I added a sprinkling of glossy black sequins to finish the card!
My second card follows a similar design but I painted stripes in cool shades of blue and purple. These were really fun to make (I love playing with watercolors) and you could make endless card sets using the Hello World stamp set and watercolors! I hope you like them!
You should have arrived here from Dana Joy’s blog and your stop is the wonderful Laura Bassen! Here’s a full list of all the hoppers who will be sharing lots of inspiration for how you can use your new Hello World stamp set! 😉
- Catherine Pooler
- Maureen Merritt
- Amy Kolling
- Laurel Beard
- Miriam Prantner
- Kristie Goulet
- Amy Sheffer
- Heather North
- Donna Mikasa
- Allison Cope
- Amy Tsuruta
- Lisa Harrolle
- Kelly Griglione
- Kimberly Wiener
- Chrissie Tobas
- Ingrid Blackburn
- Michele Kovack
- Stephanie Klauck
- Chaitali Narla
- Dana Joy
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Laura Bassen
- Jennifer Ingle
If you’re here for the first time I hope you’ll stop by again! You can also find my cards on Instagram and Facebook, my video tutorials on YouTube, and you can subscribe to my blog via the button the right! Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Love those color in your watercolor Jessica! 🙂
great cards. The bright watercolor background really shows off the Hello stamp.
Very cute card. Thank you for sharing.
Jess, your cards are simply fantastic! Thank you so much for being a part of this very special blog hop today! Sean and I are very thankful!
Very pretty card! Tfs
thanks for sharing the deets on how to get the look on your inspirational cards, appreciated
Very pretty–love the colors.
Love everything about this card! The watercolors, the embossed hello, the stripe down the side – love it all!!
Glorious colors. Love the stripe on the card’s spine.
Very pretty watercolor background!!
These are awesome!
This is great!! I may try something similar with Gelatos!!
I love the colours in your watercolour background!
Great cards!
Beautiful watercolor cards, Jess! These would make lovely gift sets to give. Thank you for being a part of this special blog hop for the kids!
Such lovely colors!
Love the colors and simple sylte. Really nice!
Happy colors and beautiful cards! TFS!
I like the simple card with a lot of movement with the watercolors. I need to learn how to watercolor.
Great bold card.
GORGOEUS!!!! LOVE the watercolors!
Nice watercoloring and bright fun colors.
So gorgeous, Jess!!!! LOVE!!!
Awesome! The use of color is fabulous!!!!