Good morning! I have a quick card to share today! When the new Essentials by Ellen release came out on Tuesday I immediately jumped on the stunning Mondo Hydrangea stamp set and it arrived in the mail yesterday!! I didn’t have much time to craft yesterday but I was able to finish one card! 🙂
I stamped the hydrangea and petals onto a piece of Arches cold press 140lb watercolor paper with versafine ink and heat-embossed them with clear powder. Then I added little streaks of color in the centers of the flowers with my zig markers and blended them out with a waterbrush. One of my favorite things about hydrangeas is that variety of shades that can be found within each flower petal so I tried to recreate that effect by mixing and matching a variety of pinks, purples, and blue shades (I’ll list the exact markers I used in the supply list below)! After that dried I added a soft halo of washed out purple using my spectrum noir clear sparkle glitter brush. I scribbled the purple on an acrylic block and picked it up with the spectrum noir brush. I also went over each flower with the glitter brush for a little extra sparkle.
I trimmed down the watercolor paper and adhered it to a dark grey card base. Finally I stamped a sentiment from Paper Smooches with versamark and heat-embossed it on the same dark grey cardstock with white embossing powder. I trimmed the sentiment down into a label shape and adhered it to the card with foam mounting tape! I’m sure I will spend a good deal of my day continuing to play with this stamp set…there are ENDLESS possibilities for this gorgeous hydrangea!
Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my card! Have a fabulous Friday!
Supplies:
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This card is so pretty! I love the way the petals are falling from the main flower, and I love the sentiment.
What a beautiful hydrangea… Such a lovely color too!
Love this card. Beautiful colouring 🙂 Have a great weekend 😉
Hey Jess, oh so pretty! You’re coloring is always so gorgeous, the colors are perfect. Hydrangeas are my absolute most favorite flower of all time. I got married in April and they don’t bloom till August where I live, I wanted them in all the bouquets. I drove my poor mom and florist crazy, needless to say they had to be ordered at a heafty price. That sounded a little bridzilla, I promise I wasn’t, lol. Thanks for sharing, it brought back priceless memories. 🙂
hey there jess… absolutely gorgeous hydrangeas:) we have a big bush of them that grows in summer and it spreads up to our deck with gorgeous variegated color flowers.. so gorgeous! thanks for taking me down memory lane:) sending love…
Love your card. The beautiful hydrangea is so bright and pretty. I love your coloring.
Awesome coloring!
Love the gorgeous colors with all of the shimmer and light glow!
Great presentation of the stamps
So beautiful! I do love hydrangeas and they are one of the plants I miss now that I live in the desert… the way you colored it is so beautiful…