Good morning! Today I’m hopping along to celebrate the March release from Pinkfresh Studio and it is full of gorgeous florals!! I’m sharing a card using the pretty Bougainvillea cling stamp!
To start I smooshed distress inks in dried marigold, festive berries, and abandoned coral onto a piece of scrap plastic and then pressed it to a piece of watercolor paper. I repeated the process a few times until I had a soft background. Then I stamped the Bougainvillea cling stamp onto the paper and heat-embossed it with gold glitter embossing powder.
I watercolored the flowers with abandoned coral and festive berries distress ink and the foliage with chipped sapphire and black soot distress ink but realized quickly that I had applied too much color in my first layer and hadn’t given myself much room to go from there. So I switched to using copic markers to add some shading to the leaves and petals. I wish I could have finished the card with watercolors but it’s good to be flexible, right?!
Once my panel was done I trimmed it down to 4″ by 5.25″ and adhered it to a navy card base. I stamped a sentiment from My Favorite Things to Say Volume 2 heat-embossed with gold embossing powder on navy cardstock. Then I added a tangle of gold thread onto the back and adhered it to the panel with foam mounting tape. A few metallic gold sequins finished the card with a little extra sparkle!
And that’s it for me! Make sure to check out the new release and all the giveaway details below!
To celebrate the release, Pinkfresh Studio is hosting several giveaways! They will be giving away the full release on their blog and YouTube channel and ten $25 gift cards! Make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop for the most chances to win! Please comment before April 4th and the winners will be announced on the Pinkfresh Studio blog on April 5th! You can find the hop list below!
Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy the hop!!
Fantastic release!!!
Beautiful card and colors. Thank you for sharing.
LOVE you color combinations – beautiful! Your design enhances the beauty of this stamp set.
Beautiful job of making a background stamp into a beyond stunning card. Your colors are amazing.
Great release!!! Love this company.
Love those colors! Very eye-catching. And the sentiment is just lovely.
Beautiful card! Love your colors!
Such a pretty card! I love it♥
Those colors — love it!!! Beautiful use of those amazing products!!
I can’t get over these colors!! Just gorgeous
So pretty!!!
These colors. Who am I kidding you seem to always have the BEST color combos out there! Thank you for always thinking outside the box. Great inspiration, brilliant release.
Beautiful! The smooshed background is such a creative and fabulous background. Love your bold colors – fantastic!
Hello from Malta, New York. I love your card, I love your ink smooshing. I need to do that more. I love this new release from Pinkfresh Studios. Thank you for your inspiration.
Hello from Malta, New York. I am in love with this new release Pinkfresh Studios did an amazing release. Love your card. Thank you for your inspiration.
stunning – LOVE the red on your flowers – really pops
Your card is gorgeous Jess! I love the foiling and the lovely red! What an awesome new release from Pinkfresh!
This new release is amazing and I love your card!
Red, my favourite color!
Really gorgeous card
I love the bold colors on your card! The red is lovely!
I was so so with this stamp set but now seeing what you did with it, I am sold, 😀. Such a beautiful card, and I usually don’t favor red either. You have converted me 100% with this card ! Thanks!
Gorgeous card…absolutely love the vibrant colors along with the soft background. So beautiful!
Oo, this one looks so pretty! I love the colors. Greetings from Finland!
the gold glitter embossing is the perfect touch!!!