Good morning! I’m super excited to be a guest-designer for the May release from Pretty Pink Posh! Have you checked out the new release yet? It’s got something for everybody!! Cute puppies, gorgeous flowers, beautiful sentiments! I created two cards today using the Flourishing Fuchsias set!
I wanted to try two different mediums with the floral stamps…my first card uses Mijello Mission Gold watercolors.
I started by stamping the leaves and flowers with versamark and heat-embossing them with gold tinsel embossing powder. I decided to play with an unusual card size so I trimmed my watercolor paper down to 3″ by 7″. I painted the flowers with my mission gold watercolors and attempted to add some shading…watercolors still give me trouble. I also added a halo of pink around the stamped images. Once it was dry I masked the images again and added splatters of dark and light pink.
I stamped the sentiment from Simply Sayings: Life and heat-embossed it with the same gold tinsel embossing powder. Next I took a piece of watercolor paper and painted a pink ombre wash across the paper. Once it dried I trimmed it down to 3 1/4″ by 7 1/4″. I adhered the watercolored fuchsias over the ombre panel and then added metallic gold jewels to finish the card.
My second card uses polychromos colored pencils on colored cardstock! I started by stamping the images onto black cardstock with white pigment ink. I blasted it with a heat gun to make sure the white ink wouldn’t smudge and then put down a thick layer of white colored pencil as the base. Next I colored the images using my white pencil to blend the colors together.
When I was testing colors to see if I liked the way they blended together I came up with the idea for my sentiment. On a second piece of black cardstock I colored a rectangle with my white colored pencil. Then I laid down four shades of pink in an ombre blend. I die-cut the ‘Get Well Soon’ sentiment from the colored pencil panel and then pressed a versamark pad over the die cut words. I heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder and then repeated the process twice to build up a nice, smooth layer of clear embossing powder. I adhered the sentiment to the fuchsia background and then trimmed the panel down by a 1/4 inch. I adhered that panel to a black card base and then finished it with a few amethyst jewels!
I ran out of time but I had hoped to create another card using copic markers for a third medium. I’m still hoping to get that done this weekend I’ll share it if I find time! 😉
There are four $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day). Winners will be picked randomly from comments left along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PDT on 5/14/2018 and the winners will be announced on the PPP blog! Here are all the stops on the hop today:
- Pretty Pink Posh blog
- Kelly Latevola
- Yana Smakula
- Laurie Willison
- Suzy Plantamura
- Melody Rupple
- Alexandra Stapleton- Smith
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Heather Hoffman
- Crystal Thompson
- Joni Andaya
- Lydia Fiedler
- Mindy Baxter
- Yoonsun Hur
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Both coloring mediums are beautiful!!! Very lovely cards!!!!
Beautiful cards. I love the watercolor with the gold embossing.
Love how the colors pop on the black. Fabulous!
Beautiful cards! So fun to see the same images presented so differently – gorgeous!
Stunning cards. I love your style and coloring. What awesome stamps.
That black card is wonderful!
Love these gorgeous creations! The cool tall size is great & as always, your color combos are awesome!
OMG these cards are gorgeous – LOVE the gold on the first card – so elegant:)
Both beautiful cards. I love the effect of the colour on black.
Jessica, your cards never fail to impress me! The watercolouring on the first one with those lovely splatters is gorgeous, & I love the dramatic & yet soft look of the black cardstock coloured with the pencils. Wow!
Beautiful cards! 🙂
Great job! Love these cards!
Looking good!! Those fuchsia stamps are just stunning 🙂
I haven’t watercolored in years but after seeing your beautiful cards, I will be getting them out again soon. Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous cards! Love the coloring on black cardstock.
Awesome Cards, love the first card, and your watercoloring looks fine to me 🙂
Great designs!! So pretty!!
I love how you used the gold embossing! Along with your watercolors, they make for really elegant cards!
Your cards are stunning! I love the watercolored fuchsias. The jewel tones really pop against the gold embossing powder. The single fuchsia on the black cardstock makes such a statement and that ombre sentiment is gorgeous!
I really love both, but the black background is very cool. Nice technique.
Lovely cards, the black one Really pops.
Your cards are just gorgeous.
i admire your watercoloring technique. Quite lovely
Love the Fuchsia stamp set and you’ve created two beautiful cards showcasing it. My favorite is the first gold embossed one….. the colors are awesome and the layout so pretty.
Beautiful cards using my favorite stamp set from his terrific new release. I especially like your first card with the gold embossing and gorgeous water coloring. Lovely.