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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Lovely cards! This
stamp is gorgeous.
Carla from Utah
Love your beautiful cards.
Both cards are amazing! Love the Flourishing Fuchsias stamp set! Beautiful cards and coloring!
WOW! Both cards are beautiful and so different from each other. Great job.
Wow gorgeous cards! The black one is stunning.
Love the gold embossed fuchsias!
Your cards are stunning! I am especially smitten with the sentiment on the last card. You are so creative. Thanks for inspiring me.
Stunning!
The watercolor card is simple elegance in my book. I just LOVE it. So very pretty.
Love your eye for color! The fuschia flower is beautiful! I need the polychrome pencils now!! Happy Mother’s Day!
Wow! Love your fabulous cards!!! Colouring is simply breathless!!! <3
So pretty! Love the gold embossing on the first one, and the colored pencil coloring on dark cardstock on the second one looks amazing!
Beautiful Work… Love the dark cardstock coloring!
I am In love with all these cards!
Your cards are stunning–using the touch of gold makes them so elegant. Thanks for sharing.
Wow !! Here are two absolutely perfect cards !! The black is just stunning !!
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These are so beautiful. I love the card done with the colored pencil on black, it’s so vibrant & striking
Beautiful, Jessica, I myself am in love with the slightly longer and slimmer card shape recently, so that card is a winner in my eyes! 🙂
Your cards are fantastic !
Beautiful pencil colouring Jess!
Very beautiful cards ! I definitely love these fuchsias !!
Great cards! I especially love the black car stock.
I love blog hops because they inspire me to create as do all of these wonderful new goodies.
Beautiful cards! and the colors are great!
Beautiful cards! The coloring is fantastic.