Good morning! I’m excited to be hopping along with Simon Says Stamp to celebrate the Friends release! The release went live last month but we’re continuing the celebration with even more inspiration! 🙂
As you probably know I’m a bit obsessed with my alcohol inks these days and I decided to pair some of the new SSS dies with a simple alcohol inked background! I started by mixing alcohol ink blending solution with alcohol inks in wild plum, raspberry, purple twilight, flamingo, and watermelon! I let the blending solution and alcohol ink mix pretty organically and left the sharp contrasts and edges where the colors met. I picked out my favorite areas of the panel and trimmed them down to 4 inch squares. (You can see what I did with the leftover scrap here)! 😉
Then I die-cut the Cosmo Flower frame die from white cardstock but made sure to tilt the die at an angle for a different look. I’m a little bit of a perfectionist when it comes to lining up dies and stuff so purposefully tilting a die takes away the need to make it perfect! 😉 I die-cut the sentiments using the Hello Gorgeous and Happy Birthday dies and black cardstock. I die-cut each twice and layered them together with glossy accents.Then I adhered the sentiments to the card panels and finished the cards with a few black crystals!
P.S. I recently received the Gemini Jr and I used it for this card…holy moly, that thing is AMAZING! I am so excited to not be hand-cranking my dies through anymore…I’ll definitely share more about it soon!
To celebrate Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 gift certificate to EVERY stop on the hop!! 🙂 Leave your comments before 11:59PM EST on Sunday, January 14th and the winners will be announced on the Simon Says Stamp blog next week!
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Love the Cosmo flower. Beautiful background love the alcohol technique. Thanks for sharing.
Wow these cards are absolutely stunning!!!
You have pushed me over the edge to pick up that die. Great backgrounds!
ummm…WOW! those backgrounds are beautiful!!! great mix of colors!!! go, you!!!!
Thanks for being part of the blog hop and giveaway!
Love your cards! These are no exceptions
Love the vibrancy of your cards!
Thought about purchasing the cosmos die, now I know I will! Thanks Jessica, I love using the yuppo paper and Adirondack alcohol inks.
Wow! Just beautiful!
Aw. These are adorable!!
Hi Jess,
I love the cards. I haven’t tried alcohol inks yet, but they are on my to do list. I love the flower, it is so versatile, can’t wait to get mine.
Take care
Tracy
Gorgeous!!! Your alcohol ink backgrounds are fabulous and that elegant die cut looks stunning against them.
Love that you used scrap alcohol ink paper with the beautiful die
Pretty cards; the die cuts are so delicate.
The brilliance of the bg sets off the die perfectly!! Stunning display!
Love this frame die. Beautiful card!
I too love alcohol inks. I think those bright colored background look great. I like seeing the flowers tilted. It gives the card character. Thanks.
I love the cards you made. The background made with alcohol inks really make the die cuts stand out. It’s gorgeous. You’ve really inspired me.
The vibrant colors contrasted with the white flower is gorgeous!!!
Such beautiful cards…love the bright colors of alcohol inks that you used!
Gorgeous backgrounds! And those white flowers pop against the colorful backgrounds.
Your alcohol backgrounds are gorgeous and your “scrap” card is awesome. glad you kept it.
WOWOWOWOW!! SUPER BEAUTIFUL!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
The background is sooooo stunning ! And the cosmo flower frame die is one of my favorite in this release
What a bright eye catching card.