Good morning! I finally had a little free time to do some ‘just for fun’ crafting and I was able to play with this pretty Sketch Ranunculus stamp set from Simon Says Stamp that was designed by Yoonsun Hur! I am a huge fan of Yoonsun’s work and was excited to get my hands on this set after seeing all of the gorgeous samples she created! I also decided to enter Anna Kossakovskaya’s CASometry Challenge 2 using this set to create (at least) five cards!
This set is quite popular right now and I’ve seen lots of beautiful cards using a variety of pretty spring and summer colors so I wanted to go a slightly different route:
I started by stamping the flowers onto black cardstock with versamark and heat-embossing them with gold tinsel embossing powder. Then I used my ScanNCut to cut out each of the shapes with a slight border. Next I did a soft ombre wash of black soot distress ink across the top of a piece of watercolor paper and let it dry overnight. Once it was dry I flicked Daniel Smith quinacridone coral watercolor and Hero Arts gold shimmer spray across the card panel.
Next I stamped part of the sentiment onto the card panel with versafine and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I adhered stick-it adhesive to the back of a scrap piece of white cardstock and die-cut the ‘wishing’ word. I pressed the front of the die-cut into versamark and heat-embossed it with gold tinsel embossing powder. I peeled the backing off the stick-it and adhered the glittery gold word to the card. Then it was time to arrange my bouquet! I placed my flowers across the top of the card and adhered them with regular adhesive and foam mounting tape. To finish my card I added medallion gold sequins for a little extra sparkle!
I really like how it turned out…it’s definitely not my normal pink and coral floral card but I love the black and gold with just a tiny hint of pink! 🙂 You’ll definitely see some normal colors in some of my next CASometry cards! 😉
I am also entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Emboss It, the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge: Mother’s Day/Flowers, and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Flowers! Thanks so much for visiting and have a fantastic day!
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Karen B. says
Gorgeous!
Rubeena says
Beautiful!
Katherine says
Black and gold together looks so cool – love your card!)))
Светлана Калайда says
Very nice !!!
Lisaerica says
Oh Jess it’s stunning! Love the black and gold so elegant. TFSAI
Anna Kosskovskaya says
Jessica, thank you so much for participating in my challenge! Your card is just amazing, those flowers… oh my!! Great idea of the design! And like your choice of stamps
conil says
Wow! absolutely gorgeous.
Lin Brandyberry says
The gold embossing on black is so elegant, Jessica! Love your design! Thanks for sharing it with us at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge!
Lindsey says
So pretty! A truly elegant combo. I would never have thought to emboss those flowers on black, but it looks amazing on your card!
Jan Calhoun says
Love your card! Black and Gold is beautiful. Elegant. Good luck with this challenge
Sandra says
So pretty and love the black with gold embossing flowers. Very elegant. Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra
HJ says
I love the black with the gold embossing. It is so pretty.