Hibiscus - Thinking of You

Good Morning

Alice here, Monday Morning again, and another Blog from me.  I started this sample out as CAS, but as you can see, as always, it didn't work out.  Guess I am not so good at clean and simple.  Another little card using the A5 Hibiscus Stamp set.  You can find this stamp set and many other fabulous stamps here

Materials Used:

 A5 Hibiscus Stamp set
A6 Leaves
A6 Borders and Stems
Parchment Paper
Distress Inks
Clear Embossing Powder
Nuvo Drops
Square Dies
6x6 White Card Blank

• Used the A6 Borders to stamp around the edge of the card
• Used A6 Leaves and 2 colours of distress ink to stamp out leaves, then fussy cut out.
• Using distress inks, stamped the Hibiscus flowers onto parchment paper, then embossing with clear embossing powder.  Flowers were then fussy cut out.
• Cut out a black frame using square dies and attache to centre of card.  Added a sentiment die cut to the top left hand side of square.Stamped and cut out the stamens to add to centre of largest flowers.

Inked Blossom - A6 Blossom Stamp Set

Hi Everyone

Alice here.  Welcome to my blog post for today.  I have used the A5 Blossom and Grow Stamp set again.  You can find this and many more fabulous stamps on the Colourific Website here

Materials Used:

A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set
A6 Borders Stamps
6x6 Card Blank
5.75 x 5.76 Light Blue Card
5.5 x 5.5 Pink Card
5.25 x 5.25 White Card
Black Embossing Powder
Black Versa fine Ink Pad
Blue and Pink Watercolours

• Matted and layered Light Blue and Pink cards onto with card blank
• Lightly sprayed the White Mat with Water and added pink and blue water colours.  Sprayed again with water and let paint run over the card.  Left to dry naturally.
• Stamped the Blossom onto the card and added the little stamps and stems at the bottom, then embossed with Black Powder.  Then added pink watercolour to the blossom head.
• Added the Border stamp along the top and left hand side.
• Stamped Blossom and Grow greeting in the bottom left hand corner.
• Finished off with 3 gems.

Thank you for looking