I made these 3 cards weeks before I got sick and I’m so glad to finally be able to share them. I love these flowers from the Altenew “Beauty Within” collection. I have the stencils, stamp and die but I only used the stencils and dies for my cards. Check out this post to see how I incorporated them into another stamp set.
For today’s cards, I chose to use Simon’s Pawsitively Saturated Inks for my flowers. Color chosen for my yellow flowers were: “Sunbeam” and “Citrine”. And for all the centers, I went with Espresso by Pinkfresh Studio but also I took the center die from Honey Bee Stamps “Anemone” Lovely Layers set because I wanted a more dramatic look.
For the leaves for all my cards, I didn’t use the stencils, instead I stamped them and colored them with Copics. My green go to markers are YG67 and YG25 for leaves.
For my orange flowers, I chose the ink colors: “Grapefruit” and “Mandarin”.
Now for my teal flowers, I made a boo-boo but I kept it in and I really do love how it turned out. I chose “Ocean” and “Surf” but I accidentally added green from another blending brush. I tried to blend it in but you can see it’s pretty prominent. However, I do like the two-color combo so I went with it!
After I finished all my coloring, I die cut the flowers out and glued them to the leaves to make all 3 clusters. Then, I set them aside to begin working on the background.
For my backgrounds, I chose one of the stencils from Vicki Boutin’s “Sweet Rush” stencil set and I use the same ink colors to match my flowers. I went heavy in the center and lighter as I blended outward to the edges of the card panels.
Lastly, I stamped the sentiment (no longer available) from Hero Arts. Then, I put all my cards together. Love how each one turned out!
- Altenew “Beauty Within” Die Set
- Altenew “Beauty Within” Stamp Set
- Altenew “Beauty Within” Stencil Set
- Honey Bee Stamps “Lovely Layers” Anemone Die Set
- Vicki Boutin “Sweet Rush” Stencil 3-pack Collection
- Simon Says Stamp “Pawsitively Saturated” Inks (1st collection)
- Pinkfresh Studio “Espresso” ink
- Blending Brushes, large size here, tiny size here
- Altenew’s Detailed Blending Brushes Set
- Copic Sketch Markers here, here or here
- Copic #0 Colorless Blender here or here
- Bearly Art Liquid Glue
- Memento “Tuxedo Black” Ink
- Misti Stamp Positioner here, here, here or here
- Accents 100 lb. White Cardstock
