Category: Clearly Besotted Stamps

For this card the flower clusters were stamp in a bright happy orange and the leaves in yellow green that coordinated well together. These colors gives me a tropical feel to me. For this card a landscape layout was used. The flowers were layered together a little tighter to form a more circular cluster and adhered together with liquid glue where they overlapped.

A panel of white cardstock was cut down with a stitched rectangle. The flower arrangement was placed on the panel to determine where to stamp the sentiment. Once the sentiment was stamped the panel was dry embossed with a Stampin’ Up Tasteful Textile folder and then matted with a darker green cardstock. Foam tape was added to the back, both the green mat and the foam tape helped the image pop on the card front.

The final embellishment was to add Ranger Gold Stickles to the center of the flowers.

PRODUCTS USED:

For day 5 of the Online Card Class Spring Card Camp 2 Kathy Racoosin showed how you can use colored pencils to add depth and detail to a stenciled background.

Once again I decided to use a background die to use as my stencil. I cut it from white cardstock and then adhered another quarter panel behind with purple tape. I used teal, blue, pink, and purple inks to color to the stenciled background. A small detail blending brush was used to add color to the center of the flowers.

To add depth and visual interest to the stenciled background I pulled out my Faber Castell Ploychromos Pencils. At times the shading added by the pencils was too dark for my liking and I decided to try using a white rubber eraser to remove some of the pencil color. It worked perfectly and also smoothed out the coloring as well.

I die cut the stenciled panel with a stitched rectangle that was just smaller than a cardbase. The stenciled panel was then added to a top folding cardbase with dotliner adhesive.

The sentiment was stamped with black into onto a scrap of white cardstock and die cut with a Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Label. When I placed it on the card front it got lost. So I decided to add a border behind the sentiment. I decided to use the next size sentiment label die and it worked perfectly to add a thin colored border behind the sentiment. Foam tape was added to the back of the sentiment and it was adhered in the lower right of the card front.

The final embellishment was to add different sized pearls to the centers of each of the flowers.

As stated previously I cut the background die from some white cardstock to use as a stencil. The great thing about this was that when the stenciling was complete I now had the positive die cut ink blended as well. I used it to create a second card. Two for one! Below is the second card created.

PRODUCTS USED:

• My Favorite Things Flower Fusion Negative Coverup
• Clearly Besotted Simply Said Birthday
• Gina K. Designs Ink: Wild Lilac, Dusty Rose, Ocean Mist, Powder Blue
• Gina K. Designs Amalgam Ink
• Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils: 153 Cobalt Turquoise, 156 Cobalt Green, 154 Light Cobalt Turquoise, 149 Bluish Turquoise, 120 Ultramarine, 140 Light Ultramarine, 136Purple Violet, 138 Violet, 119 Light Magenta, 123 Fuchsia, 128 Light Purple Pink
• Pearls from Stash
• My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangles
• Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Labels
• 3M ½” Foam Tape
• Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
• Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
• Gina K. Designs 120# White Cardstock
• Kokuyo Dotliner Long Adhesive