If Friends were flowers

I have a new Deep Red card to share today. The stamp can be found at A Cherry on Top and Scrapbook.com.

You may remember THIS card that I made using the same stamp but in yellow and without the bird. This time I kept the whole stamp together. The image is heat embossed in white embossing powder by Stamp N Plus and Versa Mark ink. I used a finger sponge to make the bird purple and then the rest of the card pink with distress ink and an ink blender.

The background is a floral stencil that I applied distress inks on to first and then added translucent embossing paste on top of that. I did this on a large piece of Strathmore watercolor paper thinking I would use distress inks on the edges. Well I haven't quite done that on either one of the cards using this back ground but it could happen with the one or two of the remaining embossed pieces. The other card I made using this background can be found HERE. I added Liquid Pearls to the center of a few of the flowers and a piece of Michael's ribbon to the lower left corner.

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UPDATED 5-3-22 FONTS, SIZE AND PLACEMENT. LABELS. PHOTO SIZE.

myStamp Box card

I have a card today using the Abundant Blossoms stamp set by myStamp Box. 

I stamped this one flower with Hero Arts black ink onto Strathmore watercolor paper. Then I colored it in with distress markers and a water pen both by Ranger Industries. I die cut it out using a Spellbinders circle die and inked the inside of the circle with light pink distress ink. Then I just thought it needed some sparkle so I took out my Wink of Stella pen, clear gold, and colored it into the flower. You can really see the sparkle in the up close photos. 

Thanks to Jennifer McGuire for introducing the pens to me. She didn't say in her videos or blog posts that the thing is so addicting. I want to use it on every project. Anyway, I had this white paper flower that I adhered to the card and layered the circle on top of it with foam adhesive. 

I made the sentiment with the Mini Alpha- Small box stamps. The sentiment piece and the patterned paper by Stampin Up  have the edges inked with distress ink and an ink blender. The sentiment was splashed with water. Both ribbons are by Offray and the cardstock by Recollections.

Thanks for looking.