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Sneak Peek: Crocus Flowers + Simple Sayings: Courage

Hi, Friends! It’s Caly here with you today sharing a card using the brand new Crocus Flowers and Simple Sayings: Courage sets!

To begin, I stamped the Crocus Flowers using a Copic-friendly ink on some white cardstock. I colored the images using Copic markers.  I outlined the petal borders using the darkest purple in V09, then added flicks of FV2 from the border towards the center, blending as I go, but stopping before it reaches the center.  Then I added B00 to the area to add light blue, then went between the blue and previous medium shade of purple with BV01 to blend the colors with each petal. Sometimes, I had to go back with the FV2 to add some contrast back, but it went fairly quick.  On the flowers with filament, I colored flicked them with the Y08 marker first, then colored around it, leaving the yellow bright. For the foliage, I used G03 and G19.

After coloring, I die-cut the images using the coordinating Crocus Flowers dies and set them aside to work on my background.  Ink-blended the card using Distress Oxide inks in Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, Cracked Pistachio, and Peacock Feathers (from top to bottom). I then sprayed the panel with droplets of water.  Typically, I dab it up with a napkin but by the time I got to it, it had already soaked into the paper so that works too! I also splattered the panel with white ink. After that was dry (within minutes), I stamped the sentiment using Versafine Onyx Black ink to heat-emboss the sentiment from the Simple Sayings: Courage stamp set using with clear embossing powder.

To finish the card, I trimmed 1/8″ off each side and added the foliage and crocus flowers with a slight overhang to give the card some added interest. That’s a wrap!  I hope you enjoyed this card! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to come back for more inspiration! The release is January 8th and we’re celebrating Pretty Pink Posh’s 5th birthday starting the 9th and will have lots of inspiration for you!

Caly

26 Comments

  2. Beautiful card with those lovely crocuses in such a vibrant blue! I’d love to see more simple flower stamps and dies in the future. They are much easier to work with then complicated ones.

  3. Those colors are so vibrant!! I love it!! Absolutely beautiful!!!

  5. O-M-G Caly, this is STUNNING! I absolutely LOVE your colour choice for this card. Your Copic skills are amazing and I am dying to master this myself but I am certain I won’t get to this level. LOL
    An amazing job my dear!

  7. Your Crocus flower card is absolutely beautiful! I love how you colored it! Thank you for sharing how you made your card.

  8. Beautiful crocus… sure sign of Spring. Love those simple sayings too. Sometimes you just need something simple.

  9. I love your word sentiments the script is so very pretty. I’d like to see more of them. Also, a petunia flower layered. I love the stamps you come out with. Laura

  10. I would like to see “lemons” and “peonies “ and more “scripts”. I love everything from PPP!

  12. when I’m asked what stamps I would like to see – my mind goes
    blank. I know I think about a lot of possibilities – but never
    when I’m asked. One thing I would like is some paper
    that could be used for hospitalization/sickness/injury.
    There are a few stamps with that theme and then I
    have to stamp the paper myself to make a background.
    Would be nice to have something already stamped.
    thanks for asking
    txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot0com

  13. Lovely crocus flowers, I love the coloring. I would like to see an african violet stamp.

  14. Gorgeous palette on this lovely card and the sentiment is so sweet.

  16. I love early Spring flowers, and you did a beautiful job coloring the crocuses!

  17. beautiful card, I can not wait to see crocus coming up. but alas, I have a ways to wait here in Maine

  19. Wow!!!! Stunning card!!! The flowers just POP off the card!!!

  20. Paulina, This is truly The Most Beautiful Card I have ever laid eyes on. It has a calming effect, probably, for me, because of the deep rich blue color. Wow!!! Take care…

  21. Love the depth of color Caly and the fab new sentiment to encourage!

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