Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a card and video using quite a few new items from the May release. I’m going to be using the Bold Blooms, Build A Bloom and also the Thoughtful Greetings stamp set, as well as the coordinating dies and the Scallop Borders 2 set.

For my card today I’m going to be using the watercolour stamping technique with Distress Inks to create a fun wreath using the flowers in both of the new stamp sets.

To begin my card today I first stamped out all my outline images with Versafine Onyx Black Ink onto some watercolour paper. I stamped out a ton of images since my wreath that I’m going to be making is going to be super full. I then pulled some colours of Distress Inks out and began my watercolour stamping. I first found the coordinating solid stamp, pressed it down into the ink pad and then spritzed it with a little water to reactivate that ink and then stamped it down onto the coordinating image. I repeated this step until I had coloured all my images. I love this technique, it’s super fast and I love how it never looks the same. You get dark and light spots, spots that aren’t always covered completely, it’s really fun!

Now that all my images had been stamped and dried completely, I cut them out using both sets of coordinating dies and set them to the side for later. I then took a piece of watercolour cardstock, and die cut the edge of it using the rounded die in the Scallop Border 2 die set. The mini scallops are so cute!

Now my panel was ready to assemble. I first traced around a circle (I used a bowl) with a pencil so it was easier to make my wreath circular. I then laid down all my images around the circle to make my wreath. When arranging all the images I worked in odd numbers and a triangle pattern, to make it appealing to the eye. It’s rule of thumb that things looks better in odd numbers and threes, so that’s what I went for. Once all my images were laid out around my wreath with all the colours spread out evenly, I could stamp my sentiment. I needed to lay down all my images first to see how much space I had left. I used the Thoughtful Greetings stamp set and used the sentiment ‘Thank You For Everything You Do’ and stamped it in the center of my wreath with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Now my sentiment had been stamps, I could adhere down my images. For all my leaves I used liquid adhesive and then used the foam tape for the flowers.

Once everything was adhered down I took a piece of yellow patterned paper and adhered it to the bottom of my card base. I then took a piece of fun foam and adhered it down to my panel and then to my card base so it could have some dimension. To finish up my card completely I used some Wink of Stella in the clear and also some Clear Droplets in the 4mm and 6mm size.

Watch the video above   I  Watch the video in HD on YouTubeI hope you enjoyed my card and video today and were inspired to try this technique, it’s a lot of fun!

Eloise

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I wanted to share a quick technique video to show you how easy it is to add details to colored images.

I started working on my card by stamping and coloring 3 images from the Friends Forever stamp set. I used Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink for stamping and double stamped images using MISTI stamp positioner to have the blackest black outline possible.

There are coordinating dies available for this set so I cut my images out and quickly colored them using Copics. I used E79, E37 and E33 to color hair; E00 and E000 to color skin; R20 to add blush. To color outfits I used RV14, RV13 and RV10 for pinks; B05, B02 and B000 for blues; YG67, YG17 and YG03 for greens.

While my images looked great as is I decided to add little details to make them unique and a bit more personal. Think about it this way – in real life we all wear fabrics with different patterns. So I wanted to translate some of those patterns onto these images. There are a number of ways this can be done, some are simple, some not so much, I used the most simple and easy way – a white gel pen.

If you don’t have a white gel pen – you can also use a black pen or you can even use a Copic colorless blender to add detail. If you have a colorless blender in a bottle you can look for a piece of fabric with some texture, say burlap, wet that fabric with colorless blender and use it to stamp over the outfits of these images – that will transfer the texture of the fabric onto the image and will create same looking texture on your images.

I used a white gel pen and added little dots, vertical and horizontal stripes. You want to make sure to wait for your Copic coloring to dry, especially if you have really saturated paper with the marker as it (the marker) might eat up your white pen, I’ve had that happen in the past, so before adding the white detail – make sure image is dry.

I ink blended a hill to create a scene and foam mounted my friends on top. I also added little bees from the Bee Friends stamp set I adhered several sequins from the Sparkling Clear Mix and I also added clear droplets on top. I love to combine the two together as this way I feel my droplets look even more dimensional.

Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.

Watch the video above   I  Watch the video in HD on YouTube   Happy cardmaking! I hope you enjoyed today’s video and post.