I was poking around just now in my CopyCatCard photo files and stumbled upon these fabulous backgrounds!!! How did I not share them with you??!! 😀 Anyone who knows me, knows that I absolutely love floral stamps, and floral cards and FLOWERS! I’ve had this gorgeous background stamp called Roses All Over (made by My Favorite Things) for a couple years and earlier this summer I got it out to play with. The image on the left was made by heat-embossing in white onto a piece of Bristol Smooth card stock and watercolored with my Zig markers. Basically, I scribbled randomly over the roses then used a sloppy wet paintbrush to move the color. Isn’t it BEAUTIFUL?! The one on the right was embossed in gold and I smooshed distress oxide inks onto my craft mat and then just tapped my card stock in it, moving it around to distribute and layer the color. Equally gorgeous!Here’s what I made with the distress oxide background! I used Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Hillside Border dies to cut out the center and mounted it onto a white base card and embossed my sentiment in the opening. Notice the lovely roses on the left; they’re from Stampendous’ Rose Garden, gold-embossed as well and painted with more oxide ink then die-cut. Oh! I used Gina Marie Designs Stitched Rectangle dies for the outside edge. How do you like my photo setting? I stuck my card in a pot of begonias to photograph it!This little lovely is made with my Zig-watercolored background which I die-cut using Gina Marie Designs Stitched Ovals set. My base card was embossed with one of my favorite folders, Manhattan Flower by Stampin Up. I mounted the oval onto another oval cut from fun foam and die-cut Hero Arts Happy out of white fun foam! I adhered that to a strip of bright pink card stock and used a little tape to attach it. I then embossed “Anniversary” (from Stampendous Big Word Happy) onto another strip but lifted it with a little foam tape. I just love how bright and cheery this card is and so happy that I found these images to share with you! I love hearing from you so keep commenting! 🙂 XO
It’s been wickedly hot here in Vermont the last few days and will continue to be so for the rest of the week! We don’t own a pool so I’m keeping cool in my stamp room! Sometimes I have no idea which direction my creativity will take me and today was like that. I sat at my desk wondering what on earth to work on, so began searching through my stamps for something I haven’t used much. I came across this wonderful striped background stamp called Cabana Stripes by Echo Park Paper Co. One of my favorite design combos is stripes with florals so that’s what I decided to do!Upon further searching around, I came across one 12X12 sheet of this beautiful soft rose cardstock and it inspired my color choices for this card! Rose and gold!! So feminine and so elegant! This called for Altenew‘s Beautiful Day set! I began by heat-embossing the outline images in gold onto Bristol Smooth card stock, and chose Zig colors of soft pink, peach, flesh and ochre. (I’ve been using my Copic markers so much lately, that I forgot how much I love Zigs!) When I finished coloring, I used Beautiful Day dies to cut them out.Anyway, setting the blossoms aside, I inked up Cabana Stripes with Versamark and stamped it onto another piece of Bristol Smooth paper, then added gold embossing powder. I LOVE that the stamp didn’t adhere 100% so it left these wonderful “distressed” looking spots with no color! I just bought Tim Holtz’ Tattered Rose distress oxide ink, so tapped some onto my craft mat, spritzed with water then tapped my panel into the ink. After drying it, I trimmed the panel down with Gina Marie Designs Stitched Rectangle dies and adhered it to my base card upon which I’d used Stampin Up’s Manhattan Flower embossing folder. I think that nicely compliments the blossoms and adds even more texture! Next I arranged my die-cut pieces and mounted them with layers of foam tape. Lastly, I gold-embossed the simple yet sweet sentiment from Brutus Monroe‘s Super Sentimental set onto a strip of the rose card stock and tucked it in along the left side. Voila! A combination of stamps from a variety of companies to create one gorgeous card! Now…who’s birthday is coming up…?! 😀
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