Stampin' Up! Awash With Flowers Card

Two weekends ago, Shawn, J and I went to the 4^th Avenue Street Fair here in Tucson.  It was so much fun sampling our way along the booths and being inspired by all the beautiful art work.  There were so many incredibly talented artists there. 

Shawn and I love wine and had fun tasting with one of the wineries at the fair .  We came home with a bottle of Kokopelli Sweet Lucy wine (visit their website HERE), and, in my typical fashion, I was inspired by the wine bottle label.  Here are the results of that inspiration.

I used the pewter embossing powder to emboss the flower and stem images from Awash with Flowers stamp set on Very Vanilla card stock.  Then I used Cajun Craze ink and an Aqua Painter to add a little color wash around the inside edges of the flowers and leaves.  Then I crinkled the paper slightly and started sponging on color.  The layering of color is what creates this “old world” look and gives the background great depth.  The order of colors was Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Early Espresso.  Then I took the Aqua Painter and washed over each of the images and over most of the background just using plain water--no color added.  Adding that bit of water brings out all the different hues in the ink and creates a one of kind background. Finally, I spritzed the image and background paper with Black, Crumb Cake and Pool Party markers.
The sentiment, Inspire, was stamped using the Loving Thoughts stamp set from the Occasions Mini Catalog which is only available until April 30th, 2012.

Loving Thoughts Stamp set, available in wood, clearmount, and DIGITAL (instant download)!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and let me know what you think of this technique or if you have any questions.  It was a lot of fun to do.

Till later,

Kelly

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Supplies used:

Stamps:  Awash with Flowers (#117062 wood, #120549 clear mount), Loving Thoughts (#125843 wood, #125845 clear mount)

Ink:  Cajun Craze (#119671), Crumb Cake (#121030), Soft Suede (#115657), Early Espresso (#119670, VersaMark (#102283), StazOn Jet Black (#101406), In-Color Stampin Write markers (#123002), Basic Black marker (#100082), Crumb Cake marker (#120967)

Paper:  Very Vanilla (#101650), Cajun Craze (#119684), Basic Black (#121045)

Accessories and Tools:  Heat Tool (#100005), Powder Pals (#102197), Pewter Stampin Emboss Powder (#124114), Stampin' Sponges (#101610), Modern Label Punch (#119849), Big Shot (#113439), Movers and Shapers Punch Window Set (#115953), Movers and Shapers Curly Label (#114506), Pearls are non-Stampin' Up!, Color Spritzer Tool (#107066), Aqua Painter (#103954)

Stampin' Up! Pretty Postage and Awash With Flowers

It's been way too long since I've posted some cards on here.  I'm not going to give details right now due to time constraints...the boys will NOT be happy if I don't start some dinner...but I'll at least leave you some photos to look at!  Both were done using Blender Pen techniques. Please, please, please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions or comments I check emails and comments regularly! 
Thanks for taking a look!  Kelly
Check out my previous posts regarding the new $99 Starter Kit and the New Stampin' Up! Catalog!

Card of the Week, July 11, 2010

Quite a beauty, wouldn't you say? I hope this inspires you to do some burnishing...or use the Awash with Flowers stamp set...or do some dry embossing...or just do any kind of stamping at all! That's what's most important!

This card was cased.  Leave me a comment if you know who I cased it from!!

I stamped Awash with Flowers images on Whisper white cardstock and with a sponge dauber and ink, I rubbed in a circular motion on the images. I used multiple color inks on all the images.  For the large petal flowers, I used Regal Rose and Rose Red.  The tulipy looking flowers are pumpkin pie and rose red.  The leaves are Certainly celery and Daffodil Delight.  Daffodil delight was also used to burnish the background.  I used a Stampin Sponge to add basic black around the edges.  Paper used was Regal Rose, Certainly Celery, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper white.  Accessories used: Medium jewelry tag punch, Scallop Trim Border punch.  Additional Stamp set used:  Tiny tags.

Artist Tip:  When burnishing, always "stamp off" your sponge dauber before applying ink to your project so you don't get a "blob" of color when you first start burnishing.  This technique may require some practice, so get out some scratch paper if you're trying it for the first time.

Demo tip:  I think this would be a good one to demonstrate, but not so sure on the Make-N-Take-ability of it.  I fear first timers would not be happy with the results.

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Till later,

Kelly