TE April 20: Mother’s Day and such
Hi everyone! Today we are sneak peeking Taylored Expressions April mini release of some GORGEOUS mother’s day and floral stamps and dies. (Releasing TOMORROW, April 14!!) My first card is not a Mother’s Day card but all you would have to do is swap the sentiment and it could be!
My card went together really pretty quickly. I stamped Beautiful Blossoms stamp set (all of the images) on watercolor cardstock 4 times using my MISTI that way I had lots to choose from to make my layout and I have some leftover for another card! I then watercolor them with TE’s liquid watercolors and a waterbrush. I stamped on the back of the watercolor paper because it’s smooth and picks up the details better than the bumpy side. I die cut the flowers with the coordinating dies and set them aside to make the background. I started the background with a piece of Salt Water Taffy cardstock and inked the edges with Confetti Cake ink. I then stamped the Just Vine background in Peapod ink over the top. I die cut this with the largest Petite Scalloped Rectangle stacklet. Next, I just arranged the flowers, something I not particularly confident with but I’m practicing so hopefully I’ll get better. I added a few white NUVO Crystal drops and I was done.
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My second card is a clean and simple birthday card that’s easily mailed. I started by masking off a section of an A2 Sugar Cube piece of cardstock. I brushed on Plum Punch and Blue Raspberry ink and splattered with a bit of watered down Sugar Cube ink and a waterbrush. I removed the mask and used my Score Pal to emboss lines on either side of the inked area. I stamped Happy Birthday from Penned Pretty in the center and embossed it. (Make sure all of the ink is dry or heat set and cooled before embossing!) I stamped Building Blocks Her on Plum Punch and heat embossed in white. I used three of the blocks under happy birthday and added a few Bits & Pieces White Rhinestones to add some sparkle. The card was mounted on an A2 Blue Raspberry cardbase and it was done!
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My last card today uses Big Blooms Fuschia. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this stamp and you’ll be seeing it again soon because I’ve been coloring a lot lately! YAY!!
So, I’ve been in a “color with anything other than Copics” mood lately and so I picked up my TE liquid watercolors (LOVE) to paint these gorgeous fuschia flowers. I stayed pretty traditional with the colors on these but will share some other combos later because you don’t just have to go with bold pink and purple!
I stamped the flowers on watercolor cardstock (on the smooth side) with Versamark and heat embossed with TE’s black embossing powder. I used TE’s liquid watercolors to paint (Lollipop, Guava, Jelly Donut, Plum Punch, Peapod, Lime Zest, Cookie Monster [background]).
For the background I mixed water and Cookie Monster on my glass media mat and smooshed watercolor cardstock into it. I dried and repeated until I like what I had. I die cut with the Stitched Rectangle Stacklets and added a mat of Plum Punch. To finish up I added a few (okay a lot) of NUVO Crystal Drops in Snow White.
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That’s it for me today! I hope you enjoyed everything and will stop over to Taylor’s blog to see all of the gorgeous products being released tomorrow!
