Hello and Happy Friday! We have a very beautiful color challenge at TGIF Challenges this week, including the following colors: Crumb Cake, Petal Pink, and Pool Party!
I love these pretty pastels! My mind immediately went in two directions, a basically pink card with blue accents or a blue card with pink accents. (It reminds me of the fairies from Sleeping Beauty!)
I started pulling out matching designer series papers and embellishments and still couldn’t make up my mind. So I ended up making two cards, and I love them both! Pink, no blue, no pink.
Both cards are essentially the same design, just different colors and papers. They feature the Floral Frames stamp set and coordinating Foliage Frame Framelits Dies. And, the design includes multiple layers of die cuts, vellum, white embossing, and watercoloring for a soft, delicate look.
For the pink card, I started with a background of Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper. I absolutely LOVE the marble prints in this pack! I also used a sheet of printed vellum from the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper for one of the large die cuts.
There’s also lots of embossing on this card. I embossed straight onto the background for the first layer, and then I embossed layers of flowers on both Shimmery White and Vellum Cardstock. I also added clear embossing on top of the stamped images on the main label. (You can do this two ways: You can add clear embossing powder very quickly after stamping the image with water-based ink, or you can use a Stamparatus to first stamp with colored ink and then stamp directly over it with Versamark.)
To add soft coloring to the flowers, I watercolored the ones on Shimmery White and used Stampin’ Blends Markers to color the back of the ones on Vellum. I even colored the back of the die cut leaves with Pool Party Stampin’ Blends Markers.
The blue card is very similar, but this time I watercolored the background with Pool Party ink on Shimmery White Cardstock. I simply got the paper wet and then used an Aqua Painter to add drops on ink.
Final touches included some Petal Pink Frosted Flowers and a soft loop of baker’s twine and linen thread. This is totally my style … I love how these two cards turned out.
Be sure to click over to the TGIF Challenges Blog and see all the designers’ projects this week using this pretty color combination. At that site, you can enter your own design for a chance to be a winner!
Have a wonderful and creative week!
Seongsook, thank you so much for your kind comments! ❤
Tami Hewlett, these are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing how you created them.