Welcome to a new TGIF Challenge. We always start off the month with a color challenge, so our February combo includes Tahitian Tide, Smoky Slate, and Gorgeous Grape. I say any combo that includes Tahitian Tide is a winner in my book! It’s my absolute favorite!!!
I have a bunch of new stamp sets from the JA Mini Catalog sitting on my shelf, so I decided to try out the Decorative Borders Stamps. It’s super pretty and includes all sorts of beautiful, flowing images. Since it doesn’t include sentiments, I also added the Go To Greetings Stamps, which has a similar style.
I stamped and embossed the Decorative Borders stamps in white and the Go To Greetings sentiment in silver. To ensure perfect alignment and good ink coverage for embossing, I used a Stamparatus Tool. It allowed me to align the stamps straight and stamp multiple times in the same place to ensure no mistakes.
After stamping the images on Shimmery White Cardstock, I used the challenge colors to watercolor. The embossing makes it super easy, since the ridges act like little dams to contain the water.
I used my trimmer to partially cut the bottom edge and then fussy cut the middle.
In the background, I used some 2022-2024 In Color Glimmer Paper and a sheet of Vellum Basics 12″ x 12″ Specially Designer Paper over a Smoky Slate card base. The Vellum Basics paper is a little hidden gem in the JA Mini Catalog! It’s super pretty and elegant and includes three different designs!
Click over to the TGIF Challenges Blog to see the other designers’ projects using this color combo. Then, create one of your own and enter our challenge at the bottom of that page by using the Linky Tool. This is going to be a fun one!!!
Have a wonderful day!
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Tami ~ I adore this card so much !!