TCC225 She Shall Be Praised

Hi Friends!

Welcome to the #225 {Spring Flowers} Challenge at The Card Concept!  

Look at our fun spring inspiration photo!  I loved the bright colors and spring flowers and decided to pull out a few of my neglected stamps from Creative Worship (formerly Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps) to create a Clean and Layered Mixed Media card.

We hope that you will take a moment to stop by our challenge blog and check out how the rest of our wonderful Design Team was inspired as well!  Our challenge is for the entire month, so we are hoping that you will have time to create a card and join us.

I enjoy playing along with other online challenges and am also playing along with the Craft Rocket #134 No Designer Paper Challenge and the Word Art Wednesday #742-#743 Anything Goes Challenge. If you have not had a chance to check out their sites, I hope you will do so- gorgeous inspiration from all! 

To create this card:

Ink the floral potted image from Pretty Potted Florals with Versafine Onyx Black ink, stamp onto white cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, watercolor the image using water-based markers, once dry add frost white shimmer paint to the petals (hard to see in the photo).

Add white accents to the floral center with an extra fine white paint pen.

Fussy cut the image and set aside.

Using Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink with a stencil brush, stencil the ink onto a piece of 3 ¾” x 5” piece of white cardstock (I used a retired Memory Box Heartwood stencil).

De-static the lower right-hand area of the stenciled panel, ink the verse sentiment from Precious Poppies with Versafine Onyx Black ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Mount the stenciled panel onto blue cardstock, trim mount onto orange cardstock, trim and mount onto a white card base.

Adhere the floral image onto the card front with dimensional foam.

Add a few orange rhinestones to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Pretty Potted Florals, Precious Poppies (Creative Worship Stamps)

Inks/Mediums: Versafine Black Onyx, Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide; Stampin’ Write Markers- Melon Mambo, Gumball Green, Hello Honey, YoYo Yellow, Early Espresso; Frost White Shimmer Paint, Extra Fine White Paint Pen

Cardstock/Paper: White, Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango

Accessories/Tools: retired Heartwood stencil (Memory Box), Stencil Brush, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, AquaPainter™, Orange Rhinestones

I hope you have had a chance to stop by The Card Concept to see how the rest of the Design Team were inspired as well as check out the other challenge gallery entries- gorgeous inspiration from all!

We hope you are inspired to create a card and join us for our #225 {Spring Flowers} at The Card Concept. The deadline to play along is Monday, April 6th  at noon EDT.