A Blue Fancy Flower (by Shirley)

Happy Weekend everyone !

I have a quick post today with a design featuring a flower from the beautiful new Fancy Flowers set. 

I applied Shabby Shutters and Peel Paint Distress Inks to the background using the Acrylic Block Technique.     Next I stamped the Floral Damask Background stamp with Shabby Shutters.   When dry I stamped with a fragment from Textured Fragments and embossed with a blue glitter embossing powder.  I stamped the flower image from Fancy Flowers with black Stazon Ink and coloured with my Prisma pencils.   I used spellbinder dies for the shapes.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Floral Damask & colouring (by Shirley)

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week.

I've been inspired by the colouring of backgrounds by my talented team mates using the new Big Bold Background stamps.    I also wanted to try Miranda's technique of stamping with white ink and then colouring over top with Pencils.    


 

I stamped the Floral Damask Background with Brilliance Moonlight White onto a sheet of Basic Grey paper that has a slight variance in the colour.   I decided to colour/highlight the centre portion of the Floral Damask design with my Prisma Pencils and left the rest to 'fade' out. 

Once I started to colour the detailed design of this beautiful image I fell in love with it a little more!

Thanks for stopping by and have a Happy Easter!
Shirley 

New Florals (by Clare)

What a wonderful way to welcome Spring!  Chocolate Baroque has made some fantastic new floral stamps, but in a larger background size!  I have made a sample using the Floral Damask background.  This card is 5" by 5 1/4" square, and the background stamp covered it, plus some!  I stamped it twice, once in black ink on white cardstock, then again in black on burgundy cardstock.  The two flowers in the center were heat embossed, as well as the little border at the bottom.  The two flowers are just a sneaky-peek at what's to come!

 

Next is a card made with the Belle Flowers large background stamp.  I just love this one, and it's so fun to color!  The "Easter Greetings" sentiments are from the set, "Easter Traditions".

 

I'd like to wish each of you a very blessed and happy Easter!  Thanks for visiting!

 



Floral Damask with a Bold Bloom (by Shirley)

Hello everyone,  I hope you are enjoying the weekend.

I have a couple designs today using one of the new Big Bold (& Beautiful) Backgrounds,  Floral Damask.     I've combined the first one with a flower from the Bold Blooms set.

I used peacock coloured designer paper for the background, stamped the Floral Damask background with Versamark, embossed with clear and blended Gathered Twigs Distress Ink over top.    It's a different effect as the image is not 'sharp'.

I embossed the Flower & Leaves from Bold Blooms & Fresh Blooms with a metallic mix EP (gold, silver & bronze) twice, coloured with Distress Inks and added some glitter to the decoupaged center.

I decided to not add too much to the background of this second card below.

I used a gold embossing power that has a bit of glitter chunks in it.   As you can see, the image is sharper this time.  I blended Distress Inks (Peacock & Raspberry) over and then added the sentiment from Birthday Words with Spellbinder label behind (S4-235).

Please keep checking here as my talented teammates have lots more designs using the new stamps.

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day,
Shirley