Floral Invites

 I had some bits and pieces of stamped images leftover from previous projects, and decided to colour them up this afternoon.  These are two of the most under-used Art Impressions stamp sets, in my opinion!  The images (Floral Invites) and sentiments (Greenery Invites) are gorgeous.  I picked a soft palette to colour them up with my Copic markers, and using some older Lawn Fawn papers, I diecut a frame with the Stitched Square dies, and the rectangle with the A2 Stitched Rectangle dies.

Cheryl's card

One of my sisters is lucky enough to have her birthday fall on Mother's Day every so often, so here is the card that I sent her:

 Once again, it's my current favourite stamp set: Floral Invites from Art Impressions.  I really love how this one turned out, with the bold flowers and multi-coloured greenery, coloured with Copic markers.

I die cut my image out and raised it with 3D adhesive,  onto my warm yellow card base.  I die cut a larger circle from the polka dot paper, and also adhered it to the base with 3D adhesive tape - it's a great look.  Happy Birthday to my big sis :o)

Last Floral Invite Card (for now!)

Here's the 3rd card I made with the Floral Invites set from Art Impressions - I'll show the trio of coordinating cards first, and then scroll down to see the little Thank You card on it's own.

 Making cards that coordinate, just makes me happy!

I'm pretty sure that this was 4 1/4" square (I've long since sent it on to Ai!).  Thank you cards are often a little smaller than regular cards, so I just focused on die cutting the sentiment with my hexagon stitched dies, and added one of the little sprigs coloured in Copic markers.  The background has a soft blending of Distress Oxide ink, and then was spattered with a little deep blue ink.

Another Floral Invite card

Here's the second card I made using Art Impressions new Floral Invites - I had fun doing a little ink blending for the background:

The flowers are coloured with Copic markers, then fussy cut and adhered with foam dots over the geometric outline & sentiment.

Floral Invites

Art Impressions has really knocked it out of the park this season with their amazing floral stamp sets.  5267 Floral Invites is one set that I can't get enough of... so I'm going to share a bunch of cards over the next few days.  Here's my first:

I started by choosing my colour palette, and colouring the image with Copic Markers.  I knew that I wanted an ink blended background, so I fussy cut the image out to show it off.  On my white cardstock base, I started by blending Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink, and then went overtop with Shaded Lilac to create that blue/green colour - I know, it's a little bit of an odd combination, but I was really pleased with the results.  I scribbled my Tombow Dual Brush marker in #565 Deep Blue onto a palette, and picked it up with a wet paintbrush - then created spatters over the whole base, along with a few sprinkles of straight water to add a little interest.  I die cut one of the sentiments included in the set and mounted it and the wreath with 3D foam tape onto the base.