Just a note black magic card

Sorry I’ve been a little lax in posting.  Life has been very busy with the grandkids on summer break.
Today’s project is one I created for a friend who is going through some pretty tough times dealing with a horrible case of breast cancer.  Just a little note to brighten her day.  It’s made using the black magic technique but a little more modern I guess you’d say.  I was inspired by a video I watched from Ruth Trice of Artful Inkin’. I first stamped on rich razzleberry cardstock sized at 5” x 3 3/4” my largest images in Versamark ink.  The stamp sets I used are Beautiful Bouquet, Floral Essence, Colorful Seasons, Flourishing Phrases (sentiment) and First Frost.  You can use any floral sets you have on hand to create this look simply by picking out a a couple of large images and filling in with smaller ones.  I then added white embossing powder.  I then, carefully, added my medium images being sure not to stamp over any embossing powder.  I heat set the embossing powder with my heat tool.  Finally I finished up by adding my leaves and the smallest images, added embossing powder and heat set those.  Once completely cooled, I began to color my images using Stampin’ Blends markers in old olive, pretty peacock, rich razzleberry, rococo rose, seaside spray, so saffron and mango melody.  I used both the light and dark markers.  I then set it aside to thoroughly dry.  I added by focal panel to a layer of seaside spray cardstock cut at 4x 5 1/4” and finally added to a thick whisper white card base 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” scored and folded at 4 1/4”.

For the inside of the card I used a quote which comes from the Rustic Retreat stamp set and the leaves are from Very Versailles.  Both are beautiful stamp sets and can be used for any occasion.  

I hope I’ve inspired you today to try this technique.  It does turn out really lovely.
Thanks for taking time from your busy day to stop by my blog.  It’s very much appreciated.  Should you wish to order any supplies and you are in the USA, simply click on my shopping cart and it will take you directly to my online store.  Until next time, make it a great day and happy stamping. 🤗

Tea Together thanks a bunch

For today's project, I combined  new stamp sets, Tea Together (148779) Beautiful Bouquet (143666) and Colorful Seasons (143726) with an older retired stamp set, Basket of Wishes.  In doing so, it shows the versatility of stamp sets and how they can be utilized to inspire you to bring out and dust off some of the sets you love.  Look around and see what sets you have that you could use for this same technique.  The sentiment and the black flower centers come from Beautiful Bouquet, the tea cup from Tea Together, the cherry blossom flowers from Colorful Seasons and the succulents from Basket of Wishes.  Look around and see what you have, then dust it off and get creating.  I started with the succulents on this card, then used a mask to mask them off prior to stamping the tea cup.  This gives the illusion that it's one stamp and the succulents are sitting inside the cup.  I then stamped the tea cup.  I stamped a tea cup onto a post it note then cut out of the center of tea cup to mask off the outside of tea cup to place my cherry blossoms and black flower centers on the cup and stay inside the cup image. I colored the handle, base of the tea cup and plate using my Stampin' Blends in light and dark flirty flamingo which can be purchased either separately or in a combo (147278).  I colored the succulents using the light and dark mint macaron blends (147283) along with the light flirty flamingo.  The focal panel was cut using a Rectangle Stitched framelit (148551) and mounted a panel of Wood Texture designer series paper (144177) which was also cut with the largest rectangle from the die set.  These were mounted on a card base of tranquil tide.  I love how this turned out. 

For the inside of this card, I stamped my sentiment in soft suede and the branch image is actually two stamps which make the cherry blossom branch.   All of these images come from Colorful Seasons. 

The photo below shows my mask for the inside of the tea cup, although this was a project I made for St. Patrick's Day.  But it gives you the same technique.

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Teresa