Soft Ink Blended Floral Card
Hi guys, Its Jen here!
For this months inspiration blog post, I'm sharing a pretty ink blended floral card I made with the new In The Garden Stamp and Stencil set.
Products Used
In the Garden Background 5x7 Stamp – LDRS Creative
In the Garden Layering Stencils – LDRS Creative
8.5" x 11" Cotton Watercolor Paper Pack – LDRS Creative
Floating Circles Die – LDRS Creative
Prickly Pear Perfection – LDRS Creative
Little Boy Blue – LDRS Creative
Banana Cream Pie – LDRS Creative
I began by stamping the "In The Garden" stamp set in Alloy hybrid ink onto a US A2 panel of LDRS Watercolor paper. Then I ink blended the large flowers with a combination of Bali Blue and Little boy blue ink to give a gradient effect. The flower centres and the smaller flowers were ink blended with Banana Cream Pie & Dan-D-Lion ink. For the leaves, I blended some in Four Leaf ink and the others in Prickly Pear Perfection ink using a heavier concentration at the base of each leaf then fading it out. I used some gold shimmer spray from my stash to splatter the background and set it aside to dry. Once dry, I trimmed the panel to 5 1/4 x 4 inches.
Next I began to work on the sentiment. I cut the Floating Circle Frame & Hugs sentiment die from white cardstock 3 times and another time from mirror gold cardstock. The diecuts were stacked together giving them extra heft whilst adding dimension.
Before adding the frame and sentiment to the panel I trimmed a piece of vellum and glued it behind the frame. This allows the sentiment to standout more, whilst not covering too much of the background. I offset the frame to the bottom right and cut off the excess that was overhanging with a sharp pair of scissors.
I used foam tape to adhere the card panel onto an A2 card base made from some light grey cardstock. Finally, I finished off my card by adding some gold flat sequins.
I think the soft ink blending turned out quite pretty, I hope you give this technique a try too.
Catch you all again next month!
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