Boho Blue - Dainty Delight

Boho Blue is such a lovely colour. 

It has a softness to it that I really like - perhaps it's the hint of grey that creates the soft effect.

For this monochrome card I've used the Dainty Delight bundle. The delicate floral images work well with Boho Blue.  I've also used the 2023-2025 In-Colour Designer Paper and Dots.

To colour the image, I used a Blender Pen to pull colour from the stamped image and spread it out to give the look of being coloured in.  If your ink from the outline image has dried too much for this technique, you can take some extra ink from your ink pad.  I like to tap the ink pad onto a clear block or a piece of acetate, then pick up the ink from there with the Blender Pen.

What do you think of Boho Blue? Is it a must-have colour for you?

 

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Dainty Delight Bundle (English) $96.25	Boho Blue A4 Cardstock $17.50	Boho Blue Classic Stampin' Pad $15.75
2023–2025 In Color 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper $21.75	2023–2025 In Color™ Dots $14.00	Blender Pens $23.00

Wild Wheat - Monochromatic

 Wild Wheat is such an interesting colour! 

It makes a great substitute for gold if you don't want "shiny" and somehow has a vintage feel to it. 

What's your take? Love or hate?

Here's my submission for the #craftycollaborations Insta Hop:

I've used the Hot Air Balloon bundle from the mini catalogue to stamp the images and words. 

I love the tone-on-tone effect of stamping with Wild Wheat ink onto Wild Wheat card stock. 

The background paper comes from the Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper which is a free gift with purchase during January and February.

For a final touch, some matching gems of course.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this card design!

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Wild Wheat A4 Cardstock $17.50

Wild Wheat Classic Stampin' Pad $15.75

Hot Air Balloon Bundle (English) $79.00

Softly Stippled 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper $21.75

2023–2025 In Color™ Dots $14.00

Botanical Gardens - Card Sketch

Just recently my team and I spent a lovely weekend away at our annual team craft retreat.  I'm never sure what I'm going to make at these weekends so I take ALL my stuff (well, just about!) and just see what happens and what mood takes me.  This time I mostly created cards using sketches for the layouts.  I'll share them all with you over the next few posts but here's one to get us started.

It's a very simple card using just stamps, inks and papers.

I've used the following supplies:

*Mossy Meadow card stock

*Whisper White card stock

*Botanical Gardens DSP

*Perfect Pairings stamp set (sale-a-bration item)

*Mossy Meadow ink

*Cajun Craze ink

It's my 15 year wedding anniversary today :-)

Here is the card I made for my husband.  He likes clean and simple rather than "fussy-la-la" so I think this card is just right.  

I've used the Going Global stamp set and World Traveller embossing folder (again!)

The banner behind the sentiment was made using the Going Places Designer series paper and the Triple Banner Punch.  

The "world" on which I stamped the sentiment was created with a stamp in Old Olive but I 'stamped off' once first to make the ink lighter and more blotchy. Then I lightly sponged some Soft Sky ink to create the water.  I used dome dimensional to layer it up.

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