Mother's Day Heart

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I was trying out a new-to-me technique with my Distress Oxides inks on glossy cardstock and love the vibrant shiny result achieved by wiping over with a moist wet wipe after the inks were smooched and dry.  This year's Mother's Day card was the result.

I tried this technique on Clarity glossy chromo card with squeezed lemonade & picked raspberry DO's then stamped a beautiful floral heart on top embossing with white EP.  To bring out the flowers more I painted them with picked raspberry.  The layout was from a sketch challenge with friends/members over on docrafts.


I'm so pleased the three parchment flowers are finally on a card as I made them years and years ago when I was going to parchment evening classes!  Sentiment just stamped on vellum and wrapped around the bottom.

I've used - 6x6 white card blank
Tonic twisted twine border die
Clarity glossy chromo card
Distress Oxides
Mag freebie Floral Mehndi heart stamp
Judikins opaque white EP
Apple Blossom sentiment stamp
Detail gold EP




Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x

Comments

  1. Darlene Friday, 15 March, 2019

    WOW very pretty! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood’s ‘One for the Ladies/Girls’ challenge and please come back again soon!
    Darlene
    one of the 'Sistahs'
    The Sisterhood of Crafters
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS Please come for a visit!

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  2. EmmaTFriday, 15 March, 2019

    So pretty, gorgeous card and effect. Your parchment flowers the perfect finishing touch. Always good to use something we made many years ago just awaiting the ideal project to use them. Emmax

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