Julie Hickey Friendship Flower Birthday

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This card and design was inspired by watching Julie Hickey's technique video where she watercoloured three stripes using distress oxides from same colour tones to create a background.  I used picked raspberry, abandoned coral and fired brick in pink/red.  On a panel of watercolour card each individual colour was painted in a long strip, dried with a heat tool then splattered with the same colour which created a mottled effect.


Once dry I used stamps from the Friendship Flower set using black ink then decided touches of gold would be a good idea to lift the design.  The middle of each flower was stamped and embossed in gold onto vellum, die cut and adhered on top.  Added a line of stamped hearts too.  A little three dot stamp from another JHD set was randomly stamped and embossed in gold.  Now some of the black ink hadn't dried completely so I ended up with even more gold highlights than I originally intended and a more overall distressed look!  Lastly with grey ink and the word block stamp in my hand I randomly added parts of the text in the background. 

Added a strip of gold dotty vellum behind the finished panel

I've used - 5x7" cream card blank
Bockingford watercolour paper
Distress Oxide inks
Julie Hickey Designs Friendship Flower stamp & die sets
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Comments

  1. crafty-stamperSaturday, 25 February, 2023

    Love the flower stamps and watercoloured background
    Carol x

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  2. CathySunday, 26 February, 2023

    This is such a pretty design with so much texture and interest from all of the details. Love those stripes of colour too, great combination, thankyou for playing along at Seize the Birthday, Cathy x

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  3. As.I.Do.Rodos.Sunday, 26 February, 2023

    Beautiful card and stamp Ginny
    My Blog As I do Rodos

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  4. EmmaTThursday, 02 March, 2023

    Lovely card, a lovely effect x

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  5. NancySaturday, 04 March, 2023

    Lovely card and such a fun idea! Thanks for playing along at Seize the Birthday.

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