Julie Hickey Designs Sent with Love

By
I do love this image of an envelope with flowers bursting out at the top from Julie Hickey Designs 'Sent with Love' stamp set.  Ideal for so many different occasions.  I've gone for a muted colour palette for this card, next time I'll do a vibrant one.  After stamping & heat embossing with gold EP I coloured the image with polychromo pencils and fussy cut.  The two main flowers were stamped again and adhered over the top for added dimension with 1mm foam pads.

The background panel was lightly sponged around the edges with wild honey & spiced marmalade distress oxides and over stamped with tumbled glass & scattered straw distress inks with stamps from Julie Hickey designer series 'Circles Medley' set by Hazel Eaton.  Main image added on top at a slight angle.  You might just be able to see the words 'laugh' 'believe' and 'love' stamped close to the edges of the envelope on the background.


I've used - 6x6" white card base
Julie Hickey Designs stamp sets -  Sent With Love & Circles Medley
Faber Castell Polychromos; Distress Inks & Oxides

Linking up with -
Beyond The Blue BB81 ~ Blooms!                                Stamping Sensations March - Anything Stamped
                           
Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x 

Comments

  1. crafty-stamperMonday, 13 March, 2023

    Great card and stamped background, love the beautiful envelope full of flowers
    carol x
    Thank you for joining us at Stamping Sensations
    Carol DT x

    ReplyDelete
  2. LinbyWednesday, 15 March, 2023

    What a beautiful design and you've coloured it with such pretty colours too. Thanks for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations challenge.

    ReplyDelete
  3. DoraWednesday, 15 March, 2023

    Beautiful card.Thank you for joining at Stamping Sensations.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Lee Thursday, 16 March, 2023

    OH and envelope full of flowers is such a wonderful Spring design! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Beyond the Blue!

    ReplyDelete
  5. EmmaTMonday, 20 March, 2023

    Beautiful card and image

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thank you for taking a moment to visit ... I read and appreciate every comment you have time to leave. Steph x

Popular posts from this blog

Birthday Wishes Cake

By
Image
Made my own mixed media background panel for this birthday cake card with inks, stencils, stamps, glitter paste, stencil butter and embossing powder.  You might have to zoom in to see the sparkle and shine.  A favourite three tier cake with chocolate sprinkles ... yum! For the background I started by blending two DO inks onto white cardstock.  Repeatedly placed the mandala stencil on top, spritzed with water and dabbed off with paper towel to create a faux bleach effect.  Glitter paste and stencil butter was applied through parts of the seed head stencil.  Embossing powder was sprinkled over the top of the stencil butter and heated once dry.  Random stamping with various inks. Three tier cake die cut from scraps of pearlised card for the layered toppings (white layer was an embossing folder scrap) and similarly inked card as the background panel for the bases which have stencilled white heat embossed wavy lines.  Added a birthday wishes word banner die in white pearlised card backed wi
Read more

Musical Crossword ... Paper Players #387 Musical Challenge

By
Image
Set myself an additional challenge this week to combine a crossword stamp into the current  Paper Players #387 Musical Challenge  ... easy really just write the names of some instruments into the squares!  I also wanted to try the Retiform (grid) inking technique again and this is the end result. The crossword stamp was inked and embossed first before sponging distress ink along the edges of my paper masks to create several shaped areas into which I stamped musical instruments and notes using grey and black inks.  Finished off with an apt "Just a note to say ... " sentiment. I've used -  5x7 card base Scattered Straw DI on Claritystamp Theuva card Papermania Musical Instruments stamp set Papermania Mr Mister Crossword stamp Hobbycraft sentiment stamp Magazine musical notes stamp Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time -  Steph x
Read more

Tim Holtz Christmas

By
Image
Today I'm sharing a couple of Christmas cards using two Tim Holtz die sets (Christmas circle words & festive repeats) which I've found are very versatile as many of the elements can be used all year round, a definite bonus.  This first little card has a die cut grid background and two hanging paper-pieced baubles for Dec 25th in grey and red with a splash of green foliage mounted on a grey matt layer. For my second card I chose to die cut the elements out of the white matt layer so the gold card base could show through.  I've had the gold die cut tree in my stash for such a long time so decided to emboss a tree on top for added texture and raised it on foam pads.  A lovely Christmas script sentiment was heat embossed with gold EP. I've used -   4x4" & A6 card bases Sizzix thinlits Tim Holtz festive repeat & circle words Christmas dies Mag freebies - foliage die, sentiment stamp, tree EF Linking up wit
Read more