I needed to make several cards for upcoming birthdays, so I figured I would go ahead and share them with you too! Tomorrow, I will show you a different card using Baroque Motifs, with a different theme! For the sentiment, I used a stamp from the “On Your Birthday” set. I tried something different (for me) on the flowers.
Here is how I did it:
I cut and scored the black card base. I then cut out the card front from Naturals cardstock. I chose the Naturals cardstock because it had flecks in it and I knew that I wanted to speckle the flower petals.
Next, I took the Baroque Motifs flourish and stamped with Versamark and sprinkled Black embossing powder over the flourish and embossed with the heat gun.
Then I took 2 of the flowers from the Pretties Kit and applied pastel chalks on both sides of the flowers with a cotton ball. Then I headed to the kitchen sink with a Basic Black reinker bottle and an old toothbrush, laid the flowers into the dry sink and speckled the flowers by dragging backwards on the brush with my fingertip. WARNING: Wear a disposable glove on the hand that you will stroke the toothbrush with. If you don’t, you will have a inky fingertip like I have right now!
Next, I used the Stamp Ma Jig and stamped the sentiment. Lastly, I took the brads and put through the flowers and secured to the card front. Once you have it all together, adhere the card front to the card base.
Brenda Cook
Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator
Tarboro, NC
Supply List – all products are by Stampin’ Up!
Stamp: On Your Birthday, Baroque Motifs
Paper: Basic Black, Naturals CS
Ink: Basic Black, Versamark, Basic Black Reinker
Other: Flowers-Pretties Kit, Ice Circle Brads, Black EP, Stampin’ Pastels, SMJ, Snail, Heat Gun, Toothbrush, QTip, Cotton Ball
Technique: Embossing, Speckling
 
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