Hello everyone!! Waffle Flower just released a bunch of fabulous new stamps and dies this month, and hey asked if I'd like to participate in a blog hop to celebrate (to which I said yes of course!).
Here's a look at all the new products:
If you didn't get here from Amanda's blog <-----click! you can check out the list and all the links down below!!
I honestly had the hardest time deciding what to create with - then realized if I kept waffling (lol) I'd not get anything made in time so I went with the new Bouquet Builder 1 stamp set and created 2 watercolor panel cards:
There are coordinating dies for this set, and as tempted as I was to stamp and color and die cut and make all manner of bouquets for my cards - I wanted to stamp the images onto watercolor paper with brown (not black!!) hybrid ink and watercolor them in. So that's what I did.
I built up the colors with layers of watercolor using my Micelle Mission Gold watercolor palette - not trying to keep everything neat and in the lines! I was just thinking how great these cards would be for Mother's Days cards if you switched out the sentiments (or any occasion really - I love me some floral and greenery images b/c they work for everything).
I did the same thing with the second card just different images from the set and more green. I used Waffle Flowers A2 Nesting Rectangles 1 wafer die set to cut out the panels after everything was dry. The largest die in the set IS A2 sized so it will completely cover the card front and has that perfect stitching detail.
I also added some sparkling clear sequins and sentiments from the new Rainbows stamp set that I white heat embossed on black card stock.
I finished off the insides of the cards by stamping the images in MFT dye inks in similar colors to the watercoloring I did on the outside, then added another heat embossed sentiment from the Rainbows stamp set and that was it!
To see how these cards came together check out my video below:
Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!
The next stop on the hop is Channin's blog! <-----click!
And in case you missed any here are all the links:
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