Blooms for a world that vainly seeks delight

Sharing a card featuring the aptly named Ravishing stamp from Penny Black.

Over at AAA Cards they are challenging you to make a card in minutes and you really can with these watercolour stamps from Penny Black.  I inked it up with some Distress Inks, spritzed with water before stamping and then moved the inks on the flower petals around a bit with a Wink of Stella Glitter Clear pen.  I used just a regular paint brush to blend the inks on the leaves and stem.

Side note: Now those little specs you see on the petals aren’t dust on my lens, they are the sparkle, really and truly it is.  Anyone know how to take a photo that shows sparkle off I will happily take your tips ~ asked a friend with a photographer hubby and even she can’t make it show!

Cut your mat pieces, stamp on the sentiment in embossing ink, douse in embossing powder, melt to set then tape it all together.  Press on a few enamel dots and voilà one very pretty and quick card.  Am thinking I’ll make a few more in other colours to knock over a few of the birthdays I have this month.

The reason I used the glitter pen to blend the petal colours out was so I could play along in the current tic-tac-toe challenge at The Paper Players.  My other two elements from the board are embossing, which really helped the sentiment stand out without the need for time consuming die cutting or fussy cutting of a sentiment strip to add to the card, and choice of enamel dots for my embellies.

Over at the The Sisterhood of Crafters they are celebrating Spring.  With my flower and pretty pinks this card speaks Spring to me, even as we head into Autumn here in Australia.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale

Embellishments

Shopaperartz Enamel Dots ~ Pink Crimson Red

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Peeled Paint, Tattered Rose, Twisted Citron & Worn Lipstick

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Quartz

Core’dinations Core Essentials Cardstock ~ Duchess Rose

Tim Holtz Distress ~ Watercolour Paper

Stamps

Altenew ~ Tulip (sentiment only)

Penny Black ~ Ravishing

Challenges

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Celebrate Spring!

Thanks for stopping by!