Beautiful Roses For A Birthday

Beautiful roses will usually make any woman happy. To create this birthday card, I used the Rose Wonder stamp set and the matching framelits.  There are  many different techniques that you can use with this stamp set.

On this card, the techniques that were used are:

1. Watercoloring
2. Heat embossing
3. Dry embossing
4. Adding a touch of glimmer

This stamp set and the matching framelits are in the 2016 Occasions Catalogue.  The catalogue is active until May 31, 2016.  Will it be in the 2016/17 Annual Catalogue?  We always have to assume that products in the occasions catalogue will not be carried over to the next catalogue.  Sometimes we are pleasantly surprised sometimes there are no surprises. So if you want this set, purchase it before it’s too late.  You can purchase the stamp and Thinlit dies as a bundle at 15%.

Recipe

Stamps: Rose Wonder.

Ink/Markers: VersaMark, Blushing Bride, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi (combination of ink pads and reinkers).

Paper: Whisper White Thick, Blushing Bride, Whisper White,  Wild Wasabi, Watercolor, and Vellum.

Accessories: Big Shot, Lovely Lace Embossing Folder, Rose Garden Thinlit Dies, Big Shot Die Brush, Aqua Paint Brush, White Tea Lace Paper Doily, Blushing Bride 1/4” Cotton Ribbon, White Jute Ribbon, Blushing Bride Sequin Trim, Metal Rimmed Pearls, Clear Wink of Stella, White Embossing Powder.

So how did I use and where did I use the various techniques?

Watercoloring was done with the Aqua Brush and reinkers mixed with a few drops of water. First, though I stamped the image on the Watercolor paper using VersaMark ink and heat embossed using White Embossing Powder. The image was spritzed with water.  Don’t make the paper too wet.

Squirt a couple of drops of the reinkers on an Acrylic Block (use this as a palette). Mix with a couple of drops of water.  Take your Aqua Brush and pick up a bit of the Blushing Bride ink and drop the ink on the petals of the rose.  The ink will flow to fill in the areas that are not heat embossed.  Do the same with the So Saffron reinker.  Don’t put too much ink on your paper as you will want to see the variations in color and prevent the 2 colors of ink from merging.  This will muddy the inks.  Do the same with leaves using Wild Wasabi.

The Vellum paper was dry embossed using the Lovely Lace Embossing Folder and then placed over the Blushing Bride cardstock.  Vellum will tone down the cardstock and make the colour subtle.

To add the glimmer, I used the Wink of Stella in clear to add some sparkle to the rose.  I did not cover the rose entirely.  I brushed on a bit for highlights.

Finally, I die cut the rose from Whisper White cardstock using the matching thinlit and applied it the watercolored rose.

The Rose Garden thinlits dies are on special this week and are part of the final week of Weekly Deals.  Yes, the Weekly Deals that we have been enjoying over the past year are going away. If you want to create beautiful roses, then make sure that you purchase the Rose Wonder Set and matching thinlits.  You won’t be disappointed.

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