You might want to grab a cup of coffee for this one. I've got 3 cards again today. As I mentioned yesterday I have more Bloom by Bloom cards in a completely different color this time, featuring even more of the Happiness Blooms Suite. This is one of many highlights in the upcoming 2019 Occasions catalog. With a wide variety of solid floral images it is a dream set for playing with colors!
I got started with this set by choosing some colors - other than what's already in the vibrant coordinating designer series paper - that would go with the beautiful Calypso Coral Ribbon that is also part of the suite.
Baby Wipe Technique:
I grabbed reinkers for Mango Melody, Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral and spread several drops onto a few layers of Baby Wipes placed over a plastic cover or large acrylic block. You want to use the generic kind of wipes. I've found that some of the more expensive brands have a kind of embossed texture that affects your image. I use these as my pads for the images in the first two cards and the largest background dotted layer in the 3rd card. I also put some Granny Apple Green reinker on the end of my baby wipe "pad" though you could just as well as used an ink pad as I didn't really blend the green with the other colors.
- Stamp up about a quarter sheet of Whisper white filling it up with all sorts of the Bloom by Bloom images.
- Trim down to size of your choice.
- Tie some ribbon around the trimmed piece.
- Mount onto a folded white card with Stampin' Dimensionals. The size doesn't matter too much. as you can see I like to use a lot of white space in the background to really set off my bright colors.
- Add your choice of greeting to the lower right of the trimmed piece. I used "many thanks" from Itty Bitty Greetings.
- Emboss a 6 x 6 piece of Whisper White cardstock with the Dot to Dot embossing folder. Trim down to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and adhere to a folded white card. You can save the leftover piece for another project.
- The posie like flowers here were also stamped with the Baby Wipe technique to get the variation. I used regular ink pads for the details and the long multi dot stamp for the grass. Trim and mount on Granny Apple Green cardstock that is cut 1/8" larger than the trimmed stamped piece.
- Tie Calypso Coral Satin ribbon around the lower part of the piece, which is adhered to the card with dimensionals.
- The greeting, "fabulous at any age" is once again from Itty Bitty Greetings. It was cut with the small circle from the Stitched Shapes framelits. Pop this over the lower right edge of you posie layer, just over the ribbon.
- This circle was adorned with posie and leaves that were punched with the Bitty Blooms Punch Pack that is part of the Bloom by Bloom bundle.
- This card uses some leftover pieces of baby wipe stamping along with some leftover pieces of the blends technique I shared in my last blog post. They were all done on glossy paper. There is a little Lovely Lipstick on the Blends piece.
- The posie layer (posies stamped over the Blends technique on glossy) has a Calypso Coral mat which is cut slightly larger than the posie layer (about 1/16th inch but 1/8" would work too.
- The greeting, "Let's get together and giggle" is from the Part of My Story stamp set that is in the Sale-A-Bration promotion during January - March. It is punched out with a 1 3/4" circle punch and layered offset over another Calypso Coral 1 3/4" circle.
- Can you see the 3 Calypso Coral Enamel dots that add a bit more texture and detail?
Whew! That was a lot for one day. These just kind of needed to stay together for the post.
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Chris
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