Arranged With Love for a Blog Hop

When Melanie asked me if I’d like to play with her new set coming out and showed me a picture, I *gasped* and jumped at the offer! Anyone that knows my stamping style knows I LOVE flowers and floral scenes!
This set takes the guesswork and fussing with sticky notes to mask away… it’s all done for you! Just stamp it!

“Arranged with Love” is a floral beauty! It’s available for purchase at 10CST on Thursday the 25th at Gina K Designs.

This is one entire image with 10 lovely sentiments you can put on the “card”.

I stamped the image twice on Gina’s Pure Luxury #80 with Versamark and Black Soot distress ink. (although distress ink stays wet long enough to apply embossing powder, with this being such a large area I didn’t want it to dry before I got all my ep sprinkled on, so I added the Versamark)

It’s a combo of Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils, starting with Copics to lay down my base colors then doing most of the shading with the pencils blended with baby oil. I went back and added some highlights with Copics again… cool thing about the combo is the Copics slide around on the waxy Prismacolors and barely soak in, making it easy to blend and hightlight! *wink*

And this is why I stamped and embossed it twice! All the flowers are layered and some of the leaves. This meant double coloring too! I think it was well worth the effort though don’t you?! Some of the petals are double dimensionals to raise them a little higher.

Towards the bottom of the flowers I took my green dauber (just the distress ink left from previous usage) and sponged. (all the sponging was done before layering the petals!) Then I took Faded Jeans distress ink and sponged around the top area.

The “card” is outlined with a Zig Painty gold pen.
*Here’s a tip* The area to be filled in is narrow and when I started my pen (you know…shake~shake… press the tip…) it left a puddle on my scratch paper and the tip was TOO wet to fill in the narrow part! So I got rid of the excess on my scratch paper and used the “puddle” to dip the pen tip in and color the border.

I wasn’t sure what sentiment I wanted until the very end, and since I need an anniversary card for some friends, I chose this one to stamp and emboss.

Popped up on foam mounting tape on Prism Candle Glow med then layered on Blush Red med.

Now, be sure to hop around to all the others so you can see their awesome creations!

Gina, Carolyn, Cathy, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Jessica, Kurtis, Lee, Lynn, Theresa , and Melanie Muenchinger, and, be sure to check out Gina K’s CenterStage Spotlight girls joining us in Previews today: Carla Suto and Melissa Waldorf and Melanie’s Guest Designer this month: Selma Stevenson! plus Denise

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Thanks for Stopping!

Dawn

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