Hi, here’s a quite dramatic looking card with its brightly coloured background and black stamping and embossing. With this colour scheme I think it would work equally well for a male or female recipient. The
Hi, here’s a quite dramatic looking card with its brightly coloured background and black stamping and embossing. With this colour scheme I think it would work equally well for a male or female recipient. The stamped design is also heat embossed in black to add extra texture and shine but the camera hasn’t picked that up very well.
To Make The Card
Start with a 10cm square piece of watercolour card stock. Use a foam ink blending tool to ink it all over with bright pink, yellow, green and turquoise inks. Stamp the Blossom design in black ink and heat emboss with black embossing powder. Take a white 12.5cm square blank card and layer it with turquoise card. Die cut an 11.5cm square of black card with a small holes edge and adhere this over the turquoise layer. Glue the inked and stamped piece to the centre of the black die cut piece. Trim a birthday wishes sentiment from a sentiment sheet, and adhere across the centre of the stamped design with a strip of 3mm adhesive foam tape.
That’s all there is to it! A really easy card which can also be adapted easily to suit other occasions. I tried out pink and yellow layers in place of the turquoise, which looked nice but gave a much lighter feel. I opted for the turquoise as the slightly darker finish made it more of a unisex card. You could leave out the black heat embossing but I do like the shine that it adds. And of course you could choose different colours for the inked background.
I hope you like this one, thank you for visiting. If you would like to try it for yourself, all the products used are linked below.
Debbie x
Products Used
- White 12.5cm square blank card and envelope
- A4 watercolour card stock
- A4 black foundation card
- Turquoise card stock
- Extendable paper trimmer
- Nested Squares with Small Circles Edging die set
- Big Shot die cutting machine
- Foam ink blending tool
- Distress Oxide ink pads Picked Raspberry, Fossilised Amber, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron
- Black pigment ink pad
- Stamp positioning tool
- Anti static pad
- Ebony embossing powder
- Heat gun tool
- Wordies Birthday sentiment strip sheets
- 3mm adhesive foam tape
- Dries clear glue