Florals for Babcia

My Babcia (grandmother) loves all flowers and art work with florals.  As with all grandmothers, she is one of my biggest cheerleaders.  She encourages me to be the best me possible and to always stand up for what I love.  The following card set is for my Babcia for Christmas.  I will box them up with some postage stamps, envelopes, and a fancy new pen so she can send them on their way. Merry Christmas Babcia!

Altenew: Build-A-Garden Lovely Rose Peony

Project One: Lovely Rose Peonies

The Altenew Build-a-Garden Lovely Rose Peony stamp, stencil, and die set made this set of cards a breeze.  Because I struggle with impatience, to let any ink dry, I stamped the florals and vases in Sandy Beach ink from Gina K Designs with my Stampwheel.   By doing so, if I don’t line my stencils up exactly when blending the black ink will cover my overhang and an added bonus of it not smearing when I apply the ink. Again, this is because I am impatient (insert eye roll).

The rose peonies were ink blended with Gina K Designs Light Orchid and Medium Orchid with the heaviest application at the center of the floral and the lightest at the tip. The centers were filled with one of my favorite yellows Gina K Designs Sweet Corn.  Finally the leaves were blended with Gina K Designs Light Spruce and Medium Spruce with the deepest concentration of color at the base of the leaves.  The vases were inked with various intensity of Gina K Designs Stormy Skies ink.

With the ink blending completed, I placed my images back into the Stampwheel with the stamps and paper in the same spot that I originally stamped the images.  Utilizing Altenew Obsidian Black Pigment Ink, I re-stamped the ink blended images and the flowers came to life.

I wanted a simple background for the florals to rest upon.  To achieve the texture I was looking for I utilized Trinity Stamps Retro Plaid Pattern stencil set on a piece of Spellbinders Waterfall Color Essentials Card Stock.  The stencil was ink blended with Gina K Designs Ocean Mist and Gina K Designs White pigment ink for a tonal pattern.  I trimmed a quarter inch from the back panel on the vertical side to add a little dimension to the card panel.

For the sentiment, I choose a simple yet elegant sentiment from the stamp set.  Then finally accented the image with a sprinkling of Gina K Designs Micro Disco Balls.

Card Size: A2 (5.5 x 4.25 inches)

Gina K Designs: Wishful Floral Bundle & Wishful Florals Layering Stencil

Project Two: Wishful Florals

Gina K Designs Wishful Floral Bundle and Wishful Florals Layering Stencil provide the base for the second set of cards for my Babcia.  The background was started first to allow for dry time.  Master Layouts II has the perfect boarder for my floral backdrop.  The shadow layer was die cut from black card stock.  A white panel was cut with the stitched panel die.  Digging out my Perfect Pearls in gold I added a spattering of gold on the panel.

While the panel dried I inked up a floral cluster and the small 3 floral bunch from the stamp set with Gina K Designs Black Onyx ink.  The stencil lined up so easily that I was able to apply the color in no time at all.  The florals were blended with Gina K Designs Light Carnation and Medium Carnation.  I did the base color on each of the stencils with the lightest color and then deepened the center with the darker color.  The leaves were inked with Gina K Designs Jelly Bean Green for both stencils, one with a light hand, the second with a heavier hand to give the tonal look.  The sentiment were stamped in the same Black Onyx ink and then die cut with the bundle dies.

The floral arrangement was adhered to the spattered background in the top left corner and the sentiment to the lower right with the images extending over the framed boarders.

Card Size: A2 (5.5 x 4.25 inches)