Birthday Blooms coloured

I am using the Birthday Blooms stamp set for my class projects this month – more on that later this week – and wanted to showcase the versatility of the large wild rose stamp by showing it in other color variations. It is a beautiful image to color with markers, blender pens and for water coloring.

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I stamped the image using the Basic Gray Archival ink onto Stampin Up!’s Thick Whisper White cardstock and colored it in using a Blender Pen to apply a layer of Soft Sky to all the petals. I then added some shading using the Blender Pen and Pool Party ink. The leaves were colored in the same way using Mint Macaron and a touch of Wild Wasabi ink. The centre of the rose was colored in using So Saffron ink. Using Tombow Liquid Adhesive I mounted the stamped panel onto a piece of Basic Gray cardstock adding a piece of Mint Macaron designer series paper (dsp) to the left side and a thin strip of Silver Foil cardstock as an accent. This whole piece was the added to a card base of Soft Sky with Dimensionals. I loved the way this card turned out, such a soft, subtle color palette.

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For the second card I stamped the image in Basic Black Archival ink onto some of our thick Vellum cardstock and used Stampin Write Marker Pens in bolder colors to add the colors. I used So Saffron as my base color and added Crushed Curry and Delightful Dijon to give depth and shading. The centre of the rose is Calypso Coral and the leaves are Old Olive and Always Artichoke. I adhered the vellum to the left hand side of a piece of Whisper White cardstock using Tombow and covered the area with a strip of Crushed Curry dsp to hide the glue. I then and carefully placed a couple of Mini Glue Dots behind the centre of the rose where they would be hidden by the coloring. I added this stamped topper to another layer of the same dsp and mounted the piece using Tombow to a Crumb Cake card base. I really liked the rich color of this rose and loved the Crumb Cake card base against the yellows.

crafty-rootes.com – Stampin Up Birthday Blooms

For the third card I decided to stamp the image on Thick Whisper White cardstock using Versamark ink. I covered it in Stampin Up!’s gorgeous new Copper Embossing Powder and heat set the powder using my Heat Tool. I used a Blender Pen to add a base coat of Pink Pirouette then added Sweet Sugarplum and Perfect Plum to give dimension to the petals. The leaves were colored in Mint Macaron and Wild Wasabi and the centre is Crushed Curry. I stamped the sentiment and the small clusters of dots using Crumb Cake ink and added the stamped piece to a layer of Crumb Cake cardstock adhering it to a Thick Whisper White card base using Tombow.