Merry Blooms

Who is ready for some Christmas in July? There is a new kit from Taylored Expressions called Merry Blooms. It has stencils, red rubber stamps, clear stamps, dies and more!

For this first card, I started by stamping the leaves onto lime zest cardstock using a Misti tool. There are a few ways to get vivid ink onto colored cardstock. You can either use oxide inks, or use a pigmented white ink, let it dry and then go over the white ink again with the ink color of your choice. For both techniques, using a Misti tool is necessary for perfect stamp placement. Once the leaves were stamped, the poinsettia stencil was used to ink blend the red flowers. Using the clear stamps and coordinating red ink, the stems of the flowers were stamped over the stenciled flowers. The sentiment was stamped in black ink, then to make the card pop, a white pen was used on some of the leaves.

For this card I wanted to use the poinsettia flowers from the stencil to create a bold rainbow Christmas card. I would select a flower, position it onto the white cardstock panel and then blend in the color. From top left to bottom right using an assortment of colors from pink to purple and blender brushes created a rainbow of flowers. Using the clear stamps, branches and the centers of the flowers were stamped in rainbow colors as well. The sentiment was stamped in the center of the panel in black ink and then the panel was adhered to a card base using foam adhesive. To embellish, a twine bow was added. 

Its fun to experiment with different colors schemes for Christmas cards. 

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