Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Mama Elephant stamp highlights!
Cross my Heart is a beautiful sentiment set, full of heartfelt greetings to express love. It's not just for couples! I can see myself reaching for this set again and again, on cards for my kids and other family members too.
Today's card veers from my usual cutesy, colored style. It's a quicker card than I'm used to putting together, but around this time of year time is running a bit short! I inked up a stamp block (this round wavy one from lawn fawn) with worn lipstick distress ink and then spritzed it with water before stamping down on my paper. Then, I sprayed the paper with water again and let the ink do its thing. I spattered a tiny bit of extra ink on for good measure.
After that 5 minutes of fun, I let the paper dry overnight (under a pile of books when the ink wasn't sopping wet anymore) and then came back to it the next morning.
I heat embossed the sentiment in white (borrowing an extra "to" from one sentiment to make it work with the big scripted "love you"). I added a punch of aqua with the heart-shaped balloon, heat-embossing that with a zing embossing powder. I love the color, but I have to admit that the zing powders are not my favorites. They aren't as smooth as the WOW brand, in my opinion.
I added dotted lines for the balloon trail and assembled my card. I hope you like it!
Check out the ME blog this morning for more inspiration - click!
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Cross my Heart is a beautiful sentiment set, full of heartfelt greetings to express love. It's not just for couples! I can see myself reaching for this set again and again, on cards for my kids and other family members too.
After that 5 minutes of fun, I let the paper dry overnight (under a pile of books when the ink wasn't sopping wet anymore) and then came back to it the next morning.
I heat embossed the sentiment in white (borrowing an extra "to" from one sentiment to make it work with the big scripted "love you"). I added a punch of aqua with the heart-shaped balloon, heat-embossing that with a zing embossing powder. I love the color, but I have to admit that the zing powders are not my favorites. They aren't as smooth as the WOW brand, in my opinion.
I added dotted lines for the balloon trail and assembled my card. I hope you like it!
Check out the ME blog this morning for more inspiration - click!
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This is gorgeous! And ever so sweet! Love!
ReplyDeleteI love the stamping block idea! Your card is just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! Love the vibrant colors and simple design ♥!
ReplyDeleteI love the blue of the balloon against the watercoloring!
ReplyDeleteUsing the acrylic block to transfer the ink to the paper was an awesome idea! I must try that out. This card is amazing! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great background! I love the sentiment, it's so sweet!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
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