Hello my friends! I have a pretty fantastic floral card to share with you with a dramatic and bold design for Joy Clair Designs today. I combined the Truly Inspires and Modern Duets digital stamps to customize my arrangement. Both stamps are beautiful on their own, but sometimes you just feel like mixing it up!
To create this arrangement, I layered the leaf image from Modern Duets and the cabbage rose image from the Truly Inspire sets so that it would take up the majority of the length and width of a 3.5 x 5 card panel. I used Photoshop Elements to do this, but there are a lot of free software programs available. I colored the arrangement with common Copic blends, but then added fluorescent colors to add unexpected pops of color. For further drama I colored the background with a black Copic and splattered it with gold acrylic paint.
Do you love how the sentiment pops? Because Truly Inspire is a digital stamp, I printed it with a Laser printer allowing me to foil the sentiment. Before foiling and running it through my laminator, I colored the die cut rectangle with a black Copic. It appears white in the picture, but I used a silver toner reactive foil. And because I love more depth on my cards, I used a gold pigment ink to highlight the edges of the sentiment before popping it up on foam tape. I matted the focal panel with gold card stock from the Solid Gold Mat Stack that can be found in the shop and then adhered to a black A2 card base. I hope this has inspired you to get a little inky today!
Copic coloring: petals: RV 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19 FYR 1, and Y17 White Gel Pen
leaves: BG 11, 13, 19, B02, YG 01
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Until next time… keep crafting!!!!
