Emerging Colors Card Challenge

For Sunday’s Featured Stamper challenge, we were to take a card from the gallery of SplitCoastersStampers member “jpmayo” and CASE it into a card of our own.

I chose this beautiful card of hers:

And used it as inspiration to make this card of my own:

I just loved how she used the large flower in the Fabulous Flowers stamp set to reveal the colors beneath!  I changed the color palette to pinks and browns and found all this great ribbon that I thought really fit the phrase “dare to be fabulous”.  I added a little bling on the letters and in the center of the cut flower as well.

This technique is called “emerging colors” – it’s very simple to do. 

• First, take a sheet of white or vanilla cardstock and stamp your design – in this case, several flowers in different shades of pink. 
• Then stamp your large image right on top of your design using VersaMark ink. 
• Heat emboss the large flower using clear embossing powder.
• Next, sponge or brayer the darker ink (Close to Cocoa in my sample) over the entire white/vanilla stamped sheet.
• Wipe the ink from the embossed flower -the clear embossing powder will resist the dark ink revealing the stamped images beneath.