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