Hi! Welcome to my blog. I’m Sara Levin aka the artful inker. And today, I’m helping to celebrate my friend Kelly’s birthday by participating in Kelly’s Stamping Friends – Birthday Blog Hop 2018. Whether you’re just popping in or you’re already on the tour, check out my creations and then click the “next” button to move along to the next blog and more creative inspiration. I’ve created a You’ve Got This birthday card for Kelly.
Kelly’s Stamping Friends – Birthday Blog Hop 2018
You’ve Got This Birthday Card
Since we’re celebrating Kelly’s birthday, I used You’ve Got This to create
a birthday card.
For my base and focal layer, I used Thick Whisper Whitie.
Then, I masked and stamped the lovely flower from You’ve Got This
and heat embossed in gold.
To watercolor the flowers, I used my Aqua Painter and ink
from my Berry Burst ink pad.
My “technique” is to paint the darker ink and as the color lightens
to move to other petals.
Doing it this way, I get lots of tonal variation.
Then, I load the brush and start again.
For the background, I swished in Old Olive and then added some
Mossy Meadow to create some depth.
Using a piece of Vellum, I embossed the sentiment from Lovely Inside and Out.
So that the adhesive wouldn’t show, I wrapped the Vellum strip
to the back of the focal layer.
To cut the Gold Foil, I used the Happy Birthday Thinlits.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my You’ve Got This birthday card!
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Lovely card Sara, the pretty colours look fabulous with the gold x
Thank you Angela! Isn’t it wonderful the way color reacts to watercoloring!
Lovely. The gold embossing set off you water colouring perfectly. I don’t buy many flower stamps but this is one that owned and like. Sadly it is retiring as well as my favourtie stamp set.
Thanks Cathy! It’s great that there are always so many styles and designs to choose from in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog.
You have certainly ‘got this’ card, just perfect!! I love how you have joined all the various parts with the gold elements, stunning!!
Thanks Jo! The gold was definitely my main squeeze on this card 😉
Ohhh that is just STUNNING… I love this stamp set too, going to be very sad to say goodbye.
Cheers Shaz
Thanks! Shaz. This will have been my fond farewell creation. Not long now until I can start loving on some new flowers!!
So elegant Sara – I love how you’ve stamped a trio of those gorgeous flowers! Thanks for sharing in my birthday celebrations! Kelly x
Thanks Kelly! I’m going to miss this flower when it retires in just a few days.
Such a pretty card! I need to do more gold embossing! 🙂
Thanks Richelle! You can’t go wrong with embossing.
I love the greeting and the gold embossing and the foil happy – this is such a great contrast to the quieter watercolouring. Just gorgeous.
Thank you Julia! It’s fun to mix and match the visual textures.
Simply Stunning, Sara x
Thank you Jackie! Lovely of you to stop by.
ohhh Sara very very pretty card love the gold embossing and the watercolour is like a painting!
Thank you Nicole! Isn’t it great how artistic stamps can make us look!?!
Gorgeous card! I love the gold embossing. Thanks for your inspiration. Mandy x
Thanks Mandy! Embossing makes everything better 🙂
Your card is gorgeous, Sara.
Thank you Patti! I love this flower…