Wednesday, November 23, 2022

A monochromatic blue birthday card

 


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I came across a great video by Jennifer McGuire, where she domonstrate stamping on a dark cardstocks, and I wanted to give it a try (you can see the video HERE).

It's a great technique and I'm sure I'll be using it more in the future.

I used solid dark blue cardstock, but stamping with the white pigment ink gave it a pale bluish tone, and made the blue ink stand out.

For outlining the flowers and leaves, I traced the edges with an embossing brush, and so I did inside the flowers, and then heat embossed with white ep.

The white outlines, along with the white matting make the whole design just pop up.

I added some glitter silver enmael dots as an extra accent.

Here're some close ups to showcase the different blue tones:




Challenges:

AAA Birthday cards #43 - monochrom:


The Flower Challenge #74- add embellishments:


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5 comments:

Viv said...

Wow what a stunner of a card here! I love the bright blue and how cleverly you added shading to the flowers also with the stand out white colour,just love it. Thanks for sharing with us over at 'The Flower Challenge' ;) Viv DT xx

Bobby said...

The white borders on the card and the outlines on the flowers really do make your card pop, Lisbedi. It's so bright and cheerful and well designed. Thanks for sharing it with us at The Flower Challenge.

Nonni said...

Another beautiful make for us at AAA Birthday, I love the layout and design of this card!

Jane said...

Oh that's such a striking card! Love the contrast of the light and dark blues. Thanks for playing at AAA Birthday, hope to see you join in with future challenges too. Stay safe and keep crafting!

Jane.D said...

Beautiful! Love the design and the gorgeous blue colours! Thank you for sharing and playing along with us at AAA Birthday, hope to see you in future challenges too. Take care, keep crafting and have fun!