Graciellie Design September Blog hop and Giveaway

Hello, I was asked again to take part in the September Blog hop which is to celebrate a mini release of a selection of digital stamps that compliment the present fall collection. 

To be in to win a digital stamp of your choice, just leave a comment on the blogs as you hop along.

Graciellie Design Digital Shop

The design I was given was this beautiful poppy image and the lovely digital sentiments, and this is that card I made

I coloured the 4 of the Poppy images in with Copics and then fussy cut them out, using different parts of the image, so that I could make the poppy three dimensional.  I was rather pleased with how it turned out

I used distress inks antique linen, twisted citron, squeezed lemonade and mowed lawn to blend a background, then put some water droplets to slightly distress the look, then put an inked script background stamp over it all, making sure that it was a bit distressed looking as well.  

I made a frame with a stitched rectangle die, for the centre, and the paper smooches stitched border dies around the outside to continue the stitched look.  

The sentiment was printed out using one of the digital stamps available with this set, and then used a little ink in the twisted citron and the antique linen to colour the two ends on a diagonal and made it into a banner.  Both the banner and the frame were raised with some foam tape to give it a little dimension.  

And that is my card finished.  

Here is a video of how I made the flower and card.  

The materials I used for the card are

Poppy Wishes digital stamp

Copics R22, R35, R46 YG17 & YG63

and a Reno art pen light green 23

Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle dies

Paper Smooches Dots and dashes border dies

Distress inks: Antique linen, twisted citron, squeezed lemonade & mowed lawn

Ranger mini blending tool

MFT romantic script background stamp

Altenew Crisp ink Caramel toffee

3M scotch foam tape

scissors

Ebosser

A second card I have made using the same digital stamp, this time I printed the image onto some water colour paper that would go through my printer,  I have also printed the sentiment 'Best Wishes' under the image.

I water coloured it this time using distress inks, so I used abandoned coral, candied apple with some fired brick for the darker areas, and I used shabby shutters and mowed lawn for the stalks, buds and leaves.

I started by doing a wash over the entire picture with the abandoned coral ink and the shabby shutters ink and left that to dry.

I then used the candied apple and the fired brick to build up some dimension on the flower and some stronger colour of the shabby shutters and the mowed lawn on the foliage.  

Finally I went around the image with a light wash of tumbled glass to make a shadow, or halo around the flower and foliage, so it would 'pop' from the page and not look so flat.  

I then cut an aperture out around the poppy flower leaving a small white border around the actual flower, so that I could put a bit of a water coloured background behind the main part of the flower.  This I did with peacock feathers, salty ocean, evergreen bough & mermaid lagoon distress inks.    

  

Then I put some foam tape behind the poppy and the frame and the rest of the card below the frame, so that I could pop it up a little on the card base, that was a little wider than the flower panel.  I put some gold glitter tape down both sides of the card base, so it poked out beneath the flower panel, just to brighten it a little and that is the card finished.   

The materials I used for the card are

Poppy Wishes digital stamp

Copics R22, R35, R46 YG17 & YG63

and a Reno art pen light green 23

Canson Watercolour paper

Poppy wishes digital stamp

Distress inks: Candied apple, abandoned coral, fired brick, mowed lawn, shabby shutters

Peacock feathers, evergreen bough, salty ocean, mermaid lagoon

No 4 paint brush

Craft knife

Metal ruler

3M scotch foam tape

scissors

Gold glitter washi tape

Black shiny card (for strips)

Hopefully this has given you some ideas of ways to use digital floral stamps and especially the gorgeous ones form Graciellie Designs.  Do go and check out the selection of stamps available, I am sure you will find one you will fall in love with!  Remember to add a comment to each of the blog hops along the way to be in the draw for a free digital stamp and the next stop on the Blog hop is to Lena.

Thank you for stopping by on the Hop and thank you for persevering on such a long blog this time.

Happy Card making