Congrats to Jean, our Featured Stamper! What a fab gallery she has! After much browsing, I chose her Here Comes the Sun to case. I kept the horizontal layout and flowers and butterfly, but I changed the colors, the images and added some flourishes.
I also tried Bev's great technique from Wed, Water Stamping on the background.
The small flowers on the small layer are actually from a bookmark, but with a little masking, they work here, too. For the backgrounds, I sponged on colors from a Blue Breeze Kaleidacolor ink pad. Then I did Bev Gerard's Water Stamping technique. I love the soft, marbled look it gives. I stamped a portion of the same Daisy Background in black across the bottom. I like the way it helps "ground" everything. Just a few hightlights were added were a white gel pen. A sweet little Cheery Lynn flourish was added in the lower left corner and I used a Marianne Designs corner die in the upper right. The butterfly was white embossed onto vellum, sponged w/ the same blue inks and die cut using the matching die. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.
Thanks so much for looking! Congrats again, Jean, and enjoy your week! All the details are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, August 11, 2012 GMT Views: 3110
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I put this in my favorites yesterday but forgot to come and comment. This is a gorgeous card. I love your use of the water stamping and all the white pops so beautifully against the blue background.