This week is flying by and it's already Thursday again! Today I'm hopping along with some crafty friens over on Instagram for the This or That hop. Are challenge themes this week are snowflakes or flowers. Since the cold weather and I aren't friends, give me flowers any day!
Last month, I purchased one of the Gina K Designs mystery boxes. I only have a handful of stamps from them through the years, so figured there was a good chance I wouldn't duplicate anything. I was right and came away with a ton of new stamps, dies, and foiling papers. I'm trying to work through a whole bin of holiday gifts and crafty purchases, so challenged myself to pick a few things from the mystery box to create today's card.
The flowers are from the Create Friendship set, which came in the box along with it's coordinating dies. I stamped in light, medium, and dark carnation, and did the leaves in light, medium, and dark spruce. These came in a kit I bought a while back, along with the Watercolor Floral Paper Pack, which I chose the grey striped paper from. I embossed the Follow Your sentiment from the Heart Mini set in white on black cardstock, and then cut the coordinating Heart word die from black cardstock and layered everything together.
I used some pink cardstock for the background, which I embossed with a very old QuicKutz folder, then added some black matting and a few pinkfresh jewels to finish things off.
Since I didn't use all the flowers I had stamped and cut, I decided to make a second card. For this one I used some red Minc foil and the Happy Swirls Poly-Glaze Foiling Sheets that came in the mystery box. After foiling the sheet, I then blended light and medium carnation inks over the background. I used another strip of the grey stripe paper and pulled out some red card stock for matting. The sentiment is from the Mini Blossoms Mini and embossed in white on red card stock.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous day!
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