Tricia's Stamping Creations: ICS April Blog Hop It's A Girl Thing

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

ICS April Blog Hop It's A Girl Thing

Welcome to the ICS April Blog Hop as we showcase projects created with this month's theme "It's A Girl Thing." Our Design Team Members will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you to create beautiful feminine card designs for the ladies in your life.

My style is clean and simple, so when I thought about what I would create for this theme, I wasn't imaging ribbons and lace and lots of layers. Instead, I chose to create a colorful background abstract background with the Artistically Inked stamp set and added the beautiful detailed floral die cut created with the Artistic Dies using Gold Foil. I chose to use Fresh Freesia, Polished Pink and Coastal Cabana to create a background that reminds me of a watercolor garden and I couldn't resist adding the gorgeous Brushed Brass Butterflies to embellish my garden design.

Products Used:

Artistically Inked Bundle (item #155456)

Stitched So Sweetly Dies (item #151690) - Retiring

Thick Basic White Cardstock (item #159229)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Vellum Cardstock (item #101856)

Gold Foil Sheets (item #132622)

Fresh Freesia Classic Ink Pad (item #155611)

Polished Pink Classic Ink Pad (item #155712)

Coastal Cabana Classic Ink Pad (item #147097)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Brushed Brass Butterflies (item #158136)

Blender Pens (item #102845)

Mini Glue Dots (item #103683)

Measurements:

Thick Basic White Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Basic White Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Vellum Cardstock

Sentiment Label die cut with Stitched So Sweetly Dies

Gold Foil Sheets

Detailed Floral die cut with the Artistic Dies

This pretty card design is so simple to create and you can personalize the card design by changing the background colors. I wanted to create patches of color that would represent the colors of the flowers and the leaves, so I used the large background image from the Artistically Inked stamp set and randomly stamped the background using Fresh Freesia, Polished Pink and Coastal Cabana, including some second and third generation stamping to create layers of color. I stamped the small dots stamp image with Versamark randomly around the background layer and heat embossed them with Gold embossing powder and repeated the process with the lines I created using a Blender Pen with Versamark ink to create gold veins in the design. I attached the detailed Gold Floral die cut to the card front, leaving some room in the bottom right corner of the card for the sentiment label. The sentiment was heat embossed on the Vellum cardstock label with Gold embossing powder and I attached it to the bottom right corner with Mini Glue Dots. To finish off the card design, I added the beautiful Brushed Brass Butterflies to give the illusion of them flying around my pretty card design. This card design has all the things I love about creating - pretty colors, Gold Foil, embossing and butterflies. How could I not love it.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to create your own pretty cards to share with the wonderful women in your life. There are so many wonderful options to explore.

Now it's time to visit Janey's wonderful blog and see what she has created to share with us. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope that you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

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