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Sep 29, 2015

Flowers and Sparkles Stamped Watercolor Background Paper Card

card 1
I was going to show you the lavender background in this 4 set series, but couldn't get away from these lovely peachy pinks.  Unlike last week's card HERE, I embossed the floral design in Florida Sunset WOW! Embossing Powders.  Rather than brushing on a watercolor wash, here I dipped my paper into a watery puddle of Dried Marigold, Tattered Rose, and Scattered Straw Distress Inks.
card 2
The pattern is the same, but the result is quite different.  I was playing around with ideas for the focal image and decided to watercolor the stamp and cut it out to layer over the card, but it didn't turn out like I wanted.  Later, I decided to cut the different flowers out and make one big flower embellishment with them, curling the petals like I did in my paper flower tutorial HERE.  I just happened to have a brad that was exactly the color of the Florida Sunset EP - awesome!  So I used it for the center.
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Here's a shot of the components of the flower.
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And all of them glued together.
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My theme this week was sparkle and look how this EP shines!  I even added some gelli roll ink highlights to the sentiment to make it shine too.
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I had grunge the card up a bit, you know me!  So I distressed the edges and sponged the sentiment.  I hope you'll come back next Tuesday to see the third paper in this series.  I'm linking up to the Tuesday Night Bloghop at Unity HERE, to Crafty Cardmakers & More for challenge #148, Make it Sparkle HERE, and to SSS Wednesday for their No Designer Paper Challenge HERE.  Thanks for looking!

21 comments:

  1. Beautiful card!!! Loving the orange :)

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  2. Great collection of Distress Inks in your puddle! This is a yummy color and I love the shiny background stamping!

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  3. Beautiful card! Love that pretty background! Love the shimmer it has!!

    Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

    hugs...
    Melissa

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  4. Love the colors and the embossing is awesome.

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  5. Beautiful! Love the shimmery background! Pretty flower accent!

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  6. Very pretty. Love the shimmer. Hugz

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  7. This is beautiful, love how you stamp up the image and love your paper flower too!

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  8. This card is beautiful! Love the embossing with the watercolors.

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  9. It's wonderful how you do this exquisite and delicate design!

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  10. Such a pretty card......love all the sparkle! The water colors are gorgeous!

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  11. Beautiful Card!! I love the colors :)

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  12. This is lovely, Autumn. Great colors!

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  13. This is just exquisite!!! I love the peachy color and all that shimmer and shine. Your flower is gorgeous and I love the sparkly center. What a beautiful card!!!
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

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  14. This is so gorgeous!!! The colors just make me smile!

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  15. Great colors, distressing and sparkle!

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  16. A really beautiful card Autumn. Your embossing powder is fabulously sparkly and I love the peachy tones of your watercolour background. Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers and more. Sally.x.

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  17. Lovely watercolour background - I just love how the flowers catch the light - so pretty.
    Alison x

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  18. Such a pretty card. I love the sparkly embossed background and the distressed edges. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers and More.

    Bec

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