Bold Blooms Floral Stamped Cards

Hey again friends!  I'm back today sharing a few floral makes using gorgeous Creative Worship Stamps.  For my first card, I had a blast coloring the Sunflower Background Clear Stamp using a fun process of repeat stamping with my stamp platform and coloring in between stamping.  This gives a no line similar effect, but also allows you to stamp different layers in different colors on the same image, like I added a final layer of Vintage Photo stamping to the flower center only.  The base layers were colored with Fossilized Amber and Mustard Seed Distress Inks.

I fussy cut my flower and then stamped a gingham panel with the Texture Tiles 4 Clear Stamp Set, which I layered over a card based stamped with little flowers from the Hope Word Art Clear Stamp Set and a sentiment pair from the Choose Faith Clear Stamp Set.  I love these words!!!

My next card was a fun experiment!  I masked off portions of the Bold Bloom Stencil using stencil tape (or washi).  For the leaves, I sponged both Peacock Feathers and Mowed Lawn to get the blue green I was going for.  Then I clear embossed very quickly.  

I wiped the ink off the stencil tape and repositioned it to mask the leaves and then inked with Worn Lipstick, not in the same position, but in the corners of the panel, clear embossing each flower before it could dry.  It dries quickly! I dipped the leaf side into a light pool of Peacock Feathers DI and then splashed on some watered black gesso.  Next, I colored the Dahlia Background Clear Stamp using the same repeat stamping method described in the sunflower card above.  I used Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral.

I made a tag from repeatedly stamping "hope from my Faith Definitions Stamp Set.  I love the black and white for contrast here.  Then I fussy cut the butterfly from the Botanical Collages Clear Stamp Set, colored with the same blue green.  I finished with the "praying for you" from the God is Near Die Set.  FUN!  

Last but certainly not least, I'm sharing my Easter card design.  I had this idea to create a light background panel and clear emboss the script from the Easter Innies Clear Stamp Set, then add darker layers of color over that.  My hope was the light background colors would show through instead pure white.  Here is the before panel, which in all honestly I like better than the after, but only because I got a little heavy handed with the brown ink.  I added some Victorian Velvet through the Diamond Floral Layering Stencil Set and splasnes of watery white gesso to try and lighten it back down.

Nevertheless, I finished it with a watercolored image from the Blooming Tulips Stamp & Die Bundle and another snippet from the Easter Innies.  

I'm glad I persisted because I really love the finished card and those torn layers of cardstock at the bottom.  I trust that you and yours had a lovely Easter celebrating our Risen Savior!  He is risen indeed!  xx, Autumn