Beautiful Day Gold & White Flower

Sunday, 1 December 2019

Beautiful Day Gold & White Flower

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A painted flower on Basic Gray cardstock makes this Beautiful Day flower pop!

Time for a little break from Christmas cards to make a birthday card for a very special friend who is also a card-maker! This is one of those cards that's much nicer in person - it was VERY difficult to photograph as it has subtle colouring and hints of sparkly gold.

Painting light colours onto dark cardstock takes some patience but is very rewarding

It did take a lot of patience to get the look I was after.

I white heat embossed the flower onto Basic Gray cardstock and then gave it a base coat of Whisper White Craft ink.

Once that layer was dry, I mixed some Crushed Curry ink (from a refill bottle) into my palette of white craft ink to give myself a variety of shades (which don't show up in the photo!) and painted the petals one by one.

When I'd finished painting yellow, I added a touch of blue ink into the mix and painted the leaf.

Then I left it to dry for 24 hours! Since it still felt slightly tacky, I used the heat tool on low setting to give it a final dry.

I was quite happy at that stage but the thought crossed my mind that I could bling it up a bit with some Golden Glitz ink (again from the refill bottle) and I dry-brushed some into the areas of deepest shadow.

To "ground" the flower, I used Basic Gray Stampin' Blend alcohol markers to add some shadow.

The greeting is white heat embossed.

Then I added a So Saffron layer and adhered it to the Basic Gray base card.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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