The beginning of a new month heralds the start of Clearly Besotted Stamps sneak peeks and I’m kicking things off by colouring Vellum with Copics and the new Magnolia Blooms set (available 10pm UK time 05 June). I do love the translucency of vellum and it opens up all sorts of possibilities for adding colour on the back of a stamped image – no need to worry about colouring in the lines or damaging nibs with heat embossing! In Versamark I stamped the lovely large leaf spring and also three of the Magnolia line images and White heat embossed. After embossing I trimmed around the images and then turned the three flowers over to add colour to the back. You need to go with deeper, more vibrant colours than you would imagine as the colour doesn’t absorb into the vellum in the same way it would on card. You can really move the colour around a lot too because of this and get quite a painterly feel.
The flowers are mounted with Clear Foam Adhesive on a Gossamer Blue tag – I really like that navy and hot pink combination combined with the other neutrals. I added a Tag Hole Reinforcer cut from Fog card and then layered a Tag cut from Marshmallow and stamped in Slate ink with the sentiment from the Miniature Floral Collection. This tag is tied up with some American Crafts twine and then everything is mounted on a Fog panel cut with a Stitched Rectangle and then on to a Marshmallow card base with just a few pearls to finish.
Clearly Besotted will release all the new sets on 5th July at 10pm UK time (5pm EST) at Clearly Besotted and Simon Says Stamp. In the meantime check out Stephanie for more inspiration and links to the rest of the Design Team :D
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I love the bright pink with the navy, Debby! Just stunning! Love your new look blog too xx
Thanks Michelle, thought it was time for a change. I’ve had the watercolour theme for a couple of years now and wanted to clean and simply things a bit :D
Gorgeous card! The magnolia blooms look so dreamy on the vellum. :-)
Wow! This is a stunning card – beautiful!
Debby – I love the colors you used on this card – that soft gray will have to come live at my house very soon! Anxious to try using the back of the vellum – I’ve done it, but not with embossing on the front – that’s going to help a lot…
Great ideas all ’round – thanks for all you do!
Totally wowed by this! Gorgeous colour combo and stunning design.
What a pretty color combination… navy and hot pink with the grey base! Pretty stamp set – totally enhanced with your coloring on vellum!
This is just stunning! Love those magnolias and leaves and they look perfect on that beautiful tag. Lovely card design, too.
Stunning card, the colors, the elements, and design everything about this card is stunning.
I am in love with the colors,Debby!! WOW!! Such a beautiful card!
Oooh, love these colors together. Gorgeous painted vellum looks so beautiful against the navy tag. I’m going to have to have that stamp set, too. My poor, aching wallet. Noticed you tweaked your blog a bit, as well.
Clearly Besotted give everyone’s wallet a hard time LOL! Yes, the tweaking of the design – I can’t code but I do a lot of the fiddling myself so I will keep adjusting things until it feels right :D