Embossed Florals and Ink-Smooshed Backgrounds for your Cards

Add some color to your Spring cards and incorporate some stunning ink-smooshed designs that are sure to make your cards bloom with interest!

Hello and welcome. Today’s colorful card creation is from our designer Marla who is showing off some of our fun new products from the Sensational Spring Release. If you didn’t see all of the delightful spring themed products that were released last week, you can check them out here. This card features the new 3701 Hello There stamp. Instead of stamping and coloring the image, Marla took a different approach, and heat embossed it and added a touch of watercolor. She also used “Ink-Smooshing” for her background, which is when you add ink and water together on a waterproof surface, then dip or “smoosh” the watercolor paper into the fluid for a unique result. The card has a bold mixed media vibe that we are sure you are going to love. Follow along as Marla shows us how she used embossed florals and ink-smooshed backgrounds for a stunning spring card.

• Create an ink smooshed panel using layers of your favorite colors on a 4.25″ x 5.5″ piece of watercolor paper. *Marla used Distress Inks in Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet.
• Spritz the panel with water to add additional texture
• Use our 5713 Round Petals Background die to cut the panel.
• Ink a 4.25″ x 5.5″ piece of cardstock using Peacock Feathers Distress Ink.
• Stamp the panel using the same Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and our French Script Background stamp.
• Spritz the inked panel with water for more texture.
• Adhere the Round Petals die cut panel over top of the inked and stamped background

• Using Versamark embossing ink to stamp our 37010 Hello There image onto Bristol Smooth card stock.
• Sprinkle the image with Broken China Distress Glaze and heat set the image.
• Watercolor the stamped image using Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet Distress Ink.
• Cut the image using the coordinating die.
• Adding foam tape to the back of the die cut floral panel.

• Cut raspberry colored card stock to 3″ x 6″ and stamp the center with our French Script background stamp.
• Cut a second piece of purple card stock to 1/4″ x 4.25″
• Wrap the stamped 3″ raspberry card stock around the back of the previously layered background panel.
• Adhere the 1/4″ strip of card stock to the center of the wrapped card stock.
• Finish the card by adhering the floral panel to the center of the card.

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