It’s Topflight Stamps 3rd birthday and to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some great designers to showcase birthday cards using the unique products available at Topflight Stamps. Please hop along with us and see all the beautiful talent from this group of amazing designers! You should have arrived here from Cornelia’s blog. If not, you can find all of the stops on the hop at the end of this post or start at the Topflight Stamp Blog. Stay tuned as well for details of a FABULOUS SALE and HOP PRIZES!
I have three cards to share today. My first features an amazing stamp by AALL &. Create called ‘Blooming Poppies’ and it’s giant. I only used a small part of the main stamp image and it still covers the entirety of an A2 size card!
I stamped the main image in black on coldpress water color cardstock in black ink, and watercolored it with my Altenew Watercolor Brush Markers. I did several layers, building up the intensity of the color and layering different colors, before adding some Stabilo 88 fine point in the nooks and crannies for dimension. I also added some water splatters as a quick way to add highlights. I then fussy cut it out and went around it with a black marker.
For my card base, I blended some aqua-green-teal inks (Altenew Crisp Dye Seashore oval ink set) onto a panel of white cardstock to create an ombre look. I also added some splatters of PaperArtsy white acrylic paint mixed with water and splattered it on with a brush. I adhered the fussy cut flowers to the panel with foam tape.
The sentiment is also from Blooming Poppies, and was heat embossed in white on black cardstock, cut out and popped up on a double layer of foam tape. I added a few Dream Drops in Cloud 9 to finish.
My next two cards are a two for one! They were created using the Paper Rose Studio Mandala stencil. I first laid it down on a panel of white cardstock and ink blended over the top using pink, teal and lime green inks, overlapping slightly. Before lifting the stencil, I spritzed a few times with a shimmer spray to give a subtle shimmer.
I lifted up the stencil and let the piece dry. My sentiment is from the fab Heffy Doodle Rounded Sentiments. These are perfectly arched (some bowed up and some bowed down) and fit exactly onto the Heffy Doodle Curved Banner Die. I heat embossed two sentiments in Metallic Silver embossing powder onto gray cardstock, die cut them out and then popped them onto the panel around the centre of the mandala.
My last card was kind of a freebie – I took the Mandala stencil that was still wet with ink blended ink and shimmer spray and gave it one more spritz, then pressed it onto another panel of white cardstock, rubbing it all over to transfer the color and shimmer onto the panel. I then just had to stamp this sentiment in black ink over the top for a pretty, clean and simple one layer card.
PRIZES
Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes! Topflight Stamps is giving one lucky winner a $50 Gift Certificate to the store. But wait, there is more, each stop on the hop has an additional $15 Gift Certificate up for grabs for some lucky commenter. For a chance to win, make sure to visit every stop on the hop and leave a comment by March 28th. Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on March 31st. Good Luck!
SALE
What an amazing sale! Your next stop on the hop is the lovely Karen! Enjoy!
Full Hop List
- Topflight Stamps
- Lisa Hoel
- Jennie Atkinson
- Cornelia Wenokor
- Jenny Colacicco <–YOU ARE HERE!
- Karen Bearse <– GO HERE NEXT!
- Dina Kowal
- Kathi Rerek
- Connie Mercer
- Toni Maddox
- Lindsay Weirich
- Ericka Strange
- Jenny Marples
- Autumn Clark
- Rachel Greig
Supplies
awesome cards Jenny!
Wonderful trio of cards. I’m so glad I don’t have to pick a favorite, because I don’t think I could!
I like the look of the big flower. Great use of the stencil.
Your poppies are beautiful! So love your ink blending with the mandala. Don’t you just love getting that second pickup print!
I love the colors on your first card
Absolutely stunning poppy card! And I’ve been trying to decide whether to get that stencil and you just helped me make my decision. Such beautiful cards in every way!
Wow! THREE amazing cards!
such different cards – love them both!
I just love the blooming poppies card and the way you did the background of the card. I do not use stencils much, but the cards you made give me inspiration to dig them out and try this technique.
Your creations are beautiful!!!
Beautiful cards!
So springy! Beautiful work!
your cards are stunning – love the soft stenciling on the second card – so pretty
Beautiful cards- love the softness of the 2nd & 3rd ones too!
Awesome cards! I especially like the bonus card made from the wet stencil.
Gorgeous poppies! I’m going to have to look for these stamps!
The mandala cards are beautiful, but the powerful color of your first card – wow! Just gorgeous!
Simply spectacular!
Lovely cards, I love the stencil use..so soft and glowing.
Wonderful cards! Bold and striking vs light and sweet. Fabulous inspiration!
beautiful cards, especially love the sentiment
These are just beautiful! The poppies are so vibrant. Simply beautiful!
Fantastic cards Jenny, they are so beautifully created!!
Lovin’ the vibrate colors in the first one and oh so sweet soft colors in the next 2, now that you are an enabler I need to get that mandala stencil….LOL 😍
Jenny, you do make everything more beautiful. This floral design and gorgeous coloring would be so fun to receive in the mail, especially with the dark dayswe have all been having.
Beautiful cards! I love the floral design and your pretty coloring! The mandala design is so pretty too!
A very pretty trio of cards. Love the bold coloring on #1 and the pale pastels of 2 & 3. So nice!
Love the poppies! Gave me some good ideas.
Beautiful deep coloring on your first card and such a lovely softly colored contrast on your second – both are wonderfully designed!
Gorgeous flowers! Flowers have such richness
Beautiful cards. I like the vibrant colors on the first and the soft pastels on the others.
Thanks for participating in our Birthday Party! These cards are beautiful!