Hi and welcome to our Spring Collection Blog Blitz! Jean Okimoto here, with a simple card to welcome the new season, and our great collection of new Memory Box Dies and Designer Stencils. Let's combine a quick watercolor-y technique with the wonderful spring products today.
- Darling Poppies 98879
- Zippy Dots Designer Stencil 88568
- Metal Adapter Plate
- Granny Smith Cardstock
- Peony Cardstock
- Parchment Cardstock
- Granny Smith Envelope
Inks
- Imagine Crafts Lady Bug irRESISTible Colored Texture Spray
- Imagine Crafts Golden Glitz Delicata
- Imagine Crafts Pearlescent Lime Brilliance.
Spritz water and Imagine Crafts Lady Bug irRESISTible onto a craft mat and allow the water and ink to blend. Press a rectangle of 140# cold-pressed watercolor paper onto the diluted ink, then heat-set it briefly, just till it's still slightly damp.
Press some ink from a Delicata Golden Glitz inkpad onto a clean section of the craft mat and spritz the ink lightly with water. Press the watercolor paper into the diluted Golden Glitz to pick up some soft gold highlights. Heat-set the paper, trim it and ink the edges with a waterbrush dipped into a blend of Lady Bug and water.
Diecut Darling Poppies from Granny Smith Cardstock. Cut the flowers again from Peony Cardstock and press a piece of Scor-Tape onto the backside of the flowers to keep the pieces intact. Stencil Zippy Dots onto the watercolor paper with Pearlescent Lime. Assemble the card - offset the Peony Cardstock flowers so the Granny Smith portion appears as a slight shadow. Attach three green sequins. Tuck the card into a spring green Granny Smith Envelope and send it to someone special.
Be sure to add your comment to all of the posts during our blitz this week - you'll be entered to win a product from each designer's project. I'll be giving away the beautiful, delicate Darling Poppy Die!
Every blog post this week will have a chance to win a prize. The deadline for submitting comments is 10:00pm EST on Sunday, March 30th. Winners will be announced on the Outside the Box blog on Monday, March 31st.
Thanks for visiting - and be sure to scroll down to see Deb's IT'S A BOY card too - and add your comment there for another chance to win a great prize!