Stamping Sunday Blog Hop - Sketch and In Color

 

Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today marks the Stamping Sunday blog hop for June, and this month's theme is "Sketch and In Color," which involves selecting any sketches from the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue and incorporating the new In Colors into our projects. 

As it is the third Sunday of the month, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's creations, which can be accessed by on their names at the conclusion of my blog. Here's my card I made for this month.

Sketches provide an excellent foundation for cards, gift tags, or even scrapbook pages, making the creative process more manageable. I have selected a portrait sketch, which is located on page 24 of the catalogue. A photo has been included below.

I have used the Thankful Garden bundle, part of the Lovely Garden Suite Collection (165541). This Online Exclusive product includes designer series paper, stamp set, decorative masks, dies, ribbon, sequins, which work well together seamlessly to add texture, dimension and color to your creations. The masks simplify coloring by all five masks in conjunction with ink and a Blending Brush. This technique allows for significant variation in color.

I used three of five In Colors 2025-2027, beginning with Secret Sea, stamp the hydrangea onto Basic White Cardstock. It is a beautiful color and significantly softer than black Memento Ink.

Next, I applied Strawberry Slush ink using the first three masks, followed by Secret Sea ink with the next two masks. Inspired by Stacey Marsh, an Artisan Designer, who created a card using this bundle, admired her technique of producing a 3D effect by stamping the hydrangea flower head an additional time and was eager to try it myself. 

To achieve this look, just simply add color to the extra flower head, carefully fussy cut the tiny flowers, and use Stampin' Dimensionals to add depth. I needed a third hydrangea as per previous step for my extra pieces of tiny flowers placed onto the card with adhesive.

The hydrangea is positioned on two panels of Cloud Cover paper, sourced from the 2025-2027 In Color 6x6 Designer Series Paper. Additionally, I incorporated Cover 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls and stamped the sentiment using Secret Sea ink. For this, I used a separate stamp set titled Beautiful Motifs.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

To see all of the amazing projects by the Stamping Sunday Design Team please click on their names below.