Hello there! I’m working with complimentary and abstracting colors today.
I introduced you To a Wild Rose last week with this card and took it in a completely different direction this week. I brought in Stitched Be Mine to cut the gold foil scallop across the bottom rather than use the die-cut from the bundle as it would have been too much gold. My designer series paper is from Perennial Essence. There’s a lot of colors incorporated into this DSP that opens up a lot of design possibilities. The ribbon is Grapefruit Grove with my other 2 peachy hues of Petal Pink and Flirty Flamingo. Those colors are close enough to where you can make it work … and that’s the beauty of Stampin’ Up! No matter what direction you choose to take your design in, it’s going to work.
I decided on the colors that I wanted for my flower image first and knew that I wanted to gold emboss everything and layer on top of that. The Perennial Essence watercolor DSP plays very well with the DistINKtive floral images in To a Wild Rose. I chose a DSP pattern with underlying Flirty Flamingo and Petal Pink.
The large line art flower image was stamped with Versamark ink onto Whisper White CS after rubbing my Embossing Buddy on the CS, gold powder was applied, and heat set. I took the solid image layer and laid that down in Petal Pink. The top image overlay is Flirty Flamingo. I tried the leaves in the same manner with the gold embossing onto Whisper White CS with Garden Green and Pretty Peacock, which turned out beautifully with color layering, but it got a bit too messy; so I decided to stamp the line art leaf image onto Pretty Peacock CS with Versamark and heat embossed with gold powder. When you can pull off getting away with that type of combination, do it, because it doesn’t always work, and adds such an incredible abstract.
There is no Pretty Peacock color anywhere else on the card outside of the leaves. Pretty Peacock is a deep green/blue color and it will nicely compliment the Blueberry Bushel, Mossy Meadow, and Old Olive in the Perennial Essence DSP. The stitching detail and gold plays throughout the card.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Thank you so much for stopping by to visit. Have a great day and God bless.
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Very pretty! Love the colors in the DSP! Beautiful flower and layering!
Interesting – chose to emboss flower/gold first and then stamp over the embossing. Does the embossing make it hard to get a good stamp impression? Overall, lovely choices and impact.
Not with Stamparatus and I only had to do each layer once. I let the ink fully try before I wiped flower off with Swiffer to pick up Embossing Buddy strays and ink off gold embossing, if any I hope this helps Gaul!