GUEST ARTIST FEATURE: Erum Tasneem

Hello everyone! I am Erum Tasneem and I am absolutely honoured to guest design for Wplus9. We were originally going to do this back in October and I have been waiting (impatiently) for December since then.

Enough with the chit chat, let’s get down to the cards. I have two cards to share with you today featuring the Christmas Rose Bouquet stamp set. How gorgeous is this set?!

Let’s start with the first card.

I started off by stamping the floral spray, the single flower, the leaves and the vine onto watercolour paper with Black Dye Ink. I just wanted to use the Poinsettia from the larger floral stamp and the smaller single Hellebore flower also included in the set.

I coloured my images with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Stains. For the Poinsettia I used Spiced Marmalade and Ripe Persimmon. For the pink flower, I used Work Lipstick and Picked Raspberry. The leaves were done in Mowed Lawn, Crushed Olive, Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint. After the watercolour was dry, I fussy cut my images out.

Next, I stamped the sentiment on black cardstock and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. After this, I prepared my card front by adding a few black paint splatters. I then popped up my sentiment on to the card front with foam tape and started to arrange my floral design. I like to take apart full sprays and make my own version just to add a bit of interest. It's nice to have pre-built arrangements, but don't be afraid to create your own - with a little creative fussy cutting you can really stretch your supplies!

I popped up the flowers and leaves all on different levels. In the end, I added some rainbow sequins and confetti for the bling.

Now onto my second card.

For this card, I heat embossed the full floral spray in gold onto watercolour paper. In addition to this, I heat embossed the single flower and separate leaves as well in case I wanted to add them later on.

I watercoloured the images with liquid watercolours and used the sentiment from Strictly Sentiments 4. For my front panel, I coloured a loose watercoloured panel using Gansai Tambi watercolours. Again, I took apart the image by fussy cutting and arranged it the way I wanted to.

I popped up everything on foam tape and then popped my sentiment on top of the bouquet.

In the end, I added some gold confetti and I was done.

I hope you liked my cards and enjoyed the post. I had an absolute blast. Thank you for having me Wplus9!

~ Erum

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured Wplus9 supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase.

Wplus9 Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 PURE COLOR Black Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Christmas Rose Bouquet Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Modern Anemones Stamps Shop at: WP9
Wplus9 Strictly Sentiments 4 Stamps Shop at: WP9