Distress Oxide Stamping w/Dawn ft. BEATIFUL BUTTERFLIES

Who doesn't love hexagons and butterflies?

I know I do. Put them together, and it's a recipe for design success as far as I'm concerned. Throw in a little watercolor and it's a trifecta of fun!

Today's cards are not only fun to create, but easy as well. I used the "stamps from dies" technique along with our new Beautiful Butterflies stamp and dies with our Clear Cut Stackers: Hexagon Die to create a modern card set with a slightly vintage feel.

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I stamped the all-over background pattern using a little water and Distress Oxide Inks in Candied Apple, Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers and Peeled Paint onto watercolor paper. The stamped pattern looked so stunning all on it's own, that it didn't require much fuss after that to pull them together into cards.

I die cut the "BEAUTIFUL" stacked sentiment from one of the medium sized hexagons and adhered a die cut "birthday" from our Happy Birthday Die on top. I colored each using an ink blending tool and matching Oxide Ink color to match each background. I finished off the sentiment with "wishes" from our Birthday Wishes stamp set stamped in PURE COLOR dye ink in Warm Wool.

I may have found a new favorite Autumn color palette!

Thanks much for stopping by today!

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Tropical Birthday: No Line Copic Coloring with Kelly

Hello Crafters!

Wow, It's been a while since I've shared over here. I've missed you guys!

Full disclosure this card took forever to make. Not because of the technique, nope. Because I moved and then had to track down all the pieces and parts! Haha!

I started by stamping the gorgeous trellis background stamp in Nautical Navy and it was done. There's something really nice about not having to fuss with your background all the time.

I really wanted to try my hand at no line coloring the beautiful hibiscus included in the Tropic Fever set. I chose a couple of different colors that would match the combination I had in mind and stamped them out.

I did all the coloring using copic markers. Because WPlus9 inks are alcohol based they blend really nicely with alcohol markers of any kind. Once the coloring was done I die cut them and started on my sentiment.

You can watch the entire card come together in the video below.

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It's definitely a little bit busier than my usual style, but I really love how it turned out. The gold with those gorgeous summer colors is making me super happy.

Thank you so much for stopping in today!

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