Many Thanks Friend! Card by Tasha

 Happy Friday Art Impressions Friends!

Tasha here sharing a bright Spring card created with the new 6188-FG Daisy Border Stamp Set. Now that we are in the month of May, this stamp set is making me excited for the pretty flowers to start popping up. I have a variety of flowers, one flowering tree, and a lilac bush at my house and just love when everything is in full bloom. 

To make this card, I stamped the floral image and colored the flowers with Copic Markers. I was going to have white petals, but wanted more color and love the pop of blue.  To embellish, I used a white gel pen to add little accents and ink blended around the border with orange Distress Oxide ink. I also used foam tape to raise the center card up; I think the foam makes the inked edges really stand out nicely.

For the greeting, I stamped "Many Thanks" from the 6186-FG Tulip Border Set and matted it with gold glitter paper. To add more detail, I used the 6048-Scalloped Rectangle Dies; the two smallest dies created this layered look.

Lastly, I attached pretty yellow floral pattern paper, and orange, white, and pink cardstock. I wanted to coordinate with the colors used on the flowers and keep the colors light and bright to complete the design.

Thank you so much for checking out my card and I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Friends Are Like Flowers by Janet

Today I'm sharing a card I've made with the new 6188 - FG Daisy Border set. This is part of a new line called Countryside. There are three different floral borders and two more sets with a total of 4 houses that are sized to nestle into the floral borders. These are really charming sets and work wonderfully alone or together, depending on on the scene that you are wanting to compose.

I stamped the daisies on Canson XL WC Paper from the store. I really enjoyed coloring the pink and yellow daisies with polychromo colored pencils. After that I applied a wash of metallic light blue watercolor. Similarly I applied a light green wash of watercolor at the bottom of the daisies. Once the paper dried fully, I stamped the sentiment and heat embossed it with black embossing powder. 

Once complete, I created a 5" square bright pink square card base. I cut out a pink shimmer cardstock mat using 6047 - Scalloped Squares Dies. Then I cut out the daisy piece and layered it on top of the scalloped mat. This grouping was adhered to the center of the card base. 

I love how this turned out. Pencils create a different look to watercolor or alcohol markers. It's bright and rich but also adds texture since the pencils conform to the texture of the watercolor paper. This is such a nice composition and made easy with Art Impressions products designed by the amazingly talented Bonnie! 

Thanks for visiting the Ai Blog and my project today. I hope you enjoyed my take on the set. You can find all the Countryside sets at the Ai store. You'll find your favorite stamps, dies, papers, and accessories at there!

Happy Crafting!