Sale-A-Bration -- A Touch of Ink (Hummingbird)

02/15/2021

Hi There!

I hope you had a great weekend! Today's post features the A Touch of Ink and Heal Your Heart stamp sets and the Oh So Ombre 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper -- all available during Sale-A-Bration. On Friday, I discussed a card made with the A Touch of Ink stamp set using the two-step stamping feature of the stamp set. This time I colored the images with Stampin' Blends Markers.

A Blending Brush was used to add Rococco Rose ink at the center of a panel of Basic White cardstock. Then the cardstock was embossed with the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder and the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine. The Basic White cardstock was adhered to a panel of Basic Black cardstock with the right and bottom edges of the Basic White cardstock 1/16" from the right and bottom edges of the Basic Black cardstock and leaving a 1/4" border of Basic Black on the top and left sides of the Basic White panel. The panels were adhered at the center of the Rococco Rose card front.

The flower and hummingbird outline images were stamped on Basic White cardstock and colored with Stampin' Blends Markers:

Hummingbird: Light Bermuda Bay, Dark Pool Party, Light Pretty Peacock
Flower: Light Blackberry Bliss, Light Rich Razzleberry, Dark Mango Melody, Dark Just Jade

Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush was used to cover the colored hummingbird to add some sparkle and shimmer. The flower image was fussy cut with Paper Snips and adhered near the lower left side of the Basic White panel. The top flower area of the flower outline image was stamped on a piece of Basic White cardstock and colored with the same Stampin' Blends Markers as used for the first flower. The left and lower flower of the top grouping of three flowers was fussy cut using Paper Snips and adhered over the same area of the flower adhered to the Basic White panel using Stampin' Dimensionals. The hummingbird was fussy cut using Paper Snips and adhered above the flower image with the beak of the hummingbird pointing toward the center of the top flower.

The "sorry for your loss" greeting from the Heal Your Heart stamp set was stamped on a strip of Bermuda Bay solid paper from the Oh So Ombre 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper. Strips of Rococco Rose and Blackberry Bliss solid paper were adhered behind the Bermuda Bay strip. The paper strips were adhered to the Basic White panel with the right edge of the paper strips flush with the right side of the Basic White panel and the bottom edge of the Blackberry Bliss paper 3/8" above the bottom edge of the Basic White panel.

The flower outline image was stamped at the lower left corner of a panel of Basic White cardstock. The flower was colored with the same colors used for the card front. Bermuda Bay, Rococco Rose, and Blackberry Bliss paper strips were adhered at the base of the flower image with the left edges of the paper strips flush with the Basic White panel and the bottom edge of the Blackberry Bliss strip 1/16" above the bottom edge of the Basic White panel. The Basic White panel was adhered at the center of the inside sentiment area of the card base.

A Blending Brush was used to apply Rococco Rose ink at the upper center of the Basic White panel. The "Wishing I could heal your heart" sentiment, from the Heal Your Heart stamp set, was stamped at the upper center of the panel using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

A scrap piece of cardstock was inserted into the lower left corner of the Medium Basic White Envelope (this is done so that the Stampin' Blends Markers used to color the flower will not bleed to the back of the envelope). The flower outline image was stamped at the lower left front corner of the envelope. A Blending Brush was used to apply Rococco Rose ink over the stamped image. Stampin' Blend Markers were used to color the flower image with the same colors used for all flowers on the card front and inside the card. The scrap of cardstock was removed from the inside of the envelope.

I really love using the Blending Brushes to create soft backgrounds behind images. The Blending Brushes are so much easier to manage than sponges and I find I'm less likely to have those pounce and fingernail marks that were pretty common when I used the sponges. If you haven't tried them yet, these brushes are made of many thousands of very fine and soft bristles so that they flow over the paper very smoothly. You don't need to have a brush for every color, you just pounce and brush the bristles over a scrap piece of paper until the brush is clean before moving to the next color. OR you can rinse the brush with clear water for dye inks and a little mild soap for pigment inks, rinse until the water is clear, blot the bristles to remove the excess water, and let dry overnite. Dark ink colors will stain the brushes, but those stains won't transfer once the brush has been cleaned.

Card Measurements

Basic Black: 4" x 5-1/4"; Basic White: 3-3/4" x 5", 2" x 3", 1-1/2" x 1-1/2", 2-1/2" x 3", 4" x 5-1/4"; Rococco Rose: 4-1/4" x 11" scored at 5-1/2" along the 11" length; Oh So Ombre 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper: 5/8" x 3-1/8", 2@ 3/8" x 3-1/8", 3 @ 3/8" x 2-1/2"

Supplies I used to make this card

Stamps: A Touch of Ink, Heal Your Heart; Inks: Rococco Rose, Memento Tuxedo Black, Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush; Stampin' Blend Markers: LT Bermuda Bay, LT Blackberry Bliss, DK Just Jade, DK Mango Melody, DK Pool Party, LT Pretty Peacock, LT Rich Razzleberry; Cardstock: Basic Black, Basic White, Rococco Rose; Designer Series Paper: Oh So Ombre 6" x 6"; Tools: Blending Brushes, Scripty 3D Embossing Folder, Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine; Other: Medium Basic White Envelope