Flourishes BBB22 Challenge and a QUICK TIP!

Welcome to another month of Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful Challenge!  (BBB22)!  As spring begins to sprout in many parts of the world, let's honour nature by showing off the beauty of what we find in the garden. Pick your favorite flower and make it the centerpiece of your card or creation!  For this challenge we will pick  from all the participants one true beauty favorite who will be asked to join the team for the next month's BBB Challenge, so play along and let's see all those beautiful Garden creations!


For my card today I chose the lovely Magnolias.   I have always been in awe of the magnolia flower.  It is so big and majestic yet flowery, feminine, and fragrant.    I also combined this flower set with the newly released Antique Lace background. 


For the background I inked up the Antique Lace background with Versa mark and clear embossed.  I love this look on any card stock, but really appreciate it on dark rich colors.  Here, I used expresso.  

For the magnolia, I really wanted to go with a sun-kissed color.  The golden sun shining from low in the late afternoon sky reflecting the rich tones from this beautifully crafted ivory flower.   I used Flourishes Classic Ivory card stock, Memento Tuxedo black, and Flourishes Copic Color Collections.  I inked one image and stamped to my Spellbinder's Romantic Rectangles die that I already cut out and ink distressed with Ranger Antique Linen ink.   I then stamped two more images and colored.  I cut out both.  For one layer I used the whole image cut out.  For the top layer I just used the larger magnolia flower and smaller flower to the right.  I used foam tape to add dimension between layers.  I finished with a sentiment die cut.  I stamped another one of the images from the set directly to the sentiment tag using Ranger Brushed Corduroy stamped off once for a lighter effect.  I then stamped the sentiment using Ranger Walnut Stain ink to mimic the rich tones from the expresso card stock background.

I finished the card with some touches of golden glitter on my magolia, a distressed inked wrinkled ribbon bow, gold metallic curly que memory thread, and pearlized button from my stash.  Love how it turned out!

I love seam binding and wrinkle ribbon.   These products are very similar.   I love the weight of it, the texture, and the versatility.  While I love to dye my own seam binding with inks and such, sometimes I really have to work in a pinch.  For those times, I have a quick tip to share.  I use Ranger Ink Blending tool, replacement foam, and Ranger inks to slightly ink distress it to alter it a bit.  It is fast and gives a rich vintage distressed feel to any color in a snap.  Dries fast and I can alter how much or how little with just the swipe of the blending tool.  Thought I'd share.  The picture up top shows a close up of the tag as well as my ink distressed seam binding.   

Flourishes Copic Color Collection

Flourishes Copic Color Collection

As always thanks so much for stopping by!  Make sure to check out all the other beautiful creations from the Bring Back Beautiful Designers!

Betty Wright  (you are here)!
Claudia Rosa
Iwona Palmountain
Kathy Jones
Linda Duke
Naomi Gong
Yvonne Hagane

Betty

I am playing along with a few other blog challenges!

Crazy 4 ChallengesC4C135:  Gardening/Great Outdoors

Simon Says Stamp and Show:  Your Favorite stamps (flowers)! 

The Stamp Man:  Favorite Technique (paper tole)

Just Keep on Creating:  Anything Goes

Make it Monday:  Always Anything Goes 

Simon Says Stamp:  Birthday