Glittery Dogwoods

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! Spring is finally here with all the pollen covering everything! All the blooming flowers are so pretty but that pollen makes everything look like it's covered in powdered egg yolk! Sneezing has become the national salute.

So for my card, there's no yellow, lol. I'm just pretending it all washed away and was replaced by glitter. I love these dogwoods and looking out my back door I can see the dogwoods blooming among the rest of trees in the woods. I stamped the dogwoods randomly, then masked them. Here's a little masking tip: Stamp your image several times on copy paper. Put a little respositionable tape on the backs then hold them up to the light, line them up and stick them on top of each other. Now cut out. This way you have 3 masks and only have to cut once. So after I masked them, I sponged on blue and green inks over the background. I didn't color the flowers at all but instead used some pinkish stickles in the centers and clear stickles for the rest of the bloom.

The sentiment was stamped in black on top of the dogwoods I stamped using the same ink for the background. I did stamp it off once before hand so it wouldn't be so bright. I added some black enamel accents to the centers and dotted the edge of the sentiment flag as well. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and all that glitter glue took fa-eh-va to dry! Don't be tempted to use a heat tool...I promise, it will not end well. I did finally use my hair dryer on the COOL setting. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: Dogwood Branch, Mother's Day Greeting

paper: white

ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaliedacolor Caribbean Sea

accessories: stickles, Ranger black enamel accents, black Permapaque marker, fishtail banner die

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