Birthday Wishes with Layers of Vintage Roses

Hello everyone!  I'm back with a very feminine birthday card featuring the gorgeous Vintage Roses by Altenew.  As much as I love these flowers, layered stamps always seem to be a challenge for me and require much time and patience.  After searching for the exact color combination that suits my eye I also find that I have to practice lining up each layer a few times before I finally get a flower that passes enough to showcase on my card.  I admit, I'm very picky and I tend to be a perfectionist.  What I end up with is pages and pages of stamped flowers to chose from in different colors, some lined up....some not so much.  Practice makes perfect right?  The good thing is, I only used a few of them on this card and I have plenty of left over images that will hopefully make my next floral card much easier.  I also made sure to write down the color combinations for future use.  I'll list them below for you also.

Roses:

First I tried the recommendation of starting with the darkest layer, then adding the medium layers and saving the lighter color for last.  What I ended up with was a flower that looked like it was out of focus.  Very blurry.  I'm thinking it was probably the inks I was using;  Hero Arts Shadow inks. Adding the light layer of ink on top seemed to mute all of the darker layers.  So I switched them around and started with the light color first.  That made a huge difference!

Leaves:

With that problem fixed I moved on to the leaves.  For those I did some generation stamping using only one color ink.  I inked up my stamp, stamped off on a piece of scrap paper and then stamped my image. It gave a nice, light, textured impression.  The second layer I stamped directly over that image with the same color.

For the shaker element on this card I decided to use some vellum cardstock for the window instead of clear transparency film.  I love how soft it looks while still being able to see the sequins and beads shaking around inside.  I went with silver sparkle cardstock for the diecut birthday sentiment.

For this card I used the following supplies:

Stamps:  Vintage Roses (Altenew)

Ink:  field greens, soft pink, bubblegum, ultra pink (Hero Arts Shadow Ink), pink lemonade (My Favorite Things).

Paper:  ombre' stripes (Lil' Inker Designs), silver sparkle cardstock, translucent vellum cardstock (My Favorite Things), white 140 lb cardstock (Neenah Exact).

Accessories:  Birthday Wishes die (Stamp of Approval Young at Heart Collection/CAS-ual Fridays), Anytime Tags die (Lil' Inker Designs),  dinensional tape (3M), sheer ribbon, assorted sequins and beads (unknown).


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