Pretty Pink Posh | Spring Crocuses Card (Blog Hop + Giveaway)

Hello there! In the middle Winter I can’t help but long for Spring – longer, sunnier days with fresh rains and beautiful blooms coming from under the snow. What could be better? Today I have a Spring inspired card featuring beautiful crocus flowers from Pretty Pink Posh.

Surprisingly, I used to not like this flower, but as I grow older it appeals to me more and more.

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CARD DETAILS

Sometime ago I mentioned that I go through “coloring phases” – I color using just Copics, or just Watercolors and these days, it seems, I like to color with my colored pencils, Polychromos by Faber Castell, only. I love the texture these pencils add to my cards and I especially adore using them for floral images.

To create this card I used my mini MISTI stamping tool and stamped several flowers & grass images in VersaFine Onyx Black ink on light blue cardstock (it’s that new paper I’ve been hinting about in one of my previous posts, I still can’t share more about it, but soon!). I kept the images in the MISTI (to be able to re-stamp the outline) and colored them with the help of my Polychromos pencils.

I used the following colors: #101 White, #138 Violet, #136 Purple Violet, #249 Mauve, #171 Light Green, #112 Leaf Green, #226 Permanent Green, #267 Pine Green, #108 Dark Cadmium Yellow, #111 Cadmium Orange.

Once my coloring was done I replaced the panel in the stamping tool and restamped the outlines to have them look darker. I also used my heat tool to dry the ink as it takes longer to dry and absorb into the paper once stamped over pencil coloring. The images I used, for the most part, came from the Crocus Flower stamp set, the little yellow buds are from Cherry Blossoms set.

After die-cutting the images out with the help of coordinating dies I foam mounted them onto a panel of same blue cardstock cut to 3 3/4 x 5 1/2. I stamped a simple “With Love” sentiment in black ink and added horizontal score lines to the background. Lastly, I embellished my card using jewels from the Sugar Plum mix.

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

Pretty Pink Posh Crocus Flower Clear Stamps Shop at: SSS | PPP	Pretty Pink Posh Crocus Flower Dies Shop at: SSS | PPP	Pretty Pink Posh Cherry Blossoms Shop at: SSS | PPP	Pretty Pink Posh Cherry Blossoms Dies Shop at: SSS | PPP
Pretty Pink Posh Floral Hearts Clear Stamps Shop at: SSS | PPP	Pretty Pink Posh Sugar Plum Jewels Mix Shop at: SSS | PPP	Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SB | AZ	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ
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Faber-Castell Polychromos 120 Set Shop at: AZ | BL	Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ | TS	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Ranger Stickles Frosted Lace Glitter Glue Shop at: SSS | SC
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BLOG HOP

Pretty Pink Posh blog
Yana Smakula – you are here
Vera Rhuhay
Ardyth Percy- Robb
Sandy Allnock
Jeanne Jachna
Heather Hoffman
Gemma Campbell
Kelly Latevola

GIVEAWAY!

We are giving away $25 gift certificates to those NINE people who comment during the blog hop. Plus, we are giving away a not-yet-released set for qualifying purchases, while supplies last!

SAVE ME/PIN ME TO PINTEREST

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