Flourishing Fuchsias

I’m sharing a card today featuring the beautiful new Flourishing Fuchsias stamp set and coordinating dies from Pretty Pink Posh. My sister loves fuchsias, so I was excited to see this floral set in the new release and had to make her a card.

This set is part of the May 2018 release, which goes live tomorrow, May 5th! Even better, release bundles are now available! There’s also a new jewels bundle. It’s a fantastic release so be sure to check it out.

Pencils are one of my favourite colouring mediums so I thought I’d try using them on vellum. I began by heat embossing the images in white onto a piece of vellum. I used Faber Castell polychromos pencils, adding light layers and slowly building up the colour. I was careful to avoid colouring over the white embossing. A tip for colouring smaller areas is to colour on the reverse of the vellum. That way you can add colour more easily without worrying about the embossed lines.

I die cut the images with the coordinating dies, then put them aside to work on the background. I cut a rectangle of white card, slightly smaller than my card base, and rounded the corners for a softer look. I used distress oxide inks in picked raspberry and tattered rose to add a light ombré from the top of the card panel, fading out to white.

I used tattered rose distress oxide ink to stamp some fuchsias on the panel. This adds some more interest to the background, with the stamping set back behind the vellum fuchsias. I stamped a sentiment from the Simple Sayings Life stamp set, then adhered the panel to a white card base.

Adding vellum to a card can be tricky but as these images are coloured in, it’s a little easier. I used some clear foam adhesive squares to add some dimension to some of the vellum flowers and leaves, then some sticky adhesive dots behind anything laying flat on the card.