Hello bloggy friends! Did you see my last blog post? Oy. Well, the new A/C unit is installed and the cool air is blowing again…and my crabbiness is waning… Yesterday I went to a lovely tea party birthday party for one very cool artsy chick I know! I'll be sharing her birthday card soon – been dying to show everyone! Today is my day to post over at A Blog Named Hero, and I'm sharing the same card here. This card was inspired by a gorgeous pink dogwood tree I found a few weeks ago while out taking pictures. The Hero Arts Dogwood stamp was the perfect stamp! I don't know why, but dogwood trees always remind me of antiques and old times? Is that weird? They are so beautiful and elegant. I decided to make sort of an Antiquey/Victorian card.
I stamped my image twice onto watercolor paper, in brown ink. I stamped two, since I knew I would want to layer at least part of the image later. Turns out that Victorian Velvet Distress Ink is the EXACT color of those blooms! I watercolored with my water pen and my ink pads…. You can see I added a touch of Spruce ink as a shadow around parts of the image.
I really love the sentiment stamps with this new font from Hero Arts! I added some text in the corner using just part of a large background stamp. (You can see my full supply list on the ABNH blog!)
Thanks for coming by to check out what I'm up to! Have a fantastic weekend! XO
And here is a photo of the inspiring tree!
Comments
13 responses to “Victorian Dogwoods…”
Beautiful card–I’ve used the dogwood stamps so many times. It also makes a beautiful sympathy card. Glad your a/c is working (although at least it was cooler the past few days). Did you make it to Richmond for the sale?
Absolutely gorgeous, Wanda! You did such a beautiful job with the colors! Hope that you are well!! Hugs! 😀
Gorgeous!
GORGEOUS Wanda!
Love the point turned a great idea…..
Beautiful! 🙂
Oh, wow! How gorgeous, Wanda! I love, love the vintage look and love your design. The coloring is stunning. Love the dimension and the bit of text print in the upper corner. Love it all!
This is beautiful Wanda!
totally gorgeous! love how you colored them.
So happy you are able to be cooled off! And the card is so beautiful. The coloring and the raised flower makes it so special…
So glad your A/C is fixed and your grouchiness is waning. I don’t know which I love more, the dogwood or the dogwood card. Both are so lovely. you did a great job capturing the color variation on your card. Beautiful.
beautiful. the words in the left hand corner, what a cool touch.
Beautiful card Wanda! Love the dogwood.
Wowie!! Just Beautiful Wanda! Love the Softy vintagey feel of your Lovely dogwoods!! Fab water coloring too! 😎
Hugs
Shannon