June Card Kit Inspiration: Stamped Backgrounds + One Layer Card Set
Hey there everyone! It’s Nina-Marie here with you today to share some inspiration on using the new stamp set included in the June 2016 card kit.
The stamp set, Looking for the Miracles, is a gorgeous one that has a lot of fun floral and leaf images. One of my favorite parts of the stamp set is the sentiment; not only is the font gorgeous, but the sentiment is perfect for encouragement cards of all kins=ds, which are always handy to have around. Today I’ve used the leaves and the sentiment to create backgrounds for this set of beautiful encouragement cards. Not only are these cards fun to make, but they are one layer too, which makes them super easy to mail!
To create these cards I started by cutting watercolor paper down to 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″ (folded) card bases and placing them into my Mini Misti stamping tool. I prepped the cards with anti-stick powder and then stamped my sentiments onto the center of each card with Simon’s clear embossing ink. The sentiments were then heat embossed using gold embossing powder.
My next step was to stamp the leaves and smaller images to create the background framing my sentiment. For the green and purple cards I used the following Simon ink colors: Jellybean, Catkin, Green Leaf (leaves), Sea Glass (dot clusters) and Hydrangea (florals). For the coral and mint cards I used: Mint, Lake Shores, Spring Rain (leaves), Ducking (dot clusters), Coral Reef (florals).
Once my stamping was done it was time to add some color! I used Tim Holtz distress inks and water brush to color in my images. Because I used Simon dye inks I can watercolor over top without fear of the images bleeding because Simon’s dye inks are waterproof and safe for use with markers like Copics. For my watercoloring I used the following colors on the green and purple cards: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Crushed Olive (leaves) and Shaded Lilac (florals). For the coral and mint cards I used: Cracked Pistachio, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers (leaves) and Abandoned Coral (florals). I then covered over every leaf and flower using the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens.
And because I love the look of paint splatters I had to add some using the Finetec gold metallic watercolor set. You can of course leaves the splatters off for a more clean and simple look. Finally, I added a bit of twine across the top of each card in complimenting colors.
These were so much fun to make and I love how they have created such a fun set of cards to use for yourself, or give away to friends and family as gifts! I hope you’ve enjoyed this bit of inspiration and thanks so much for stopping by today to spend some time with me! See you soon!
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Love the gold for the sentiment!
Beautiful stamped background. Great one layer card idea.
Beautiful cards.
it’s a dreary day and the bright colors cheered me up.
thanks for sharing.
GORGEOUS cards! Love the ink color combos that you chose – so happy and cheerful!
Beautiful cards & backgrounds!
What great one layer cards. Very pretty.
Gorgeous designs!!!
Beautiful card, colours and sentiment!
They are so pretty! I always love finding inspiration here!!!
Gorgeous cards.
What a fun set of cards with pretty, bright colors!
I love this gold trend right now. Thanks for the giveaway!
Love everything about that sentiment, font, wording and of course, the gold embossing. This card set is just gorgeous, Nina-Marie!
Just lovely and great color combinations.
Wonderful stamping & design!
Great cards – so colorful! :)
Can’t wait to get my kit.
Loved your designs.
Beautiful cards–I just received my card kit in yesterday’s mail, can’t wait to play with it!
Love the colors — so happy!
These look great!
Wow nice card. Your background is awesome
Lovely cards!
Those are very Lovely looking cards!!!!
Looks great
So lovely. I think this stamp set has lots of possibilities. Thanks for inspiring.
Beautiful cards.
I have some stamps but no ink. Where should I begin?
Beautiful cards with
a gorgeous design.
Carla from Utah
Really Beautiful card!! Love Junes kit!!
I have the hardest tie making one-layer cards, but this is a great format. Thanks
Stunning!
Very pretty background. I like the colors.
Nina-Marie, you do such excellent and beautiful work on your creations!! Love your skills with color and placement and card styling!! YOU are awesome!!!
Another great showcasing of the new kit ….. awesome Nina-Marie.
Looking forward to working with this stamp set.
Oh my goodness Nina, these are PRETTY! Love all the colours! Very nice.
Beautiful cards & sentiment – thanks so much!!!
Very pretty card. tfs!
Beautiful and feminine!
Beautiful cards. Thank you for the tutorial on how they were created.
Very nice cards. That sentiment is great. Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous cards! I love how simply changing the colors of ink gives a different feel and look to the cards. Beautifully done!
This is gorgeous!! Love the backgrounds you have created!! The sentiments are beautiful!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Absolutely gorgeous! LOVE all of the colors and images….VERY pretty!
Totally love NIna-Marie’s colors using this kit. Great ideas which I can’t wait to use as inspiration!
Awesome set of cards! Love the color combos!
Love the colors and flowers and the sentiment,too! Wonderful!
I really like the idea of these cards. TFS!
This is just wonderful!!
aw, these are beautiful and a great idea to boot!