Oh The Places You’ll FLAMINGO
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming the super talented Chari Moss of Lawn Fawn back to our blog as a guest! Read on and enjoy this beautiful inspiration!
Nothing is better in the summer than a tropical sunset. I live in the tropics or at the beach but a mountain sunset is an amazing sight as well. That was my inspiration for today’s card. Every time I see a beautiful sunset I immediately start thinking about which inks I could blend together to capture that beauty.
I wanted to pair the flamingos from Flamingo Together with my sunset because I thought the pinks of the flamingos would go perfectly with the colors I had planned. I started by die cutting a piece of distress watercolor cardstock with the largest of the Small Cross Stitched Rectangle dies so that I could have a nice border around my panel. I blended distress inks on the cardstock starting with scattered straw along the bottom, followed by dried marigold, worn lipstick and wilted violet at the top. I tried to mimic the curve of the Simple Hillside I cut from Black Licorice cardstock. I also curved the sentiment to match the hillside and white embossed it with versamark ink and white embossing powder.
The flamingos are colored with copic markers. (Editors note: 25% off Copic Markers sale with code markersale going on NOW!) I wanted to color them slightly different so they weren’t exactly the same but I was sure to pick colors to match my background. Finally I stamped the palm trees with Versafine black ink for a nice crisp silhouette and layered the whole scene on a Mermaid cardstock card base. I added a little aqua eye shadow with a gel pen to my girl flamingo to tie in with the aqua card base as well as bit of Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle pen glitter to her wing.
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Wonderful background
Beautiful background and lovely layout for this bird card – TFS have a blessed week!
Flamingos are popular & you have done a wonderful job with the creation. Especially like the background. Have a Bee-utiful day!
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Flamingos just make me smile out loud!
Fun
Gorgeous and so fun!!!
Flamingo fabulous! That background is stunning!
~carol
Gorgeous background. Love this card.
I love the sunset background!
Gorgeous sunset background on your beautiful card!
Such a lovely card. I always enjoy Chari’s work.
Lovely card!
Scrumptious colors and lovely card!!!
<3 J
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Love this card, the background blending is to die for!
Love the colors in your sunset.
The flamingos are so cute and you did an awesome job inking that sunset!!
Beautiful card.
Love the shading in the background.
guess I’ll flamingo into my craft room and
make a greeting card.
thanks.
Chari has made a stunningly beautiful background for this sweet and charming sentiment and stamp. Thanks so much for sharing this!!
Adorable card. Congrats winners!
Gorgeous background colors, and I’ve always loved flamingos!!
Such a beautiful sunset, Chari.
Such a perfect card and congrats to the lucky winners!
Heehee! Love the eye shadow! Too cute!
Super card! The background looks so wonderfully striking against the black silhouette!
This is sooooooo darn cute and pretty! Your blending is amazing! Love the ‘polkie dot’ backdrop – adds such a nice whimsical feel to your card :)
Beautiful card!!
Love everything about your card. Your sunset is beautiful. Love the cross stitch in the palm trees. Brilliant!! The neatest thing is the eye shadow on the girl flamingo and glitter on her wing. Now how cute is that!!! Thanks for sharing with us!
I just LOVE flamingos! This card is absolutely amazing!
Awesome blending on this beauty!!
Love the color combination!
Perfect sunset! I do love Lawn Fawns products. Great selection and good price point. Thanks for sharing.
Flamingos are such fun summery birds! Great card!
Love the colors on this background! And those flamingos are awesome! ;)
Beautiful card. Love the glorious background:)
Your card is beautiful, I love your background!
What a great card Chari, and such a cute sentiment. You have got to love Lawn Fawn for their creativity when designing their stamp sets! Too cute!
Oooops, forgot to CONGRATULATE your lucky winners! YAY for you ladies!
The card is beautiful. It makes wish I could go on a vacation.
Absolutely gorgeous sunset!! Now I’m going to go through my ink stash to find what colors I can use to recreate some of the mountain sunsets we see here in Colorado!
Wow what a pretty sunset and love the LF images.
Beautiful card! Love the colors!
Love the play on words on this cute card. The background is outstanding!
Very cute card!!
Love this card! Awesome colors!
Cute card and a wonderful background. Love the color blend!
Love these cute flamingoes and your BG is amazingly beautiful. I need to practice mine …
Great background! The flamingos are super cute!
Cute card and beautiful background!! Love it:)
Such a pretty Flamingo card, love the Lawn Fawn stamps, so versatile!
Love the gorgeous back ground
Beautiful colours and such an adorable card!! Love Lawn Fawn ~