This Must Be Love

Hey stampers, Anni here!
Today's card is a wedding card featuring the beautiful handlettered set called This Must Be Love.

My niece asked me to make a wedding card for friends. She wanted me to incorporate the names of the couple.




I started by making a water colour background with soft colours and a little bit of gold. I die cut a heart  and used the negative space. For the sentiment I heat embossed the word Love in with platinium embossing powder on vellum. For the "This Must be..." part I chose a narrow stripe of kraft cardstock and heat embossed it in white.
To include the names I die cut the letters from a piece of the same watercolour paper I used for the background to achieve a subtle look.
I went with a kraft cardbase and assembled the card.

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Just Add Water: Botanical Love & This Must Be Love Stamp + FREE Class

Hi Crafters!

it's Justine here again designing for Create a Smile stamps and I'm also here to invite you to my free class on Distress Inks. Today I'm playing with distress inks and water, one video tutorial is here at Create a Smile and the other is on my blog. A free downloadable PDF file can be accessed here.

I wanted to create a card using distress inks and water and experiment with the different technique.

Check out my video tutorial on how to create this awesome card:

I have plenty of tips and trick in my Introduction to the class but pretty much my tips for blending are:

• use a light hand
• start off the paper and work your way in
• spread out the colour in a circular motion
• use circular sponges to avoid harsh lines

This Must Be Love

Botanical Love

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Hello Crafters! 

It's Kelly here and I'm super excited about today's card. why? 

FLOWERS! 

These flowers remind me more of Summer than Spring but I love all flowers so I'm good with it. :) 

I actually started this card on Periscope because I was in the mood to color flowers. These Crokisses are such fun flowers to color! I thought they would look super pretty in a wreath. 

I used a circle die to trace a light pencil mark onto my card base. I stamped my flowers and leaves using Copic safe markers and then erased my pencil line. This step is especially important because if you put Copic marker over pencil you cannot erase. Believe me I've tried :) Once my color was done I added some details with a white gel pen before outlining all the images with a black pen. I stamped the sentiment directly over top of the design and then used my white gel pen to outline it. For a bit of added contrast I stamped the second portion of the sentiment on black cardstock and heat set it in white. 

If you're going for a one layer look outlining your sentiment with a white gel pen can really help it pop of the page. Speaking of that white gel pen it's awesome for adding details to your stamped images and changing up their look. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Create A Smile Crokisses	Create A Smile This Must Be Love	Create A Smile Botanical Love	*Neenah Classic Crest **110 LB** SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets
Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLACK Black8	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001	Simon Says Stamp Premium Ink Pad INTENSE BLACK Ink065	EK Success WRITING PEN FINE TIP 55-30080
Sakura 6 WHITE Gelly Roll Classic Medium Point Pens Set 57488	3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent	Ranger Embossing Powder WHITE EPJ36685	Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag 05847
https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product.aspx?id=342224	Copic Sketch Marker B00 FROST BLUE	Copic Sketch Marker BG49 DUCK BLUE	Copic Sketch Marker B000 PALE PORCELAIN BLUE
Copic Sketch Marker YG17 GRASS GREEN Bold	Copic Sketch Marker YG03 YELLOW GREEN	*Copic Sketch Marker YG01 GREEN BICE Bright Yellow-Green	*Copic Sketch Marker Y35 MAIZE Bright Bold Yellow
Copic Sketch Marker Y08 ACID YELLOW Bright Bold	*Copic Sketch Marker Y02 CANARY YELLOW Sunshine Cheery Bright	*Copic Sketch Marker RV09 FUCHSIA Bright Bold Hot Pink	Copic Sketch Marker RV06 CERISE Bright Pink
Copic Sketch Marker RV04 SHOCK PINK Bright Bold	*Copic Sketch Marker RV02 SUGARED ALMOND PINK Light Bright	Copic Sketch Marker BG11 MOON WHITE	Copic Sketch Marker V04 LILAC Purple Pastel
Copic Sketch Marker V05 MARIGOLD Violet Pink	Copic Sketch MARKER V09 VIOLET	Copic Sketch Marker V06 LAVENDER Purple	Copic Sketch Marker BG45 NILE BLUE

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