Hi friends! I was excited to be asked to help my friends at Trinity Stamps celebrate their birthday earlier this summer (check out that post HERE), and summertime being the crazytown that it is with four kids plus the accompanying summertime activities plus working, I haven’t had a chance to post these other projects that I made with the goodies the folks at Trinity were so kind as to send me! I have two projects to share with you using some old and some newer goodies, so let’s get started with the details!
I am a sucker for a beautiful calligraphy font, and the Big Celebrate Foil & Cut (TS | SSS) is so gorgeous. To accompany the festive intent of the sentiment, I hot foiled it using Speckled Prism Glitter Foil. It creates an iridescent rainbow sparkle… so festive and fun! I hot foiled the Celebrate onto some Hammermill cardstock, which is my favorite white cardstock for pretty much everything except watercoloring, then die cut it with the coordinating die.
For the background, I put the Stars & Sprinkles Stencil Set (TS | SSS) to use, color coordinating the sprinkles to the iridescent colors in the hot foiled sentiment! I used blending brushes to blend Dragonfruit (C9 | SSS), Grapefruit (C9 | SSS), Buttercup (C9), Sea Glass (C9 | SSS), and Harbor (C9 | SSS) inks on the stencil, then went around the edges of the card front to create a gorgeous, colorful rainbow that coordinated perfectly with the colors on the background. Such a fun way to create a super colorful card front!
I also die cut several sizes of balloon using the Celebration Balloons Dies (TS | SSS) and some different iridescent cardstock textures. I used iridescent white glitter paper, iridescent shimmer pearl cardstock, and iridescent vellum, layering them all together in a cluster and hiding the foam adhesive behind the solid die cut balloons in order to keep the vellum balloons nice and clean! I used a black pen to create the balloon strings super quickly.
To coordinate with the hot foiled sentiment, I silver embossed a greeting from the Simply Sentimental Birthday (TS | SSS) stamp set onto a strip of white cardstock. I like to keep the sentiment pieces as cohesive to the background as possible, so I used the residual ink leftover on the blending brushes to blend a rainbow on both the foiled die cut and the embossed sentiment die cut. After popping up the sentiment pieces with foam adhesive, I added some iridescent Suncatcher gems for even more iridescent sparkle! (If you haven’t checked out Trinity’s collection of jewels, you are totally missing out; I use them on almost every card!!) I absolutely love how this card turned out! Nothing beats a pretty rainbow, right?
My second card features a totally different style and color scheme; I used the beautiful Teacup Blooms Stamps (TS | SSS) and Dies (TS | SSS) to create the vintage vibe on this encouragement card! I started by stamping the images from Teacup Blooms (TS | SSS) onto some watercolor paper using black pigment ink, then clear embossing over the top. The embossing helps make the watercoloring go lickety split, because the raised lines help to keep the watercolor inside each specific area. I used Daniel Smith watercolors to add some soft pinks, purples, and creamy yellows to the images, then die cut the images using the Coordinating Dies (TS | SSS).
To coordinate with the soft colors on the teacup, I wanted to keep the rest of the card simple and ladylike, so I die cut the A7 Diamond Eyelet Cover Plate Background (TS | SSS) from some ivory cardstock. The ivory cardstock coordinated beautifully with the soft, buttery yellow on the teacup and definitely gives off a vintage tablecloth vibe! Because the cover plate die is generously sized to fit an A7 card front, you can not only use it for A7 but also for A2 and mini slimline card fronts! I love when products can be used in multiple ways.
I trimmed down the lacy “tablecloth” to fit in the center of an A2 black cardstock card front, leaving a crisp black border around the edge. I also heat embossed a greeting from the Punny Cup of Tea sentiment set (TS | SSS) using Platinum embossing powder. I arranged all of the die cuts and sentiment strip on the “tablecloth” and adhered them using foam adhesive. The final touch was to add a few Andesine Aura jewels for some sparkle!
Well, that’s all for my projects today! Trinity Stamps just released some gorgeous new Autumn and Halloween themed goodies, so be sure to take a peek at those, as well. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous weekend!
Really Beautiful!!!!!