Stippled Roses Archives - HIPPOFROG Designs

Last week’s Card & Cuppa project was this sepia-toned any occasion card.

It uses the Stippled Roses Stamp Set and Dies, along with the Elements of Text Stamp Set.

My colour combination is Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Basic White and Very Vanilla.

To begin, the background is stamped with images from the Elements of Text Stamp Set. These are in a combination of first, second and third generation stamping to create the different depths of colour. The Stamp Set is from the Online Exclusives range.

Next, a Blending Brush is used to give the background a vintage feel.

The main roses image is then stamped onto a separate piece of cardstock. It is cut out using the matching dies.

More Crumb Cake cardstock is given a touch of extra colour in places with the Blending Brush before the leaves are cut out. Once they are cut, they given deeper colour as needed.

A White Watercolor Pencil, pressing quite hard, is used to colour the roses. Using a Blender Pen, areas of the white are then quickly blended to create a softer look.

The leaves are coloured by using the Blender Pen to pull the colour from the stamping.

Each of the die cut leaves are stuck to the background before the main rose piece is raised up using Dimensionals.

Some Antique Pearls are added for a fabulous finishing touch.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Last week’s Card & Cuppa project used the new Stippled Roses Stamp Set from the Annual Catalogue.

If you’ve been around for a while, you may have heard me mention the lovely red rose bush that grows by my front door. This Stamp Set reminds me of it.

For my project, I chose to use neutrals of Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla. By using this combination, the attendees could then colour their roses however they wanted.

To begin, the bottom section was masked off diagonally and the main image from the Stamp Set stamped. Then, the leaf image is used to fill in around the edges.

Next, the individual rose is then stamped and punched out using the Online Exclusives Circle Punch.

The roses were then coloured in using Watercolor Pencils with the lines softened using Blender Pens. A little touch of Wink of Stella was used on the smaller rose.

I chose to colour my roses red, to reflect those at home.

Lengths of Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake Baker’s Twine from the Essentials Pack are placed along the masking line.

With the smaller rose coloured, this is mounted onto another circle, also cut using a Circle Punch from Online Exclusives range, before being stuck to the project.

Finally, a short row of Iridescent Pearls are added to the corner.

Due to the diagonal masking, this card can be used either portrait or landscape orientation. Also, as it is quite busy, I chose to leave it sentiment free which helps it to be an ‘any way’ project too.

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Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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