ROSE-Y OUTLOOK

Mother's Day is fast approaching! I'd like to introduce to you a card that would be ideal to give to Mom  or anyone else mom-like in your life. It would also be appropriate for MANY other occasions.

The technique used in creating this beautiful rose has been dubbed Floating Reinkers. You may know it by many other names besides, but I'll explain it to you nonetheless.

The rose is created on Shimmery White paper from Stampin' Up! In the following photo, you can see the sparkles SOMEwhat. 

I think roses look the most lovely using two colors that complement each other, as in this card. However, you can also get a beautiful look using only one color, as here:

It isn't nearly as dramatic, but still beautiful.

While my card is created using the retired Fifth Avenue Floral set, it would be equally lovely with any of these current sets: Pleasant Poppies (page 72); Stippled Blossoms (page 78); Fabulous Florets (page 83); the leaves from Gently Falling (page 86); Mixed Bunch (page 94); Bordering on Romance (page 120); Secret Garden (page 17 in the current "mini"); or Swallowtail (page 18 in the current "mini"). In fact, now that I've got my brain going with some of these suggested sets, I think I'll give this a try once again!

Use your imagination. Your image just needs several compartments in which the reinker can flow. 

If you'd like to try your hand at making someone happy with this simply breathtaking card, here's how you do it:

SUPPLIES
Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set (retired)

So Saffron card stock

Your choice of green card stock

Pink Pirouette card stock

Whisper White card stock

Shimmery White card stock

VersaMark Ink

Reinkers: Choice of pinks and/or yellows

Heat Tool

Embossing Buddy

White Embossing Powder

Big Shot

Little Leaves Sizzlits Die

Top Note Bigz Die

Paper Snips

Sanding Block

Water spritzer bottle

Aqua Painter

INSTRUCTIONS:

Because it takes awhile (10 minutes) for the color to dry on the rose, do this step first:

On a piece of Shimmery White card stock, stamp your image with VersaMark. Cover the image with White Embossing Powder, tapping excess powder back into its container. Heat to emboss.

Drop a few drips of your chosen reinker colors onto a foam plate. Spritz the embossed image evenly with water. It needs to be uniformly wet, preferably with some small puddles. Use an Aqua Painter to pick up a little of one of the reinkers and drop it onto the wet surface. Move it around haphazardly with the Aqua Painter. (If the reinker stays in any one place too long and becomes concentrated, you will have a darker splotch. See the small yellow bit on the bottom petal of the rose in the first photo.) So, move the color around. 

With the Aqua Painter, pick up a little of the second reinker, and repeat. Move the colors around until they are distributed as you like and up to all edges. Set aside to dry completely.

Cut two sets of leaves with the Big Shot using the Little Leaves Sizzlits Die. Also at the Big Shot, cut one Top Note in Whisper White and one in Pink Pirouette. With Paper Snips, trim along the dotted lines of the Whisper White piece. If your end result is a little rough-looking, use a Sanding Block to even the edges.

Adhere the Whisper White to the Pink Pirouette, then to the center of the card front, made from a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of So Saffron card stock folded in half, and creased well with a bone folder.

If, by this time, your image is completely dry, carefully cut it out. Place the leaves onto the card front and the rose over the top, just to check for placement. If you are satisfied, pick up the image and tape the leaves in place with scotch tape on the backside. Use two Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the image to the card.

There, now go make someone happy!

Rose-y

Smiles.