I picked up the In Bloom stamps and stencils from Concord and 9th last year. I love the fact that there are a whole set of stencils that coordinate with this stamp set, but for my first card I really wanted to focus on the stamp set and just do some fun coloring.
The image was stamped with Gina K Black Amalgam ink. I chose four shades of red (R02, R05, R24, and R29) to color the large flowers, three shades of green (YG09, G09, G29) for the leaves, and three browns for the wooden stems (E74, E77, E79).
The small flowers were colored with just the two lightest shades of red. I added the tiniest bit of shading in the light stripes on those small flowers, but for the larger flowers I just rotated through the four shades of red with no shading.
Once the coloring was done I placed the stencil mask over the colored image and added a bit of inking using Altenew Pure Graphite ink.
Once the mask was removed, there were a few places where it had shifted and the inking didn't extend all the way to the edge of the stamped image. To cover those spots I simply used a Copic (my cool grays) to add a bit of color in those areas.
Then, to crisp up the stamped lines, I placed my panel back in my MISTI (the stamp was still in place), inked it with Versafine, and stamped again.
To finish the card up, I trimmed my panel down, added the thinnest black mat, and adhered them to my card base.
The sentiment, also from the set, was embossed in white on a strip of black cardstock and popped up in the center of the card.
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