Our November Leading Lady, Jessica Frost-Ballas, is back for her triumphant performance! If you missed her smashing debut you must see it CLICK HERE or her sensational second performance where she made us swoon over her stunning cards in an elegant and dramatic color scheme...CLICK HERE! For today's performance Jessica takes us through an gorgeous journey through the seasons.
And don't forget to return at noon CST today for our November 2016 Release Tour of the Stars including our incandescent leading lady.
Without further ado, Jessica....
Good morning! Jess here with a study in seasonal florals using the beautiful floral sets from Winnie and Walter and sentiment sets from the new November release! Let's start with my favorite season, autumn!
For this card I stamped and masked florals from
In Bloom: Anna's Florals and
In Bloom: Renee's Leaves with versamark and then heat-embossed them with gold tinsel embossing powder. Next I colored them with zig clean color real brush markers and blended them out with a damp paintbrush. I added a soft brown wash around the florals and then stamped the sentiment from
Sending You with Evelin T Designs (limited time free with qualifying purchase stamp set) and heat-embossed it with the same gold tinsel embossing powder.
Then I went icy and cold for winter with distress inks and iridescent medium!
I used masking to stamp poinsettias from
In Bloom: Elsa's Florals around the border of my card with versamark before heat-embossing them with silver embossing powder. Then I filled in some of the open areas with foliage and berries. I smooshed stormy sky, chipped sapphire, tumbled glass, and blueprint sketch distress inks onto a craft mat and mixed them with iridescent medium to create a shimmery watercolor. After painting the flowers with distress inks I flicked them with water and let the paper dry naturally. I die-cut the large word from
In a Word: Wishes Cutaway with silver glitter paper and then heat-embossed the rest of the sentiment from
The Big, the Bold, and Greetings on white cardstock and trimmed it down to a label. I adhered the label with foam mounting tape and then added a sprinkling of sparkling clear sequins to finish the card.
Next I went a little CAS with copic markers for spring!
I'm always working to improve my copic coloring and the flowers from Winnie and Walter are PERFECT for coloring! I stamped the flowers and leaves from
In Bloom: Addie's Garden with versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder before coloring them with copic markers. I stamped the sentiment from
Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs with versafine and heat-embossed it with the same clear embossing powder. Finally I added a little spectrum noir clear sparkle to the tulips.
Finally I went with loose watercoloring and bright colors for summer!
I stamped the flowers and greenery from
In Bloom: Anna's Flora and
In Bloom: Addie's Garden with versamark and heat-embossed them with white embossing powder before watercoloring them with Mission Gold watercolors. I used a lot of pigment inside the petals and leaves and then a much more watered down paint around the flowers. I let it dry overnight and then stamped half of the sentiment from
Wishing You with Evelin T Designs with pink dye ink using my MISTI. Then I immediately stamped the sentiment again with versamark and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder. I stamped the rest of the sentiment wishing the recipient 'a bright sunshiny day' inside the card and then added sparkling clear sequins.
I hope my cards inspire you to celebrate different seasons with your papercrafting!
And I'm thrilled that Shay has generously given me a $30 gift certificate to
Winnie and Walter to gift to one lucky commenter! Leave a comment on any of my Leading Lady posts for a chance to win. Leaving a comment on multiple posts will give you additional chances to win so be sure to check back each Saturday!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a fantastic weekend! I'll see you back next week for my final post!
