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Hello and welcome to the August Inspiration Station Challenge!

We have a fun image filled with reds, yellows, oranges and greens for this month and I decided to use these colours on my card today.

The Inspiration Station Challenge

Cardmaking Process

I started by stamping and heat embossing my image onto watercolour cardstock with white embossing powder. After the embossing powder was heat set, I taped the watercolour cardstock down to a hard board.

Then I sprinkled over some of my Brusho watercolour powders in yellow, red, and green. To activate the watercolour powders, I sprayed the whole cardstock panel with water. This got activated the watercolour powders and got them to blend together. After this had all dried, I fussy cut out the image and the centre.

For the background, I dry embossed a 5×7 sized piece of cardstock with a brick pattern stencil. Dry embossing with stencils is one of my favourite techniques for backgrounds, I think it adds the perfect amount of interest to the background.

I popped up the butterfly wreath with some thin foam squares and added it to my background. Then I added the sentiment which was white heat embossed on black cardstock to the lower right corner of the wreath. To finish I sprinkled a few gems around the card.

I hope you enjoyed reading about how I created this card! Make sure to come follow me on my Instagram @rookiecardmaker to see even more of my cardmaking creations.

Supplies

• Dream Big stamp set from Crafty Meraki
• Gilded Greetings stamp and die set from Crafty Meraki
• Brick and Mortar 6×8 stencil from Picket Fence Studios
• Golden Illusions gems from Crafty Meraki