Southern Serenade with an 'accent' from Accented Blooms

Hi everyone.  Today I am sharing a card that I made with the little punch out from the Accented Blooms stamp set. The main image is from Southern Serenade, I just love that set, but the background was created with a little stamp that was laying on my desk from a card that I had made the day before.  

 See that little punch out stamp?  Stampin' Up! does this when there is a large area that is to be punched out, so that we don't accidentally get ink where we don't want it.  I was looking at that little punch out and thought it would make an interesting background.  What do you think?  I stamped in Crushed curry, sometimes full strength, sometimes with out re-inking the stamp, for a lighter tone.







 I colored in the main image with my favorite tool, the Aqua Painter.  I added Crushed Curry to the blossoms, Old Olive to the leaves and a lit of Crumb Cake 
shadow to the right of the flower.

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Product List

Southern Serenade Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145921]

$21.00

Accented Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146681]

$20.00

Colored Doilies

[146935]

$4.50

Aqua Painters

[103954]

$17.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

$7.50

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

$7.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[147116]

$7.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$6.00

Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101910]

$9.00

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[121045]

$8.50

1-1/2" Circle Punch

[138299]

$16.00

Paper Snips Scissors

[103579]

$10.00

Black Ice Technique with the Southern Serenade stamp set

Have you seen the Black Ice Technique? I keep seeing it and so I thought I would try it out.  The look is really pretty, sort of looks like an etching, and it is quite simple to do.
Most of the samples I have seen have been very dark, so I decided to lighten it up a bit with the Wisteria Wonder background and some white ribbon.  What do you think?
One of my friends brought this technique to a group meeting and we all thought it was fun, so then I brought it to a Stamp Camp and this is the card we did.  The place where my friend Linda saw this technique originally was from a demonstrator named Melissa Kerman, she has a lot of samples on her blog if you want to check them out.
I made a quick video for this technique if you would like to see it done step by step.  Check it out!

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Product List

Southern Serenade Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145921]

$21.00

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

$4.00

Wisteria Wonder 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[122922]

$8.00

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[121045]

$8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[100730]

$9.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

$7.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$8.50

Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109130]

$5.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

$30.00

Heat Tool

[129053]

$30.00