Hello, Altenew friends! Welcome to our September 2020 Guest Designer post! Are you ready to be inspired? Today’s featured designer is the talented Jessie Banks. If you have been following our release blog hops, you may have seen some of her beautiful works of art. Her paper crafting skills are amazing! Check out her blog and have a quick look through her Facebook feed and get ready to be amazed by her beautiful floral slimline card!
Hey all! I’m Jessie, a thirty-something mother to one energetic 10-year-old boy from Saskatchewan, Canada. Arts and crafts have been a love of mine for my entire life. I picked up cardmaking about 7 or 8 years ago and never looked back. I will use basically any medium on a card but am partial to watercolours, coloured pencils, and alcohol markers. I dabble in acrylics, pastels, and gouache.
I love stretching things out of the norm, be it from the layout of the card to the shape of the card, and especially, the colours! It is not uncommon for me to paint flowers in some shade they would never naturally be like blue roses, teal poppies, etc.
My Project
Today, I am combining the Beauty Within and Wallpaper Art stamp sets, using the Rose Gold Crisp Embossing Powder. Finishing it all off with Just Thanks Wax Seal Stamp, and Rose Gold wax.
I always find the look of white on black so striking and chic looking. Adding in the rose gold really set this one off the chart for me.
Stamping and embossing the florals from Beauty Within and the foliage from Wallpaper Art gave it so much sparkle and really reinforced the ghostly white painting which I did using the Artists' Watercolor 24 Pan Set.
Adding a little bit of white string and putting the imperfect wax seal over it for the sentiment really finished it off for me. I love how the seal is not centered in the wax, and it’s really just perfectly imperfect.
Video Tutorial
I have a fun little video of the entire process to share with you all. You can watch it below or over on the Altenew YouTube channel. I hope you enjoy!
Thank you for spending some of your time with me today. I hope you feel inspired to reach into your supplies and create something beautiful today.
Hugs,
Jessie
16 comments
Absolutely stunning card, Jessie!
This is so gorgeous!
What a fabulous card!!! I absolutely love the shading you achieved on the flower petals. The rose gold is so pretty on the black. Adding the wax seal adds so much class! Imperfect seals are better than perfect in my book.
Wonderful card and I loved your video too, Jessie! Such an elegant look with the embossing on black & the subtle white watercolors!!
Wow so grogeous!!
Beautifully done!!!!!
Wonderful video on the process. I like the tips for coloring. Great look to the finished flowers. Beautiful layout for the images.
Very striking card I love the look
I absolutely love your card. I have not used my wax seals for years. I am going to get that out and get some new wax and do it. Thank you so much for the motivation.
Beautiful. Stunning and loved the video.
Jessie, I love your card. It looks a little vintage and I love that era. Guess I’m vintage now, too. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
Different and I like different. Also very pretty!
Stunning card!!!!
Knockout card! I love the White to grey on black. Thank you!
Fantastic card. Love it. Thank you.
Gorgeous creation, it is very elegant!