Vintage Roses and more Brushos

Good morning everyone. I hope you are well.

I had a play in my craft room yesterday as I received some new stamps: Vintage Roses from Altenew.

If you haven't seen these stamps, they are remarkable with the image of rose they produce. One rose required four stamps to layer up. I really had a tough time with them as they are very complex (well for me anyway!) and there was a lot of practising and scratching my head. I finally got two cards together. 

Altenew have a printable guide to help with the layers. I still need more practice with the positioning of these stamps but I found that if I laid the stamp on the outline of guide and then picked it up with my acrylic block, I was able to figure out where the next stamp would go. Have I confused you? I'm still confused lol!

Anyway here are my cards - 

I created masks from post it notes for both these cards to stamp the roses and leaves.

On the insides I added a die cut rose.

Before making the vintage roses cards, I played with different inks first to see which colours would work the best together. 

For the rose with four stamps (first card), I started from darkest to lightest

Real Red (SU)

Satin Red (Versafine)

Habenaro (Versafine)

For the last shade, I did second generation stamping with the Habanero ink to get the lighter colour.

I would like to enter the birthday card into the following challenges

Challenge up your Life - Masking

Craftin Desert Divas - Birthday

This next card is for my niece's upcoming birthday. I embossed the Lavinia Stamp in white powder then used my brushos to create the background.

That's all for me today. Thanks so much for looking xx