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My card today features the Summer Bouquet stencil.
I started by ink smooshing a background using Distress Inks. The colors I used were Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry and Salty Ocean. The cardstock I’m using is the Hero Arts Watercolor paper.

After the panel is dry, I stenciled in the design using those same colors of Distress Inks and applied it with a blending brush.
I added white gel highlights to make it pop a little more from the card.

I finished off the card with a sentiment from the Retro Wishes stamp set. I stamped this in Versafine Black ink using my Misti.
I embellished with a few Clear Quartz Sequins from Gina K Designs.
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I always find your tutorials helpful easy for me to adapt to my personal style. Your videos help me find inspiration. Thank you.
Beautiful stunning card.
I knew you’d come through with come ink blending! Stunning, as always!
Beautiful card and great tips. Can’t wait to try this!
This is a cool stencil!
Lovely blending as always. Such a pretty card!
I love the colors you chose! So very pretty!
So pretty love the colors
Wonderful use of Tim Holtz inks.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful shading of colors!
Love your technique & the card! Your smooshing looks completely different than what I get as mine is never smooth like this.
Still love my distress inks and this is a beautiful way to use them!
I love this! So pretty! I love the soft colors. Thanks for sharing!
I love your ink blending- the colors are beautiful! The white pen highlights look great!
Pretty card – love the colour combination! Your ink smooshing is so beautiful and smooth – how do you do it?
Lovely!
Love these cards! The first pink one is gorgeous and I will be watching the video today.
Beautiful card! Love the colors!
Beautiful card
Beautiful card
Your smooshing is beautiful! I really like how you stenciled the design over the background using the same colors.
Beautiful card and I love the stencil design and colors!
So soft and beautiful, and the white gel pen is just the perfect touch. Gorgeous.
beautiful card, I always forget about gel highlights.
Lovely colors! A very pretty card!
This is beautiful, Mindy! I think this stencil is so pretty.
Lori S in PA
Love your card
What a beautiful card! I love how you used these colors on the background and stencil 😍
Very beautiful and elegant card!
Love the soft rainbow blended background! Stunning!
The card is stunning. Made me stop and drool. Nice job!!
Oh my goodness! Such a simple idea, with such stunning results! So lovely!
Gorgeous flowers ! I LOVE the rainbow colors!
beautiful blends very pretty
Very pretty. I’m just getting into stenciling. I only have luck blending with the Oxides and not the distress ones.
Gorgeous, unique card. I’m intrigued by the technique — gotta try this soon!
Beautiful card
Beautiful card
What a beautiful card!! I love the ink blending background and the same ink blending on the stencil.
Great color choices! Good job!
Great card, Mindy! I love the shiny look from the gel you applied. Thanks for always sharing great tips in your videos on YouTube and your explanations of how you made the cards for the Blog Hops.
Beautiful card! I really love your technique with the smooshing and ink blending with the same colours!
I love the beautiful blending on this card.
Lovely colors on your card. When I smoosh it looks smooshed but in a bad way.
Such a bright color combo. Love stencils.
This is really lovely with the way you’ve done the colouring
Beautiful card!
You always make ink blending and stenciling so fun and easy, Mindy. Thank you for another gorgeous card💕
I love that you used this stencil I and blended with only three inks. Beautiful job and I love the white pen details it really does step it up.
Your card is lovely. Such soft colors!