Flamingo Friday: Fabulous Flamingo in the Pink

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you probably saw the line of flamingos on my stamp table last Sunday afternoon.  I was playing with the new Fabulous Flamingo stamp set, and messing around with different colour combinations on the birds.  I had a ton of fun because although this is considered to be a Two-Step stamp set, I really look at it as a Three-Step set.  Layering three different images together gives the birds great depth.  Today’s bird is a Pink Fabulous Flamingo.  Which pink you ask?  Read on…

Pink Fabulous Flamingo

We all know that I love flamingos.  A lot.  Well, a couple of friends gave me new flamingos for my collection as birthday gifts recently, and a flamingo gift needs a flamingo thank you card.  Because this was the first card created with our new stamp set, I went with something relatively simple, and easy to replicate.

Two tips for you today:

  1.  The pink of the bird was created with Flirty Flamingo (I know right?  The best colour so far has the word flamingo in the title!)  I stamped the largest image first, with full strength ink, so I could place it on the card stock exactly where I wanted it to be.  The solid flamingo image was inked and stamped off before being stamped onto the card stock.  This is how the two-toned colour was created.
  2. I cut some small corners from a sticky note to cover the flamingo feet before stamping the water.  I didn’t want the water flowing over its feet.  It would have looked weird.

What did my friend give me for my birthday?  A giant flamingo floaty!  Do I need one?  Nope.  Will I use it?  Probably not.  But my daughter will – she was lying down on it on Friday night, using it as a pillow while texting.

So, what did I use?

  • Fabulous Flamingo (best stamp set EVER!): 143758, $26
  • Flirty Flamingo card stock: 141416, $10
  • Pool Party card stock: 122924, $10
  • Basic Black card stock: 121045, $10
  • Whisper White card stock: 100730, $11.25
  • Flirty Flamingo Classic Ink: 141397, $8.50
  • Pool Party Classic Ink: 126982, $8.50
  • Basic Black Archival Ink: 140931, $9.25

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Happy Stamping!

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