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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Petite Petals on Strawberry Slush

These are a complete case from Stamp Your Art Out-Rachel.  How pretty and what fun!  Have a friend hospitalized - sounds like a good place to send one.  This uses Strawberry Slush & Whisper White cardstock.  Strawberry card base is 8 1/2 x 5 1/2.  Second strawberry layer is  3 11/16 x 3 3/8.  White layers are 5 5/16 x 4 1/16 and 4 1/2 x 3 3/16.  I stamped Gorgeous Grunge with Silver Encore and embossed with Silver Detail EP.  I stamped Flower Shop in Strawberry and stamped Petite Petals in Cantaloupe, Blushing Bride and Wisteria Wonder.  All flowers were punched out using SU punches.  On one card I raised the inside layer with dimensionals - on the other card I used the dimensionals to raise each flower.  Can't decide which I like best so  both must be ok.  I used Rhinestones in the centers of each flower and placed four silver sequins on the cards.  I think they turned out quite nicely and am going to try them in several different color combinations.


Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Butterfly Resist

I made this card for a friend today, just because I miss her!  It started out to be a Resist card, but sort of mutated as I went along.  I stamped Papillion Potpourri with Versa Mark and embossed with Clear EP.  Sponged Pool Party, Baja Breeze, Marina Mist and Midnight Muse around.  Wasn't thrilled with the results so overstamped more butterflies using the Marina Mist and Midnight Muse.    Now it looked better.  I cut the page into narrow strips, approx 1 1/2", and cut a Not Quite Navy strip to go behind it and create a border for the strip.  Put it all on Marina Mist  and added a sentiment.  Not happy with how the sentiment shows (or doesn't show) but a little late to switch up now.  It was fun anyway.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Greg's Birthday

Hard to believe my baby boy is turning 53 - yikes!  He loves the outdoors, hunting and fishing, so it is always fun to make his cards.
This card was created using Flourish Co. What a Catch digi set.  I colored with Copics and sponged in a light blue chalk background.  No matter how many Dies I buy, I always go back to my trustee Creative Memories Oval Cutting system - such a shame they went out of business.  I used SU Gorgeous Grunge to apply the speckling around the front of the card.  The fish and lures stamped on the green are from an assortment of different fishing type sets.   Several years ago Greg had the opportunity to actually watch me take a plain white piece of paper and turn it into something, with lots of different layers of color, etc., and said he now had a whole new appreciation of the cards he receives.  So I know that he will enjoy this one.  Happy Birthday Greg!

Friday, June 13, 2014

Flowering Flourishes - for Stamp Club

It's my turn to demo/teach at the August club, so I am starting to thing about what three cards I will do.  I am loving the new Petite Petals stamps and punch and the new WaterColor Wonder papers, so will combine them. 
I created four very similar but slightly different cards.  I used the Watercolor Notes for my card base.    Using Gumball Green Ink, I stamped different stamps from the Flowering Flourishes set.  I punched the flowers out from the Watercolor Wonder DSP.  Using an embossing tool and a sponge mat, I 'cupped' the flowers slightly to give them some dimension.  I used a variation of Candy Dots, Rhinestones, and Pearls for the flower centers - don't think I could choose a favorite.  The flowers were attached using Glue Dots but they could just as well have been affixed with dimensionals.    I will add a sentiment to the lower right corner, using Tangerine Tango ink.  A quick, easy, elegant card.  

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Stamp Club - Serene Silhouettes

This is the third card that we made with Heidi last night.  She masked off the strip near the bottom, using plain old copy paper and Tombow temporary adhesive.  Then we sponged three colors into the open area - Happy Honey, Cajun Craze, and Brown Sugar.  We started with the lightest, Honey, then went around the outside with Cajun, then went around the outer most edge using the Brown.  We carefully removed our 'mask'.  Then, using Espresso Brown, we stamped the image from Serene Silhouettes onto the lower left corner.  Using Scor-pal, we created two small stripes above and below the sponged portion, just to set it off a little.  We added a sentiment, using Espresso, and finished it off with some "diamonds"  A great one layer card.

Stamp Club - Secret Garden

Just when I was getting back to doing lots of creating, I ended up back in the hospital having emergency surgery.  Am just starting to get back to real life again.  Last night was my first 'social' outing (non-medical - lol) since then.  Naturally, it was for Stamp Club.  So fun to see everybody again.
Made 2 different cards using SU Secret Garden stamp and die sets.  Our previous SU demo, Heidi, was the creator and instructor for these cards.  We all had a great time.
These are pretty self-explanatory.  Heidi does a great job!