Get Well

I was doing some rearranging in my stamp room on Friday and I really wanted to re-purpose anything I already owned in my new arrangements. I have been finding that if I can't see it, or at least be able to get at it I won't use it.

I have always had a place/organizer for my punches, pads etc. but there are so many other items that we have that I forget I have them or don't bother to use them because to get at them means moving something etc. Well, I think I managed to get a good start on being able to find what I want, when I want and I did not purchase anything new to accomplish this. That is the best part.

Anyway here is the card I created after I cleaned up. I found my background stamps and used the polka dots on the chocolate chip layer. See one found item used already. LOL

I stamped the greenery in Wild Wasabi the flowers in Melon Mambo and Crush Curry and cut them out applied to the greenery. I stamped the Get Well stamp from Perfectly Penned in Black.

Added a strip of Melon Mambo that had been punched with the scallop border punch to each side of the Whisper White and attached it to the Chocolate Chip piece. Added the ribbon and then adhered all of this to my card front.

Thanks for stopping bye. Also, thank you to all of you that comment I really do love to read them as it inspires me to stamp more. Thank You

Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Perfectly Penned, Polka Dot Background stamp

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Melon Mambo

Ink: Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry

Accessories: Old Olive Ribbon, Scalloped Border Punch

Fabulous Florets

I am so happy to be back stamping and creating. I surely has been a long time coming.

I wanted to make a card for a friend who was having a hard time with Life and this is what I came up with. All supplies are Stampin Up.

This is the inside of the card.

Now if I could only improve my camera skills. Hum




Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Blessings from Heaven

Paper: River Rock, Whisper White, Retired DSP

Ink: River Rock, Crumb Cake, Black

Accessories: Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon, Pearls, Embossing Folder Vintage Wallpaper

Cutting, Cutting, Oh My

Well I said I would show the other colors from my previous card. I had decided to make three of each, using the 2012 in colors. I did not know how much work that was going to be, fussy cutting all those flowers, sponging and of course assembling. Won't be mass producing these babies any time soon. LOL

I used all the new in colors and one previous in color, Concord Grape as I need a co-ordinating color for the Wisteria (light purple).

Here you go, hope you like them.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Monday

I hope everyone had a great Canada Day weekend, and for my American friends Happy 4th of July. The weather here was absolutely wonderful. I participated in the local farmers market again this weekend and there were many new visitors as well as some repeat visitors.

I sold lots of cards and some of my retired stamp sets and was very pleased with my sales for the day.

While perusing Stampin Connection the other day, I came across a card that really inspired me to create this card. I did go back to find the original stamper went through all 24 pages but could not find the card. So if it looks familiar to you please take it as a compliment.

I changed my card up a bit by only having ribbon on the top. I also sprintzed water on the sponging to give it a mottled look, and I used my Stamp and Write markers to give the flower some more dimension.

In the photo below you can see were I added the marker to the flower layers.

In the following photo you can see the mottling, I also did this card in each of the new in colors the mottling looks best on the Indigo and Luck Limeade but I have not assembled those cards yet and I wanted to have a post for you today. I will post one of them in the next day or so. Then you will be better able to see the mottling.

 

Thanks for looking and have a great week.




Stamps: Fabulous Florets

Paper: Pool Party, Island Indigo, Whisper White

Ink: Pool Party

Accessories: Stamp and Write Marker Pool Party, Tulip Embossing Folder

Fabulous Florets Wedding

Hi again, I really think Mother Nature is going through some sort of crisis. It was so cool here today, I could have easily put on a fall jacket. This is just crazy, between the unfortunate people who are getting flooded out, and the farmers who can't plant their crops etc. etc. etc. Please Mother Nature take a pill or something to get back to normal.

As I mentioned the other day, I am doing this Farmer's Market thing and my card today was made with that in mind.

I used the Fabulous Florets stamp set. I stamped the large stamp with Versa Mark and then heat embossed it with Iridescence Ice. It does not show well in the picture but it is very pretty in real life.

I cut it out with a Nestabilities die as well as the piece that is is layered on. I still had some of the Bride DSP so I thought I would use it for the first layer and the matting layer of the stamped design. Going to get through all my retired paper yet. LOL

I added some of the small pearls to the centre of the flower. When I was about to stamp the sentiment, I felt that white embossing would be hard to see and Black ink to dark, so I used Going Grey it gave it a soft feeling rather than a blatant black.

The first white layer is also from the Bride DSP, I ran it through the big shot with the Delicate Dots Embossing Folder. I have to say I like it much better in real life it looks a bit over powering in the photo.

Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps: Fabulous Florets

Paper: Brides DSP (retired), Whisper White.

Ink: Versa Mark, Going Grey

Accessories: Pearls, Iridescence Ice Embossing Powder, Delicate Dots Embossing Folder

Sorry I Took So Long

Hi everyone sorry for not posting for awhile. I have been woking on my cards for my Card Buffet and they are now finalized but I can not post them yet.

Between the various things going on around here and anxiously awaiting my new blog design I have just not being able to post anything worthy of your viewing pleasure. That is until today.

This card is made from a new set in the Summer mini called Fabulous Florets. I also used a new to me centre step card for the base. I used the new embossing powder Wild Wasabi on Black card stock for the stem part, this is also found in the new Mini.

The DSP that I used on the sides is from the Hostess Level One patterns pack. Card stock is Pear Pizzazz and Peach Parfait.

Hope you enjoyed the card and I will try to be back real soon.

I have been a fan of the watercolor reinker technique for some time. I was so pleased when I saw this stamp set because I knew it would be perfect for this technique. I may not be calling it by its correct name but it is a very simple and stunning way to color flowers especially.

I had to make a card for my friends birthday party. It is funny how when you are the Stampin Up demo everyone expects your card to be fabulous. It puts a lot of pressure on us sometimes. LOL

I hope she will like my card and the present.

I used Tangerine Tango to color my flowers and Wild Wasabi for the leaves. I first embossed them with black embossing powder before I colored them with the reinkers.
 As always thank you for visiting and leaving your comments they mean a lot to me.