Sports Event Dies and penguin from Count on Me

I love this Sports Events die - my kids are not even athletic and I still bought the die because I liked how it looks. even the left over piece around the ticket is cool looking so I saved it for another project.

Base card is Pool Party with a strip of paper from the Rainbow Sale-a bration paper - I love the bright colors.   Layer a piece of white CS and then a Magenta Madness large diecut and the white piece diecut  on top as well.

take a scrap piece of paper and stamp the penguin, the happy sentiment from Biggest Wish set in mango melody and the birthday in magenta madness and cut it out.  Color in the penguin using smoky slate dark Stampin' blends, mango Melody for the ebbed feet and beak and Magenta madness for the balloon. 

This die does retire with the spring mini catalog end of June so get it while you can.

 

 

Flowering Rainboots

when we had the paper pumpkin with the rainboots it was enormously popular and I made the entire kit in one sitting with variations which I don't always do but this set just reminded me of that and I just love it- it retires when the spring mini finishes end of June so get it while you can.

base card is petal Pink with a a DSP from pattern Party (hostess- retired) and a layer of white with scalloped contours.  

stamp pots with Smoky slate and diecut. 

stamp flowers using petal Pink and Cameo Coral using small stampin squares so you can get 2 different color flowers as shown and diecut. stamp stems with Granny Apple Green.

diecut hoe from Smoky slate CS and color in the hands with bronze stampin' blends to simulate wood handle.

Take the cloud punch and stamp sentiment in black and mount using dimensionals.  stamp daisies with gray granite and color in with pool party and daffodil as shown.

 an easy variation on the card using same Petal Pink cardbase and white scalloped contours base. used saffron ink to ink up the boots and using a marker to edge a little darker and same flowers mounted and sentiment stamped in black directly on the cardstock. 

Enjoy!

Lynda

 

Garden Greenhouse

I have not seen such a lovely delicate die for a greenhouse before and I just adore this die and stampset.  The basecard is Evening Evergreen with a piece of white cardstock diecut using the Stitched Rectangle die.  Stamp the flower image using soft succulent ink as shown.  Diecut the solid greenhouse using vellum and the outline using a white cardstock and mount using tombow liquid glue. diecut the leaves using the soft succulent and evening evergreen cardstock.. stamp some flowers in pale papaya and mount using diemnsionals. Stamp sentiment from Ranunculus Romance inEvening evergreen and punch with banner punch.  add some Genial Gem on the senstiment 

banner and tiny jewels in the middle of the flowers to add a little sparkle.

It is just so sweet- I just love it. I want to see if I can make this with smallish flowers and pots inside the greenhouse too......

this set is gone at the end of this month on June 30th when the spring mini finishes up so get it while you can.

 

Hippo Happiness

I love this hippo so much but there was so many other cards to make I never got around to showing this card to my stampers so we did do it for this month before it was to retire.

the base is thick white CS with a square of  rainbow DSP from Sale-a-bration and topped with a cloud edge cut white cardstock using Basic Borders. stamp sentiment on the bottom of the cloud piece as shown.  Stamp the hippo using Petal Pink then overlay with Flirty Flamingo then highlight the eyes with black.  diecut the rainow using Brilliant Rainbow dies in Petal Pink, Flirty flamingo, Pool Party and So Saffron- all sort of mixtures work so just combine different colors for 4 different rainbows.

I stamped the balloon in same colors and used a black pen to draw the strings. add the diecut clouds and oh so sweet card with my darling hippo set!  Enjoy!