Apple Blossom Wisteria

I have been playing around with the apple blossom (level 2 hostess set from 2010-2011 catalogue ) and these reminded me of wisteria blossoms hanging down from the trellis. I stamped them in almost amethyst and lovely lilac using the rocking around technique to get a little extra color around the edges. The sentiment is from Full of Life set.

Added little tiny rhinestone jewel stickers (non-SU) to accent and a clean and simple one layer card.

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Fifth Avenue Floral window

Alright. This is it. This is the last of the Fifth Avenue floral cards I will show you. This is anothe play on the heat embossing idea. I stamped the image on olive with white craft and embossed it with white embossing powder then used bleach to take away some of the colors from the flowers (the yellowish part) then colored it in with watercolor crayons and used the blender pen to blend it in. I used the cutter to cut out the negative part of the flower from the box which was interesting but it still looked flat. So I used the 2 way glue pen to apply dazzling diamond glitter to the flower and it really makes it POP- again hard to see her but it is really pretty in real life. Cut the whole thing out and mounted it ont the pink pirouette textured CS (dimensions are 3 1/2x 6 inch card ). Stamp the sentiment from watercolor trio in old olive and tie a 1/8 taffeta ribbon in daffodil - I think this is my favorite ribbon from the new catalogue. Tie the pretty in pink button (previously sherbet and now sold as subtles button pack). The picture does not do it real justice, oh well...

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Elements of Style Play

I was playing with the elements of style cards from the IC238 challenge and had this little piece left over. I have so much of little scraps that I keep saying -" I'll do something with it later..." but later usually does not come. So, I have this gigantic pile of things I want to do- uh... something - that is taking on a life of its own in my little room that I am making a challenge not to have any left overs- or put the left overs back in the proper color folders so I do not have this big mess in my room.

So, this is my scrap card. Took a melon mambo basecard, ran it through the big shot using the square lattice folder. Wrapped a piece of polkadot melon mambo ribbon backwards around the corner then slapped the piece onto the base card using sticky strip. I wante to add some flowers but the images I tried all looked "flat". Then of course, I had to do something un-flat so the 3D flowers. The flowers are in pretty in pink and edge sponged in melon. Little pearls are from the pretties kit- applied to the center using multi-mono glue- it's the best for this. Stamped the leaves from God's Beauty- retired hostess set- in artichoke onto olive and cut out. Very sweet I thought.

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Elements of Style Interchangeable message Gift Set

I took some well deserved R&R this week. I was so stressed from everything that was going in my life, I lost a bit of my mojo. It's amazing what a little cleaning up of your workspace and getting sleep does to your brain. I have ideas for cards coming out of my brain and I am jotting them down for some time later when I will have time to make them now that it is time to get back to work.

Inspiration challenge this week from SCS (IC238) was from Bicycle Muse and I found a pannier that inspired this set of cards. I thought a whole set of these would make a lovely gift set. Very Toile. I wrote to SU to ask if they can come up with a set of sentiments that could be used with one acrylic block and punch. They have not answered me yet but I love this idea. Make a set of blank cards that you can just add the sentiments to your liking. Add a set of stamps, with the matching punch and voila! a perfect gift to get someone started stamping.

The image was stamped in a variety of inks to match the cardstock. Wrap the coordinating ribbon around the card before mounting on the base cardstock. Diecut the tag from Matchbox XL die for bigshot. It fits the scallop oval and the now retired keytag punch perfectly as you can see.

This one is done with elegant cheer - another retired set.

This is what it could look like- a set of blank cards (maybe one finished one so the recipient would know how to finish it off ).

Punch a bunch of labels in different colors so they can choose what they want to put on it and slip them all inside a little envelope and include some embellishment ( the basic rhinestone jewels or pearls would be perfect for this application ).

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Fifth Avenue Floral embossed and bleached

Heat embossing adds such lovely feel to the cards and allows so many techniques in addition. This is one of those techniques that I forget about but it is so dramatic and easy. I took chocolate chip CS, embossed fifth avenue floral in whisper white craft ( it is pretty just with this too.) and heat embossed in white to make it pop. I then used liquid bleach that I loaded onto the aqua painter (marked with BLEACH on the side so I don't confuse it with plain water ) and used it to just brush on the bleach on to the area that show as lighter. I then wrapped pink ribbon around the corner, put a button latte button on top tied with a linen thread and mounted the teey tiny wishes stamped onto pink pirouette CS then punched out with curly label punch and mounted under the ribbon. I really like the drama of this card. I would not put it in a scrapbook album given the acid in the bleach but for a card, it should be fine.

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Tropical Party sunset

The SCS way to use it challenge 276 (WT276) was to dig out your old heat gun and use heat embossing on your card. Somehow this idea about the palm lined sunset stuck in my mind. It was a rather easy card to do as well.



Take a glossy cardstock and rub embossing buddy all over ( to prevent any stray powder sticks) stamp the palm trees using versamark ink. Sprinkle copper detail embossing powder (retired SU) to create a warmer embossed image. I punched out a 1 3/4 inch circle out of post it. I used the negative to rub summer sun ink into the sun (retired! ) and the used the circle over the sun to rub, summer sun, pumpkin pie and baja breeze over the sky and behind the trees. I then tore a piece of paper and used the torn edge to sponge some sahara sand over the blue area to create a faux beach look.

The sentiment is from Upsy Daisy stamped in chocolate chip.

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We all scream for Ice Cream

This is a culmination of several ideas that have been swirling around in my head. I've been needing to make a sample showing the ornament punch as a bowl. I wanted to fill it with ice cream but with the sentiment I wanted to make a swirl in the middle that brought together the 2 flavor colors.

The SCS challenge F4A18 was to make a card with an ice cream theme- she must have been reading my mind! The I heat embossed the sentiment in white for the WT276 challenge as well. There was shading around the cherry and the bowl but can't seem to be able to see it here.

The base card is so saffron, embossed with perfect polka dot embossing folder. Take a white cardstock, stamp ice cream in pretty in pink and chocolate chip. Ink up the ice cream in pretty in pink and use chocolate chip marker to create swirls and then stamp on whisper white CS and cut out. Mount the swirl ice cream with dimensionals. Punch the razzleberry lemonade DSP with ornament punch and cut down to make the bowl shape. Mount it with dimensionals. Add a strip using the reverse side of the DSP. punch out heart with another design of the same DSP then put bitty button heart on top. Stamp the little cherry using red and chocolate chip markers. Take melon mambo CS, stamp sentiment from In a Word set using white craft inkpad and emboss with white embossing powder. Tie the 1/8 taffeta ribbon. After mounting the center image, mount the whole thing onto the saffron CS using sticky tape. Welcome summer!

Lynda

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Because I care hydrangea

I love hydrangeas. I love the deep blue violet ones especially but have never been able to grow them well. When I moved into our current home, it came with a hydrangea plant in the front patio area that is rather spindly rather than lush and I had often contemplated removing it and planting something else but every year it produces this melon mambo pretty in pink color flowers with white edges that is just lovely and I just keep thinking, if I prune it right maybe next year, it will do better......



When I saw this because I care set (level 1 hostess in the new Catalog that I got for free I wanted to recreate this flower. I also loved the color challenge on SCS with apricot, amethyst and soft suede and decided to use it again for this vintage looking card.

The sketch is also from SCS -SC286 found here http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=495789.



I used soft suede as base, ran it through the polka dot embossing folder, ran some vanilla craft inkpad to make the dots stand out some more and edged to look a little worn. then I stamped the border image from the same set in suede, and again sponged it in suede and distressed the edges. I ran the smethyst piece in square lattice folder and distressed that as well. Then tied the new 1/8 inche daffodil ribbon (I just LOVE the white piping edge ). The hydrangea was stamped in black on whisper white and colored in with suede, olive, pretty in pink and melon mambo with blender pen on the inkpad lid technique. Put a little glitter with spica gel pen in each of the flower centers- Not really visible here though, sigh.



This is my real hydrangea- is she not lovely?

What's with this backorder problem?

Most people who know me understand that I am normally a patient person. I can go to school for 16 years, train for another 5 to finally

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get to where I am- but hey, there is a limit to how long I will wait for a embossing folder- no matter HOW CUTE IT MAY BE!

I ordered square lattice embossing folders for some friends over 6 weeks ago and I finally got them today. My preview vintage folder? no where to be seen. My catalogue that I ordered almost 4 weeks ago? not a clue.

I am looking out the window for the guy in the brown getup and he is nowhere to be seen.

For my friends who have waited all this time, I wanted to say sorry and I was searching for some sentiment to express it when I realized what the giraffe was saying on the It's the thought set (level 1 hostess from the summer mini). Perfect! Seriously, Long time, no see.

Stamped it in black on white cardstock, sponged the edge in apricot, mounted it on amethyst cardstock that I ran through the square lattice folder using sticky strip.

To attach the ribbon, I took the new 1/8 inch ribbon in daffodil, looped it through the hole, and put a fire circle crystal brad through the same hole and mounted the hole thing onto suede cardstock base.

This is how it looks in the back- a tiny piece of ribbon with a lot of bang for the buck. Now you know why I never throw ANYTHING out. (much to the dismay of my DH)

I printed out a sentiment that I typed on microsoft word that said "thank you for your patience!" using a premium paper, punched it out with the large oval punch and attached it inside with Dotto so if the recipient wanted to remove it they could easily do so by rubbing out the dots of repositionable glue.

I took the colors from the SCS color challenge CC276 for soft suede, apricot and amethyst. I really like the combo and will have to remember to use it again in the future- uh, wait- amethyst retired! Darn, should have bought more cardstock.....oh well.

Live your life without regret!

Friends Never Fade - CAS72

The Clean and simple challenge from SCS this week took less than 10 minutes to make. I wanted to use the image from the Friends Never Fade set (in the new 2010-2011 catalogue) as the central image.

I stamped it in So Saffron classic inkpad then directly onto versamark before stamping on whisper white then embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I colored it in with river rock, celery, cholcolate chip for the center then baja blue and pumpkin pie for the words. The layers are inspired the Greenhouse gala DSP- center strip- also in the new catalogue and baja blue and so saffron below stamped with images in the same set using versamark. I pierced the edges of the baja and saffron as shown and then corner rounded before mounting onto River Rock basecard. Such an easy but very sophisticated card. I love it!