3D Daffodil

I am a freak for flowers- I have been amassing - and that really is a good word for this- shapes for punching flowers for so long my collection out rivals most stores- and when Stampin Up came up with their Blossoms Petals Punch I HAD to have it. Although there has been some glitches with the SU punches I am pleased as punch (heh heh) about the shapes they deliver. My daffodils were blooming outside and I thought it would be perfect for that. I brought in one of my blossoms and studied it to see if I can make one. The base card is Poppy embossed with the tulip folder for the pretty edge. The sentiment was stamped in versamark and embossed in white EP. The wild wasabi CS was cut into 1/4 inch strip to make the stem and folded to free shape the leaf. I glued only part of it so that I could shape it. The flower is cut with 2 shapes. The skinny big leaf for the petals. I used the 6 sided flower from the Boho Blossoms punch to glue the petals down onto it so make spacing a little easier- I did overlap the leaves a bit on it though. I then punched daffodil CS using the circle 1 1/4 inch punch to make the bottom part of the daffodil center then used the scalloped leaf from the same blossoms petals punch to punch out the top part. The center part is about 1/2 as tall as the petals are long I figure. Sponged the edges of all the pieces. The center part is a bit tricky. I tried to figure out how I was going to make it stand up and stay. The dimensional did the trick but it was not so sticky on the side so I put a little line of glue around the edge of the dimensional and wrapped the petal around it - I used a tiny clothespin to hold it in place while it was drying which took about 1/2 hour. I then sprinkled some microbeads into the center which stuck to the dimensional. Although not exactly true to life, not a bad replica. If it would only smell like the morning dew........

Happy first day of spring!

Lynda

Happiness shared

I don't know why but I just really like this set- this and every moment has been on my want list for a long time and I finally gave it. I like the simplicity of the image, a chance to color- it's the kindergartener in me I guess. Sometimes I go overboard with punches and all the embellishments but I find the simple cards really appealing to my senses-
Base is real red, with a old olive on top of that stamped with the leaves from the same set all around to just add a little interest. top note in white die cut. Stamp the flower and sentiment in StazOn and color in with the water color crayons directly to paper then use the aqua painter to blend it in. Stamped the flower in old olive over the sentiment.


As it stood, it kind of looked blah so I added a little pearl in the center but I wanted the stamen of the flower to stand out a little so I used the Black Chunky Essential Glitter to make the anther part pop out a bit and I thought it looked a lot better. I jsut used a little bit of two way glue pen to apply just a little bit of glue where I wanted it and it just stuck. I did use the piercing tool to take some of the glitter that stuck on the pearl though - I guess I did not do well with the glue.... oh well.

enjoy!
Lynda

Cupcake gumball machine

My friend Mercedes is so creative- when she came up with the gumball machine using the cupcake punch, we all knew we would have to case it and here it is- Take a 12x12 Melon Mambo textured CS and cut it into 6 inch squares to make 3x6 cards. I took a 1x6 strip of Ice Cream parlor DSP from sale-a-bration and used the scallop border on daffodil paper on both sides to make the strip to accent.
The white CS is diecut with scallop rectangle clearlet and the rectangle is cut in crumbcake. The gumball machine is melon mambo as well. The top of the machine is punched using the top of the cupcake cut in one piece using a 1/2 inch strip of melon I slipped into the punch to just punch the top part. The 1 1/4 inch circle punch in white- I think I ruined it trying to punch the clear plastic to put over the top, heh heh- I told my friends at the workshop to use the white circle to scissor cut the clear plastic and it worked better- oh well. The gumballs were punched using turquise, pacific blue, old olive, pumpkin pie and daffodil- mostly from little scraps of paper that I had been saving for just this occasion. The silver paper is punched using the small oval with a silver brad on top. The whole thing is mounted with dimensionals and it is so sweet- literally!

I tried to put a sentiment on the top onto the daffodil strip and bunch of other ways but I liked it without the sentiment on top - so I took a 1/2 strip of white I had left over, cut the corners like a banner and stamped the sentiment and stuck it inside and I like it a lot better. Wishing you a wonderful day!

Lynda

Variations on the easter basket

I am having so much fun with this stamp- again the same easter basket carrying girl from Pure Innocence (MFT)- this time carrying spring flowers. Used the lattice square embossing folder with an old oval frame to selectively emboss the whisper white CS. I then stamped the girl image and the sentiment on the center of the oval, stamped the girl again on Sunny Gardens DSP and cut out the dress part to paper piece- then colored it in using Cop*cs and then punched out little teensy weency flowers- $1 punch from M*chaels- my favorite for small centers of flowers because they are So tiny- although I would like them to come out with a hand punch- with long handles like the circle punches that they used to have- it would be so much easier on my hand than these dinkie punches that are sometimes really hard to punch a lot-

This is the detail on the flowers - this is a great way to use up those little tiny left over pieces you have left over from all your projects- I have a plastic container filled with small flowers that I punched out from left over cardstock that I was going to throw away anyway- where do you think I got these flowers from? I did add some green ones to add interest as leaves and put gold lame Smooch to add a little sparkle in the center. Added the wreath on her head and a flower that dropped on the floor and another way to use all your easter basket stamps- fill them with flowers!

Lynda

My day off

The office is undergoing demolition so it was closed for a day and it gave me a chance to catch up on my laundry, grocery shopping and of course on my way home from the grocery I HAD to stop by my favorite LSS to see what new stuff they got from CHA. I have bought Pure Innocence by Heather Ellis on line as a digistamp years ago before MFT started to carry it- and lo and behold this LSS carried some of it- cost a little more but I like local stores to survive and I love to touch and feel stuff I buy so I don't mind paying a little extra to support the local stores. This was an Easter stamp but I thought it could be a St Paddy's day- You know my rules- I have to be able to use the stamp for at least 3 different things to buy it-

Used an old wood frame to selectively emboss the polka dot EF from Stampin Up. The Sentiment is from Teeny tiny wishes- stamped the image in black and colored with copics as shown- I thought about paper piecing but I drew extra heart shapes on the dress to make a clover so I just colored it in with little polka dots. the basket I colored in T9 to make it look like a pot of gold and the eggs were colored with gold pen to make it look like coins. I think it is so sweet.....

Hope you have a lucky day!

Lynda

A cupcake birthday

There are lots of cupcake punches out there but I had been resisting because I knew I wanted the one from Stampin Up. It comes with a cherry on top, a candle and sprinkles and I just love it. I also love the coordinating stampset- These guys are marketing geniuses I tell ya- either that or total enablers to stamp addicts like me!

I used the tangerine base, with white on top of that with happy birthday from the same set stamped in chocolate chip. Is it not the sweetest little font?

Ran the tulip embossing folder over the pear CS to fit the smaller profile- ran the cardstock then took it out and turned it around to reimpress to get the smaller size I needed and it reimpresses the corner to make it perfect- LOVE IT!

then a daffodil circle punched then the large scallop circle in white. Cut 1" strips of melon mambo and chocolate chip CS, stamped the cupcake top and the base with coordinating stamppads before punching them out. I punched a heart - I think I am using this red glitter paper for EVERYTHING! Just love that sparkle it adds- I thought it looked like it was missing something though- I had mounted the cupcake using dimensionals so I slid in a small piece of ribbon behind it and just tied it in the front and it just added that special something that I thought made it look complete.

I used this card at my workshop to show people how to partial emboss using the tulip folder and it was not too difficult- but FYI-it did make it easier to tie the bow AFTER you mount the cupcake. Just put the dimensionals low enough on the cupcake bottom to slide the ribbon behind it. This would be such a fun card for a kid's or anyone's birthday. You can try using a vanilla color for the frosting and putting some different color sprinkles, in all the in colors would be fun too.

enjoy.

Lynda

faux pressed flower

This was a technique I saw on line I thought made an easy card using the Thoughts and prayers set and all the flowers including bottles of Primas that I have been acquiring.

I stamped the stem in olive on a white CS and also on corners of the crumbcake CS base. Stamped the sentiment in black and then glued the flowers and the white cs and pressed the whole thing using the lattice embossing folder.

Love the effect and really easy!

Time to get out your flower collection and finally put them to use.

My Love card

I was playing with a bunch of ideas for valentine and this was the final card I had for my workshop. I used the tree, quote box and sentiment from Valentine defined and the 2 birds from Aviary- I thought there should be some little animal but I wanted 2 animals facing each other. The bird in the tree legs were too long so I only inked up part of it. The tree was stamped in Garden green then the branch part removed with blender pen then reinked using the chocolate chip marker. I used the blender pen to color below the tree to ground it a bit. The 2 birds were inked with chocolate chip. The quote box in real red then added a punched glitter heart in center. It was mounted on garden green CS corner rounded. The red CS was pressed using the Lots of Love letterpress plate.

I stamped the love in red then punched out with modern labale punch. I then ran the ribbon through a hole on the left and mounted with dimentsionals. Added a crystal jewel to add a little sparkle- fits perfectly over the O!

Valentine Treats

It's that time of the year again! Valentine's Day is just around the corner and it is time to make 63 valentine's treats for 3 classes- I had to make it not too difficult so here it is. Little valentine posies. There are specialized dies to make just these kind of things but of course I do not have any so I used my old Island floral die to make these but any large flower die would work.

I punched a larger hole in the center to fit the tootsie pop I wanted to use. I cut through one of the leaves and petal between so I could roll it up a bit to make it more dimensional. I even used the stylus and a mouse pad to add some leaf lines as you can see.

after I put the lollypop in the center then I used some tape to overlap one of the petals.

I overlapped the petal fully to make a 4 petal flower.

The leaf petals were only overlapped about 1/2 to make an asymmetrical leaf as shown.

This is what the completed flower set looks like. Easy peasy flowers.

When I was at the local M*chael's - with generous gift cards I received for Christmas, I saw these ribbons for 50% off and I had to have them. 4 yards for a buck- not bad! I cut off each happy valentine's day and punched a hole with my cropadile to pierce it and threaded the lollypop bottom as shown on the right.

I wanted to add a tag so that my kids would have to write the names of the recipient so I used this retired stamp that matched the tag punche in red to make easy tags. Originally I had added the tag with linen thread but my kids had a hard time tying it- they are supposed to make their own valentines- so I used the modern label punch and 1/4 inch circle punch to make a tie the way like those bread ties. I just cut through with scissors and it stayed on the lollypop reasonably well. It does shred after the while so I would have the kids sign it in the back and put it on at the end.

and here it is. My kids are having a ball making these- I hope you do too.

Lynda.

A simple card

Julie just had a birthday
and of course my card was about 2 weeks late- how can it be that someone that makes as many cards as I do cannot remember to send a birthday greeting to people they love in time? Got me! My mom just got a phone call this year... Shame on me.

But better late than never so I sent an unbirthday card to Julie and a few cards that I stamped with her name on it. The sentiment and the alphabet stamp are from PTI. You're a Gem sentiment from the Occasions Mini from SU. Crystals jewels from SU. I layered white with Poppy Parade then another layer of whisper white. I stamped the sentiment and then used my black pen to draw a line between the sentiments and 1/4 inch away from the edge. I tried both crystals on either side of her name and to dot the i. A clean and simple cardset for a real gem of a person!

Lynda