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Hot Hello

Posted on April 19, 2025 10:02 PM by Julie Comment

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Today, I have a fairly easy floral hello card in hot, hot colors. Like full on summer heat wave! The combo of pink, yellow & orange really sets this on fire. The same colors used on the background were also used for the flowers, but switch up the hot colors for cool colors & you’ll have a very serene look.

It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge FS950, so a big congrats to Carol! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the hot colors & floral theme, but I used different dies, left off a panel & used a die instead of the embossing folder for the background.

To make my card, I picked out some hot summer colors of ink & a few dies. I started by using big blending brushes & the yellow, pinks & reds over a 4.25 x 5.50 piece of white card. When dry (it had a lot of ink on it), I die cut it w/ the Quilted Stitch cover die to give it a little more interest. I wanted a little more white around the edges, so I trimmed it down a bit using the largest plain rectangle die. For the flowers, I used the same ink on another panel, but blended them on in strips & also added an area of green for the leaves & stems. Then the flowers were die cut out of this panel. The flowers were shaped a bit before attaching to the stems & finally the front panel. Hello was die cut using the Vintage Alphabet die & the Friend was part of a larger greeting. After die cutting it, I trimmed off the upper part to just leave “Friend”.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Gardenia Floral set (greeting)

Paper: Staples 110# white

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse Inks set #1, set #4, set #5, set #11

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Gardenia Floral set, Lattice Cover, Vintage Alphabet, Build a Bloom Hollyhocks dies, Lg Blending Brushes, MISTI

Gardenia Floral set 37013	Gardenia Floral dies 37013D	Lattice Cover die 5735D	Build a Bloom Hollyhocks die 5808-03D	Vintage Alphabet die 5742D
Color Fuse Ink set #1	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #5	Color Fuse Ink set #11	Scotch ATG
Large Blending Brushes	Versafine Clair ink	MISTI	Staples 110# White Card Stock

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Blue Flower Day

Posted on April 17, 2025 10:03 PM by Julie Comment

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A pretty, mostly monochromatic flower card featuring some beautiful new dies and a background made using die cuts as a stencil. Easy way to make everything match! Just pick your colors, die cut some flowers & use some of them as a stencil, and add a greeting.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1011, we are visiting Amicreative & their Pinterest Boards where I was inspired by THIS picture. I liked the colors & floral print.

To make my card, I started by picking out the ink colors. These happen to be my favorite colors, so it was easy! The flowers & branches were all die cut out of white. I used detail blending brushes to add a little color in the centers before shaping them & attaching them all together. I knew I wasn’t going to have a printed paper to go with them, so I die cut a couple of large branches out of thin white card stock to use as stencils. After putting a little removable adhesive on the backs, I used the inks & some large blending brushes to brush ink around them. The branches were moved around on the background, so that some were left white & others were on top of ink already there. It gives them depth & interest this way.

Above is the background before I added everything on top. I picked a dk teal for the center & backing up the white dot dash frame. Then all the flowers, leaves & branches were arranged & a greeting was added.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies: (click the names below the pictures to take you to the products)

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Hello There set

Paper: Staples 110# white, dk teal

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Brass & Bliss: Color Fuse inks set #8, set #9, set #11

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Rectangles, Dot Dash Rectangles, Bulid a Bloom Clematis, Sunlit Blossoms, Foliage Trio, Hello There set dies, Detail & Lg Blending Brushes, Misti

Hello There set 37010	Hello There dies 37010D	Build a Bloom Clematis die 5808-02D	Sunlit Blossom die 5811-03D	Foliage Trio dies 5611-07D
Color Fuse Ink set #8	Color Fuse Ink set #9	Color Fuse Ink set #11	Dot Dash Rectangles die 5802-03D	Rectangle dies 5003D
Large Blending Brushes	Detail Blending Brushes	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	MISTI
Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG

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Sparkle Flowers

Posted on April 12, 2025 9:40 PM by Julie Comment

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My card uses some lovely, water colored, Gardenia images. Usually gardenias are white, but with amazing stamps, they can be any color you want. I chose the pinky-purple colors. I love this greeting and it can be used for so many occasions..get well, thinking of you, birthday, or just because.

A big congrats to Charlene, the newest Featured Stamper FS949! She has a lovely gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I liked the cascading flowers so I kept that. But I used different images, dies, colors & turned mine horizontal.

After stamping the gardenia blooms twice w/ waterproof ink, I took out a water color set & a couple of small paintbrushes. Water was floated into the blooms, then the pinks were dropped in at the centers, & a lt blue at the outer edges. I let this dry a minute or two, then added darker pink in the middle & a little blue-violet at the outside edges then added a bit of water in the centers to pull the paint towards it. The leaves were done w/ a couple of greens. After they dried, I die cut them. The greeting was stamped & only the word “sparkle” was heat embossed w/ black glittery powder onto a deckle cut white panel. I wanted a little sparkle on the flowers, too, so I used a clear Wink of Stella over the blooms, A cornflower blue panel was die cut & added under the greeting panel. One image of the gardenias was popped up & added on top of the greeting, & the other was cut apart & tucked underneath the same panel.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Gardenia Floral set

Paper: Staples 110# white, cornflower blue

Ink: Versaclair nocturne

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Gardenia Floral set, Rectangles, Sm. Stitch Rectangles, Deckled Rectangles dies, MISTI, water colors, Ranger embossing powder, clear Wink of Stella pen

Gardenia Floral set 37013	Gardenia Floral dies 37013D	Rectangle Small Stitch dies 5013D	Rectangle dies 5003D	Deckle Rectangle dies 5176D
AC color card stock	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Ranger Embossing Powder	Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG
MISTI	Watercolor pan set	Memento Inks	Wink of Stella

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