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Birthday Girl Flowers

Posted on February 14, 2026 9:31 PM by Julie Comment

Need a whimsical birthday card for a special girl or woman you know? And if they love bright, retro colors they’ll definitely love this floral card. All you need is one stamp set, one stencil, a trio of dies & your choice of ink colors. The flowers are a two part stamp with a solid petal image to ink & stamp so it needs no other coloring.

Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s my turn to host the Featured Stamper Challenge FS993 so a big congrats to Nancy! She has such a fun, growing gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept the layout & since I loved the colors, I kept those. I used different images, dies & a stenciled background instead of designer paper.

To make my card, I stamped the solid of the flower petals several times w/ shades of pink, red & yellow. On a couple of the stampings, I. misted it w/ water to help it spread out a bit (a Misti really comes in handy here!). Then the black outline was stamped on top. You can stamp the outline first, if you prefer, but I find when I’m doing repeated inking & stamping, sometimes it fades or covers the outline a little. It was die cut along w/ the greeting. A pair of swanky ovals were die cut to go behind the flowers. For the stenciled panel, I used the same inks for the flowers plus the addition of a bright pink Distress ink. It was trimmed to fit on the left w/ a white scallop edge cut underneath the right edge.The flower panel, greeting & ovals are popped up each one more layer.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Wild Beauty Watercolor set

Paper: Staples 110# white, bright fuchsia, pale orange

Ink: Versaclair nocturne, Distress Ink ripe persimmon, Brass & Bliss Color Fuse inks: set #1, set #4, set #5

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Wild Beauty Watercolor, Swanky Ovals, Swanky Scallop Ovals, Classic Edge Cut dies, Poppy Bloom stencil, Detail Blending Brushes, MISTI,

Wild Beauty Watercolor set 37021	Wild Beauty Watercolor dies 37021D	Swanky Scallop Oval dies 5812-02D	Swanky Ovals die 5812D	Classic Edge Cut dies 5807-01D
Poppy Bloom Stencil 4205	Color Fuse Ink set #1	Color Fuse Ink set #4	Color Fuse Ink set #5	Detail Blending Brushes
MISTI	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	Versaclair Nocturne ink pad	Distress Inks
Scotch ATG

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Floral Oval Birthday

Posted on February 13, 2026 10:18 PM by Julie Comment

Let me begin by apologizing if you received a blizzard of post notifications today. The app I use was broken & after 4 days of trying to fix it, they finally got it working a bit too well. It sent all the the queued posts at once. So sorry about that!

Today I have a card with big impact but fairly easy to make. Just pick your colors, find a background then start die cutting. In fact all you need is 2 sets of dies and which ever paper you choose.

For the Inspiration Challenge IC1054 we are visiting Anthropologie & their Pinterest Board where I found THIS platter to use for inspiration.

To make my card I pulled out a piece of cobalt blue card stock to use as the main color. I cut it just slightly smaller than the A2 card then used one of the larger scallop oval out of the center. I cut two more borders to inside it. Another piece of the blue was used to cut the floral die & placed it behind the frames. Then I searched my stash for something with the blues & greens I wanted to use. I came across this shaving cream background with just the right colors. (See pic below)

After placing the background behind floral die cut, I cut a band of the cobalt to go on top. I knew the Happy Birthday cutout that usually goes in the blank band of the die cut would not fit w/ the frames covering it, so I used a separate band for this then attached a slightly larger white band behind it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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

Stamps: none

Paper: Staples 110# white, cobalt blue, grass green

Ink: none

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Swanky Scallop Ovals, Floral Layer w/ Birthday dies

Swanky Scallop Oval dies 5812-02D

Floral Layer w/ Happy Birthday die 5906D

Staples 110# White Card Stock

AC color card stock

Scotch ATG

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Flower Vase

Posted on February 7, 2026 9:45 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Today I have an easy, water colored vase of flowers with a multicolor wordy background showing through a pair of circle cut outs. The flowers were stamped onto a loose watercolor background. Not too much planning involved, so that makes it easy. Great for those spring & summer birthdays.

A big congrats to lencikvredniy, the newest Featured Stamper FS992. She has a gorgeous little scrap page gallery & I chose THIS page to case. I kept the circle elements, the flowers along the side and little words in black. I moved the circles, the greeting & the flowers to the opposite side. I also made a card instead of a scrap page.

For my card, I cut a piece of watercolor paper slightly bigger than the image. Using the image as reference, I floated in some Brushos onto the damp paper. After it dried, I stamped the image with Versaclair nocturne, since it is highly water resistant. I lifted a bit of the color in the area above the blue water. It was die cut & popped up 1 layer. While I was picking out a color to go under it, I found a piece of pale yellow w/ these 2 circles cut out & I cut the outside with a large rectangle die. I used more circles to cut black mats to go inside them. (The Stitch Dot circles were used for the inside cut as they have a tighter radius than the plain circles.)All of the birthday words were stamped onto a piece of white in different colors & attached behind the yellow. The black greeting was die cut & added in the larger circle window. The wordy white layer was edged with a black marker before everything was attached to the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Vase of Blooms set, All Occasion Birthday Greetings set

Paper: Staples 110# white, pale yellow, black, watercolor

Ink: Versaclair nocturne

Accessories: Brass & Bliss: Vase of Blooms, Rectangles, Circles, Birthday Wishes Sayins dies, MISTI, Brushos watercolor crystals

Vase of Blooms set 38010	Vase of Blooms dies 38010D	All Occasion Birthday Greetings set 38002-02	Birthday Wishes Sayings dies 5842-03D	Rectangle dies 5003D
Stitch Dot Circle dies 5821-02D	Circle dies 5002D	Brushos Water Color Crystals	MISTI	Staples 110# White Card Stock
AC color card stock	Versaclair Nocturne ink pad	Strathmore Water Color Paper 90#	Scotch ATG