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Books & Flowers

Posted on May 3, 2024 9:50 PM by Julie Comment

Are you a book lover or know someone who is? This could be the card for them. A stack of beautiful books under a shelf of flowers. All against a quilted cover background. The dies make it easy to customize the colors.

t’s my turn to host the Inspiration Challenge (IC961) and we are headed to A Cup of Needles & their Pinterest Board where I saw THIS lovely embroidery piece.

After die cutting the books out of several different colors, I put them all together. I used some of the same lavender & purple colors for the flowers. The vase & shelf were cut out of an ivory color. I wanted them to be a little different from the white background but not so much that they took over. The flowers and leaves were shaped a bit before i attached them. I love how the holes in the quilted background cover let a bit of the purple backing show through.The greeting was stamped onto a small wood plank, just the right size for it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Always Peony set (greeting)

Paper: Staples 110# white, lavender, purple, mint green, lt green, sage green, lt blue, dk blue, ivory, speckled ivory

Ink: VersaClair nocturne

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Books & Flowers, Lg Garden Pots, Vases & Shelves, Wood Planks, Quilted Cover, Spring Greenery #4 dies, MISTI

Always Peony 36030	Always Peony dies 36030D	Always Peony Stencil 36030S	Wood Planks die 5708-02D	Vases & Shelves die 5309-05D
Lg Garden Pots die 5401-04D	Books & Flowers dies 5710-01D	Spring Greenery #4 dies 5709-05D	Quilted Stitch Pierced Cover die 5512-05D	Staples 110# White Card Stock
AC color card stock	Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG	MISTI

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So Loved

Posted on April 12, 2024 10:28 PM by Julie Comment

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A bright, flowery card perfect for Mother’s Day, an upcoming graduate, birthday or just to say you are loved. Two pink inks were used to get this super bright bougainvillea color that jumps off the page.

For the Inspiration Challenge, we are visiting A Beautiful Mess & their Pinterest Board where I saw THIS lovely picture. I adore the bright color so I went about trying to recreate it on my card.

After a couple of attempts, I arrived at a very close match for the color, by using 2 of the Color Fuse inks in set #5. After die cutting the Bunch of Blooms stems, I used the detail brushes to add the ink color to them. The wood planks were die cut & just to make sure the woodgrain was raised, I ran them thru w/ the embossing mat, too. Then I used the lighter of the two inks & brushed that across the entire areas. I used the darker pink pad to rub directly over the planks & I love how it just hit the high spots giving me a two tone effect. The planks were attached to a white rectangle, then bordered w/ a scallop edge rectangle.

I brushed the ink over the little die cut flowers before shaping them & attaching them. A little yellow stickles was added to their centers. For the greeting, I took part of the So Loved & stamped it, masking off the part I didn’t want to stamp. The die cut Loved is actually 2 word w/ shadow dies..the Love & the d from Friend. It wasn’t hard to combine the two.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Mother’s Day Script

Paper: Staples 110# white, grass green

Ink: VersaClair nocturne, Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Color Fuse ink set #5

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Rectangles, Rectangle Combo OPC #3, Small Flowers #6, Wood Planks, Bunch of Blooms, Spring Greenery, Love w/ Shadow, Friend w/ Shadow dies, Detail Blending Brushes, MISTI , stickles

Mother’s Day Script 36033	Wood Planks die 5708-02D	Spring Greenery #4 dies 5709-05D	Rectangle Combo #3 die 5218D	RN Friend w/ Shadow die 5406-04D
RN Love w/ Shadow die 5610-01D	Bunch of Blooms die 5611-08D	Detail Blending Brushes	Color Fuse Ink set #5	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG	MISTI	AC color card stock	Stickles

Best Flowers

Posted on April 6, 2024 9:50 PM by Julie Comment

Pretty blue and purple dimensional flowers above a white wood plank lower section. Would be great to use as a birthday, Mother’s Day, Thank You or even Graduation with this greeting.

A big congrats to Darlene, the newest Featured Stamper (FS896)! She has a wonderful gallery & I chose THIS card to case. I kept flowers & layout, but used die cut flowers instead of stamped flowers, different dies & moved the greeting a bit.

To make my card, I die cut the different flowers & leaves out of scraps of the different colors. I wanted a little variance in the colors, so I used detail brushes & inks to add a little shading, then shaped them before putting them together. The wood planks were arranged on the bottom section & I added a narrow strip of marbled paper on the left side. The greeting was stamped and layered w/ some nesting tag dies.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brass & Bliss: Simple Floral #1 set

Paper: Staples 110# white, scraps of lt blue, dk blue, lavender, purple, yellow & pink, Brass & Bliss: Marbled Perfection paper pad

Ink: VersaClair nocturne, Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Color Fuse ink set #5, #6, #7

Accessories: Brass & Bliss/Rubbernecker Stamps: Rectangles, Simple Floral set, Spring Flowers, Wood Planks, Nested Tag set dies, Detail Blending Brushes, MISTI

Simple Floral #1 36032	Simple Floral #1 die 36032D	Spring Flowers die 5709-02D	Wood Planks die 5708-02D	Nested Tag dies 5704D
Rectangle dies 5003D	Marbled Perfection paper 2204	Detail Blending Brushes	Color Fuse Ink set #5	Color Fuse Ink set #6
Color Fuse Ink set #7	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Versafine Clair ink	Scotch ATG	MISTI
AC color card stock