Fresh Fruit Birthday - Stampin' Celebration Challenge

The Fresh Fruit stamp set and coordinating DSP remind me so much of childhood summer days, spending time in the orchard, in the fields with my mother and father, picking strawberries with my children, strawberry socials etc.
The Inspiration picture with Stampin' Celebration brought all that to the forefront.
This is the card I came up with - featuring strawberries.

 

• Base cardstock is Watermelon Wonder, layered with Whisper White embossed with the Decorative Dots embossing folder.
• On top of that is a 2" strip of Fresh Fruit DSP, and at an angle is a 3 5/8 by 2 3/8" piece of Watermelon Wonder cardstock embossed with the Sparkle embossing folder.
• Image piece is 3 5/8 by 2 3/8" of Whisper White cardstock. It was stamped with Pear Pizzazz ink with the background stamp from "Here You Are" (stamp off once first in order to obtain a light wash like look)
•  On a separate piece of  Whisper White cardstock 3 strawberries were stamped with Watermelon Wonder; their tops with Old Olive.  They were cut out by hand and adhered to the Image Piece - reassembling the strawberries there. Some clear Wink of Stella gave some sparkle to the berries.
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• The image piece was matted with 3 3/4 by 2 1/2" piece of Old Olive
• The completed image piece was now adhered to the card front with dimensionals.
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Supplies Used: Stamps: Fresh Fruit, Here You Are
Inks: Black Memento, Watermelon Wonder, Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz
Papers: Watermelon Wonder, Whisper White, Fresh Fruit DSP, Old Olive
Accessories:Decorative Dots embossing folder, Sparkle embossing folder, Wink of Stella clear glimmer rush, dimensionals.

Two Butterfly cards using Blendabilities background

These two cards will be made in the next class (Feb. 25).  They are created from a background I made yesterday using some colours of blendabilities and rubbing alcohol on glossy cardstock.

The colours used for this background :  Cherry Cobbler, Coastal Cabana, Pumpkin Pie and Crumb Cake.  Again, I used the darkest shade of the colours with the exception of Crumb Cake.

Card One:

 I know you can't see the background colours very well in the butterflies, but wait for the next card.

Using the medium sized Butterfly framelit two butterflies were die cut from the background and attached to a whisper White background which had been embossed with the Filigree embossing folder.  This was matted with Melon Mambo cardstock, and attached to a Whisper White card base.


There is no sentiment for this card, and that was done on purpose.

Card Two:

After I die cut the butterflies, I was left with a butterfly stencil - which I decided to make into a new card.

You can see the background much better here.

The butterfly stencil was trimmed, and matted with Whisper White cardstock and then with Melon Mambo cardstock.  At the top and bottom end I attached a piece of Melon Mambo cardstock which had been die cut using the Finishing Touches framelit die.  This whole unit was attached to a Whisper White base.

In the middle of each butterfly stencil, are two butterflies that were die cut using the smallest of the butterflies in the Butterfly framelit die collection.  Before attaching them they were embossed with the Decorative dots folder.  Of course a card has to have bling, so a row of rhinestones was added to the center of each of these butterflies.

These cards could be birthday cards, anniversary cards, thinking of you, Just because, etc.

Here's the supplies I used;

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Thanks

I've been invited out to dinner tonight at a friend's house.  My mother always told me never to arrive empty handed, so I made a Thank You card using her favourite colours, and the new "Hello You" thinlet dies.  I am also planning on covering an Internet password and E-mail book I picked up.  My friend has this information all over the place and in about 5 books.  Hopefully this will make her life a litte more organized.

I started out by using photopaper and alcohol inks to create a background in mauves/purples and silver.
Using  the "Hello You" framelit I die cut the work "Thanks" from this background, and punched 6 flowers using the Petite Petals punch.
The word was run through the Xyron runner and attached to a piece of Whisper White cardstock matted with Wild Wasabi cardstock.

The basic card is Wild Wasabi, layered with Whisper White embossed with the Decorative Dots embossing folder.
On the top at the left hand side, 3 banners are attached,  The larger one is die cut using the Painted Blooms DSP, the second one (in the middle) is smaller and embossed with the Fancy Fan folder; the smallest is also die cut from the Painted Blooms DSP but the flip side of the first.

The sentiment panel is attached to the bottom of the card using dimensionals.

A small snip is made between the petals of each flower, and with the handle of a small paint brush, the ends are curled up.  A rhinestone is placed in the middle of each.  Hot glue is used to attache these to the card - 3 on the front, and 3 on the inside.

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I also used the Banner framelits.

I liked the card so much I made one for myself.

Happy Hunukkah

This was a difficult card for me to make as I am not of the Jewish faith - but a number of my customers are. And I get a number of requests at Craft shows for Hanukkah cards.
Before starting the card I did a bit of research as I didn't want to offend anyone by my design choices.  I hope I haven't.
I used a number of retired products - mainly because I have so many of them.

Stamp: Happy Hanukkah
Ink: Versa Mark, Daffodil Delight marker (for the candle flame)
Papers: Midnight Meuse, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer
Accessories: Decorative dots embossing folder, Scallop border punch, Stitched midnight meuse ribbon, silver embossing powder, dimensionals

Tis the Season to be Fancy

 I'm continuing to make Christmas cards using the stamp set "Visions of Santa".  I'm still not sure  if I like this stamp set, but it's growing on me. The Santas still look a little weird (but in a cute sort of way) .
Today I featured  the Moose.

The image was stamped with Memento ink and coloured with blendabilities.  It was then die cut using the circles framelits, and  dazzling diamonds put under his feet.

Stamp: Visions of Santa
Inks: Memento, Basic Black, Blendabilities (Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso)
Papers: Early Espresso, Whisper White, Trim the Tree DSP Pack, Real Red
Accessories: Circles Framelits, Oval punch, Bitty Framelits, Cherry Cobbler seam blinding, Decorative Dots embossing folder, dimensionals, dazzling diamonds.

Festive Flurries Merry Christmas - Technostamper 326

This is my first Christmas card for this year.  My order from the Holiday Catalogue has not come in yet so I am using the stamps carried over from last year.
I used the sketch from Technostamper here

The Festive Flurries stamp set and coordinating framelits was used to create the focal image.  Island Indigo ink on Whisper White card stock was used on the smaller snowflake, and silver glimmer paper was die cut using the larger snowflake.

Stamps:  Festive Flurries, More Merry Messages
Inks: Island Indigo
Papers: Island Indigo, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer
Accessories: Decorative Dots Embossing folder, Fancy Fan embossing folder, rhinestones, dimensionals, Tasteful Trim die (retired)