Painted Harvest Birthday - Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday #335

The theme with Dawn's sketch at Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday #335 is embossing.  I've been playing quite a bit with Stampin' Up's new Embossing Paste, so I incorporated that into my design team card for this week's challenge.

Would you believe the top flower is cut directly out of the Painted Autumn Harvest DSP?  The flower below was stamped with Crushed Curry using the Painted Harvest Stamp set and fussy cut.

Before adhering the two layers together I clear embossed both and adhered some gold metallic thread between the layers.  A gold faceted gem was placed in the middle of the Sunflower.

Since embossing  is the optional theme for this sketch, I thought I would apply some coloured Embossing paste (coloured with Crumb Cake reinker) on a 3 3/4 by 5 piece Very Vanilla  cardstock using the Playful Decorative Mask from Stampin' Up.  I applied it only in 2 areas as I wanted to stamp the leaves for the Sunflower directly onto the background in between. 

Before adding the flower, I adhered some 5/8" Burlap ribbon near the top, and stamped two leaves using Garden Green ink below and in the middle of the art piece.

The sentiment is from "Special Celebrations"

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Painted Harvest, Special Celebrations

Inks:  Crumb Cake reinker, Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Garden Green

Papers:  Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Painted Autumn Harvest DSP 

Accessories:  Embossing Paste, Clear embossing powder, Everyday Label Punch, Gold Metallic Thread, 5/8" Burlap ribbon, Happy Backgrounds Decorative Masks, Gold Faceted Gems, Dimensionals

Now it's your turn to create something using Dawn's sketch.  When finished upload it to the Try Stampin' on Tuesday blog, or to their Facebook page

Umbrella Baby Shower Card

Okay, so I like to play and I like to experiment - as long as I'm not in a time crunch!

One of the new products I have had a lot of fun playing with is the new Embossing paste and the decorative masks.

During my "play time" I made a number of  backgrounds and set them aside .....

Today I had an inspiration -

I needed a baby shower card, so I pulled out the "cloud" background I created on Pool Party card stock.  When I was making this background I embossed the Embossing paste with clear embossing powder while it was still wet. Note: To avoid "bubbling" of the paste, I did not heat emboss until the paste was dry.  The result? A wonderful glitter that can't really be seen on the picture below.

Using the  Umbrella Weather  framelits, I die cut an umbrella and an umbrella handle in Whisper White card stock.  I also punched numerous Itty Bitty flowers in Whisper White and So Saffron.

After adhering the umbrella and umbrella handle together I  layered  the  itty bitty flowers on the umbrella, completely covering it, overlapping the flowers for a full 3D look.  I let some flowers fall off the umbrella one landing on the sentiment. Small rhinestones were added to each floral center.  One can never have too much bling.

Before adhering the now decorated umbrella (using dimensionals) to the card front,  I tied a 1/8" Whisper White ribbon bow  around the handle, and added the same ribbon to the left side of the art piece.


Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Non SU
Inks: Black Memento
Papers:  Whisper White, Pool Party, So Saffron
Accessories:  Itty Bitty flower punch, Cloud Decorative Mask, Embossing paste, Clear embossing powder,  Umbrella Weather framelits, rhinestones, 1/8" Whisper White sheer ribbon, dimensionals, glue dots

Nice, Naughty or Fabulous - a partial case

This card is a partial case from one I saw on Pinterest.  I was particularly interested on how this demonstrator created the sky.
 I used the new star decorative mask to help create stars in the sky and a stamp from the Visions of Santa stamp set and Soft Sky ink to create the snow.

This time I placed Santa on the back of the Moose.  He looks like he's giving an Olympic score for a performance - are you nice, naughty or fabulous?

I used a white gel pen for the hair, beard and cuffs of the sleeves and pants.
Stamps: Visions of Santa
Inks: Memento, Basic Black, Blendabilities (Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso), Soft Sky, Daffodil Delight
Papers: Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Accessories: Decorative Mask, Dazzling Diamonds, White Gel Pen