Daisy Punch Dress

I always like to get the most and different uses for my punches.
This was one use which really surprised and delighted me.  I saw this use in a tutorial on Splitcoaststampers here where the punch was used to make a fancy skirt.

The image was stamped on a separate piece of Whisper White, coloured with a Berry Burst marker and then fussy cut.
The Petal Promenade DSP was punched four times with the Daisy Punch and each of the petals were cut off.
Starting at the waist, the petals were adhered to the torso using tombo glue only on the tip of each petal, each petal overlapping or tucked underneath the previous one. I used a skewer to curl the tip of each petal up to give the dress more fullness.
When finished I added the lady I the skirt to a piece of embossed Whisper White card stock, which was the layer to a Berry Burst card base.
Then I added a row of pearls to the waist, and then to the tip of each petal on the skirt.

A 5/8" Berry Burst ribbon and bow were added to the top; the binotched sentiment is from the same stamp set

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Beautiful You
Inks:  Black Memento, Berry Burst Marker, Powder Pink Marker
Papers:  Berry Burst, Whisper White, Petal Promenade DSP
Accessories:  Daisy Punch, Stripes and scallops Embossing folder, 5/8" Berry Burst ribbon

Beautiful You Birthday Fab Friday #139

Some weeks are good; some not so good.

Last week was one of those weeks where I was in too much pain, and too tired to even think about going to the craft room.  It was enough just getting off the couch.

I was waiting for a doctor to phone me with test results and a diagnosis, but he failed to call.  This was the third call he missed.  I was so disappointed, angry, upset etc I felt like a deflated balloon.  Up until now I had put on a strong face and kept to my usual routine, but after the 3rd missed call I just could not do it anymore!

Today I made a concerted effort to create something, Perhaps not my best work, but its a start.

I made this card for the sketch challenge with Fab Friday here

The base card of Tranquil Tide card stock layered with embossed Whisper White cardstock forms the basis of this card.

The focal image is placed in the right side.  It's wonderful when one can use die cuts from other projects.  And that's exactly what I did.  The image was stamped on a left over Whisper White lots of labels die cut.  Raindrops (from the stamp set Weather Together) were stamped with Pool Party around he image, and the image colored with watercolor pencils and a blender pen.

This die cut was adhered to another left over Tranquil Tide Oval with dimensionals.

The sentient was stamped on Vellum with a strip of 'tranquil Tide punch with the ticket punch adhered  at the bottom edge. This was placed on the lower part of the focal image.

For added interest I added some gold foil thread inserted in the left side.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Beautiful You, Weather Together

Inks:  Black Memento, Watercolor Pencils, Pool Party

Papers:  Tranquil Tide, Whisper White, Vellum

Accessories:  Lots of Labels Framelits, Oval Framelits, Gold Thread, Blender Pen, Dimensionals, Ticket Edge punch, Scattered Sequins Embossing Folder

Beautiful You Pop & Twist

This Pop & Twist card features the "Beautiful You" stamp set as well as "Big on Birthdays"

The base of this card is Tempting Turquoise, layered with Tempting Turquoise DSP.  The art piece shows a large "Happy Birthday" sentiment.  This was accomplished by highlighting each word with a Basic Black marker and stamping each word at a time (the original stamp is one united word).

Three Tempting Turquoise balloons punched with the Balloon Builder punch were adhered to the upper left, and flowers added  to the lower right.

Twist the card open........

Beautiful You is revealed.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Beautiful You, Lovely Inside & Out, Big on Birthday, Lots of Love, Timeless Texture

Inks:  Black Memento, Basic Black Marker, Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist

Papers:  Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise DSP, Old Olive

Accessories:  Stitched Oval Framelits, Balloon Builder Punch, Blender Pen

Book Mark #2 Beautiful You

This image was left over from another project so I made it into a book mark.  Again I used a 2 by 51/2" Basic Black base.

The image was colored with watercolor pencils and mounted onto the Basic Black card stock.  Some Sweet Sugarplum DSP was added to the top and bottom.  A black tassel was added to the top

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Beautiful You, Timeless Texture
Inks: Black Memento, Watercolor Pencils, Marina Mist
Papers: Basic Black, Whisper White, Sweet Sugarplum DSP
Accessories: Sweet Sugarplum ruched ribbon, Black tassel (retired), Dazzling Details (retired), Scallop top tag punch, Aqua painter

I'm Thinking of You

There are a number of people in my life now who I am "thinking about".  I put together two of my favourite stamp sets, Beautiful You and Lovely as a Tree, using the masking technique, to make this "thinking of you" card. I also used a couple of other stamps to create the scene below.

The first think I did was make a mask for the image of the umbrella covered woman.  Once she was protected I stamped the trees and grass, and the sky- the trees are from "Lovely as a Tree", the grass from "Sheltering Tree", the sky from "Celebration" and the birds in the sky from "Wherever You Go"

The basic card is Rich Razzelberry, layered with Crushed Curry, so I selected these colours for the clothes.  The blue in the outfit is from the sky. Because the sentiment (Sheltering Tree) was too long for the Art Piece, I cut it into 3 parts, each part matted with the same colours are the card.

Three Itty Bitty flowers were punched with Crushed Curry card stock, colored in the center with a Rich Razzelberry marker and then added to each of the sentiment words.  A silver metallic circle was placed in each flower.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Beautiful You, Sheltering Tree, Wherever You Go, Happy Celebration
Inks: Black Memento, Watercolor Pencils, Rich Razzelberry marker, Basic Gray, Marina Mist, Old Olive
Papers:

• Rich Razzelberry 5 1/2 by 4 1/4" (card base)
• Crushed Curry 4 by 5 1/4" (mat for card base)
• Whisper White 3 3/4 by 5" (Art Piece
• Whisper White scraps (for sentiment)
• Rich Razzelberry scraps (mat for sentiment)
• Crushed Curry scraps (mat for sentiment and 3 flowers)

Accessories:

• Silver metallic circles (flower centers)
• Itty Bitty punch (for flowers)
• Post-it Note (to make mask)
• Glue dots

Celebrate Beautiful You

I was working with the Up & Away thinlets for another project when the hot air balloon die cut fell on one of the images from the stamp set "Beautiful You".  It looked just like a balloon skirt, so the idea for this card was born.

I die cut the hot air balloon using the Playful Palette DSP, turned it upside down, trimmed off the basket, and made a pleat (to fit the waist better) in the middle.  Because this die cut was very transparent, I lined it with filter paper cut to shape.
Watercolor pencils were used to colour in the bodice of the dress and hat, selecting the colours from the Playful Palette DSP.
The skirt was added using glue dots.
Two tiny holes were punched on either side of the waist and a piece of 1/4" very vanilla ribbon was inserted through them (from the back), and tied at the waist in the front.

The 2 3/4 by 3 3/4" art piece was matted with Basic Black cardstock before adding it to the card front.

The flower embellishments were made using the Botanical framelits.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Beautiful You
Inks: Black Memento, Watercolor pencils
Papers: Peek-a-boo Peach, Whisper White, Playful Palette, Basic Black, Emerald Envy, filter paper
Accessories: Botanical  Builder Framelits, Up & Away Framelits, Corner Rounder punch, dimensionals, glue dots, rhinestones, Classic Label Punch.

Beautiful You in a Mediterranean Moment - a partial case

I saw this idea on Pinterest and was intrigued enough to make this card.  Two stamp sets are involved, and a masking technique is used.

Stamps: Beautiful You, Mediterranean Moment

Inks: Black Memento, watercolor pencils

Papers:

• Pacific Point 4 1/4 by 5 1/2"
• Pacific Point 5 by 3 1/2"
• Whisper White 4 1/4 by 5 1/4"
• Whisper White (art piece) 3 1/4 by 4 1/2"
• Animal Party DSP 3 3/4 by 5"
• Pacific Point 3/4 by 2" for sentiment

Accessories: Gold thread, dimensionals, blender pen, Clear Wink of Stella

The image of the lady was stamped first, masked, and then the Mediterranean scene was stamped.  Both were coloured with watercolour pencils and blended with a blender pen.  Some Wink of Stella was applied to the lady.

Happy Birthday Gorgeous - Paper Craft Crew #222

This new stamp set in the 2017 Occasions catalogue is probably one of my most favourite ones, well, along with ....... I like so many it is hard to pick one.

I used the sketch with Paper Craft Crew challenges to make this card, but for some reason I could not copy the picture of the sketch to my blog. 

The card base is Bermuda Bay, layered with Very Vanilla embossed with the Gently Falling embossing folder. A piece of Cupcakes & Carousel DSP was adhered to the bottom of this embossed layer. A strip of So Saffron cardstock notched at both ends was adhered to the left side.

The image was stamped with Black Memento and coloured with water colour pencils (which will also be available in January). The Bermuda Bay water colour pencil was used to create the illusion of rain. Layering circles framelits was used to die cut the image which was matted with a Bermuda bay scalloped circle.  This unit was adhered to the card front with dimensionals.

Three Very Vanilla flowers were punched with the Petite flower punch, the edges of which were coloured with the water colour pencils and blended with a blender pen.  The center of each flower is So Saffron card stock punchie from the Owl builder punch. Before adhering them to the card, each petal was curled up.

Supplies Used:

Stamp: Beautiful You

Ink: Black Memento, Watercolor Pencils

Papers: Bermuda Bay, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, So Saffron, Cupcakes & Carousel DSP

Accessories: Falling gently embossing folder, Layering circles framelits, Petite Petal Punch, Linen thread, Washi tape punch, Owl Builder punch, Triple layer punch.