Fun Fold Tropical Escape Birthday

This is a really a fun fold. It allows you to show off some off any of our beautiful DSP  For today's card I used the Tropical Escape DSP and even made an embellishment from images in the paper.

In the above picture the card is closed but you can see the beautiful embellishment.  Opening up the card reveals the different patterns in the DSP.

Here's how to make this fun fold:

• Start with a 5 1/2 by 10 1/2" piece of Thick Whisper White card stock
• Score at 5 1/2, 6 3/4, 8 and 9 1/4.  Starting at the left side, fold as follows:  mountain, valley, mountain and valley.  Burnish with a bone folder
• Add DSP matted with Basic Black  and the Whisper White using the following measurements:

Basic Black card stock:  

(1) 4 1/4 by 5 1/4"

(2) 2 1/8 by 5 1/4

(2) 1 1/8 by 5 1/4"

DSP (Tropical Escape)

(1) 4 by 5"

(2) 2 by 5

(2) 1 by 5

Whisper White

(1) 1 3/4 by 5 1/4

Make the embellishment:

Cut 3 palm leaves and 3 flowers (pink) from the DSP.

Punch a 1 1/4" scallop circle which will be the base for the leaves and flowers

Sponge leaves with Granny Apple Green ink ; the flowers with Petal Pink ink.

Using an Emerald Green marker, make markings on the inside of each flower.

Shape the leaves and the flowers.

Using a hot glue gun (you can use tombo if you wish) attach the leaves to the scallop circle base and cluster the flowers at the base of the leaves. Add a black rhinestone to the center of each flower.

Adhere to only half of the first mountain fold from the center.  The embellishment should extend over the edge. ( see first picture)

Die cut a  Delicate Lace Edgelit in Granny Apple green and adhere to first panel. 

• The sentiment, stamped with Black Memento, was die cut using the rectangular, notched framelit from "Farmhouse Christmas"
• Stamp birthday sentiment from "Bunch of Blossoms"

Close the card and wrap a 5/8" white polka do ribbon around the end fold the keep the card closed.  An alternative would be to make a belly band.

Supplied Used:

Stamps:  Painted Glass, Bunch of Blossoms

Inks:  Black Memento, Granny Apple Green, Petal Pink, Emerald Green Marker, Stampin Up Blends

Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Basic Black, Tropical Escape DSP, Granny Apple Green

Accessories:  Stained Glass Thinlets, Delicate Lace Edgelits, Festive Farmhouse Framelit Dies, Black Rhinestones, 5/8" white organza polka dot ribbon

April Showers bring - Tulips - Paper Craft Crew Challenges #289

I have been so impatient for the spring flowers to appear!

And they have been so slow in doing so.  The Ice Storm of 2 weeks ago didn't help matters, but the temperature is rising now to more seasonal levels and hopefully we'll see some action - in the plant department anyway.

For the challenge with Paper Craft Crew #289 (April Showers Bring May Flowers) I pulled out a hostess stamp set that will be retiring the end of May.

The Tranquil Tulip stamp set has been a favourite of mine and I have used in on a number of occasions.  I will miss it.

These are my spring flowers - tulips arranged in a Z-fold card.  The base of this card is Wild Wasabi (retiring), scored at  5 1/2 and one panel scored again at  2 3/4".  Each section was layered with Whisper White card stock and then the green diagonal striped Delightfully Daisy DSP.

The tulips were stamped using the Stamparatus, fussy cut, put together with dimensionals and then adhered to a strip of window sheet inside a die cut crate. 

For a sturdier structure, the crate was die cut from  a piece of Whisper White card stock stamped with the Woodgrain background stamp.  The edges were sponged lightly with Soft Suede ink.  To allow the crate to fold with the Z fold card, I removed the bottom of the crate and inserted a 1" insert inside for stability and for the tulips to attach to.

This crate was inserted into the Z of the card on 2 sides.  On the top front section I added a strip of Delightfully Daisy DSP as well as the sentiment (from Bunch of Blossoms).

Three colors(Rose Red, Rich Razzelberry and Daffodil Delight)  and 2 sizes of tulips were stamped and fussy cut.  The stems and leaves were also fussy cut, and after sponging all the edges, the flowers were assembled and adhered to a strip of window sheet.  This is turn was adhered to the inside of the wooden crate.

top view

On the front I placed 3 small single tulips in a circle on a small white Doillie and placed a triple white organza ribbon just below them.

Some clear Wink of Stella was applied to the base only of all the tulips.  I found this glitter tended to smear the colour somewhat so limited its application to the base.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Tranquil Tulips (retiring), Bunch of Blossoms, Wood grain
Inks:  Rich Razzelberry, Rose Red, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Basic Black
Papers:  Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Delightfully Daisy DSP
Accessories:  White Delicate Doillie, 1/4" white organza ribbon, Stamparatus, Window Sheet, Wood Crate framelit die, dimensionals, Clear Wink of Stella

Jar of Love Meets Bunch of Blossoms

I finally broke down and bought a new Laptop computer, which has Windows 10 on it. You know what's coming don't you.
 Last night I was setting it up and wherever I went there were passwords, including the most important one - the one to let me access my computer.  I thought I had entered it correctly and had written it down, but when I went to access my computer this morning the password wouldn't work.  Ugh!!!  To reset it, a special flashdrive is needed!  Awww!!! This is a steep learning curve!  So, I went back to my old computer to do this post.

The card I made last night is one inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.
It combines 3 stamp sets - Jar of Love, Bunch of blossoms and Time of Texture.

Focal Image:
The 3 floral petals were triple stamped using Sweet Sugarplum Ink, the first stamping I stamped off once before stamping; the second and third layers full strength.  The three small leaves were stamped first with Pear Pizzazz and then with Old Olive ink,  They were punched out using the coordinating punch set and set aside.
The jar was then stamped and die cut. Water (Pool Party) was stamped to the bottom of the jar.

Background: 
The Timeless Texture stamp set was used here.  I started out by using one of the stamps inked with Basic Gray ink  and moved it  slowly around the perimeter of the Whisper White  piece.  Then,  3 layers of the "dot" stamp were stamped along the left lower side.
To finish the background, the floral image was stamped in the upper left and lower right corners in Sweet Sugarplum ink

Creating the Card:
The die cut jar was now adhered to the card front with a temporary adhesive.  The image of the delicate flowers were stamped twice with the stems extending well into the jar.  An extra stem was stamped into the jar and extending over the top.
The jar was removed, the ribbon and bow attached to the jar neck, and the flower petals were  built up at the top of the 3rd stem.  One was adhered directly to the card front: the econd and third with dimensionals.
The jar was now added to the front with dimensionals, matching all stems.  The leaves for the flower were now added, as well as the bow.

The stamped sentiment was die cut using the Layering Circles Franmelit and matted with a Sweet Sugarplum circle.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Jar of Love, Timeless Texture,   Bunch of Blossoms
Inks: Black Memento, Pool Party, Sweet Sugarplum, Old Olive Basic Gray, Pear Pizzazz
Papers:  Sweet Sugarplum, Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories: Blossom Builder Punch, Layering Circles Framelits, Everyday Jar Framelits, Dimensionals                        

Bunch of Blossoms Birthday

We're experiencing a heat wave here with the temperature in the high 30's with a humid factor of 40+.  My poor flowers outside are really suffering and my lawn and well as everyone's in the neighbourhood is burnt brown from lack of rain.  The weather man explains this weather as a dome of high pressure keeping the hot weather trapped in a "dome" .  I don't know what  we would do without air conditioning. So I'm basically staying inside and playing with my toys.  My choice today:  
the Blossom Builder Punch and coordinating stamp set, and made this birthday card.

I used the Bunch of Blossoms stamp set with the coordinating Blossom Builder Punch.  The flower is built with a 3 step stamping process.
Petals of Flower:  Furty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, Black Memento
Stem and Leaves:  Old Olive (stamped off), Old Olive
Center:  Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake

The Petals of the flowers were punched out using the coordinating punch; the stem and leaves were hand cut.

In order to create more interest and fill in some of the white spaces, various stamps of the "Timeless Texture" stamp set and Old Olive ink (stamped off)

Supplies Used: 
Stamps: Bunch of Flowers, Timeless Texture
Inks: Black Memento, Flurty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake
Papers: Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Pop of Pink Specialty DSP
Accessories: Blossom Builder Punch, dimensionals, 1" circle punch, Wink of Stella clear glimmer brush                                                                                                                                                   

Bunch of Blossoms Thank You - SUO Challenge #153

The challenge this week with SUO challenges is to use the colours black and white and then add a pop of colour.  Using Daffodil Delight with black was a perfect "pop" of colour.

Using the stamp set "Bunch of Blossoms" three step stamping was done to create the blossom of the flower.  The colours used:  Daffodil Delight, Crushed Currry, with details stamped with Black Memento.  These were punched out with the Blossom Builder Punch and then built into a flower. An extra petal was made.


The stem and leaves were stamped with Black Memento onto Whisper White and  hand cut.

The completed flower was attached to the top of the stem which was adhered to a Basic Black background.  Both leaves were then attached. The extra petal was used to create the illusion of a petal falling off the flower.

The sentiment was stamped onto Whisper White piece of cardstock which was matted with Daffodil Delight.

Base card is Basic Black, layered with Basic Black DSP.

Supplies Used:
Stamp: Bunch of Blossoms
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Black Memento
Paper:  Basic Black, Basic Black DSP, Whisper  White
Accessories: Blossom Builder punch, dimensionals