Friends & Flowers - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #262

For some reason tonight is the first time I have picked up this stamp set tonight, and I'm having a blast with it.  Those of you who know me know that I love flowers, and love making them.  The flower on this card is the second one I've made in half an hour.

I made this flower for the sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday .  Originally, this sketch had an optional theme of St. Patrick's Day with it, but I'm somewhat late for that as St. Patrick's Day is long and gone.

 

• I started out by making the flower, and to do this I stamped 10 images of the petal from the stamp set "Friends & Flowers" in Hello Honey on a 1 3/4" strip of Whisper White cardstock and 2 of the smaller joined petals. Three smaller leaf petals were stamped in Pear Pizzaz
• Using the Festive Flower Builder Punch, each petal/leaf was punched out.
• These petals were hot glued to a 1 1/4" circle of Hello Honey - 5 on the bottom, and 5 on the top.  The two joined petals were crisscrossed and hot glued to the top.  The leaves were adhered two together at one side and singly on the other.
• Some SU gold dazzling details was added around each petal.
• Then a Designer Wooden button was added to the flower center; followed by a medium pearl.

• The basic card is Crumb Cake, layered with Whisper White and then English Country Garden DSP.
• A large banner was die cut using the banner framelits.  The banner was embossed using the Fancy Fan Embossing Folder.
• Across the bottom of the banner, the sentiment was stamped on a strip of Whisper White cardstock.
• The assembled flower was adhered to the top of the banner.  

Supplies:
Stamps: Friends & Flowers, Watercolor Wings
Inks:  Hello Honey, Pear Pizzazz, Black Memento
Papers:Crumb Cake, Whisper White, English Country Garden DSP
Accessories: Festive Flower Builder Punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Gold dazzling details, Fancy Fan embossing folder, Large Pearl, Designer Neutral wood button. Hot glue gun.

Peace be With You - Try Stampin' on Tuesday or Not #236

The challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday is a sketch challenge plus a card fold challenge.  The challenge is to make a Gatefold card using the sketch.
For some reason I had a poinsettia flower in my mind all day, so using the Festive Flower Builder punch and the stamp set "Reason for the Season" this is what I made for this gatefold card.

 

• This gatefold card has a Real Red base.  Each of the front panels is matted with Very Vanilla, and Home for Christmas DSP (music).  All edges were sponged with Cherry Cobbler ink.
• The image panel is Very Vanilla, matted with Real Red.  At the lower end is a small horizontal Wild Wasabi panel  which is embossed with the Starburst Embossing folder (retired).  The panel is sponged with Old Olive ink.  In the center of that is a small rhinestones

• The Poinsettia flower was made using the Festive Flower Builder punch and Real Red cardstock.  The middle detail of each petal was stamped using the Reason for the Season stamp set in Cherry Cobbler ink.  The leaves with punched in Wild Wasabi, and the details stamped with Old Olive ink.  All the petals and leaves were folded in half to make the flower look more realistic.  The center of the flower is punched using Hello Honey cardstock.
• The sentiment is from "Reason for the Season"

Here is the inside of the card.

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A Christmas Wreath

I bought a wreath covered with artificial leaves & berries (awful looking really), but they were attached to a very nice vine wreath.  So, I removed these leaves and berries until  I was down to the bare wreath.  Then I built it up, using leaves I die cut and coloured, and poinsettia flowers I made using the new Festive Build a Flower punch.

Close up showing poinsettia and leaves

Close up of poinsettia

• I used a hot glue gun to attach everything to the base wreath, and I also used the hot glue gun to build the poinsettia.  I tried using dimensionals, but they did not stick
• Before building the flower, all the edges were sponged with Soft Suede and the petals folded in half to make a crease in the middle of the flower.
• To finish the wreath, I made a double bow with the 3/8" white glitter ribbon and attached it to the top.

Tote Bag with Poinsettia Flower

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.The tote was made with Merry Moments DSP and Real Red Cardstock.  I punched Real Red Petite flowers before adding the silver mini brads to the handles.

.To made the flower, I punched all the elements 4 times using Real Red cardstock.  The center was punched separately using Hello Honey cardstock.  The leaves were punched with Old Olive cardstock and then stamped to get the leaf markings, using Always Artichoke ink and the  "Reason for the Season" stamp.  The stampens were sponged lightly with Real Red.

.All petals were sponged with Cherry Cobbler ink; the leaves with Always Artichoke.

.I also curled and shaped the petals prior to putting the flower together.

.I punched a 1" circle punch upon which the flower petals would be built.

.Using a hot glue gun, I attached each petal to the circle, starting with the larger ones, and then adding the smaller ones on top.  The stamens were added last.

.Then I added the leaves, and attached the now finished flower to the side of the tote bag.

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