Seasonal Shadow Boxes - Spring

I made these frames from a tutorial I purchased from Craft Project Central and were designed by Buffy Cooper.

These Shadow Boxes feature all 4 seasons- but today's post features only Spring.  They are very easy to make and my plan is use these as a class project..

All shadow boxes are made using the Colorful Seasons Bundle, the Color Theory DSP,  and the Color Theory Memories & More Card Pack. I added a few other embellishments as well.

Above are the Spring and Summer shadow boxes, but today's post features the Spring Shadow Box.

The tutorial includes a tutorial on how to create a Shadow Box frame but I also found a great tutorial on You Tube here

The Shadow Box Frame is made using Berry Burst card stock (8 1/2 by 11") and decorated with the Color Theory DSP die cut with an Oval Framelit.  The insert and sentiment is from the Color Theory Memories & More Card Pack.

The flowers were made by stamping with Berry Burst ink, two of each of the flowers from the Colorful Seasons stamp set and die cutting them with the coordinating die set.  The flowers were shaped and after adhering two similar flowers together some acrylic lacquer was applied.

The larger flower in the upper and lower corner is from the Flower Shop stamp set.  I have put together a tutorial on how to colour and shape these flowers here .  The leaves were made using the Leaf Punch.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Colorful Seasons, Flower Shop

Inks:  Berry Burst, Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzelberry, Olf Olive

Papers:  Berry Burst, Color Theory DSP, Thick Whisper White, Old Olive

Accessories:  Coor Theory Memeories & More Card Pack, Crystal Lacquer (non SU), Dazzling Diamonds, Leaf Punch, Layering Season Framelits, Scoring Tool. Layering Oval Framelits

The Summer Shadow box will by posted separately.

Watercoloured Flowers using Flower Shop stamp set - ShoppingOur Stash #335

This month, at Shopping Our Stash the challenge is to use water colours.
I coloured these flowers using daubers, waterbased inks, and  water spritzers- water colouring them. See Tutorial on my tutorial blog: here

Flowers:
Each flower was stamped with Versa Mark ink on Whisper White card stock, using the Flower Shop stamp set, and embossed with Black embossing powder.
Because I could not find my Pansy Punch, I fussy cut each flower.
Then using an ink dauber and Marina Mist ink, the outsides of each petal were coloured.  To add contrast, some Night of Navy was sponged along the edges.  Some Daffodil Delight was daubed in the center.
Each petal was spritzed with water, then dried with a heat tool, after which they were shaped, had 3D Crystal Lacquer and Dazzling Diamonds applied, and set aside to dry.

After they were dry, a small Faceted gem was added to the center of each flower.

Leaves:
The leaves were punched with the Leaf Punch using Whisper White card stock.  Old Olive was applied to the leaves and stems, followed by Always Artichoke.  They  were then spritzed with water, dried, shaped, and each leaf folded in half lengthwise and the fold sponged with Always Artichoke.

The card base is Soft Sky, layered with Whisper White card stock embossed with the Petal Burst embossing folder.

In the center is a strip of  Petal Garden DSP which has a strip of Soft Sky card stock punched with the Decorative Ribbon punch on each side.

The flowers and leaf stems were added to the center strip using a hot glue gun.

The sentiment is from Vertical Greetings.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Flower shop, Vertical Greetings
Inks:  Versa Mark, Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Always Arttichoke, Black Memento
Papers: Soft Sky, Whisper White, Petal Gardens DSP
Accessories:  Black Embossing Powder, Decorative Ribbon punch, Leaf punch, Water spritzer, 3D Crystal Lacquer, Dazzling Diamonds, Hot glue gun, Faceted Gem, Flower shaping tools, Petal Burst embossing folder.

Flower Pot Card

I had some fun today making flowers using various stamp sets, and punches, some of which are retiring and some are not.
I had quite a number when I was done, so make a flower pot easel card, the template for which I got at my local craft store.

The card base is Cajun Craze cardstock, layered with Moroccan Series DSP.  I used a template from a local craft store to make this flower pot shaped easel card.

I stamped floral images from various stamp sets (Flower Shop, Grateful Bunch), punched some of the others using the Petite Petal Punch, Bunch Punch, the Scallop circle framelit, and Botanical Framelits. Some flowers were made into tiny roses, or a Chrysanthemum.  Most of the floral centers have pearls in them, but some have small brads.

The sentiment is from "Blossom Birthdays"

Here is the side view.

And a close up of the flowers:

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Grateful Bunch, Flower Shop, Birthday Blossoms
Inks: Daffodil Delight, Delightful Dijon, Old Olive, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Black Memento
Papers: Cajun Craze, Moroccan DSP, Calypso Coral, Chocolate Chip, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
Accessories: Petite Petal Punch, Bunch Punch, Botanical Framelits, Layering Circles framelits, Pearls, small brads

Flower shop Happy Birthday - Create with Connie & Mary #401

Where is Spring?  Oh, where is Spring?  We had a few nice days, the snow melted, and then I wake up in the morning and there's a foot of snow on my car!  I hear more is on the way.

This cool weather is not going to stop me from stamping flowers, hopefully to infuse a bit of spring spirit into my blog.

I made this card for the sketch challenge with Create with Connie & Mary  and I'm quite happy with the way its turned out.

On a 2 1/2 by 2 1/2" piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with rounded corners, 3 flowers were attached.  These flowers were stamped from the Flower Shop stamp set, with Calypso Coral ink and punched with the Pansy punch.  A small snip was made between the petals and the petals curled back using a bone folder.  The center was stamped using the flower center stamp from Butterfly Basics.  It was first stamped in Black Memento and then Calypso coral.  This center was punched using the 1/2" circle punch, and attached to the center of the flower using a small dimensional.

Before adhering the flowers, 2 leaf stems were die cut in Basic Black using the XL Bouquet die. 

They were attached first, and the flowers adhered around them using dimensionals. 

A 3 by 3 1/4" of Calypso Coral (Pretty Petals DSP) was adhered to the Very Vanilla card front.  The corners were also rounded using the corner rounder punch.

Behind the Very Vanilla piece, a piece of Black polka dot DSP (Pretty Petals) was punched at both end using the Triple Punch.  At one end a 1/4" piece of a different pattern of the Pretty Petals DSP was added.

The sentiment was from "Balloon Celebrations"

To finish up the card, some Wink of Stella clear glitter was brushed on the flower petals and center, and the leaves.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Flower Shop, Balloon Celebration,Butterfly Basics

Inks:Calypso Coral, Basic Black, 

Papers: Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Pretty Petals DSP pack, Basic Black

Accessories: Pansy Punch, 1/2" circle punch, XL Bouquet die, Triple Punch, dimensionals, Wink of Stella clear glitter brush, corner rounder punch.

A Birthday card for a special 65 year old

At one of my craft shows this week I was asked to make a birthday card for a special 65 year old.  This is the card I came up with.

• The base card is Rose Red layered with Whisper White.
• The next layer is Pink Pirouette cardstock embossed with the Filigree embossing folder.
• The Ovals framelit was used to die cut an oval shape in the middle of the Pink Pirouette layer.

Flowers:

• 3 flowers from the Flower Shop stamp set were stamped with Versa Mark on Vellum cardstock and  embossed with white embossing powder.  They were punched out using the Pansy punch and then coloured with a Pink Pirouette marker on the wrong side. 
• 1 larger flower from Mixed Bunch was prepared the same way.  The Blossom petal punch was used to punch this flower. 
• A dimensional was used to combine one of the smaller flower with the larger one.
• The petals of all flowers were curled up using a bone folder, and a pearl was placed in the centers
• The Bird Builder punch was used to punch the leaf sprigs.

Before the flowers were attached around one side of the oval, I die cut the numbers 6 and 5 in Old Olive cardstock,  using the Numbers thinlets and then attached them in the oval.

The flowers and leaf sprigs were attached as indicated on the card above.

The sentiment is from Rembembering Your Birthday.  It was stamped with Old Olive ink and the strip make into a banner.

Supplies Used:

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A Z-fold card -You Make Me Happy - SUO challenge #122 & Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge #251

I've always wanted to make a Z-fold card, and I love my flowers, so combining the two just seemed a natural thing to do.  I also combined 2 challenges - SUO #122 - Fun Flowers and Pals Paper Arts #251 which is a colour challenge.  So I made the fun flowers on my card in the following colours:  Daffodil Delight, Melon mambo, and Tempting Turquoise.
To make the Z-fold card, I used a tutorial found on the Too Cool Stamping blog

 

The base of the card is Daffodil Delight, layered with Whisper White.

Two stamp sets were used to make the flowers in the 3 colours mentioned.

The larger flowers are from"Flower Shop". They were stamped with Versa Mark and embossed with their respective colours. The flowers were punched using the coordinating Pansy Punch.  With the 1/2" circle punch, cardstock colours to match the flowers were punched, embossed with the Decorative dots embossing folder and adhered to the flower centers using a dimensional.

The smaller flowers are from "Petite Petals" and they were stamped using the 3 challenge colours, and punched using the coordinating Petite Petals punch.  Some were used as centers for the larger flowers and all of them had rhinestones in their centers.

The flowers were attached to the Z-fold card as shown in the picture.

The sentiment is from "Crazy About You".

Supplies Used:

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I also used Melon Mambo embossing powder and the heat tool.


I missed the deadline for the PPA linky, but I'm posting anyway.

Happy Easter with Vellum Flowers - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #208 and Fab Fri #59

With this Easter card, I managed to combine 2 challenges.
The first is a colour challenge at Fab Fri 59 and the second is a sketch challenge at Try Stampin' on Tuesday

Here's the resultant card:

These are the colours from Fab Fri:

And the sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday:

I decided to make the focal point embossed vellum flowers.  And to that end I used 2 different floral stamps: " Flower Shop" and "Petite Petals" and for the leaves I used "Flower Patch".

The flowers were stamped on Vellum, embossed with white embossing powder and punched out with their respective punches: Pancy Punch and Petite Petal Punch.  They were coloured on the reverse side using markers.  The leaves were stamped first in Versa Mark and then in Wild Wasabi and then embossed with clear embossing powder.  They were die cut using the framelits that coordinate with the Flower Patch stamp set.  They were also coloured on the wrong side with markers.

In the middle of the larger flower, a 1/2" Hello Honey circle was adhered with a glue dot and then a cluster of small pearls was added.  Blushing Bride circles, punched with the Owl builder punch (the eyes) was adhered in the middle of the smaller flowers followed by a small pearl.

The flowers and leaves were arranged on a 1 3/4" Whisper White circle matted with Calypso coral die cut with the Circles framelits.

The sentiment is from "Indescribable Gift"

Here are the rest of the supplies I used:

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I also used white embossing and clear embossing powder.

Scallop Top Tag Punch - Card 1

I have had a lot of questions about the scallop top tag punch.  Could it do any thing else except make tags?  So I decided to put together a class showing 3 different cards that could be made using this punch.
The first card shows one scallop enclosure,  the 3rd card shows  3 scallops.
Here is the first card:

Hints for punching:

• Start with a 4-1/4 x 11 piece of cardstock. 
• Make a small tick mark at the halfway point (2-1/8) on both 4-1/4 sides. 
• Turn paper over so your mark faces down.
• With your Scalloped Tag Topper Punch on a flat surface with open end facing away from you, carefully slide one 4-1/4 end toward you into the punch as far as it will go.
• Turn your punch over and center the tick mark in your punch.  (See photo.)  Punch.
• Trim off unpunched portions using a trimmer or a pair of scissors.
• Repeat on opposite end.
• Use a ribbon to tie the card closed.

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Flower Shop Mother's Day - Try Stampin' on Tuesday 146

Yes, I realize it's only December so what am I doing making Mother's Day Cards?  Just getting ahead of myself I think.  I made this card using the sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday here
The challenge had the extra twist of using some gold in the card. It was the gold that made me think of making a Mother's Day card.

 

The flowers were stamped with  Crisp Cantalope ink and punched out using the Pansy punch.  I then die cut a little leaf in Gumball Green cardstock using a sizzlet die and the Big Shot.  These were arranged on a square of Whisper White cardstock die cut with the Square Sizzlet, which was matted with gold foil card stock.  One flower is adhered directly to the cardstock, and the second using stampin' dimensionals.
The center of each flower is a gold circle.  I embossed a piece of Whisper White cardstock with gold embossing powder and punched out the centers of the flowers with the Owl Builder punch.  On top of this gold center is a small pearl embellishment.
The base card is Pistachio Pudding layered with Very Vanilla card stock, and then Venetian Romance designer paper.  In the middle is a strip of Pistachio Pudding card stock with a strip of punched gold foil paper at the top and bottom end.  In the middle of this strip I placed a piece of ruffled Pistachio Pudding ribbon.
The image panel was attached to the card using dimensionals.

Stamps: Flower Shop, Teen Tiny Wishes
Inks: Crisp Cantalope, Basic Black
Papers: Pistachio Pudding, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Gold Foil, Gumball Green, Venetian Romance designer paper
Accessories: Square framelits, Pansy Punch, Owl Builder punch, Sizzlet Leaflet die, Word Window punch, Modern Word Label punch, Scallop border punch, Ruffled Pistachio pudding ribbon, pearls