Flowers on a Brick Wall

Today was a horrible, rainy, snowy day with slush so thick it felt like walking in a slushy drink (not that I've ever done that).  I stayed indoors playing with my new kittens and keeping track of my son who had surgery 2 days ago and a friend who broke a hip. I myself did not feel too well, so I did not get down to the craft room until evening.

Tonight I played with a SAB stamp set "Thoughtful Blooms' and its coordinating punch.  Both are free with a $60 order; the punch with a $120 order.

After embossing the Whisper White card stock with the Bricks and Mortar Embossing folder, the four clustered leaf stamp was stamped in three areas using Garden Green ink.  The flowers were stamped with Highland Heather on a separate piece of card stock, punched with the coordinating punch and added to the card front in the middle of the leaf cluster.  A rhinestone from the Noble Peacock rhinestone collection was added to the center of each flower,

The sentiment was also stamped in Garden Green ink and die cut with the layering square die and matted with a slightly larger Garden Green card stock.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Thoughtful Blooms
Inks:  Garden Green, Highland Heather
Papers:  Whisper White, Garden Green
Accessories:  Flower Punch, Layering Square Die, Noble Peacock rhinestone collection, Brick and Mortar Embossing Folder.

A Gorgeous Grape Tulip birthday card

I love Gorgeous Grape on a black background, and when you add gold foil the effect is "WOW".

Tonight I stamped 3 small tulips in Gorgeous grape ink with the stem and leaves in Mossy Meadow.  After fussy cutting  them all, I  set them aside to ponder the rest of the card.

While I was pondering, the door bell rang.  UPS time!!! Included in my order was the Honey Gold Specialty DSP, a free SAB item.

Here is my completed card.

The completed tulips were adhered to a piece of Basic Black card stock which was matted with Gold Foil left over from another project. A bee, fussy cut from the DSP was coloured with a blend and adhered to the middle tulip.  Two colours of the Noble Peacock rhinestones provided some bling to the art piece.

This art piece  was adhered to the Gold Honey DSP which was layered to the Thick Whisper White card stock base.  On either side of the DSP was a strip of black stripe DSP  the reverse side of the DSP layering the front.

The sentiment, stamped in Gorgeous Grape, was punched with the Classic Label punch, layered with Basic Black and Gold foil

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Timeless Tulip
Inks:  Gorgeous Grape, Mossy Meadow, Dark Mango Melody Stampin' Blend
Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Honey Gold DSP, Gold Foil, Basic Black
Accessories: 3/8" Tricolour purple ribbon, Noble Peacock rhinestones, Classic Label punch

Congratulations - Freshly Made Sketches #417

It's is important that accomplishments be recognized and rewarded so I like to l have some ready made cards on hand to reflect that.

This card was made using the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches #417

Whenever we are proud of someone we usually say we are as "proud as a peacock", so I turned to the Royal Peacock stamp set with its coordinating dies. This set, from the Annual Catalogue, has some wonderful brightly coloured foil and Specialty DSP as part of the suite.

The card base is Thick Whisper White card stock layered with Old Olive Foil Specialty DSP

Three feathers were die cut using the feather die and one each of the three foil colours - Blueberry Bushel, Old Olive, and Pretty Peacock.  They were clustered together and tied with a  3/8" Old Olive/Peacock Reverse ribbon before being adhered to a piece of Whisper White card stock with glue dots.  This was matted with some Proud Peacock foil before being added to the far right edge of the card front.

The sentiment, stamped with Pretty Peacock ink on Whisper White, is matted with Blueberry Bushel foil and adhered to the middle of the card straddling the art piece using dimensionals.

Nobel Peacock rhinestones, rhinestones that are in the same colours as the foil and DSP,  are added to the sentiment piece and to the upper and lower art piece.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Peaceful Moments, Noble Peacock
Inks:  Pretty Peacock
Papers:  Thick Whisper white, Noble Peacock Specialty DSP, Noble Peacock Foil, Whisper White
Accessories:  Noble Peacock Dies, 3/8" Old Olive/Peacock Reversible Ribbon, Noble Peacok rhinestones, glue dots, dimensionals

Proud of You - Paper Craft Crew Challenges #341

Go ahead.  Say it.  When accomplishing a task whether it be yourself, or someone close to you , you can state you are "proud as a Peacock" although this may not have the most positive connotation.

"Proud as a peacock" is a saying that is used to mean a vain or self-centered person. The phrase comes from the plumage of the male peafowl (females are peahens). When a male is courting, he spreads his tail feathers, sometimes five feet in length, out in a fan pattern to attract a female. (Wikipedia)

The Peacock was used as the focal image for the card made for the sketch challenge with Paper Craft Crew Horizontal Challenges here

On a Pretty Peacock card stock card base, is added a Whisper White layer upon which the Focal Image  is adhered.  The Focal image consists of two different size Ovals die cut using the Layering Oval Dies.  The larger oval is used to die cut the new Noble Peacock foil; the smaller is used to die cut the Noble Peacock DSP (Old Olive foil).

The Peacock is stamped on a separate piece of Whisper White with Pretty Peacock ink and the overlay feathers embossed with gold embossing powder. Blendabilites are used to colour the Peacock and Clear Wink of Stella added.  Since I do not have the dies, the peacock is fussy cut, with a section of the lower plumage trimmed in order for the bird to fit on the smaller oval. It is adhered to the smaller oval using dimensionals.

Using the stamparatus and a stamp from "Around the Corner" stamp set, a row of images is stamped almost all the way across the upper half of the Whisper White piece.  The larger of the two die cut ovals is adhered to the Whisper White layer ,  Before adhering the smaller oval to this die, a piece of 1/2" Pretty Peacock Scalloped Linen ribbon, notched at both ends, is adhered over the adhered oval parallel to and slightly over top of the stamped images.

The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

To finish the card, some bling is added in the form of coordinating Noble Peacock rhinestones.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Royal Peacock, Around the Corner

Inks:  Pretty Peacock, Versa Mark, Stampin' Blends (Dark Rich Razzelberry, Bermuda Bay comb)

Papers:  Pretty Peacock, Whisper White, Noble Peacock DSP, Noble Peacock Foil

Accessories:  Layering Oval Dies, 1/2" Pretty Peacock Scallop Linen Ribbon, Noble Peacock rhinestones, Gold embossing powder, Clear Wink of Stella, Dimensionals, Stamparatus,