Thinking of You Friend - The Paper Players #435

After today Sale-a-bration is officially over!  These 3 months have gone by very fast.

For the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge with The Paper Players I am picking the following row: die cuts, embossing and floral, with the Painted Seasons stamp set.

 I am also using a technique I haven't used in a while - the Baby Wipe technique, using the current in-colours reinkers (Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, Pineapple Punch, Blueberry Bushel, and Call Me Clover).  I know, I was hesitant too, and I wasn't sure those colours could be mixed together.

On 4 baby wipes folded in half placed on my Stampin' Scrub, several drops of the following reinkers were placed at the top half - Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, and Pineapple Punch; and the other reinkers were placed at the bottom - Call Me Clover and Blueberry Bushel.

To be truthful, I had no idea what mixing these colours would look like.  I just hoped the result would not be mud when mixed together.  So, with bated breath I took the flower stamp from "Painted Seasons" inked it up and stamped on glossy cardstock.

I was actually quite pleased at the result.  Now the leaves.  You must admit mixing a blue with a green is not always wise, but again I was pleased with the result.

So, I stamped until I filled a piece of 8 1/2 by 11 piece of glossy card stock - using a different flower per sheet  because I couldn't decide which one I wanted to use.

Then I die cut 3 flowers and leaves from the stamped piece using the Four Seasons Framelits.

As you can see I decided to use the other flower.

Making the Card:

On a Lovely Lipstick card base, a 3 1/4 by 5 1/2" piece of the DSP  (to which a strip of Grapefruit Grove card stock was added to the top and bottom edges),  was adhered.

In the center of this was added a 1 1/4 by 5 1/2" piece of Lovely Lipstick with a 1" piece of Whisper White in the middle.   In the center of this was added a flagged strip of Call Me Clover card stock  on which a  sentiment was embossed  with silver embossing powder.

The three die cut flowers and leaves were arranged on the left of this strip, and rhinestones were added to the center of each flower.

On the inside, a 1/4" strip of the stamped glossy paper was added to the bottom of a Whisper White piece of card stock.  A  1/8" strip of Lovely Lipstick was adhered above this. The embossed Get Well sentiment is from "Dandelion Wishes".

I made this card especially for a friend who is undergoing surgery for breast cancer this coming week. "Know that today a friend is thinking of you"

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Painted Seasons, Dandelion Wishes, Part of My Story

Inks:  Versa Mark, Reinkers:  Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, Pineapple Punch, Blueberry Bushel, and Call Me Clover

Papers:  Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, Call Me Clover, Whisper White, Glossy White card stock

Accessories:  Four Seasons Framelits, Silver Embossing Powder, Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Baby Wipes

Matching images were also stamped on an envelope..

Beautiful Day - SUO Challenge #161 Coloring

Coloring images for my cards is something I really enjoy doing and I like using a variety of media to do so.  One of the media I love to use is the Stampin' Blends, sometimes combining them with the watercolour pencils.

The challenge with SUO Challenge #161 is coloring - using any of the media Stampin' Up offers.  I chose to use Stampin' Blends to colour the flowers from the "Beautiful Day" stamp set.

The Stamparatus was used to stamp two of the flowers set onto Whisper White card stock. and coloured with Stampin' Blends.

The following colours were used on the flowers and leaves:

Flower 1: Mint Macaron Light and Dark with shading done in Bermuda Bay

Flower 2:  Melon Mambo Light and Dark with shading done in Pacific Point

Centers of both flowers:  Daffodil Delight Light and Dark and some contrast done with Crumb Cake Light.

Leaves  Granny Apple Green and Old Olive and Daffodil Delight Light

After colouring, they were fussy cut and adhered to a lacy white die cut (Beautiful Layers Thinlet die) on the card front,

The card base is Melon Mambo layered with Whisper White and then Garden Impressions DSP (Mint Macaron colour)_.  A strip of the reverse side of the DSP  (Melon Mambo) was placed along the left side.

The sentiment, from "Part of My Story" is punched with the new Storybook Label Punch

Stamps:  Beautiful Day, Part of My Story
Inks:  Black Memento, Stampin Blends (Mint Macaron, Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake)
Papers:  Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Garden Impressions DSP
Accessories:  Storybook Label Punch, Dimensionals, Beautiful Layers Thinlet Dies.

Painted Seasons and Lovely Lipstick Foil

The Painted Seasons stamp set is one of the new 2nd release items and the Lipstick Foil, a SAB offering which unfortunately is sold out, creates a backdrop for the flowers in this stamp set. This set comes with framelits which are sold separately.

The stamparatus was used to stamp 3 flowers and three fern -like leaves.  The flowers were stamped using Berry Burst ink; the leaves with Mossy Meadow.  The Four Seasons framelits were used to die cut these images.  In addition three leaves were die cut in the Lipstick foil.

The die cut images were built on a Pearlized doillie adhered to a Whisper White panel die cut using the stitched rectangle framelit.

This focal point was adhered to a layer of Lovely Lipstick foil embossed with the Petal Burst embossing folder This was adhered to a Thick Whisper White top fold card base.

The sentiment is from another second release stamp set: Part of My Story

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Painted Seasons, Part of My Story

Inks:  Black Memento, Berry Burst, Mossy Meadow

Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Lovely Lipstick Foil

Accessories:  Stitched Rectangle Framelits, Petal Burst embossing folder, Pearl Doillie, Dimensionals,  Four Seasons Framelits