Bloomin' Bouquet

When I ordered the Bloomin' Bouquet kit from Stampin' Up, I wasn't sure I needed more flowers.  But upon reflection, I thought it wouldn't hurt to have more flowers for my table at the craft show this weekend.
They are very easy to make, and does not take up much of your time.
For most of the flowers I added the flowers from the Pop Up Posies designer kit.  It made the flowers look fuller and gave them an extra pizzaz!

The kit makes 13 flowers and includes everything you need to make them except for scissors, bone folder, and glue gun.  I did not make 13 flower, but 11.  There were 2 green flowers, and I elected to cut the petals apart and put leaves underneath each flower.

The watering can I made out of a paper cup.  I made it for another occasion, but decided it would do nicely for my new flowers.

Just in case you want to order them, here's the item numbers.  Flower Bouquet kit: 134524; Pop Up Posies Flower kit: 131395

Click here to see a video by Stampin' Up which has instructions on how to make the flowers.

Heart Shaped Valentine box - Sunny Challenges & Creations

Again this week at Sunny Creations and Challenges, there is no sketch to follow, just the topic "Love is in the Air".  I have always wanted to make a Heart Shaped Valentine box, so for this challenge here that is what I made.  I saw this box on Pinterest and CASED it.

Stamp: Filled with Love (retired)
Ink: Raspberry Ripple
Papers: Pretty in Pink, Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White, Red glimmer, Pool Party
Accessories: Hearts framelits, Hearts adorning accent folder, Rose Red seam binding, Flowers from Pop Up Posies designer kit, Flower from Artisan embellishment kit. small heart punch, dazzling details, dimensionals, mat pack and paper piercer, hand held paper punch

I hope you like the box.  If anyone would like me to put together a tutorial on how I made the box I would be glad to do so.  Just let me know in your comments, which by the way, are greatly appreciated.

Every Little Bit Valentine

I was playing with the Pop-Up Posies kit today and thought that the little cupcake liners would make a good backing for a stamped image.  Here is the resultant card:

I stamped images from the Every Little Bit stamp set that had a little heart on it - with Black Stazon on Whisper White card stock.  I coloured them with markers, then punched them out with a 1" circle punch, and matted them with a real red 1 1/4" scallop circle.  This unit was attached to a medium sized cupcake liner from the Pop-Up Posies kit, which I gently spread out.  I was worried them might tear, but they didn't.

Stamp: Every Little Bit
Inks: Black Stazon, SU markers
Papers: Real Red, Whisper White, Real Red Co-ordination Cardstock, Red Glimmer Paper, Pool Party
Accessories: Cupcake liners from Pop-Up Posies kit, 1 1/4" scallop circle punch, 1" circle punch, Word window punch, Modern Word Label Punch, 1/4" Pool Party ribbon (SAB), Scallop edge punch, Owl Builder Punch, Honeycomb folder

Just for You - Pop-Up Posies Designer Kit card

Today I'm playing with the Pop-up Posies Designer Kit.  Here's the card I came up with - which was inspired by one made by Michelle Reynolds on Stampin' connection.

Stamp: Just for You (comes with kit)
Ink: Black stazon
Papers: Calyspso coral, Whisper White, Old Olive, Calypso coral flowers (from kit), crumb cake die cut (from kit)
Accessories: Honeycomb folder, Secret Garden framelit, 1/4" Pool party satin ribbon (SAB), White fabric brad (from kit), rhinestones, mat pack & paper piercer,

Technique:
Flower: Take 5 Calypso coral flowers and with paper piercer  and mat,pierce a hole in the center of all of them.  Then insert a white fabric brad in the center of them making sure the petals are alternating.  With a bone folder or stylus, shape the petals of the flowers the way you want - some of mine are curled up and some curled down.  Spritz with Vanilla smooch.

Leaves: Die cut using Old Olive card stock & the leaves framelit die from the Secret Garden set.

Card: The base is Calypso Coral layered with Whisper White embossed with the Honeycomb folder. Next the sentiment was stamped on the Crumb Cake die cut from the kit using Black Stazon ink.  This stamped die cut was attached to the Whisper White layer towards the right side.  A piece of Pool Party satin ribbon (SAB) was attached to the Whisper White layer placing it across the top of the die cut.  Make a bow or a know and attach above the sentiment.  Rhinestones were attached below the sentiment.
Attach the leaves to the left side of the card using tombo glue.
Attach the flower above the leaves using dimensionals.