Well Dressed with Umbrellas in a Stand & Tutorial

This is the 3rd card of the three masculine birthday cards I made using the Well Dressed stamp set.

A Nesting Label die was die cut and the focal images were adhered to them.

The three umbrellas, stamped in colours I picked from the DSP, were fussy cut and set aside.

One end of a Story Book Label punch cut off  to make the umbrella stamd. To decorate the vase, some DSP was adhered near the top.  The edges of this DSP was trimmed along the edges of the vase then sponged with Night of Navy .  A larger pattern was cut out from another DSP and added to the  middle of the vase.

After colouring the handle of the umbrella with a Soft Suede marker, they were placed in the stand.  Two were adhered directly to the Nesting Label die but the third was added with dimensionals.

The Night of Navy card base was layered with Crushed Curry cardstock.  At the left side is adhered some Country Club  DSP (multicoloured argyle pattern)  The Nesing Label focal point was added  to the card front using dimensionals.

Below the  Nesting Label focal point a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthday stamp and also adhered to the card front using dimensionals.

There is a free downloadable tutorial here


Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Well Dressing , Itty Birthday Birthdays
Inks:Night of Navy, Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Real Red
Papers:  Night of Navy, Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Country Club DSP
Accessories:  Nesting Label dies, Story Book Label punch, Dimensionals

Below is a picture of all three cards

The post of the first card can be found here; the second card here.  Both posts have links to tutorials.

First card 

Second Card

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.