Picture Gallery Card - Hand Stamped Sentiment #319

This card was made for the Inspiration Challenge with Hand Stamped Sentiments at this location

I call my creation the picture gallery card because it reminds me of different sizes of picture frames clustered together on a wall.  The design was inspired by the above picture.

To make the template in which the design elements will be added, I placed 2 sizes of stitched rectangle dies and 2 sizes of layering square framelits on a piece of Early Espresso card stock and die cut them with the Big Shot. This is added to an identical sized piece of Woodgrain DSP using dimensionals.

In the larger rectangle at the top left,  I placed a bouquet of Blushing Bride flowers on die cut Mossy Meadow stems die cut using the Bouquet Bunch dies. A bow made using the braided linen thread was added to the top part of the stem. This bouquet was placed at an angle with one end of the bouquet under the frame and the other end slightly over.  The bouquet extending over the end of the card was snipped off.

In the smaller adjacent square  is placed the sentiment "Hello"  from "Good Morning Magnolia". This sentiment is stamped with Early Espresso ink on Whisper White card stock and made into banner notched at both ends. The edges were sponged with Crumb Cake ink before it was adhered in the square at an angle using dimensionals, 

In the rectangle frame in the lower right a vase of flowers is created using the Varied Vase stamp set and die cuts using Bouquet Bunch dies.  The outline of the vase is stamped using Black Memento ink and then filled with Crumb Cake ink.  After fussy cutting, the edges were sponged and the other die cut stems and were adhered to the wrong side of the vase. This was then added to the frame using dimensionals.  Three flowers stamped using Flirty Flamingo ink was adhered randomly on the stem and a tiny pearl added to each flower center.

In the smallest square an identical size of Whisper White is die cut and placed in the square.  Two Flirty Flamingo flowers with leaves were then added.

The completed frame was added to a Flirty Flamingo card front with dimensionals.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Beautiful Bouquet, Varied Vases, Good Morning Magnolia

Inks:  Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Flirty Flamingo, Mossy Meadow

Papers:  Blushing Bride, Mossy Meadow, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Flirty Flamingo, Woodgrain DSP

Accessories:  Stitched Rectangle dies, Laying Square dies, Bouquet Bunch dies, Pearls, Braided Linen Thread, Dimensionals

Floral Wreath - Circle Stamping with Stamparatus

Pinterest is full of examples of wreath and/or circle stamping using a template with the Stamparatus.  It took a few practice attempts, but I finally managed to make a wreath.
But first I had to make the template.
Again, there are many examples of how to make templates, and once I figured out the principles I was able to make my own. Making a template will be part of a separate post

This is a 5 by 5" square card with an Elegant Eggplant base.

The wreath was built on a 4 by 4" piece of Whisper White card stock, using the following stamps: Abstract Impressions, Enjoy Life, Varied Vases, and Love What You Do. Smaller stamps seem to work best.

The larger flowers were double stamped with Flirty Flamingo and Highland Heather from the Abstract Impressions stamp set.

The smaller flower is stamped in Highland Heather and is from Varied Vases; the butterflies from "Enjoy Life"; and the leaf stamped in Granny Apple Green from the stamp set "Love What You Do"

Small rhinestones were placed in the center of the larger flowers.

The sentiment in the center is from "Enjoy Life", stamped in Black Memento, punched with a 2" circle punch which is matted with a 2 1/4" circle punched in Highland Heather. On top of the sentiment I placed a black bird stamped and fussy cut from the Enjoy Life stamp set.

A bow make with white organza ribbon is attached to the lower right. of the wreath.

The 4 by 4" focal piece is matted with Highland Heather card stock, and adhered to a Whisper White layer with dimensionals.  This is added to an Elegant Eggplant base.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Enjoy Life, Love What You Do, Abstract Impressions, Varied Vases

Inks:  Flirty Flamingo, Highland Heather, Granny Apple Green, Black Memento

Papers:  Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White, Highland Heather

Accessories:  Stamparatus, Template, 2" circle punch, 2 1/2" circle punch, rhinestones, 1/4" white organza ribbon, dimensionals

Varied Vases Birthday

These little vases are so cute and rather than stamp the vases and color them, I decided to use my scraps of DSP. 

On a piece of Whisper White, I first stamped two "shelves" at the bottom, for the vases to sit on.  The shelf scallops were coloured with a Rich Razzelberry marker.

Then I stamped 5 little vases of varying heights all in a row using Black Memento ink, making sure the bottoms of each sat firmly on the shelf.  Before decorating the vases I stamped various sprigs of flowers so the stem were inside the vases.

These flowers were colored with various colors of SU markers, except foe the flowers in the end vase.  Five of these flowers were punched in Calypso Coral cardstock using the Vase Builder punch and adhered with  small dimensionals, to a hand drawn stem emerging from the vase .   Calypso Coral marker was used to make some  markings on each punched piece.

Using scraps of Petal Garden DSP (retired), I punched 5  various size vases in various patterns.  The  Vase Builder punch was used for this.  Each punched vase was sponged with Basic Gray ink, and a Basic Gray marker added additional markings around the neck and stem. Then, instead of coloring each vase, vase piece was adhered over the stamped one - much like paper piecing.

The Whisper White art piece was matted with Fresh Fig card stock and this was added to the card front using dimensionals.

The card front is Whisper white.  In the middle, a piece of Fresh Fig card stock was die cut at both top and bottom ends using the new Fancy Edgelits.  A strip of DSP from the same DSP pack was added to the middle, and a piece of white polka dot organza ribbon added to the middle of that.  This unit was added to the card front.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Varied Vases
Inks:  Rich Razzelberry, SU Markers (Rich Razzelberry, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral)
Papers:  Whisper White, Petal Garden DSP (retired), Fresh Fig,
Accessories:  Vase Builder punch, 5/8" white polka dot organza ribbon, Lacy edge die, dimensionals,