Wildflower Meadow - a Friend -Card 4

After a severe thunderstorm last night the temperature is a bit more moderate today.  Most of the humidity is gone.  I don't mind heat, but the humidity gets to me.

Card 4 in the Wildflower series is a little different.  I use the masking technique to create the background.

Taking a piece of photo copy paper, I cut it in the shape you want, separate the two cuts and adhere them using dot adhesive to a piece of Whisper White card stock. This is the mask.

Using finger daubers, apply 3 colours of ink to the open space- Pear Pizzazz at the bottom, strawberrry slush in the middle and coastal cabana at the top.

Then stamp this area with Versa Mark ink and emboss with black embossing powder.  I had to touch up a few of the embossed areas using the Versa Mark pen.  Then remove the mask and mat it to a piece of Black Cardstock, which in turn is attached to a base card of Coastal Cabana card stock.

The sentiment is from "Feeling good" - the embellishment from the new Holiday catalogue.

Stamps: Wildflower meadow, Feeling Good

Inks: Pear Pizzazz, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana, Versa Mark, Basic black

Papers: Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Photocopy paper, Basic Black

Accessories: Black embossing powder, Versa Mark pen, Frosted Finish embellishment.

Wildflower Meadow - Happy Birthday - Card 3

This is the third card in the series I am doing on the stamp set "Wildflower Meadow".  One of my students is having a birthday days before class so this would make a great card for her.

For this card, I isolated one of the images on the stamp, inked it up with markers (Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Raspberry Ripple) and stamped in onto Whisper White card stock.  I then die cut it using the Apothecary accent die and matted it with Raspberry Ripple card stock. Rhinestones were placed in the centers of the flowers.
The base card is Raspberry Ripple, layered with Whisper White card stock embossed with the Polka dot folder.  Some stitched Raspberry Ripple satin ribbon was attached horizontally along the lower 1/3 of the card and a bow was adhered to the left side.
The die cut image was attached to the card base using dimensionals.
The sentiment is from "A Word for You" (I isolated the Happy Birthday) and is inked with a Raspberry Ripple marker.  After stamping on Whisper White card stock, I made it into a banner, matted it with Raspberry Ripple card stock and adhered it over the bottom of the image using dimensiionals.

Stamps: Wildflower Meadow, A Word for You
Inks: SU markers (Raspberry Ripple, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz)
Papers: Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White
Accessories: Apothecary Accents framelits, Stitched Raspberry Ripple satin ribbon, rhinestones, dimensionals, Polka dot folder

Wildflower Meadow Looking Cool Card 2

As I explained yesterday, over the next few days I will be focusing on the Wildflower Meadow stamp set, making different cards to demonstrate the versatility of the stamp.  This is in preparation of my class next week.
Yesterday I did a CASE of the picture in the catalogue.  Today, because of the horrendous heat here, I thought I would make a card that makes you feel cool just looking at it.

I started out by making the background.  Using a sponge dauber, I applied first Crisp Cantalope and then Strawberry Slush to the Whisper White card stock, leaving a slightly mottled appearance.  I then embossed the background using the Wildflower Meadow folder, but you don't notice it at all so I would suggest that you omit this step. Then, using a stamp-a-ma-jig, I stamped with Versa Mark and embossing the entire stamp using white embossing powder.

A 3/8" white taffeta ribbon and bow was attached to the lower card.  The overall effect is one of coolness.

This was matted with White card stock, and then to the base card with is Crisp Cantalope.

Stamp: Wildflower Meadow

Inks: Crisp Cantalope, Strawberry Slush, Versa Mark

Papers: Crisp Cantalope, Whisper White

Accessories: White embossing powder, 3/8" white taffeta ribbon, Wildflower Meadow embossing folder

Wildflower Meadow

Over the next few days I will be focusing on using the stamp set Wildflower Meadow and/or its coordinating embossing folder in several different ways.  This is in preparation for a class on July 25th.

The first card is almost a CASE from the catalogue Pg. 83

I started with a base card of Pear Pizzazz which I layered with Whisper White which had been embossed using the Wildflower Meadow folder.
Then I inked up one flower from the stamp set using markers and stamped the image onto a scrap of Whisper White paper.  This image was then cut out and superimposed over the embossed image.  I used a dimensional under the flower and curled the ends of the flower a bit.  On a separate scrap of paper I stamped the image of the hummingbird which had also been inked on the stamp using a marker.  After cutting out the bird it was adhered hovering over the flower.
A small pearl was placed in the bird's eye, and a larger one in the center of the flower.
To complete the card I attached a piece of stitched Raspberry Ripple satin ribbon across the bottom with a bow at the base of the stem.
The sentiment was stamped using Raspberry ripple ink and punched with the 1 3/4 by 7/8" oval punch.

Stamps: Wildflower Meadow, A Word for You
Inks: Raspberry Ripple, SU markers (Raspberry ripple, Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush)
Papers: Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White
Accessories: Wildflower Meadow folder, stitched Raspberry Ripple satin ribbon, Pearls, 1 3/4 by 7/8" oval punch, dimensional.