Country Rose Wedding

Happy Easter Monday everyone. I hope you had some quality time spent with family and friends.

I had a friend spend Easter dinner with us and before dinner we had some time to 'play' in the craft room.  One of  the things we 'played' with was the Country Rose  embossing folder.  I am embarrassed to admit that I had not even opened the package, so tonight was experimenting time as well.

After embossing this folder the usual way, I began to use some techniques I had used on the Woodlands Embossing Folder.  One of these was applying Versa Mark directly onto the Folder (one the side with the Stampin' Up logo), adding Whisper White card stock, running it through the Big Shot, then adding gold embossing powder to the embossed piece.

The result was stunning!  So made this wedding card.....

 Close Up of Embossed Folder

Anything shiny is hard to photograph, and this card was no exception.

1 1/2" was trimmed off the bottom of the gold embossed piece,  and  some gold foil embossed with the corrugated embossing folder was adhered to the bottom until the front measured 5 ". This was layered onto a Whisper White layer and a gold rimmed Very Vanilla ribbon was added around the seam. The sentiment, stamped in Granite Gray ink, is from "Floral Phrases" and was die cut using the Stitched Framelits . It was adhered over the ribbon using dimensionals. This layer was added to a Crumb Cake top fold card base.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Floral Phrases

Ink:  Granite Gray, Versa Mark

Papers:  Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Gold Foil

Accessories:  Country Rose embossing folder, Gold embossing powder, Big Shot, Corrugated Embossing Folder, Gold Edged 3/8" Very Vanilla ribbon, Stitched Framelits, Dimensionals

Comfort & Sympathy - SUO Challenges #172

"Thinking of You and Sympathy" are the topics of this week's classes, so the challenge at SUO is very timely. 
The challenge this week at SUO is to make a card for someone who is facing difficulties in life. I am making this card with a very special person in mind who is facing multiple medical difficulties.  As she has said many times, her calendar" looks like a medical convention".

She loves nature and flowers so that's what I put on the card.

I stamped the sentiment in the centre of a stitched die cut oval after which I adhered it to the Whisper White card front.

The cluster of small flowers were stamped over the edge of the oval and onto the card front. To color the flowers, the oval was removed and replaced later using dimensionals.

On a separate piece of Whisper White, I stamped a larger flower and two sets of leaves.  These were coloured with ink pads and a blender pen and fussy cut. The flower was added to the upper right of the oval, with the leaves added above and below the oval.

Some texture was added using second generation Tip Top Taupe ink.
Tiny pearls were added to the center of each small flower; a larger pearl to the center of the larger flower.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Birthday Blossoms, Gorgeous Grunge
Inks: Black Memento, Daffodil Delight, Delightful Dijon, Wild Wasabi, Cucumber Crush, Tip Top Taupe
Papers: Delightful Dijon Whisper White
Accessories:  Stitched oval framelit, dimensional, pearls

Three Little Cygnets for Easter - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #311

What are Cygnets you might ask?

Cygnets are baby swans, and technically they are covered in a gray down (I had to look this up).

One of the stamps of the "Swan Lake" stamp set features 3 little Cygnet swimming in a row.  They became the focal point for the card I made as a Design Team member for Try Stampin' on Tuesday #311.  I used the sketch made by Vicki          .

And since "Plaid" was optional theme, the DSP I used had a plaid pattern.

You will probably notice that using my artistic license, I coloured the baby swans yellow instead of gray.

I coloured the Cygnets using various colours of ink pads and a blender pen. They were masked in order to add the flowers.

Texture was added to the sky using Marina Mist ink on the dot stamp from Avant-Garden (SAB).

I stamped the sentiment (from Little Cuties) under the little guys, after which I die cut with the stitched circle framelit and using dimensionals, adhered the die cut to a Sweet Sugarplum scallop circle.

The Sweet Sugarplum  base card was layered with Whisper White cardstock embossed with the Hexagon Texturized Embossing Folder. A piece of Succulent DSP matted with Sweet Sugarplum cardstock with a piece of 3/8" ruffled Sweet Sugarplum ribbon wrapped around it was adhered to the left side of the embossed layer.

I love glitter on cards, and this card was no exception.  So, Dazzling Details was added to the flowers and the water under the Cygnets.  As well gold metallic enamel dots was added on both sides of the sentiment.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Swan Lake, Avant-Garden, Little Cuties
Inks: Black Memento, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Flirty Flamingo, Pacific Point, Tangelo Twist.
Papers: Sweet Sugarplum, Whisper White, Succulent DSP
Accessories: Stitched circle framelits, Blender pen, gold metallic enamel shapes, dimensionals, Hexagon dimensional embossing folder, 3/8" ruffled Sweet Sugarplum ribbon, Layered circle framelits, Dazzling details,


So, get out your stamps, paper, and ink, and make a card using the above sketch.  When it is finished, upload it to the Try Stampin' on Tuesday blog or the Facebook page.  You get 2 weeks to create something.  At the end of the two weeks, 3 top picks are selected and posted on the blog and on Facebook.  Who knows, it could be you.

Whether you upload to the blog site or to Facebook, take some time to look at what the design team has created and leave each of them a comment. We all like our work to be acknowledged.