RainyDay Stamper

Flower Fest

 This is another set, I am sad to see retire.  I mean I have six flower sets that are all retiring, my goodness, what will I do?  I guess buy new ones!!!

This card uses Just add Cake DSP and then I have white embossed the flowers onto Daffodil Delight, Poppy Parade and Calypso Coral cardstock.  The larger part of the flowers, is punched out with our 2 3/8" scallop punch (got to love that) while the rest is all fussy cut but it is quick.  Now this card is a bit different of a fold, Ann Clemmer, has the claim to fame on this one

Kind of like a box in a way but when you open the card

Your sentiment is appears.

 

Happy Stamping,

We all make them

you know, those cards that you thought would look good, till you made it.  Then you look at it and think, well, it lost something in the translation!  This is one of those cards, I used one of my favourite colour combinations, Pool Party, So Saffron and Island Indigo and they did not make it sing.

Looking at the picture I really think it is the ribbon that is throwing it off but not quite sure.  Anyway, you came to see a card, this is a card-sorry it is not a good card!

Happy Stamping,

Perfect Plum and Basic Black

Black can make any colour pop and Perfect Plum is no exception.  I love the font on the Happy Birthday from Happiest Birthday Wishes, I certainly wish I could write like that!  The card base is Whisper White and then I used Basic Black for the mats.  The DSP is from Pocketful of Posies and yes, Perfect Plum is not one of the colours in the pack but for this small print with the Basic Black matting, it is hard to tell the "real" colour of the print.  The flower is from Flower Fest, stamped on Perfect Plum twice using Perfect Plum ink so we have tone on tone. I punched out the main flower using frm 2 3/8" Scallop Circle punch and then hand cut the second layer popping it up on dimensionals.  The Pretty in Pink flower shaped button makes the perfect center.  

The leaves also from Flower Fest are stamped using Always Artichoke onto Old Olive to give a bit more definition to the leaves.  

Happy Stamping,

It's all about Texture today

Starting with the textured Melon Mambo cardstock we then went embossing crazy using both the Melon Mambo and Wild Wasabi from the summer mini. 

 I stamped the flowers and the leaves on Whisper White and then embossed then and my favorite way to quickly give colour, swirled on ink using my sponge daubers.  Our sponge daubers come in a 12 pack for $14.50 so it is very inexpensive to have one for each colour.  I just used a label maker to type out the colours and attached the sticker to each dauber, no worries about having the wrong colour go on your project. 

Using the Big Shot and the 3" & 3 1/2" circles I cut one in Whisper White and then the larger one in Wild Wasabi and embossed the sentiment from Full of Life in Wild Wasabi.

 Attach the flowers & leaves from Flower Fest, a set from the Summer Mini that is also in the upcoming Idea Book & Catalogue, and we have a simple but pretty little card

 

Happy Stamping,

 

If you surround yourself

with sunny summery things, will the weather change to summery weather instead of this cold, dreary stuff we are getting?  Well one can hope so out came my Flower Fest set from the Summer Mini.

 Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi and Tangerine Tango now that is summery.  I stamped the flowers in Versamark and then embossed them using White Embossing powder.  I used my sponge daubers to swirl on the color for the flowers and also embossed the sentiment from Sincere Salutions and just incase this isn't enough, how about one in Blushing Bride and Old Olive

 For this one I used Regal Rose for the flowers.  Now hopefully, the sun will come out and get real flowers blooming!

Happy Stamping,