High Tide!

Hi! So glad you are here! Today's card I CASEd a card from last years catalog. Do you still have all the past catalogs? I love to look at them for inspiration when I do not know what to create. The card today is for the priest at our church, he is celebrating 38 years of saying "yes" to his call. What a blessing he is to all of us. I thought that the sentiment was perfect. He does indeed shine the light of Christ to all of us!

If you have not checked out the new in good taste dsp, you are missing out. The texture on this paper is amazing. I stamped the lighthouse with smoky slate and then added some of sand and plants around it.

In the photograph that I took I am not sure why it looks like there are "x" marks to left of the lighthouse (there is nothing there). For some reason it only showed up in the close ups. 

For the sentiment I white heat embossed and then stamped the light in daffodil delight, sponged around it to make the glow and then used misty moonlight to make the greeting really pop. 

I stamped the sand with more of the smoky slate and stamped off a few birds. If you have not know what stamping off is, you ink up the stamp and on scratch paper stamp and then stamp on to your project. It make the image a little lighter, great way to get more from your ink. For the back layer of card stock I used the old world paper embossing folder with smokey slate paper. It had a lot of texture and so I used my bone folder to gently smooth out some of the wrinkles.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I had so much fun creating this card! I am so thankful for all the priests who dedicate their lives to serving us and saying yes to God! Have great day and I hope you have time to come back and visit again soon!

Blue Sunflowers

Hi and so glad that you are here today! My card for today is a fun night of navy sunflower card. I started by stamping the large sunflower in night of navy on a piece of whisper white and on a scrap of white stamped the smaller one. I used my aquapainter to move the ink around on the smaller one but it was not the look I was going for. So I used my stampin blends in balmy blue and night of navy to get a stronger color. I left a lot of white spaces to add some contrast.

For the layer that I used behind the white panel I cut a piece of the in good taste designer series paper. However since a majority of it was going to be behind I die cut with my stitched rectangle dies a piece from the middle. Now I have that piece for another project. I want to hoard all this paper so this was a good way to not waste any.

I white heat embossed the sentiment and then fussy cut it out. I like to do that because then you can move the greeting around to fit where you would like.

I added a few of white branches, a little bow of white crinkled seam binding ribbon and then a few of holiday rhinestone basic jewels in night of navy.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Let me know if you have questions. I hope you have a great rest of your week and please join me again soon! Blessings!

Global Design Project #246

Hello!I hope today finds you healthy. I find one way to stay healthy (mentally) is to color. It is so relaxing. Now I know that may not be that way for some of you, so if not let me know what you do to keep calm. Today's card was from the new sketch over at the global design project blog. I had this small sunflower on my desk that I had colored a while ago but had not used it yet. When I saw this sketch I was inspired to create a card with it.

This is the sketch, isn't it fun?  There are so many ideas that come to mind when I see it. I think I will be making a few more cards with this same design. 

The card was pretty simple. Other than just stamping the sunflower a few times in momento ink I did have to mask the image. I wanted to overlap the flowers and so I stamped a flower on a post it note, cut it out and then placed it on the flower after stamping it and stamped the next flower. Then I would remove it and place it on the next flower. It really is a simple process. I like to keep the mask that I make from the post it in with the stamp set. After a while I do need to make a new one because the post it note paper is pretty thin. Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you give this fun sketch a try. Make sure to check out their blog to see all the beautiful cards. Have a great day! 

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Layered Sunflower

Welcome! How are you all doing today? Well it is the start of another week. Can you believe that it is almost July? Today I have a fun card for you. Recently I saw a beautiful card from Connie Collins, check out her amazing works of art. I love how she layered the celebrate sunflower and so I thought I would CASE her card. Although I did not put as many layers as her sunflower, I did add a few. I started by stamping on whisper white with crushed curry ink. I used my blender pen to move the ink around especially on the back petals.  I die cut the sunflower outline with crushed curry and attached it with liquid glue. I stamped the sunflower 2 more times with crushed curry.

The next layer I cut off the top layer of petals, this time I did not use the blender pen. On the last layer I stamped the greeting from the your grand stamp set in soft suede. I think the next part was the hardest part of the card. Trying to line it all back up again. 

The little petals that are right below the sentiment are a great resource for when lining up the flower petals. I used dimesionals only on the last layer.  I kept the rest of the card pretty simple. I ran a piece of white card stock through with the pinewood planks embossing folder and the bottom piece I stamped the large leaf with crumb cake.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Give your sunflower a few layers to make it really pop. And thank you Connie for the inspiration to create this card. I love all the dimension that layering the petals gave to this card.

Ornate Flowers

Hi and so glad that you are here! I am sharing a card I made a while ago. The sentiment has retired but you could easily replace it with another.  I wanted to share this bright and bold version of this stamp. I do not usually purple paper, I am not sure why because I really love purple. But this ornate bundle of flowers looked so pretty on the gorgeous grape. 

After I stamped the large stamp of flowers with momento ink I colored it will stampin blends. I fussy cut it out but in the middle of the flowers I did not want to cut the pieces in between and so I used my daffodil delight stampin blends and it blended nice with the watercolor background. I used the amazing flowers for every season gems.

I would love any comments you would have. Check out the new paper pumpkin! So excited it looks like it will be so fun!

TGIF challenge #268

Hi! Thank you for visiting my blog. Today I made a card for the TGIF card challenge.  When I saw the challenge I knew I wanted to use the new in good taste designer series paper. The only problem was deciding which of the patterns to use. I love them all! I also am obsessed with the celebrate sunflower bundle and have been waiting to try some paper piecing with the dies. So I combined them.  For the paper piecing of the sunflower I die cut the sunflower in both daffodil delight and the new bumblebee card stock. Keeping all the pieces together. Then I die cut the solid sunflower in white card stock, I adhered the outline (in daffodil ) with multipurpose liquid glue and then piece by piece added the bumblebee card stock to the inside of the petals with liquid glue. I love how it turned out!

Here is a close up of the sunflower. The center was die cut in crumb cake and then a little sponging of crumb cake to add a little dimension. The celebrate sunflower die set has so many wonderful pieces. I know that this will be a fun bundle to use in the next year. Thank you for stopping by. Let me know which bundle you like in the new catalog. So far I think this is on the top of my list. Have a blessed day!

Incolor Bouquet

Hi! The other day I posted a card I created with the new incolors.  Well, I still had them on my desk and so I created a little healing bundle. I love dies that have branches and leaves. They are so versatile! This card was created with the dies from the celebrate sunflower bundle. Don't forget if you purchase them together you receive a 10% discount! 

After die cutting several of each color I started my arrangement. Well, at that point I decided I really should have gone to a class on flower arrangement, but no time for that. I just winged it. When I got them right where I wanted I used a piece of press and seal wrap and rubbed in on top so that they would stay in place. I flipped it over and then added my adhesive and dimensionals.

I cut a stitched nested die from the new in good taste dsp. It was such a hard choice which pattern to use. The sentiment is from the so sentimental stamp set, heat embossed with white and used the square from the stitched shape dies. The card sound complicated however it really was very quick and easy. Now that Stampin' Up has so many die shapes I find it so hard to cut something just with my paper cutter. 

Thank you again for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed this card and seeing all the new incolors together. I am not sure what my favorite color is yet.  I think it might be the misty moonlight. I tend to gravitate to blues. Which color do you like the best?  Have a blessed day!

Distressed Sunflowers

 Hi! I am back with another fun card with the celebrate sunflowers. Today my coloring was done with my watercolor pencils, however I did not use water, I just used them to color. I stamped with my black momento ink on daffodil delight card stock. I did not spend a lot of time coloring, just enough to add a little dimension. This stamp is so beautifully drawn that it didn't need much. The artist made it so easy for me to color by just using the lines that they used.

I went in with my white chalk marker to add a few highlights. Doesn't that really make it pop even more?  The next part was really fun, I want to distress the card and so I rubbed crumb cake ink on the inside of the old world paper embossing folder and ran it through my machine, but I wasn't done there.  I tore the bottom edge and then sponged with more crumb cake ink.

The greeting is white heat embossed on early espresso card stock. I had so much fun making this card. I hope you enjoy it also. Have a blessed day and please leave a comment below. I would love to know if you like this card. Have a blessed day!

New InColors

Hello! Just a quick post today to share with you a quick card I created with the new incolors. I have not gotten the ink pads, markers or blends yet so I thought I would play with the paper.  It all goes together so nicely! I used the flower die from the wild rose die set. Using the old world paper embossing folder on white paper behind the flowers I thought added a little texture.  This embossing folder is really fun.

The sentiment is a quick white embossed from the celebrate sunflowers stamp set. Thank you so much for stopping by! I really appreciate coming by. Have a blessed day!