Hi! Just when you thought that I had moved passed my sunflower obsession I have created another card. This card was quick and simple. A quick little watercolor wash on water color paper, stamp, color and cut out the image and white heat emboss and cut out the sentiment.

Simple cards make me happy! Coloring makes me happy! Speaking of coloring have you been joining in with the 30 day coloring challenge? It is going on now and not to late to partake.  You can also follow on facebook and instagram. It is a wonderful group that enjoy coloring and are so supportive of each other. Plus coloring is so relaxing!

Did you notice the little clear water drop looking embellishments? Aren't they fun! The are in the flowers for every season gem set. They have clear and just jade gems in 2 sizes, 75 of each so that is 300 pieces! For only $6.50!  I will need a new pack of these soon! I use them on everything!! Have a wonderful day! Visit tomorrow to see if what stamp set I use. Will it contain a sunflower?  You will have to check back and see! Stay safe and keep praying for the end to the virus!

Ink blended sunflower

Hi stamping friends! So glad you are here.  I have not posted in a while, I have been in a creative slump. What do you do when that happens to you?  I usually look at my old catalogs and get inspiration from them. Sometimes I feel like a lot of my things end up looking the same.  Not sure if that means it is my style or if I am not pushing myself enough. I love the big sunflower from the celebrate sunflower stamp set. You will see in my next couple posts that I have been having fun with it. I decided to just enjoy the process and not focus so much on if I think everyone will like the card.

Wow, my picture really did become a true close up! Hopefully it is not too big! I white heat embossed both the flower and the leaves and ink blended them for a fun color pop! I love all these bright colors together! I had also white heat embossed the greeting but I didn't want to cover all the bright colors and so I cut it apart. Thank you so much for visiting my blog. I would love to hear from you! If you would like a holiday catalog please let me know and I will ship one to you.  Have a blessed day!

Celebrate!

Welcome! So glad you are here. Isn't this just the cutest sunflower little flower? Today's card I stamped the smaller flower in calypso coral, pumpkin pie and crushed curry. I used  my wink of stella to add a little glitter and to soften a little of the color in the petals. If you do not have a wink of stella brush, you need to get one. I think it is one of my favorite tools.

I used the stitched shape square to die cut the flower (the middle size). I white heat embossed the greeting on black card stock. The panel behind is a piece of crumb cake embossed with the wood plank folder.

I kept this card pretty sweet and simple!  I hope you are staying healthy and safe.  Don't forget the current sale is bonus days! For every $50 you spend in the new catalog you will receive a $5 coupon to use toward a purchase next month.  It does have to be in one order for the $50 + . If you have any questions let me know. There are not limits to how many coupons you can get.  Have a great day!! Blessings!

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! 

Don't forget about all the June deals!

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.

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!

Watercolor Sunflowers

Welcome! Today I have put away my stampin blends and decided to give a little watercoloring a try with the celebrate sunflower stamp set.  I am still working on my watercolor skills and this was a great stamp to practice, nice and big.  I started by stamping the large sunflower with staz on ink on watercolor paper. I masked the flower with a post it note to stamp the leaves.  To make a mask just take a post it note, stamp your image, cut it out and then place it down and you are ready to stamp. Remember that you stamp first what you want in the front and then everything that goes behind.  

I used my ink refills and a paint brush to color the images. I let it dry between layers to build up the color. If you don't let it dry the colors all blend and for this image I wanted the colors to be more distinct.  After I was done with the flower I decided to try and put some clouds behind.  This is my first time trying to make clouds. I got the idea from watching Kelly at You and your big dreams.  She has a great video on creating clouds ( and hers are 100% better).

The greeting is again from the A grand kid stamp set. I am telling you, love the sentiments and also all the fonts. A tip when stamping on watercolor paper, use your stamparatus or any type of stamp positioner that you may have. To get a nice crisp image you will probably have to stamp a few times. 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you learned something from my card.

Know that you are loved!

Good day to you!  Happy Friday! Can you believe it is the middle of June already? Since I have had so much time lately with the stay at home in order I have been really enjoying coloring the large sunflower from the celebrate sunflower bundle. This set not only has beautifully drawn sunflowers but has great sentiments. I really like the fonts that the Stampin' Up artist used. The card I created today is one of those amazing greetings.

There are so many people I can imagine giving this card to. After stamping the image with momento ink on ivory card stock I colored with light/dark mango melody, light daffodil, light/dark calypso coral,light/dark crumb cake, light mint melody and light/dark old olive. The greeting is white heat embossed on black card stock and fussy cut around it.

I used the subtle embossing folder after using the stitched rectangle dies to create the frame.  I also added a gold leaf from the forever fold laser specialty paper. I am really excited to use more of these. They are gorgeous!  Thank you again for stopping by! I would love to know which set you love from the new catalog.  Have a blessed day!