Print Shop: Daisy Days - CTD711

Hello! It’s Wednesday and time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge where we have the colors turquoise, yellow, brown and green to create with.

During the sale that The Greetery just recently, I purchased one of the sets that has been on my wish list the Print Shop: Daisy Days which comes with the stamp set and stencils and the dies which are sold separately. I love how you can use this stamp set and dies as a whole or how you can cut pieces of it apart to create something different.

The products I used to create my card: Print Shop:Daisy Days & dies, The Print Shop:Spring Mix (for my sentiment), taken with teal card stock with impression plate, vellum, white card stock, Love to Layer:Scalloped Circle dies, foam tape, brown and blue Stickles glitter.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams blog links below or you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

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Apple-solutely Awesome

Hello and Happy Labor Day to those in the U.S! Today I’m popping in to share a card set and apple themed gift bags using the new Lawn Fawn Apple-solutely Awesome stamp set and dies.

I originally wanted to make tags to go with my gift bags but decided square cards would work. 

Supplies I used to create my cards: Apple-solutely Awesome stamp set and dies, Outside In Stitched Square dies, Copic markers, Cloudy Stencil and tumbled glass distress oxide ink, Everyday Sentiment Banners die, white gel pen and foam tape.

I put two gift bags together, one for my son’s doctor and another for his nurse. Having your son go through chemotherapy each week, you appreciate having good doctors and nurses to take care of your child. I wanted to give them each a little 

something. I used the square cards I created as a kind of gift tag by putting each card in a clear cellophane bag and punching a hole in the top and tying them to the gift bags with bakers twine.

Always in Bloom - CTD708

Happy Wednesday! I’m hostess this week over at the Color Throwdown and I chose the colors pink, coral, purple and green.

For my card I used The Greetery stamp set, Always in Bloom to create a square floral birthday card. I used the Always in Bloom dies and die cut some white card stock then used the following SU inks to stamp my images: pixie pink, pink passion, cameo coral, calypso coral, highland heather and old olive. I used a square stitched die and die cut a piece of lavender pattered paper then stamped my sentiment and layered on a white circle which I die cut using the Love to Layer:Scalloped Circle dies from Papertrey Ink. After that I added my images popping up the center purple flower and the die cut bloom sentiment with foam tape.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams blog links below or you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

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Sea Friend

Hello there, crafty friends! Today I’m featuring the adorable new Hello Bluebird Sea Friends stamp set and dies from the August release. This set is darling! The mermaids alone are illustrated so perfectly and the accent characters make it so fun to create a scene.

I initially set out to use only one of the mermaids from the Sea Friends set but then changed my mind when I decided to use the Ocean Floor Slimline Scene die. I wanted a bright colorful ocean scene so I stamped my images, used the Sea Friends dies and die cut them out, then colored them using copic markers in bright colors. For a bit of sparkle, I used some chunky iridescent glitter on the mermaids tails and used some glossy accents on the bubbles and the eyes on the crab.

A fun thing about using the Ocean Floor Slimline Scene die is that you can use all of the pieces after you die cut it out or just some like I did. I used the die and die cut it from white card stock then blended on some antique linen and brushed corduroy distress oxide ink on the sand portion and then flicked on some watered down vintage photo distress ink. For the boulders I blended them with pumice stone and hickory smoke and for my background I used tumbled glass and salty ocean. For the pieces of seaweed and coral I used my copic markers to add color to them.

Once I was done blending my background I stamped my sentiment and a few fish from the Sea Sentiments set then added all of my images popping up the mermaids with foam tape.