Gran’s Garden Card Collection Day 2

 Hi there!  I’m back with more of the cards from the Gran’s Garden collection of cards I created as Christmas gifts, if you missed yesterday’s blog post you can click HERE to start from day 1.  

For my first card, I used the colors harvest gold, summer sunrise, canyon clay, hibiscus burst, raspberry fizz, lovely lady, mint julep, ocean tides and aqua mist.  I blended on some aqua mist ink onto a white card base, added an white oval frame using the Single Stitched Line Oval Frames die and stamped a portion of my sentiment from the Make it Market: Don’t Forget to Write set.  Next, using the die cut word Note, I die cut two of them from white cardstock and glued them together and adhered them to my card front then added my stamped stems and flowers popping up the top flower with foam tape.  To finish off my card, I added a few iridescent sequins and some yellow and orange Stickles. 

For my second card, I used the colors berry sorbet, pure poppy, aqua mist, tropical teal, summer sunrise, simply chartreuse and ocean tides.  I used the Mix & Match: Scallop die and blended on some aqua mist ink and adhere it with foam tape to my white card base.  I stamped my sentiment onto a Essential Fishtail Sentiment Strips die cut and adhered that below my die cut Sending and again added my stems and flowers.

 I created my final card for today much the same way as the cards above but this time blending on some summer sunrise ink onto my scallop die cut piece and using a different layout.

Thank you for visiting today!  I’ll be back again tomorrow to share the final cards from my Gran’s Garden Collection.

Gran’s Garden Collection

Hello and Happy Saturday!  Right before the holidays I ended up creating batches of cards to give as gifts, I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Gran’s Garden for each of the cards I created and switched up the colors, layouts and designs.  Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing the collection of cards I made here on my blog.  

For my first card, I used the colors pure poppy, scarlet jewel, berry sorbet, enchanted evening, harvest gold and summer sunrise.  All of my card were created on a white card base.  I used the Mix & Mat: Scallop die, die cutting it from white cardstock and blended on some summer sunrise.  Next I stamped my birthday cheer sentiment from the Make it Market Kit: Don’t Forget to Write and die cut two of the Sending die cut words from the same kit and glued them together and added that right above my stamped sentiment.  This scalloped panel was then adhered to my white card base with foam tape and I added my flowers and stems, popping up the top poppy flower with foam tape and adding yellow Stickles to the centers of the flowers.

For my next card, I used the colors winter wisteria, royal velvet, aqua mist, tropical teal, enchanted evening and kraft.  This time I blended on some aqua mist directly onto my card front and glued on a Single Stitched Line Oval Frame, stamped the parts to my sentiment (again from the MIM Kit: Don’t Forget to Write) and added my die cut word, Note which I die cut twice and glued together.  I adhered my flowers along the bottom of the oval, popping up the royal velvet flower on top.  I added a few iridescent sequins and some Stickles to the centers of the flowers.

 For my third card for today, I used the colors pure poppy, scarlet jewel, berry sorbet, hibiscus burst, raspberry fizz, harvest gold, summer sunrise, ripe avocado and simply chartreuse.  I did the same as the card above just used a different layout and colors.

Thank you for stopping by and be sure to visit tomorrow for more of my Gran’s Garden Collection.

Tag You’re It!

I’m here today to share a few of my favorite tags that I created while on the Tag You’re It Design Team.  Tracey, the creator of the Tag You’re It Challenge, has decided to close down the challenge and today some of the current and past design team members are coming together to share some of their favorite tags that they created.  I wanted to say thank you to Tracey for not only asking me to be a part of the Tag You’re It Design Team back then but for including me in this special last post for the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to pop over to the Tag You’re It! Challenge blog to see what the other designers are sharing.

Sending Good Thoughts - (CTD474)

Happy New Year!!!  Welcome to my first post of the year! I hope all of you had a great holiday spent with family and friends and are ready to get creative again (maybe with some new stamping supplies?).  Today I’m sharing the card I created for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge #474.  We have a neutral color palette of Gray, Ivory and Black to create with and a lovely inspiration photo with birds

I used a new Flora and Fauna stamp set that Santa brought me for Christmas to create my card, I thought the Aviary Love Set with the bird images would work nicely for the challenge this week. 

I stamped the stem, bird and heart images from the set onto a white die cut Stitched Mini Scallop Square Stax and colored the images using Copic markers. I used a white card base and adhered a smoky shadow panel of cardstock which I had randomly stamped with the matching stem image in basic gray ink.  Next I added my stamped scalloped square with foam tape and a strip of black cardstock which I embossed my sentiment using white embossing powder and tied on some twine.

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 you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Debra James - January Guest Designer

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Flora and Fauna AVIARY LOVE Clear Stamp Set 20158
My Favorite Things STITCHED MINI SCALLOP SQUARE STAX Die-Namics MFT806