SC340 Get Well Embossed

Fabulous Florets is one of my favourite new stamps and it's perfect for embossing. This card was inspired by the sketch challenge SC340 and the ways to use it challenge WT329 to combine something old and something new.

In terms of something old, the challenge suggested something older than 6 months. So, I used retired ribbon from when melon mambo was an "in colour" and not yet in the brights collection. I also used the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set that I have owned since it was released at least a couple years ago.

In terms of something newer than 6 months old, I used my new stamp set Fabulous Florets, and two new embossing powders (melon mambo and wild wasabi).

There are four different heat embossed elements on this card:

• the larger flower is heat embossed on whisper white paper with melon mambo embossing powder
• the small flower is heat embossed with white embossing powder on melon mambo paper
• the stem is heat embossed using wild wasabi embossing powder
• the sentiment is heat embossed using black embossing powder.

I love the look and feel that heat embossing gives to cards and I used to do it much more so now that Stampin' Up! has some great colours of powders, I plan on trying to use it more often again.

Stamps: SU Fabulous Florets, Thoughts & Prayers
Ink: Versamark
Paper: SU ww, basic black, malon mambo
Embossing Powders: whisper white, basic black, wild wasabi, melon mambo
Ribbon: SU 1/2" polka dot melon mambo grosgrain (retired), white bakers twine
Button: SU basic black from neutral designer buttons
Misc: SU heat gun, dimensionals

New Simply Soft CASE

I never even got around to finishing up making cards with all of my retiring stamp sets last month - I still had three more. Oh well, on to newer things!

As a demonstrator, we get a sneak peek of the new hostess sets in the new catalogue and are able to purchase a couple if we choose. I know it's another flower set, but I knew I wanted the simply soft set and I've had it in my possession for quite a while now but only just got around to stamping with it.

This is a CASE of this beautiful card by Karen. She always creates the most beautiful scenes like this using various techniques. This one involved what she calls "marker layering." It takes several shades of the same colour and layering them over one another leaving a little of each colour showing at the top. For this card I used pink pirouette, pretty in pink, regal rose and melon mambo. Karen also added a dot of white at the top of her flowers but it didn't look quite as nice without the dark contrast of her flowers so I opted to just leave it out.

Stamps: SU Simply Soft (hostess)
Ink: StazOn jet black, SU pink pirouette, pretty in pink, regal rose, melon mambo, certainly celery, lucky limeade
Paper: SU ww, pretty in pink, melon mambo
Ribbon: SU 5/8" pretty in pink satin
Misc: embossing folder

Fabulous Florets - Summer Mini Preview

I know I have a million floral stamp sets but it seems I always find more that I need to have. The "fabulous forets" stamp set that will be in the upcoming Summer Mini Catalogue is one of those sets. As demonstrators, we get the opportunity to preorder some of the upcoming merchandise - I had to buy the digital copy of this stamp set and a fabulous matching designer series paper called "Beyond the Garden."

I took inspiration from this months SFYTT and came up with the following hybrid card (I printed the floral images and designer paper on whisper white cardstock on my home computer).

After making the hybrid version, I thought I would go ahead and make the same card in digital format too.

I can't wait until I get the clear mount set of this stamp set! I think it will definitely be one of my new favourites!

Supplies

Stamps: Fabulous Florets (digital)

Ink: SU pacific point, wild wasabi

Paper: SU pacific point, wild wasabi, ww, beyond the garden dp (digital)

Punches: SU 1/2" circle

Brads: SU whisper white 5/16"

Misc: SU dimensionals, paper snips, computer

Get Well Robots

Grant doesn't typically ask me to make cards for his students because they don't quite appreciate the work that goes into them like adults do, but I've been bugging him to find reasons for me to use the more "kiddish" style stamps I own. So, when he found out one of the students at his school is very sick and will be absent for over one month so he asked me to make a card he could give to this student. This is the card I came up with for the little boy. I wanted to make it bright and fun so I used the fabulous designer paper "island oasis" available in the summer mini. I was inspired by Jen's SFYTT on May 22. I stamped the robots with StazOn ink and coloured them with my stampin' write markers. For the nuts and bolts down the right side I stamped them on white cardstock, cut them out, and glued them on 1/2" tempting turquoise circles!

Stamps: SU Lots of Bots
Ink: SU StazOn jet black, tempting turquoise, rose red, so saffron, pumpkin pie, old olive
Paper: SU ww, tempting turquoise, pumpkin pie, island oasis dp
Punches: SU 1/2" circle punch
Misc: SU stampin dimensionals

Viva La Verve Challenge: Week 1

In searching for my sketch challenges to inspire me, I re-discovered the Viva La Verve monthly challenges. This is for the Week 1 challenge for the month of March. In addition to the sketch challenge, there are three pictures to choose from to inspire your sketch (either colours, textures, etc). The above picture shows the picture that I chose to inspire my card (below). As you can tell, I worked mainly off the colours in the pictures. I love the way this card turned out. These aren't my typical colours but they work well together. The flower was coloured using SU markers and my aquapainter on watercolour paper. It was then cut out and mounted on dimensionals with the leaves adhered behind.

Stamps: SU organic outlines, fifth avenue floral
Ink: SU dusty durango, crushed curry, kiwi kiss (retired), black StazOn
Paper: SU ww, dusty durango, crushed curry, kiwi kiss (retired), watercolour paper
Die-Cut: SU little leaves
Misc: SU aquapainter, dimensionals

SFYTT Catch-Up

These last couple weeks have been really busy, so I'm catching up on Jen's sketches for the last two weeks! I've been working a lot and then my Grandma had a fall and broke her C2 vertebrae, or in lay-terms, she broke her neck! As the nurse in the family, I've felt it quite important to go and be with her in the hospital especially sine three of her daughers are away on vacation. She is doing well, but has a long recovery process ahead of her. So, I created this card for this Saturdays SFYTT as I don't have any get well cards on hand. I love the way this card turned out. My inspiration was purely the colours - I love barely banana but haven't been using it much as most of the designer papers that incorporate yellow use so saffron instead. I love the way it combined with soft suede for a nice change from my usual choice of chocolate chip. This picture shows a close-up of the image panel (click on the image to zoon in even further). I didn't want to add another layer to create the white circle outline so I sponged barely banana ink in the center by using another circle as a guideline. Looks so fabulous!

I again used more barely banana and created this baby card (based on last weeks SFYTT) for my girlfriend who just delivered a baby girl this morning! This is the same friend who I created these thank you cards for. Unfortunately, I don't have any Stampin' Up! baby sets so I had to use the Bitty Baby Blessings set by PTI! I've had the SU set "nursery necessities" on my wish list for some time now but never actually end up getting it. I think I'll have to now since so many people I know are having babies!

Supplies:

Get Well Wishes Card
Stamps: SU Kind & Caring Thoughts (hostess), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: SU soft suede, barely banana
Paper: SU ww, soft suede, barely banana, thuroughly modern dp
Punches: SU tag punch
Ribbon: SU soft suede 1/2" polka dot grosgrain
Brad: SU barely banana (retired)
Misc: SU paper piercer and mat, circle cutter, sponge dauber, dimensionals

Baby Makes Three Card
Stamps: PTI Bitty Baby Blessings
Ink: SU basic gray
Paper: SU pretty in pink, barely banana, spring fling dp (retired)
Punches: SU scallop edge punch, corner rounder
Ribbon: SU 5/8" pretty in pink satin
Misc: SU dimensionals

Sage and Pink Floral

Just got a new batch of goodies from Stampin' Up! and I couldn't wait to try out the little leave sizzlit die! I love the way it looks when combined with the flowers from the fifth avenue floral set. I did a lot of heat embossing on this card. I created the polka dot paper by stamping the dot dot dot stamp set on pretty in pink and embossing it in white. I also heat embossed the flower in white before cutting it out.

PS. The sizzlit dies work in a cuttlebug. If you don't want to invest in the big shot you can still use some of the dies if you own a cuttlebug!

Stamps: SU Fifth Avenue Floral, Dot Dot Dot
Ink: SU Versamark, sage shadow
Paper: SU ww, pretty in pink, sage shadow
Ribbon: SU 5/8" pretty in pink satin
Dies: SU little leaves sizzlit
Misc: SU white ep, paper snips, 1 1/4" square punch

FINALLY, a new post!

It's been a long time coming, and I'm not even showing any new catty supplies with this card! It uses some of my favourites though.To create the shading on the flower I stamped the flower image in Versamark and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Once dry, I wet the paper with water and used my blender pen to add in some pink pirouette colour. Then when the paper dries it adds such a beautiful colour effect and the flower almost looks 3D! I can not take credit for this effect as I read it in a blog but since then so many have done it I'm not even sure where to give credit!

Supplies:

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral
Ink: VersaMark, Pink Pirouette reinker
Paper: SU ww, basic gray, walk in the park dsp (retired), pink pirouette dp (retired)
Ribbon: SU Pink Pirouette (retired)
Misc: SU blender pen

CASEing Jodi - Get Whale Soon

When I saw this card by Jodi Collins from Stamping A Latte, I knew instantly I would CASE it in the near future. Now I finally have and I love the results! Be sure to check out her blog - it's amazing!
I changed a few things from Jodi's original card including: the stamped image, the way the sentiment was set up and a different shade of gray cardstock and a couple other minor things. Really, I didn't change too much!

This is the type of card that I used SNAIL adhesive on because of all of the layers! It turned out to be quite a heavy card as a result. This was my first time using the In Colour Pacific Point and I really like it - I don't know why I've ignored it for so long.

Supplies:

Stamp: SU Pun Fun
Ink: SU Basic Black, Pacific Point
Pastels: Going gray
Paper: SU ww, going gray, pacific point, certainly celery, spring fling dp (retired)
Punches: SU scallop edge punch, word window punch
Misc: SU blender pens, SU Dimensionals

RDOA Scrap Challenge

Day 6 of RDOA was a challenge to use our scraps (which is also a Ways to Use It Challenge 177). This was a great challenge for me because I have a ton of scraps that I never use! The first card is an SUO card and the second would have been if I had SU black ribbon or something to use for bling!

I'm not too happy with this one, but I had so many scraps from prepping the materials for the upcoming card class so I thought I should use them. It reminds me of bedding or something though. I love the way this card turned out! I can't take all the credit, I cased it from this card that Lauren Meader made. This is also for WT178. Supplies

Get well card
Stamps: SU Curvy Verses
Ink: SU Chocolate Chip
Paper: SU baja breeze, chocolate chip, real red, ww
Misc: SU photo corner punch

Thanks Card
Stamp: SU Eastern Blooms, Short & Sweet
Ink: SU basic black, certainly celery, pretty in pink, bashful blue, pale plum, barely banana, apricot appeal
Paper: SU ww, certainly celery, pretty in pink, bashful blue, pale plum, barely banana, apricot appeal
Misc: Heidi Swapp bling, Spool O'Ribbon