Birthday Flowers

Today's card uses a sketch from Nacho Average Challenges, but I made it after the deadline. Instead of three circles, I did three different things. And once again, this is a card full of retiring products!

I used the Crushed Curry marker to scribble across the Naturals White card stock, then I stamped the large flower right over it, and cut it out. Cool and simple! The greeting piece was stamped in Crushed Curry, and punched out. I stapled the ribbon on, and layered things from there. The flower is on two layers of Dimensionals to sit above the greeting.

Supplies:
Stamps: Four Frames, Bloom with Hope (hostess only), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Crushed Curry, Memento Black
Paper: Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake & Naturals White card stocks
Accessories: Natural Chevron Ribbon, Decorative Label Punch, stapler

What is retiring from this card?

• Bloom with Hope stamp set  
• Four Frames stamp set 
• Natural Chevron ribbon 
• Naturals White card stocks! 

A Purple Birthday!

Yesterday was my mom's birthday. Her favorite color is purple so I wanted to do something purple...and she loved the butterfly thinlits so I wanted to use that too...
I used last week's Nacho Average Challenge sketch for the layout...This one did not turn out quite like the idea in my head...I don't have any large oval shaped anything, so I freehand drew one and cut it out of card stock so I had the hole to use. Then I used Blendabilities to color in the oval and allow the flowers to be seen. After adding the butterfly and greeting it still needed something, so I sponged some Soft Sky ink around the rest of the DP...

Supplies:
Stamps: Bloom With Hope
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Soft Sky, Wisteria Wonder Blendabilities
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Irresistibly Yours DP
Accessories: Butterfly Thinlits, Pearls, Stamping Sponge, Hexagon Punch

A close up of the butterfly, which I sponged a bit of Wisteria Wonder ink on the center of, for a bit of dimension, and then added the pearl...

Buuut then I thought it ended up looking like an Easter Egg, which was not my intention...haha...I was going for THIS kind of idea, off memory, where the green is a subtle touch, but I think the purple was too dark of a color for it. Oh well, I think she'll be happy anyway!

I stuck it in the mail anyway, and had to laugh...these are the cards my mom got from my house...my daughter used a card I made about a year ago...my son made his own...and we all chose Wisteria Wonder card bases!

My son wrote "have a happy purple birthday" in his card...a few hours later my daughter wrote "Happy purple lurple birthday"...and that's what my mom gets! hahaha...
Too much of a good thing?

Other Flowers...

haha...I've used Lotus Blossom so many times lately, I thought I'd mix it up with a different flower! This is a birthday card I made a friend this week. I have a few February birthday's and it strikes me that most of them love purple...I wonder if there's a connection to their amethyst birthstone...? Anyway, here's the first purple birthday card this year, and I used the current Retro Sketch!

Supplies:
Stamps: Bloom with Hope (hostess), Hardwood
Ink: Soft Suede, Memento Black, Wisteria Wonder, Wisteria Blendabilities
Paper: Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White
Accessories: Old Olive Baker's Twine, White Organza ribbon, Rhinestones

...and I think I've only done this flower in shades of purple...I'll have to mix that up soon! *grin

Blackberry Flowers

Quick post tonight...
This week's class was a ton of fun and now I'm finally sharing the last pretty card:
(it was based on last week's Freshly Made Sketch)

Supplies:
Stamps: Bloom with Hope (hostess only)
Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey
Paper: Whisper White & Blackberry Bliss card stocks
Accessories: Blackberry Bliss Satin ribbon, Blender Pens

It was really simple, but included some steps. I stamped the flowers in Blackberry Bliss and then used the Blender Pens to make them look watercolored. Then I made some post-it note masks to lay over the flower blossoms, and then stamped the Hello Honey leafy image over it to make it look "behind" the flowers! Then we just added a bit of ribbon, and a greeting- and tada!

Happy Flowers!

Today I have a bright happy card for you! This is the first time I've gotten to play with the set Good Greetings, which is pretty sad since its only available for another couple of weeks! The stamp set is free to anyone who hosts a $300 party or more, and it is perfect for every occasion you need a card for!
I used the current Nacho Average Challenge for the sketch. I "watercolored" the flowers by just stamping them in Blackberry Bliss ink and using Blender Pens to color it. and! I used some inspiration from my blogging friend Susan to put the flowers on the edge of the paper and partially cut them out! I love that look! however...I also remembered why I've only done it once...its kinda tricky for me! haha! Or maybe its just these flowers that were tricky, I'm not sure, but I took notes to remember how next time, hahaha...

Supplies:
Stamps: Bloom With Hope, Good Greetings
Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Daffodil Delight, Mossy Meadow marker
Paper: Whisper White, Park Lane DP
Accessories: Blender Pens, Blackberry Bliss stitched satin ribbon, Glue Dots

So, for the future, I stamped the flowers on sides of a paper, obviously larger than I wanted it to be. Then I used the paper trimmer to cut almost to the flowers. I fussy cut around the flower outside of that line, and used the scissors to reach the edge of the flowers. And where the stem still shows? yeah, that was pretty tricky!!

But- the result is gorgeous and that makes it worth it!
Have you tried anything new lately?