Fancy Fabric Flowers Take Two

This is another version of the card I shared with you yesterday using the Fancy Flower punch with fabric behind it.  The fabric today is from the Twitterpatted collection available in the Occasions Mini catalog. 

I again popped up the embossed layer and added a brad to the middle of the flower, this time an antique brad.  The sentiment is from the retired stamp set Because I Care and the ribbon is some Old Olive taffeta ribbon.

Shimmery flowers

The Late Night Stampers challenge this week is to use colors in the "In Colors" family.  On this sample, I mixed Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizazz and Lucky Limeade with Marina Mist and Crumb Cake. 

The background technique on the paper is my version of the water misting technique and I used Marina Mist and Wisteria Wonder on Shimmery white card stock.

The flower is colored with Wisteria Wonder and I just kept adding more to parts of the petals to make it darker.  The leaves are colored with Pear Pizazz and highlighted with Lucky Limeade.

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The challenge at Create with Connie and Mary this week uses the following sketch:

I chose the Flirtatious Specialty paper and fabric and matched it with the Flower Fancy stamp set for this sketch.  The sentiment is from the retired Because I Care hostess set.

I colored in the flower and petals with Pear Pizzazz, Lucky Limeade and Wisteria Wonder and my card stock colors are Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder and Whisper White.

VC Rocks Blog Hop

It's the first VC Rocks blog hop of the year!  You may have come from Deborah Robb's blog and at any time you may go to the VC Rocks blog to see the full list of participants.

We are using the theme, Color My World, and I have chosen to use watercolor crayons

and markers in my projects. 

My first project is a card using watercolor crayons.  I stamped my image on watercolor paper with Black Stazon ink and then colored in the flower and leaves with Not Quite Navy and Old Olive crayons.  I blended the colors in with my aqua painter and then added some Perfect Plum to the flower and used the aqua painter again. 

After I had everything on the card, I spritzed a mixture of rubbing alcohol and Champagne mist shimmer paint over it all.  I always have a hard time getting that to show up in the photos.

Supplies:

Because I care, Just Believe stamp sets

Framed Tulips impressions folder

Old Olive, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla and Watercolor paper

hemp twine

Black stazon ink

watercolor crayons

aqua painter

dimensionals

basic pearls

word window punch

modern label punch

champagne shimmer paint

My next project was a super quick and easy one that would work well as a little gift too.

I picked up a frame at Target with 2 - 4 x 6" openings and just added some simple panels.

The left side is a Certainly Celery base that I ran through the Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder and on top of that I added some Whisper White card stock that I embossed with the Flower Garden impressions folder.  There are a couple butterflies cut out with the Beautiful Wings embosslit on it as well attached with glue dots.

The right side has a So Saffron base that was also embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder.  I used my markers to add some flowers to the Whisper White layer using the Love and Care hostess level 2 stamp set in the Summer Mini catalog.  The sentiment is from the Refuge and Strength stamp set and I punched it out with the scallop oval punch and popped it up with dimensionals.

Supplies:

Refuge and Stregth, Love and Care stamp sets

Flower Garden, Vintage Wallpaper impressions folders

Beautiful Wings embosslit

Big Shot

So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Peach Parfait, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette card stocks

Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink markers

Baja Breeze classic ink

scallop oval punch

dimensionals

And now for some blog candy!  If you leave a comment, I will put your name into a drawing for this stamp set...

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed the projects!  Your next stop to Color Your World is at Ellen Kemper's blog - enjoy!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's today!  Here is another card using the Because I care stamp set and the sentiment from All Holidays.

I used my markers to color the flower with Marina Mist and Always Artichoke and then added some Night of Navy to the edges of the flower to add a little more color.  The Designer papers are Elegant Soiree and To the Nines (clearance rack).

The base of the card is Marina Mist and I also used Always Artichoke and Very Vanilla. 

Congratulations

Another version of a card I have made before, but with darker colors as the background. 

I used Bravo Burgundy and Night of Navy card stocks and ribbon along with Almost Artichoke, Bashful Blue (sponging on flower background) and Bravo Burgundy ink.

The impressions folder is the Framed Tulips folder in the Occasions Mini catalog.

I added a sentiment and stamp on the inside as well, the sentiment is from Occasional Quotes and the other stamp set used is Because I Care.

Framed thank you

This is another sneak peak of the Framed Tulips impressions folder that will be in the Occassions Mini catalog. 

I used Crumb Cake for the base of the card and Whisper White and Bashful Blue card stock for the rest.  The inks are Bashful Blue and Night of Navy and I added some hemp twine and anvintage trinket.  The background behind the flower is done with block stamping and the stamp set is Because I Care.

Mini bag album

I had a tutorial from the Create with Connie and Mary Holiday edition that I wanted to try when I went to my stamping retreat and coordinated it with the "inspiration box".  If anyone wants to add things they have purchased and haven't used to the inspiration box, others can take items out and use them and then show everyone what they created.  What I chose was a little tag stack and I only used a few of them so I put it back when I was done.  With the exception of the tags, the rest of the items used to create the project are from Stampin' Up!

 The inside cover - I cut some butterflies out with the big shot and stamped them with the flower from the Because I care stamp set.  I also used that stamp on the bags and then sponged Early Espresso on them.

 This shows one of the pull outs that were in each bag, one side is empty where a picture would go and the other side has a tag for journalling.

This is the last page.

Blue thank you

I ran out of time for Mary Jo's sketch last week, but mananged to sneak it in at the last minute this time! 

Bashful Blue, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla (textured) card stock

Bashful Blue classic ink

Because I care stamp set

corner rounder

glue dots

buttons