One Last Ginger Blossom Bloom

I just couldn't get enough of this layout, but this will have to do for now.

The color combinations of paper and ink are endless, the previous cards are just an example. I need to check out my other designer papers to see what else I can put together with this layout. SUPER EASY!!

The flourish is stamped on to Whisper White in River Rock. The sentiment is stamped with Cameo Coral. The design and the Ginger Blossom DP is matted to Cameo Coral. The sentiment is attached to the card with dimensionals. The little flower centers on the flourish are gold glitter glue.

Recipe:
Stamp Set: Friendship Blooms
Paper: Cameo Coral, Ruby Red, Whisper White, Ginger Blossom DP
Ink: River Rock, Cameo Coral, Cameo Coral Stampin’ Write marker
Accessories: Gold glitter Glue, dimensionals

Ginger Blossom Blooms

This is another card with the same layout as the previous one. If you've been trying to figure out how to use your different designer papers, I think this is a pretty good layout for that. It's a nice design and you don't use a ton of paper for each one. It's also good if you need to make a lot of them, I think this would be a great swap card.

The flourish is stamped on to Whisper White in River Rock. The sentiment is stamped with Cameo Coral. The design and the Ginger Blossom DP are matted to Cameo Coral. The top element is attached to a River Rock card base with dimensionals. The flower centers are done in gold glitter glue.

Recipe:
Stamp Set: Friendship Blooms
Paper: River Rock, Cameo Coral, Ginger Blossom DP, Whisper White
Ink: River Rock, Cameo Coral, Cameo Coral Stampin’ Write marker
Accessories: Gold Glitter Glue, dimensionals

Happy Friendship

This card was very simple to make which is good because I’m planning to make several using different colors and patterns. I ‘m going to use it as a birthday card design for a very special group of people over the next year.

I stamped the flourish in Old Olive on a piece of Whisper White card stock. I then stamped the sentiment in Rose Red. Using my Rose Red marker, I colored in the little flower on the flourish and matted the image on Tempting Turquoise. A piece of Petals and Paisleys paper was matted on to Turquoise paper and attached to the So Saffron card. The sentiment was attached over the top using dimensionals. The final step was using Yellow Stickles glitter glue on the flower centers.

Stamp Set: Friendship Blooms
Paper: So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Petals and Paisleys DS Paper
Ink: Old Olive, Rose Red, Rose Red Stampin’ Write Marker
Accessories: Yellow Stickles glitter glue, dimensionals

Rose Wasabi Friendship Card

I got the stamp set Friendship Blooms as one of the Sale-a-bration sets last winter, and hadn’t used it yet. Gasp! I just couldn’t seem to visualize ways to use these stamps and although I’d seen different cards made with this set, nothing seemed to inspire me until now.

This card was done as a thank you card for my boss. I stamped the flourish and leaves on Whisper White with Wild Wasabi and cut into a square. The outline flower was stamped on Whisper White with Rose Red and cut out. I usually like to have more color in my images, it seems to take me too long to do water coloring with the line art, but I like how there was just enough color in the center and the lines, to make the flower pop on the white background. The flourish and leaf image was matted on to Wild Wasabi and the flower was attached through both layers with a glitter brad. I had read somewhere that you could make any brad a glitter brad by using Diamond Glaze and glitter, but this brad came already glittered. The bottom of the base card of Pretty in Pink was covered with Rose Red DS paper leaving a narrow border of Pretty in Pink showing. The top edge of print was covered with a length of double stitched ribbon which I got at Michael’s and the flower panel was attached with dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped on Pretty in Pink paper with Rose Red ink and punched out with Key Tag punch.

A very simple card!

Stamp Set: Friendship Blooms
Paper: Rose Red DS Paper, Pretty in Pink, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White
Ink: Rose Red, Wild Wasabi
Accessories: Glitter Brad, pink double stitched ribbon from Michael’s, Key Tag Punch

Ooops! SORRY! SORRY!

Friends, I realized today that I didn't get the post up that I'd talked about in the last post! Time got away from me this week with extra work and just plain not feeling well. I'll get to that soon, I promise! It's going to be a beautiful weekend and I'm going to spend part of the afternoon and all evening with my friend Kate helping her with her convention swaps. Can't wait to see what design she's come up with! When I help, I usually get one too. Always love new cards for my files! Have a great Saturday!

Eager Anticipation

I've been reading the blogs that I have bookmarked, and looking at all the neat cards that demonstrators are making with the new stamp sets, papers and In Colors from the new fall/winter catalog. I SO want the new catalog, but since I'm but a lowly client (my friend Kate who's my demonstrator does all right by me so I'll be seeing some of HER stuff next weekend), I'll have to wait till the catalog actually comes OUT. I am SO getting inspired to create with the new stuff but that will have to wait. I have a couple of cards that I've made using the Sale-a-bration and Occasions mini sets that I got last winter/spring that I'll post later today (have to write up the deets first), and that will have to do for now.

Hope the rest of you are getting inspired too! Maybe I'll find your creations out there on Splitcoaststampers.

Happy Birthday Ruby Guava

I made this birthday card to go along with the previous one that I made for my husband’s boss. The boss’s wife is also having a birthday and they’re having a combined birthday party so thought she’d enjoy a flower card. I REALLY like how this one turned out!

I colored with markers (chocolate chip, ruby red, and yo-yo yellow) and then stamped the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from "So Many Scallops" (which was a Sale-a-bration set from this past winter) on Very Vanilla card stock. I punched it out then matted that on to Ruby Red and then a scalloped circle in Groovy Guava. I used yellow Stickles glitter glue to enhance the candle flames.

The patterned paper is the "Ginger Blossom" designer paper which I matted on to Groovy Guava and then Ruby Red which I’d punched with my Fiskars scalloped border punch. The card was finished off with the Groovy Guava Double Stitched ribbon. The medallion was attached with a large dimensional.

Recipe:
Stamp Set: So Many Scallops
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, YoYo Yellow markers
Paper: Groovy Guava, Ruby Red, Very Vanilla, Ginger Blossom Designer Series Paper
Accessories: 1 1/4", 1 3/8", scalloped circle and Fiskars scalloped border punches, Groovy Guava double stitched ribbon, yellow Stickles glitter glue, dimensionals