Curtian Call - Bouquet

I've been playing with my MISTI stamp tool along with Altenew's Vintage roses. I always had trouble lining the layers up, but this tool...wow! Pricey but wow! I was trying to figure out color combinations and had made several roses...so they were perfect to put together in a bouquet.  Perfect for the Curtain Call's Inspiration Challenge - Bouquet.

 

I took my inspiration from the bunch of multi-colored flowers, the glass vase and the blue couch in the background.

 Of course the roses have a bit of WOS on them, but the glittery loveliness is so hard to capture in a photograph.  The bowl portion of the card is thanks to Stampendous' Bowl Bouquet, and those glass marbles in the bottom, are covered in glossy accents, to provide a bit of texture. I water-colored the bowl and grounding area, the flowers were stamped with combinations of Hero Arts, Simon Says Stamp and WPlus9 dye inks.

The water color panel and the card face were die cut using WPlus 9 dies.

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Mixed Media Challenge

After some time visiting family in Ohio, and running a Hero Arts scramble over the weekend I have not done any card making...and it was difficult to get back to it.  Nevermind that I have at least 5 cards that need to be mailed within a week!  Well here is a start!

I am playing in a new to me challenge - The Mixed Media Card Challenge- the theme is flowers with an option of basket...well I love flowers and I kinda like this basket weave embossing folder a LOT! (thanks for introducing me to it Michele!)  So here is my take on the challenge.

I started by stamping the multi step roses, then I stamped the woodgrain on a separate piece.  I added some embossing paste colored with lime green glimmer mist using Simon Says Stamp leaves stencil.  While that dried, I dry embossed the basket weave panel, and worked on the sentiment panel.  Once my embossing paste was dry, I die cut the circle, added the fussy cut Altenew Vintage Roses and put the pieces together. The bow and pearls were added last (sticker from Jolee).

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 Inks-Back rose - Soft Vanilla, Lemon Yellow- Hero arts & Sunshine by SSS
         Front Rose - Soft Vanilla, Lemon Yellow, Butterbar - Hero Arts

Spring Birthday

I recently picked up this used PTI stamp set, and thought I would play a bit.  I am always in need of birthday cards, and I thought I might send this to a blogging friend.

I used Hero Arts Shadow inks, and some distress ink to color the front panel.  Added sweet pink chevron ribbon from Stampin Up, and the card is complete.  Thanks for stopping by!

Finally the perfect stamp set

For those tough cards...Men and Boys ages 12 and up. Those cards drive me nuts...  Stampin Up has a stamp set that I am going to be using quite a bit for my male card needs.   I could even dress it up (pun intented) and use it on gal cards.

I think male cards are so tough, because traditionally they don't get as much embellishment as the girly ones. So to combat my feelings that the card is too plain - I created backgrounds on both the card base in a tone on tone pattern, and stamped repeated happy birthdays in versamark and clear embossed them on the white panel.  It's subtle texture, but it gives more interest.  I am quite happy with this man card!

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Supplies:
Paper - Stampin Up, and unknown scraps
String - DMC Floss
Inks - Hero Arts Soft Granite,  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
Stamps - Hero Arts Square Background,  Stampin Up Big Day
Die - Stampin Up Chalk Talk Framelits 

Nature...

images are great for guy cards!  A bit of inking, a plain font greeting, and that's it.

Okay I wet a bit further, the cat tails were colored then given just a touch of wink of stella and a bit of glossy accents for dimension. The die cut sentiments come from PTI, cut out of wood tape then inked a bit darker. The background of the main panel has some fronds from a Stampin Up set stamped very lightly in wet cement ink (Hero Arts). All is mounted on a kraft card base.

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