Friendly Wishes for Freshly Made Sketches

This past Saturday, I went to a day long craft retreat!  I love those retreats because I get so much done without Facebook to distract me! One of the cards I worked on made use of the new stamp set, Friendly Wishes, the new Bohemian Designer Series Paper and an old stamp and framelit set, Flower Patch and Flower Fair. I used the layout from Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #188, which you can see here:

Aside from making the sentiment panel larger to accommodate the Flower Patch images and the sentiment, I kept it pretty true to the sketch.

• I love the vibrant colours of the Bohemian DSP and I echoed them in the ink I used for stamping. Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss, Crushed Curry and Delightful Dijon, and Bermuda Bay and Island Indigo.
• I stamped the middle flower on the sentiment panel as well as the flowers on either side with just the larger solid image. I then hand snipped the bottom of the panel around all the petals. I separately stamped the two step images of the yellow and blue flowers and die cut them with the Flower Fair Framelits, then added them on either side of the Rich Razzleberry flower using Stampin' Dimensionals.
• Just a little hint for stamping those large solid images using the photopolymer stamps. You'll have greater success with a full solid image if you use a Stampin' Pierce Mat underneath your card stock.
• The little bow is made from Island Indigo 1/4" Cotton Ribbon.

           

Just one more sleep before you can order from the new Annual Catalogue and still get items that are retiring.  Don't be disappointed!

Product Shares

Don't forget that I'm doing Product Shares this year: paper shares, ribbon shares and embellishment shares.  Learn more and sign up HERE.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the Stampin' Up! products used to make this card today!

Sneak Peek Products from the new 2015/16 Annual Catalogue, available June 2, 2015:

Friendly Wishes Stamp Set, Bohemian Designer Series Paper

Product List

Flower Patch Photopolymer Stamp Set [134207]	Flower Patch Photopolymer Bundle [136788]	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131197]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [131171]
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986]	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [131173]	Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950]	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [133642]	Island Indigo 1/4" Cotton Ribbon [134557]
Flower Fair Framelits Die [133731]	Big Shot [113439]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]
Glue Dots [103683]

Mother's Love Meets Flower Patch

Well, originally my plan was to make a card for Freshly Made Sketches, but fate intervened as it often does, and I caught sight of a cute Mother's Day Card on a Facebook page. I loved the bright colours, but even more I liked the marriage of two stamp sets, Mother's Love and Flower Patch. I love the sentiments in Mother's Love, but I'm not totally sold on the flower images. So I cased the card.

It was a creation of Trish Brunkhart, who in turn cased one of Dawn Griffith's designs. My card base is a different fancy fold. I used the Center Step fold design, which is controversial in itself. I think it should be call the Double Side Step fold because the steps are on the side, not in the center. But I don't make the Stampin' Rules, so this shall remain the Center Step fold design, under protest!

• Here's where I found a great template, that looks like this:

• I totally cased the colour scheme using Daffodil Delight as the card base, Tangerine Tango to layer and Whisper White,  I added DSP from All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack.
• The great sentiment from Mother's Love fits so perfectly on the center panel. I stamped it in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. The other coordinating sentiment I added on the inside of the card.
• I had to stick with smaller flowers so I used two designs from the Flower Patch Photopolymer Stamp Set. The little daisy doesn't have a coordinating framelit so I stamped that right on the sentiment panel. The only other appropriately sized flower did have a framelit so I stamped two of them in Daffodil Delight and Crushed Curry and another two in Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango and die cut them, adding them to the card base with Glue Dots.

• And here's the other sentiment on the inside. These flowers were all stamped.

This is a cute alternative to the fancy pastel cards I did for Mother's Day last week! Hope you've found a card that works for you.

#StampingforNepal

I just want to remind you that I'm conducting a fundraiser for the relief effort in Nepal after the earthquake, with a silent auction that you can participate in until Thursday, May 7 at 10 pm, when bidding stops. You can see the details here, or go straight to the Facebook Album to look at the items and bid on them.

You can help the relief effort as well as get a great hand-stamped item for yourself or maybe your mom. Here's a sample:

And if you are a papercrafter, I'm challenging you to use your craft to do some fundraising yourself. Then update your Facebook status with what you did and how much you donated from that using the hashtag #StampingforNepal. We'll see what a difference a group can make!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the Stampin' Up! products used to make this card today!

Product List

Mother's Love Clear Stamp Set [138841]	Mother's Love Wood Stamp Set [138838]	Mother's Love Photopolymer Stamp Set [137170]	Flower Patch Photopolymer Stamp Set [134207]	Flower Patch Photopolymer Bundle [136788]
*All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack [133703]	Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119683]	Tangerine Tango 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [111349]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [131173]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]	Tangerine Tango Classic Stampin' Pad [126946]	Flower Fair Framelits Die [133731]
Stampin' Trimmer [126889]	Big Shot [113439]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]

*Retiring June 2, 2015

Flower Patch Card for As You See It Challenges

No matter how long and tiring the week has been, I always look forward to designing for As You See It Challenges every Thursday. Amanda's creative challenges never fail to get my mojo kick-started. Last night was no exception. I had spent the day preparing for a large workshop that evening and hadn't had a moment to work on today's challenge sketch. I looked it over carefully before leaving for the workshop, hoping that my brain would begin the planning process on it's own while I was busy. It actually worked. By the time I got home, I knew exactly what I was going to do, and it involved the Flower Patch stamp set and coordinating Flower Fair Framelits.

Here's a look at the challenge sketch:

As soon as I saw it, I thought, "Hawaiian shirt!", but I imagined flowers embossed on vellum and added to the card. I knew that the Flower Patch stamp set would be great for the job.

• I went to look in my cupboard to see what colour embossing powders I had in stock and came up with this combination: Crushed Curry, Pool Party and White. I used Versamark ink to stamp several of the same designs and added the three colours of Stampin' Emboss Powders before heat setting them using the Heat Tool. I remembered to dust my whole sheet of vellum with the Embossing Buddy before I started to remove oils and static so the powder would not stick where I didn't want it. I love the look of the embossed colours on the vellum.
• After embossing, I used the Flower Fair Framelits to die cut most of the flowers you see. The small irregular flowers don't have a coordinating framelit shape so I had to fussy-cut three of those but it wasn't too hard.
• I opted for an oval in the middle with the sentiment (also from Flower Patch) because I wanted to use a sheet of the All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack for a background it is not conducive to stamping a sentiment because of the small designs that cover it. The oval also helps with the placement of the flowers.
• The great thing about the Flower Patch designs is that you can build your flowers as the different designs work well together.

Hope you enjoyed this design! Have a great weekend and I'll be back on Monday with a design for Freshly Made Sketches!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the Stampin' Up! products used to make this card today!

Product List

Flower Patch Photopolymer Stamp Set [134207]	Flower Patch Photopolymer Bundle [136788]	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856]	All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack [133703]	Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122924]
Crushed Curry 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131199]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [126982]	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132]
Pool Party Stampin' Emboss Powder [129398]	Crushed Curry Stampin' Emboss Powder [133753]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]	Flower Fair Framelits Die [133731]
Ovals Collection Framelits Die [129381]	Big Shot [113439]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]	Glue Dots [103683]