Forever Fern Thinking of You Cards

Sadly, I had two of the more sombre cards to make over the past weekend as I learned that my cousin had passed away and also that a friend had had a heart attack. I wanted to use the Forever Fern bundle, which enchants me, but I wanted to go with a different colour palette than is usual for the foliage. I chose Blackberry Bliss for the card base and then began to look around for some Designer Series Paper that would go with it. I found some in one of the designs of the Artistry Blooms DSP that combines watercolour shades of Rich Razzleberry, Magenta Madness, Melon Mambo and Gorgeous Grape. After that, it was just letting myself go with the stamps and dies working with those colours and I came up with two unique cards:

The card on your left uses foliage die cut from Blushing Bride, Blackberry Bliss and Highland Heather, using dies from the Forever Flourishing Die set, simply arranged on the beautiful DSP and glued down carefully. I was going to add a lot more die cut foliage, but it simply detracted from a card that looked a lot better with a simple design. 

The sentiment, from the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set, is stamped in a muted Blackberry Bliss (stamped off) and die cut using the Beautiful Boughs dies.

Some Champagne Rhinestones nestled amongst the leaves gives an added hidden beauty to the card front.

For the Sympathy card, I also started with the Blackberry Bliss base and the same design of the Artistry Blooms DSP for a background. Then I made my own strip of DSP using the Forever Fern DistINKtive stamps on Whisper White and Blackberry Bliss and Blushing Bride ink. I made liberal use of the dots stamp as well. Backed with a slightly larger Blackberry Bliss strip, it looks quite effective.

Then I stamped and die cut several pairs of foliage using the same ink colours and different foliage stamps from the Forever Fern stamp set. I'm very impressed with how well the DistINKtive technology works with this one. Along with a couple of vellum die cuts and a Blackberry Bliss die cut, they were added to one of the Gold Loops that are part of the same suite and added the loop to the card front. The sentiment is from the Prized Peony stamp set, stamped right on to the DSP.

Turns out I really love this combination of colours with this set and will probably make some cards that are not so sombre with it as well, but hopefully these colours will help to uphold the friends they are sent to.

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Product List

Forever Fern Cling Stamp Set (English) [152559] $33.00	Forever Fern Bundle (English) [154094] $73.75	Good Morning Magnolia Cling Stamp Set [149298] $49.00	Prized Peony Cling Stamp Set (English) [152504] $33.00	Prized Peony Bundle (English) [154056] $78.25
Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper [152495] $15.75	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101856] $13.50	Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133675] $12.00	Blushing Bride 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131198] $12.00	Highland Heather 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146986] $12.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [147092] $10.25	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad [147100] $10.25	Gold Hoops Embellishments [152474] $10.25	Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels [151193] $8.25
Beautiful Boughs Dies [150661] $48.00	Forever Flourishing Dies [152714] $49.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Fine-Tip Glue Pen [138309] $9.50

Magnolias for Kylie's Demonstrator Training June Blog Hop

Thanks for stopping by!  Today I'm participating in Kylie's Demonstrator Training Blog Hop.  I'm so excited to be part of this training program and happy to participate in my second Blog Hop with them! The purpose of the group is for the group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators that are part of the program...to share ideas and to learn from each other...to help us in our Stampin' Up! Business.

Today you will "hop around the world" and check out the amazing projects created by these very talented demonstrators.  You are currently visiting Heather Cooper from British Columbia, Canada.  Please take some time to check out all of the blogs on the list below!

I'm using the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set for my sample today. I've paired it up with some Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper. Here it is:

• On the card base of  Crumb Cake cardstock, I added a piece of Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper, a delicious striped pattern in Petal Pink.
• On top of that I wanted a real kraft coloured background so I cut down one of the Magnolia Lane Memories & More Large Specialty Cards to get that panel to display the magnolia on.
• Some Petal Pink 5/8" Organdy Striped Ribbon is added to the kraft panel before adhering it to the card base.
• I used the Stamparatus to stamp the large magnolia image from the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set onto Whisper White cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The Stamparatus is a real bonus with a large stamp like this, because if any area is not inked up evenly, or if some area gets unequal pressure, it's no problem to restamp the image to get the coverage you need. It was die cut using the Magnolia Memory dies. Using the same dies, some silver foil leaves were also die cut.
• I used the Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo and the Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Combo alcohol markers to colour in the image. My technique is to use the dark shade marker to colour in the shaded areas of the image and the light shade marker to blend over the dark marker areas and out into the lighter areas. For the leaves, that filled up the whole area, but for the petals I left some white. The center was the Daffodil Delight Combo.

• The sentiment is also from the Good Morning Magnolia set and was die cut using the double label dies from the Frosted Bouquet Dies.
• The flower had the silver leaves attached to it using glue dots and the whole thing added to the card front using dimensionals.

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 products used to make this card today.

I hope you enjoyed this project and that you will check out the other blogs in this June Hop:

   


Happy Stampin'!
Heather

                                                                                                                                 
Product List

Good Morning Magnolia Cling Stamp Set [149298] $49.00	Good Morning Magnolia Bundle [151087] $87.25	Magnolia Lane Memories & More Large Specialty Cards & Envelopes [149487] $17.00	Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper [149484] $15.75	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $5.50
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $11.50	Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133676] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] $10.25
Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147272] $12.00	Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [148547] $12.00	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144603] $12.00	Petal Pink 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Organdy Striped Ribbon [149441] $11.00	Magnolia Memory Dies [149578] $48.00
Frosted Bouquet Framelits Dies [151800] $45.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50