Poppies day 3

These are the last of the poppy cards in the set. I had fun doing this so I may make another set using rose stamps.

More poppies

Here are 4 more cards from the set.

Poppies

I have a few poppy stamps so I decided to make a set of cards for a friend featuring poppies. I made 3 cards with each of the stamps coloring them in different colors and using different sentiments. I took artistic license with the colors on some of the cards.

Purple poppies

Border dies are a great way of filling in space! in the last year while I was not blogging my style changed I think and I now prefer simpler cards. As usual the image is colored with pencils. This time I used Prismacolor pencils.

Border dies

i have had 3 sets of Spellbinders border dies for a long time and hadn't used them. These are some cards I made the other day using some of them. I used the same stamp from Hero Arts on all of them and colored them in different colors using pencils. The sentiment stamps are from different sets.

Coloring on kraft

I have been playing around with coloring on kraft paper using the no line technique. i stamped both of the images with Versamark ink and colored them both with Polychromos pencils.

Persian Motifs

I love the stamp set Persian Motifs from Altenew. Both cards are colored with pencils. I love the look of coloring on textured colored cardstock.

Challenge

On my Yahoo group we take it in turns to issue a challenge. I finally got last week's challenge done before there is a new one tomorrow. I have had company so not so much time to spend stamping! The challenge was to make a spotlight card. I made two just because!

Pink Poppies

I found a card on Pinterest that I liked very much and CASed it. The stamp is not the same but very similar. it is the other stamp in the set with the one I used for the blue poppies. As with the blue poppies these were colored with pencils.

Blue Poppies

I am back after a very long absence. I have switched from a PC to a MAC and I have a big learning curve with my photo editing program. The one I was using, and was very familiar with, does not have a MAC version. I am getting too old to be learning new things! LOL

The image is from Hero Arts I believe and colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Tropical Floral Side Step

This is the last sample card I made using the Heartfelt Creations stamp sets that coordinate with the Spellbinders Rose Creations dies.

Again I used HCPC 3409 Tropical Floral Swirls and the single flowers from the Botanical Floral 2 set. I love these stamp sets! The flowers were stamped, colored and cut out and adheresd to the side step card. The sentiment is a $1 stamp I bought at Michaels at least 2 years ago but it is one of my favorites.

This is the last card for this month. I made it! I had a contest going with my friend Gloria of Gingerbread and Pansies to post every day for the whole month. There were times when I didn't think I would make it. Thanks for the challenge Gloria it was fun but a lot of work!

Heartfelt Rose

For this card I used Heartfelt Creations HCPC 3406 Botanical Floral that coordinates with Spellbinders Rose Creations dies.The stamp set is available at Dutch Paper Crafts.

I stamped the three largest flowers on pink paper with a darker pink ink and then made the flower. The medallion is from Spellbinders Parisian Motifs set and the flourishes are from Marianne Designs.

Thoughts of you

I think this card would qualify as a CAS (clean and simple) card. I used a Heartfelt Creations stamp Botanical Floral 1. I stamped the flower with Versamark ink onto watercolor paper and embossed it using  white embossing powder. I then used markers to color the image and cut it out using scissors. The stamp coordinates with the Spellbinders Shapeabilities Rose Creations die set but I prefer to cut with scissors as the dies never seem to line up properly. The Rose Creations dies are great for making flowers though
 I used a smaller stamp in the set with Versamark ink to stamp a background on the card base. A Martha Stewart punch on a white panel, a $1 stamp and some pearls added to the center of the flower finished it off.

Exploding box

I thought I would do something a little different from a card so I made this exploding box.

This box is small, 2.75" x 2.75". I don't know what I am going to do with it that is why the inside panels are blank. It was fun to do. I used flowers from Wild Orchid, Martha Stewart punches and dies from Marianne Designs.

Chill Out in stitches

This is a card I made for a swap  'Dog Days Of Summer' on Card Camp. Here in Texas we are certainly in the dog days of summer with temperatures in the 100's every day.


The stamp is an older $1 stamp from Michaels.  It is colored with Prismacolor pencils and Turpenoid and cut out with Nestabilities lacy squares.

This card is for the second swap I joined for August on Card Camp. For this card we had to have stitching on the card....real or faux.

The floral image I used for this card is a free digi image from Beccy. You can find it HERE I used a Nellie Snellen die MFD 033 and faux stitched with a  blue Micron pen.

Rose and Cream

In my wandering around blog land I saw a card on I think a Polish blog that I fell in love with. I forgot to bookmark the page so I tried to CASE the card from memory.

This is the front of the card. The front and back are cut separately and joined together.

This is the card opened. I should have put ribbon to hold it together when folded as It has a mind of it's own and springs open. If I I will remember that the next time I make a card like this....if I ever do!

A close-up of the left inside of the card.

A close-up of the right inside of the card, There is a pocket with a tag to write a message on.

Edited to add. This is the link to the card I cased. Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction!
http://monika-jot.blogspot.com/2011/08/czy-to-mozliwe.html

Iris

I know I have been MIA again! For the first wee in this month I was on vacation at the Grand Canyon. Magnificent. I even got up before dawn one day to see the sunrise over the Canyon!
Before I left I was asked by Darlene of Dutch Paper Crafts to be a designer for her blog and of course I said yes! She sells a lot of the dies that I use on my cards at great prices and also her shipping is actual cost so you get a great deal. I have cards that I am unable to show you just yet but I will be sharing later.

For this card I used the Hearfelt Creations Dutch Iris set.You can get it HERE. The sentiment is from the Forever Friends set from JustRite.

April Birthday

If your birthday is in April this card could be going to you!

I used two different stencils for this card. Marianne Designs Star Collection PD 0015 and Happy Birthday Fun HBM 7001 I  used the PD 0015 stencil just about as is but omitted the pricking and instead added the sentiment stamp. After cutting it out around the edges I mounted it on green cardstock and cut around it with scissors leaving a narrow border. After embossing and cutting the corners on the back panel I used my Martha Stewart score board to emboss a rectangle and then cut out the middle and backed it with DP. This was then adhered to the card base and the top layer was mounted with dimensional tape. The flowers are hand cut from a 3d sheet from my stash. For the butterfly I colored a piece of vellum and used a MS punch. A few half pearls and the card was done!

More Orchids

I am really having fun with all the new 3D sheets I bought!

The stencil I used for this card is a part of the Embossing Romance EH 1842. Can you believe I even used a bow! Not something I do often as I usually do not have the right color ribbon for the project.

Pink Peony & embossing

I am still in a dry embossing mode but I am trying to do some coloring along with it instead of using 3D decoupage sheets.

I used the same Peony digi that I used the other day. The stencil I used is Open Passe-partout EH 1824. You can find it HERE or HERE The image is colored with Prismacolor pencils and Turpenoid. The little white dots you see on the flower is glitter!