Fifth Avenue Floral 1

I think I have found my favorite set of the year! Fifth Avenue Floral is now #1 on my list of favorite stamp sets from SU.

I wanted to make a card for my grandmother, who turned 90 this month. I had bought her an Anne Klein silk scarf and these colors matched the scarf nicely (Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Sahara Sand and Basic Black. The red rose is stamped on Whisper white and then I used my brayer to color it red. I chose to do that instead of stamping straight onto a red card stock because this way the rose would be darker in some places and lighter in others without doing the whole watercoloring thing. I cut out the rose, covered it with Versamark and Iridescent Ice and heat set it.

This is actually the first card I made with this set. I Stamped the rose 3 times on Whisper White and then used my blenderpen and Tangerine Tango to color the roses in. I have to say though, Whisper White is not the best choice of paper when you want to watercolor, but I wanted to give it a try. I usually use watercolor paper but I didn't want to use heavy paper like that on this card. Well, I then cut out the 3 roses in different places so I could make a 3D rose. I then did the same as with the rose above, added Versamark and Iridescent Ice. The colors are Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango and Handsome Hunter. The "ribbon" is fake, it's Tangerine Tango card stock and a white Signo pen. Here's a close-up of the rose.

I don't know what to say about this one, the flowers are colored with blender pens and Pink Pirouette ink. And of course I added Iridescent Ice, I already had the kitchen all glittered up anyway *lol*.

I'm not too sure about this card, the colors were too soft except for the Chocolate Chip and Kiwi Kiss, I used Pink Pirouette and Barely Banana. I like the way it's set up. I might use it as a "sketch" for another card, case my own card.

Remember it's Sale-A-Bration time now and that means now is a good time to get the Big Shot from SU because you earn free stuff for every fifty bucks you spend!!!

I've already given one of the SAB sets a try and have got the pictures on my PC ready to be processed for my next post :)

I just got a box in today with chip board that I just have to try out (On Board so Tweet). One of my customers bought it and I fell for it...isn't it supposed to be the other way around??? *lol*

Anyway, I'm off to play Memory with my DS and hopefully I'll get him to go to bed early so I can play a little bit ;)

TFL