Bloomin' Beautiful :)

I had no idea it's been so long since my last post. I've been getting a pretty good schedule at work and even got an extra shift last week. It's good for my wallet but leaves me with less time to make cards :(

I decided to go with a favorite set for this post. I had several ideas in mind but only had time to make two cards. I've been cards for a challenge at the icelandic scrapbooking forum, we had to make 7 cards in 7 days and each day we had a different challenge. The first card I show you is the last card I made in the challenge, we had to use flowers on our cards.

The image is stamped on watercolor paper and colored with blender pens and ink. I used our new eyelet border punch and a retired background stamp, Print Pattern.

The second card I made only took me a few minutes to make. I had the image already colored from sometime last year (I always make extra). I added iridescent ice to it a few days ago while adding glitter to a bunch of images I had in my box. I used my Floral background stamp (retired). I thought of adding ribbon but decided not to. There's room for a sentiment under the image if I decide to add one later.

Here's a close-up of the glitter.
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Since my last post we've had both snow and spring like weather!

I snapped this photo in our backyard on the 1st of March and a week later....

on the 8th of March I snapped this photo at Mt. Pisgah ;)

Hope you are getting spring like weather....it's supposed to get cold again here :(

TFL

SAB - Botanical Blooms

This set is one of the Sale-A-Bration sets available. I thought I might give the 2 step stamping a try again, I'm not the best at it you know! But I just have to keep trying if I want to get better, don't I?

The colors on this card are Whisper White, Mellow Moss, Pixie Pink, Tangerine Tango, Bashful Blue and Baja Breeze, plus Black Stazon. I stamped with Stazon first and then added all the colors. I still felt like the flowers needed a little something so I stamped them again with Versamark and added Iridescent Ice ;) I used the new Eyelet Border Punch for the border.

On this card I covered the whole image in Versamark and then added the glitter. The background papers are from Taste of Textiles (IBC pg. 156). I just love those papers and wish there were more of each type in the collection. The polka dotted paper is thick Vellum.

Here you can see how shiny the white striped paper is. So pretty!
Here's another card I made with the white stripes paper...

If I could, I would buy a whole pack of that paper, maybe someday in the future I can....hopefully!
Well, I'm keeping this short today, I should be at work but I caught a bug and don't feel too good today, hoping to get enough strenght to go back to work tomorrow though.

TFL

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