Flowers for Every Season

I recently had a creative swap challenge with my Team, we needed to pick a suite from the catalogue and create a card project using the elements in that suite. I chose the Flowers for All Seasons Suite (pg 10-11 of Annual Catty) to create with because sadly, I have had all of these supplies and had not used them since I got them in May/June. Who can relate?

I will admit, when a new catalogue is released I go a little crazy ordering everything that inspires me! But there are only so many hours in the day to craft, so sometimes awesome stuff like this product suite sit on my shelf not getting any love!

I did add in a few elements from outside of this suite, the sentiment and the die to cut it out. The sentiment is from Lovely You (pg 22) and the dies are the Tasteful Labels dies (pg 179). I also used the Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder on the white card front layer.

I actually chose a bit of a softer color palette as well for my card than what is showcased in the catalogue as well. I wanted something that felt peaceful and relaxing unlike the bold colors of the suite. I started by choosing the flower collection I liked in the Jar of Flowers stamp set. There are 4 options and I liked this one because it felt the fullest. I chose to color it with some soft Stampin’ Blends in Purple Posy, Highland Heather, Pink Pirouette (retired I know, sad face), Pool Party, Mango Melody and Granny Apple Green. There are no dies with this stamp set, just the cutest jar punch! So you will have to hand cut any of the bloom images.

Creating the ‘shaker’ part of this card took a few steps. After I ran the Whisper White card stock through the Tasteful Textiles embossing folder I used the jar punch to create the shaker space. I added in the Mason Jar Shaker Dome (pg 158). I dropped a few of the Flowers for Every Season gems inside the dome. I wanted it to look like there was water in the shaker dome so I used my Water Painter brush and Pool Party ink to swipe some color on scrap white card stock. I then stamped the stems and coloured them with the Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blends. I punched this out with the Jar Punch and added it into the space created by the dome. Now this will not seal this shaker dome up, you will need to use another piece of scrap paper (3 x 2.5 should do it) to seal this up after you take off the adhesive strip around the shaker dome.

I decided to add a few white sprigs from the Sunflowers dies as it helped fill in the flower arrangement. I also had to double stack my Dimensionals on the back of the flowers to get them to sit up high enough to match the Mason Jar dome. The rim of the jar is stamped in Grey Granite and hand cut. I added it on with Glue Dots.

I really really love how these cards turned out, especially because I had to make 14 of them! It was actually a relaxing way to spend my weekend, colouring and fussy cutting!

Create with Connie and Mary--Hot Summer Days!

When I think of “Hot Summer Days” I definitely think of ice cream! I hope you enjoying this weeks Create with Connie and Mary Blog Hop theme! Make sure you visit everyone on the Hop!

We have been having some super hot days here in Alberta and I am LOVING every minute of it! And summer ice cream calories don’t count I have decided!

Have you been following along with my blog regularly? Are you noticing a trend…maybe with the Playing with Patterns Suite? Hahaha, I don’t even notice I am using it half the time! It just seems to work with EVERYTHING! Hopefully I have you hooked on it too and you can use my August Host Code to shop for anything you need!

What is unique about this page, is all of the DSP strips of paper are actually from 6x6 DSP stacks! You would never know though as I strategically hid the seams behind the photos. I used the Playing With Patterns, In Color, Whale of a Time and Flowers for Every Season 6x6 collections. I used my finger nail to soften the edges of the DSP to give it some added texture when I added it to the 12 x 12 Whisper White.

I used a trusty old favourite, the baby wipe technique, to create this soft background. I then used my Water Painter to flick the Coastal Cabana ink all over.

I don’t know how you feel about ice cream but I think the sentiments on this page describe my feelings for it perfectly! Hahaha! And my sons expression on his triple scoop ice cream cone is just priceless!

I used a bunch of different sentiments from three different stamp sets to enhance this page. I used Nothings Better Than, Blossoms in Bloom, and Bloom and Grow. And of course, the Playful Alphabet dies!

I hope you enjoy what the other gals have created this week for you and I hope you are having an awesome summer yourself! You can go back to see what Melissa has created and next to see what Connie has designed!

Tasteful Touches Fun Fold

Sometimes you just need a good card fold, design and elements to make a really awesome card! Today I am sharing a ‘fun fold’ card that is simple but packs a punch!

You start with your standard card base of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Mine is Purple Posy. You can get 4 card bases out of one sheet of card stock too which is awesome. You will then cut your second ‘card’ base to 3 x 11 and score at 5 1/2. Once you have these two pieces you can stamp a pattern along the edges of the Purple Posy. I used one of the images from the Tasteful Touches stamp set and stamped in Highland Heather. Attach the white card to the Purple Posy base and then embellish as desired.

I used the Tasteful Touches stamp set as the focal point of this card. I absolutely LOVE the feathers. I stamped them in Bumbleebee on Whisper White card stock. I inked the feather once and stamped it three times to get three different tones of the ink. These are then hand cut.

The sentiment, You are the Best, is actually stamped twice. I stamped it once and then layered a 1 inch strip of card stock over top as a mask. I then stamped my sentiment again to get the second half ‘The Best’ to line up underneath this strip. I then added a DSP strip from the Flowers for Every Season 6x6 stack overtop in place of where the mask was.

I added a bit of linen thread and some of the shapes from the In Good Taste Wooden Elements. The Misty Moonlight scallops along the white base edges come from the Budding Blooms dies. And of course I had to flick my Purple Posy marker across the Whisper White base! Its the best trick out there to take away the feeling of too much blank space.

I hope you will give this ‘fun fold’ a try! Have an awesome day!