There’s quite a lot of stamping on today’s card which just used the Picture Perfect set – the hummingbird is 4 steps and the flowers and leaves are three. And then there’s all the fussy cutting – all the stamping meant that it was a lot safer to cut out the pieces. I didn’t want to have the final stamping mess up the whole card. So the flowers are completely in melon mambo – I stamped off twice for the first stamping, once for the second and used full strength ink for the final stamp. I then added some glitter with the Wink of Stella on the darkest parts.
For the leaves I used mint macaron stamped off once, then full strength and finished the stamping off with cucumber crush. I discovered that stamping off onto a piece of grid paper that had some rich razzleberry stamping off on it wasn’t a good idea. It took me a while to figure out why I had slightly off coloured leaves since I wasn’t looking at the grid paper when stamping off! I cut out my leaves and flowers last weekend and then worked on something else. Today I cut out the hummingbird so the fussy cutting didn’t seem too arduous and it’s only as I sat down to type this post that I realised that everything on this card was fussy cut. The colours used for the bird are cucumber crush, melon mambo, old olive and mossy meadow. Oh and there’s a little more wink of Stella there too.
Next was construction! I’d advise stamping the sentiment first although I didn’t do that. I started by placing the flowers and leaves and then gluing the leaves where I wanted them. Next I added the flowers that are falling off the edge and finally popped up the whole flower. I also popped up the hummingbird to give him more of a sense of movement.
Finally I lined the envelope with the 2015-2017 in color DSP stack and the envelope liners framelits. This whole card feels very Spring like and happy and this liner continues that. I showed the card to my brother telling him that I didn’t think he’d like it. He didn’t. I’ve yet to make a card combining pink and green that he likes – for some reason he just doesn’t like them together. I do though, so that’s okay!
Somebody submitted a Stampin’ Up! order naming me as their demonstrator yesterday (thank you very much), but checked the No contact box. This means that I can’t send you a thank you card. So if it was you, please reach out to me so that I can thank you properly with a card.
See you tomorrow,
Liz