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Boho Blossoms Birthday

I recently made a card for a clean and simple challenge with a row of flowers along the bottom of the card. I liked it so much that I decided to do the same kind of design. As often seems to happen, the card didn’t cooperate! I started by punching out shapes using the boho blossoms punch (it cuts out three shapes at a time) and three colours of card stock – lost lagoon, pear pizzazz and pool party. I arranged the larger shapes along the bottom of my very vanilla top layer but just couldn’t get it to look right as a horizontal card. So I flipped the card and went vertical; after gluing the shapes on I trimmed off the overhanging parts of the shapes with the stampin’ trimmer.

I hadn’t decided what the card was going to be at this point and instead went searching for a sentiment that would fit properly in the space and eventually decided on the sentiment from the Because You Care hostess stamp set. This was when I decided to add some of the smaller shapes; I tried stacking them on top of the large shapes already glued down but it was too fussy for me, so I just added a few on the sides. I then glued the very vanilla piece to a pear pizzazz card base and lined the envelope with the matching colour from the backgrounds DSP. This card didn’t end up anything like my original idea, but I am pleased with it. I think I will make it again in different colour ways too.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Stepped up boho blossom

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On Wednesday I shared a card that I made for a CAS and orange challenge. Whilst making it, I lost sight of the goal and wandered off into the realm of pink, aka melon mambo. But I liked where the pink card was going so I decided to step it up a bit as a contrast to the pumpkin pie version. Here’s what I finally came up with.

It’s a bit of a mirror image of the orange one with the punch being used on the melon mambo. I stepped up the sentiment a bit and embossed it in white instead of just stamping it. It’s from the Sale-a-bration set, Lotus Blossom. I then popped up the whole piece of melon mambo with stampin’ dimensionals and added one of the flowers that I’d cut out and this time, three rhinestones.

I originally had two of the rhinestones coloured in melon mambo and one left alone.

Then I tried old olive

But I wanted something a bit more emerald green. After a chat with Jen this morning, I tried colouring a rhinestone in the lightest night of navy blendability and, after it dried, using the darkest wild wasabi. That is exactly what I was looking for. Here’s a side view showing the colour better as well as the dimension.

This definitely demonstrates, to me at least, that it’s worth tweaking a card until you’re happy. And as a bonus, I have some already coloured rhinestones ready to use on another project!

AAA cards orange CAS challenge

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I happened to check the AAA cards blogspot yesterday and saw that they have a new challenge out there – very CAS and some orange. Sounds like some fun after all the pink and red lately. My new boho blossoms punch was sitting on the table and just begging to be used. One tip – don’t get your little finger in the way when you’re punching. Ouch!

I got a bit off track and started making a really funky background piece in orange with clear embossing. It was definitely orange, but not exactly CAS. So that will be used later on in the week!

This is a very straight forward card – as pretty much demanded by a very CAS style card – but here are the details just in case. I used the boho blossoms punch, which cuts out all three flower shapes at once, on a piece of very vanilla card stock. After I forgot what the goal was and started playing with melon mambo card stock and coloured rhinestones, I got back on track again and grabbed a piece of pumpkin pie. I chose this orange of the three available because it’s the only one with coordinating blendabilities and I wanted to colour the jewel. I used the thank you from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals stamp set and stamped it in pumpkin pie. I really like the typeface. After gluing the very vanilla card to a base of pumpkin pie, I stuck one of the flowers onto the base and then a pumpkin pie coloured rhinestone on top. Use the brush tip of the pen but be gentle – the rhinestones can really abuse the tip.

I also used my new embossing folder – the spring flowers – on the envelope flap. I thought it coordinated with the boho blossoms.