Tag Archives: Painted Petals

A Happy Thing for Holly

First I would like to thank Rizzo and the Pink Ladies at In The Pink for selecting my card as a Perfect Pinky. It’s an honour to be recognised.

My friend Holly is amazing. This year she’s run 1400 miles which includes 8 marathons, 4 half marathons and some 10K and 5Ks too. She has a brilliant method which means that for each training run that she does she puts $5 in a jar for charity and apparently this means that she almost never misses a run. Perhaps I should try that!! Read her blog for more information. She’s on a quest to do a marathon in each state and has done 26 so far. She’s kind enough to say that I inspired her by running marathons (way back in 2001). I think it was a sort of “heck if Liz can run them, I can too” kind of thing. I’m not much of a runner. At least, I don’t look like one. Or rather, I’ll never be fast, but I’ll get there. Eventually. I was trying to run 780 miles this year and didn’t make it (thyroid issues and sinus infections derailed me) and got to 641 which is a record for me. So I’m in awe at 1400. This deserves a card. And the Stampin’ Up! A Happy Thing set combined with Painted Petals seemed perfect.

I know that Holly’s not a pink kind of girl so I figured yellow and green would work. I stamped the lemon from the A Happy Thing set in memento black on some scrap paper and cut it out (it’s not that hard, really) and then stamped it on the card. I used my cut out ( a jig in woodworking terms which I’ve heard a lot of lately with my father visiting. He and my brother spend a lot of time in the basement workshop!) to mask the first lemon and stamp out 2 more. Then out came the blendabilities in daffodil delight and old olive and some silence as I coloured away. I’m not sure why colouring stops you talking, but it does. I used the colour lifter to add some highlights to the lemons. Next I used the sentiment from the Painted Petals – it’s made for Holly! – also in old olive. I mounted the card on an old olive base and I’m really thrilled with how this came out.

Maybe you think that lemons are an odd thing for a celebratory card. But Holly pushes through any issues – fitness, plantar fasciitis and makes things work. So it seems right to me. Congratulations Holly!

A Thank you for the occasions catalogue

1 Reply

I’m very grateful to Stampin’ Up! for bringing out a new catalogue, full of new goodies. The catalogue went live on January 6th along with the big Sale-a-bration sale. See more details here. I was trying to make a birthday card for my sister whose birthday is next week but the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals stamp set wanted to make a thank you. So I went with it. It’s a supremely simple card and yet rather effective. I’m sure that I’ll make it in numerous colour ways. I love the typeface of the “thank” too.

I was having a very unusual day for me. I was having a “use DSP day”. In fact some cards had DSP AND ribbon. Which I think is a first. Anyway, I’d pulled out some Color Me Autumn to show that it could work with the new spring stamp sets and got my palette from that – crushed curry, mossy meadow and cajun craze. But after I’d stamped the stems in mossy meadow and some flowers in crushed curry, the DSP didn’t fit and the card was screaming for the Thank you to be stamped in crushed curry. Apparently cards sometimes have minds of their own.

I did eventually get my card done for my sister – and another for my brother to send her, but I made a bunch of other cards along the way. Apparently I needed time to create whilst still thinking about her card. There is pressure of course, she’s a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator herself so her cards had to be as perfect as possible!

I don’t know who will get my new thank you card, but it’s good to have some on hand. And it’s such a happy spring like thank you. I finished it off by adhering the very vanilla mat to a base of crushed curry and lined the envelope in the backgrounds DSP in crushed curry.

Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals

2 Replies

My best friend Julia has some serious tooth pain right now. Obviously a card won’t fix it, but I want to send her one anyway. I was playing with the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set and came up with the following. Eventually.

This card was hard. For no good reason other than sometimes they are. I managed to put the stalks too close together. Then I stamped the sentiment badly so that there was an extra line around it. Then it was wonky. A lot. It was one of those days. Eventually on the fourth try I had to give in. But I re-made it today and it went fine. Sometimes life is like that!

I stamped the stalks from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set in pear pizzazz adding the flowers in so saffron for each trio and masking out a few for later. I then added the missing flowers in perfect plum. After cutting out the very vanilla piece and matting it on perfect plum, I used the sentiment from A Dozen Thoughts which I stamped in versamark and then sprinkled on the clear embossing powder. After using the heat tool, this it’s a very simple matter of constructing the card but I like how simple and effective it is. I can definitely see this in a number of different colours. And I’m sure that you will too!