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Flourish for CAS Colours & Sketches

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Well it’s Thursday again which means it’s time for another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This week it’s a sketch challenge.

Stampin' Up! Flourish Thinlits dies and All About Everything

Here’s the sketch which inspired my card

I really struggled with this one. I’ve been thinking about it for most of the month and I always intend to make my DT card by the Sunday before it’s due. Well, this one was made last night and once I had a hard deadline, the sketch was much easier. I decided to use texture so that I could keep my card nice and clean but using very vanilla for two layers. I’ve used a retired folder, Spring Flowers,  because I wanted flowers in the background since the Flourish thinlits dies were going to be my focal point. Then I layered on a piece of very vanilla on which I’d stamped my greeting which comes from the bonus set that was in April’s Paper Pumpkin. I had planned to use the big die cut from the Flourish die cuts but it took up most of the card front so I took a look at the rest of the set and found these two which work perfectly as the two little banners in the sketch. I then glued everything to the matching Sweet Sugarplum card base. I didn’t immediately fall for this colour until I saw it in person but now it’s clear that I’ll be using it frequently. It looks great with very vanilla but I need to find some other combinations.

I hope that you pop over to the challenge blog to take a look at the cards made by the rest of the Design Team and that you’ll take the challenge this week. You don’t need a blog to enter, you can add the card to any number of places – facebook, public galleries etc – and link to it. I hope to see you in the gallery.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Garden in Bloom

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Challenges are good – they stretch you and lead you in a completely different direction. The challenge this week at CASology (actually I’m sliding in under the wire here) is MOVE and I decided to use the bee stamp from Garden in Bloom.

Stampin' Up! Garden in bloom

Here’s the banner which inspired my card

I decided that the bees were busily buzzing in a circle and thus moving. I stamped them first opposite each other and then filled in the gaps. Originally I had just four bees until Martin commented that he thought that bees were usually hexagonal. This worked much better. After stamping the bees from Garden in Bloom with the archival basic black, I coloured the stripes with my Stampin’ Write hello honey marker. I then cut out a piece of basic black about 1/16 inch larger than the whisper white piece and glued it on to give a narrow border.

To give the bees something to buzz about, I took a piece of hello honey and dry embossed it with the retired spring flowers embossing folder. I glued this to a hello honey card base and then popped up the bees with dimensionals.

To jazz up the envelope, I cut out a liner using the retired backgrounds DSP in hello honey and the envelope liners framelits. I love that it’s so easy to coordinate but  I can’t believe that the envelope liners framelits are retiring.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the deadline to sign up in order to receive this month’s Paper Pumpkin and, unusually, this month we got a sneak peek. Check out my post from last week showing it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Grateful Bunch

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One thing I’m grateful for today is the sketch that Jane gave us over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week. Yesterday I shared a card inspired by the sketch and one of the entries into the challenge, here’s another. I’m sticking with yesterday’s floral motif, but today I’m using Grateful Bunch.

Stampin' Up! Grateful Bunch and Spring Flowers TIEF and Rose Wonder

The embossed square was first cut out and then embossed with another retired folder, Spring Flowers. I love this one – it creates such a happy look, I often use it on envelope flaps for birthdays. I stamped the flowers in blushing bride on the same colour card stock and punched them out with the blossom bunch punch. The stamp and punch are awesome in that they do three flowers at a time in three different sizes. In the event, the smallest flower was too small to have a dot, so I stamped and punched another medium sized flower which was just right (are you thinking of Goldilocks too?). Whilst I had the ink out, I stamped the sentiment, from Rose Wonder and also the #Imbringingbirthdaysback onto the envelope.

Then it was construction time – I used fast fuse to securely fix the embossed piece to the card and then added very vanilla enamel dots to the centres of the flowers. These were from the Holiday catalogue and I hadn’t used any of the cream dots before. Actually I think I’d only used one dot at all before this card! I attached two of the flowers with glue dots and then popped up the lower one on dimensionals.

Stampin' Up! Grateful Bunch and Spring Flowers TIEF and Rose Wonder

I completed the envelope with a liner cut out with the envelope liner framelits and using the subtles family backgrounds DSP. I have the new DSP but apparently I haven’t lined many envelopes with blushing bride.

Take a look over at CAS Colours & Sketches to be inspired by the rest of the design team and the challenge entrants.

Happy Pi Day.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Blending Tulips

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I know that the blendabilities have been discontinued due to quality issues, but I’d coloured in this image before that news broke. I used all three shades of each of cherry cobbler, calypso coral and daffodil delight to colour the tulips, adding some highlights with the colour lifter. The stems and leaves were coloured with just two shades of wild wasabi, I randomly switched between the two and I liked the effect. The newspaper was coloured with the lightest of the six nude shades. I cut out the coloured image using the ovals collection and the big shot and that’s where the card stopped for a while.

Stampin' Up! Love is Kindness and Spring Flowers TIEF
Recently I went through my Save for Later pile (I assume that you have one too?) and realized how I wanted the card to go. I abandoned the wild wasabi oval mat that I’d been toying with and instead dry embossed a piece of whisper white with the new Spring Flowers folder. I popped the tulips up with stampin’ dimensionals to both give interest and to make it easy to fix it to the now bumpy cardstock. I mounted this onto a daffodil delight base. Of course the envelope needed some attention too and I used the envelope liner framelits to cut out a liner in the backgrounds DSP in daffodil delight.
See you tomorrow,
Liz

Spring Flowers and Painted Petals

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Here’s another card using the circle framelits to create a window to the inside of the card. The earlier versions can be seen here and here. For this one though, I decided to add dry embossing and used the Spring Flowers folder. I would point out though, that you need to cut the window in the card stock before doing the dry embossing or the embossing gets a bit flattened – unless you’re going for the “only slightly embossed” look. I personally didn’t care for it!

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and Spring Flowers

I cut the circle out with the circles framelits in both the pistachio pudding and the very vanilla cardstocks at the same time. I also had the pistachio pudding a little larger than I needed so that I could trim it to size afterwards. I then dry embossed the pistachio pudding with the spring flowers TIEF. As before, I cut out a small border circle using 2 of the circle framelits to put inside the card. To get the placement right, after putting some multipurpose glue on the frame, I opened the card and put the non-glued side around the hole. Then I carefully closed the card and the frame was in the right place.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and Spring Flowers TIEF

I now stamped the flowers from the Painted Petals set inside the frame, using pistachio pudding and strawberry slush inks. All that remained was to trim down the embossed piece of pistachio pudding to fit and glue it down securely using SNAIL glue. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the same embossing folder to match.

See you  tomorrow,

Liz