Varied Vases

Here’s a card that I made for a swap with 20 of my demo friends – and yes I used the stamparatus to help me make them. The bundle is Varied Vases and was inspired by Mary Fish to celebrate her million dollars of sales. It’s a wonderful bundle consisting of a stamp set and a builder punch.

It features two of the new in-colors, lovely lipstick and blueberry bushel. I love both these colours but I think I’ve been using the blueberry bushel the most so far. I made full use of the four sides of the Stamparatus plates – it was so satisfying to stamp the bloom in mossy meadow and then have the color of the petals right in the correct place every time (once I’d got it set up right of course!). It didn’t occur to me until I was midway through my creation that I’d have been better off using two stamps for the blue vases, one plain and one patterned. Instead I did the hinge step and moved the plate down 2 notches for the second vase.

I had to stamp two of the flower stems by hand since I didn’t want them to overlap the vases and it was impossible to ink up just the exact same part of the stem each time. But it was really relaxing sitting there just doing one part of the card at a time, either with the stamparatus or by hand and it took very little time to make my 20 cards. Except then I put my stamp on the back which isn’t allowed when making swap cards, so had to make a few extras. I think I ended up making about 35 in the end which was great for my thank you cards last month.

The vases that are punched out are either glued directly onto the card or popped up with dimensionals for some interest.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. To purchase the bundle just click Shop Now and add 148381 to your cart. It’s just $39.50. Don’t forget that if you push your order to $50 before shipping and tax, you can choose a free retired stamp set from my stash.