We are going with florals for our theme over at SU Only Challenge this week. A lovely thought that spring may be on it's way - but I'm not sure winter has finished with us yet!
I've used the lovely set Floral Essence for my card. I started off by stamping the larger flower using a very old SU ink called Almost Amethyst. I then layered this onto some Elegant Eggplant card stock. I stamped the main flower in Elegant Eggplant and stamped it twice - cutting one of the flowers out and layering it on top with a dimensional.
I used Crushed Curry for the middle of the flower and Pear Pizazz for the leaves. This was cut out with a stitched framelit and layered. I added some old SU ribbon and a heart embellishment and added a touch of Wink of Stella to the bold flower. The sentiment from the same set was cut out with a retired banner die. I used the die to cut out two parts - one in white for the sentiment and another in the purple card stock which can then be layered on top of the white. I mounted it all on to some Perfect Plum card stock. All my card stock is retired but you could do use similar colours from the new colours in the recent catalogue.
I hope you are inspired by our gorgeous images over at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week. I took my inspiration from the mug and the snowflake. These little mugs were gifted to me by my swap partner on a Christmas Envelope swap we did before Christmas on my Joy of Sets Facebook Group. They are just so lovely and I knew I wanted to use them.
I added some papers from Kaisercraft Christmas Collections which complimented the colours of the mugs. The snowflake is a Tim Holtz die - one of my recent purchases! I added some Wink of Stella to the snowflake to make it glisten. The sentiment is from a Clearly Besotted stamp set called Let It Snow. I added some of the lovely bronze jewels from SU and mounted it all onto some gorgeous bronze card stock.
Our challenge over at Sweet Stampin is a timely one. Something that should be in high demand after Christmas giving is a Thank You card - I do wonder though how many still send them? It's not something I ever receive for gifts I send but my children (I say children they are 28 and 25 still send them out to relatives). It's so lovely to receive one and it doesn't have to be in recognition of a gift.
My card today uses a set from Card-io Majestix Stamps called Golden Daffodils together with a butterfly from one of their other sets Oriental Blossom together with the Thankful Thoughts set from Stampin Up. I am Welsh and the daffodil is the National Flower of Wales so I can see lots of use for this little set.
This is a nice simple one layer card which is great for posting - I send a lot of RAK cards in my Joy of Sets group so one layers are always more economical to send and I know just the person to send this one to. I used Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Mustard Seed and Bundled Sage - I added some ribbon from my stash which is the perfect colour combination together with some coloured pearls.
Welcome back to another year of challenges with Hand Stamped Sentiments - our first one for 2020 is a colour challenge:
I've used some new Tim Holtz Sizzix dies for the flowers on my card. I layered them onto some of the gorgeous SU DSP Perennial Essence - I have had it a while and just couldn't bear to cut it - you know how it is. Once you cut into it initially you soon get over the trauma and enjoy using it! lol! I used the same paper to cut out the flowers and leaves. The Friends sentiment is from SU Waterfront - the Happy Birthday is from a retired set Fresh Fruit. I added a few sequins just to finish it off.
I look forward to seeing what you all do and whether you are using new crafting goodies you got for Christmas
Our challenge at Sweet Stampin is feature a creature for Hallowe'en. I wanted to use the crazy Bird stamps from Tim Holtz - I started off by creating my background with some distress inks, and layered them with various stencils including a cloud stencil. The Bird was coloured in with some water colour pencils. The little Hallowe'en stamps are from an old SU set called Bitty Boos. It always comes in handy at this time of year and is the only Halloween stamp set I have!
