Stately Flowers

Gina K has a series of stamp sets called Stately Flowers and if you have a Silhouette cutting system there are free cut files and frames for them.  This frame is from the 8th set and the flower is from the 5th set.  The stamp sets are really beautiful and the cut files make for a more interesting card. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Apple Blossom Time

Gina K Designs has a series of stamp sets called Stately Flowers, this is from #9 of the sets and it's Michigan's state flower so of course I had to use it. There are both a small and a large flower in the set and I got the idea to randomly stamp the small one as a background stamping off once with Memento London Fog but oops I forgot on one so I went to plan b and stamped 3 of the small ones to color and one of the large. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

The Iris

Flowers are so easy to make cards with, they can cover a multitude of occasions.  This Iris is a fun one to color.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Some More Embossed Cards

When I get on a roll I really roll.  I started making the cards with the white wash technique and while I was in the mood to powder emboss I made quite a few cards.  These are a few more of them, they are all Gina K.  The top card is an Iris, the second card is a Lady Slipper and the bottom is an Orange Blossom, all from the Stately Flowers 7 & 8 sets designed by Melanie Muenchinger. Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

Bottled Flowers

These two stamps from Inkadinkado are a couple of my absolute favorites. These are a couple of the images I colored up last winter (2013) while we were in Florida.  They are so versatile and so easy to color.  Just stamp and swipe on a little color for the bottles and flowers and hey presto done. I left a blank banner on the left one for future use.  Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday Ann

I finally had time to play with some sets from Gina K Designs that have been sitting on my desk.  There are Silhouette Cameo cut files to go with the sets that make it even more fun to create cards.
First up is this Lady Slipper flower from Stately Flower 7 and the frame cut files that match.  Tell me you don't think this is a beautiful idea.  I colored the flower with Copics and mounted onto Gina K card stock.  The sentiments are form Papertrey Ink's Signature Greetings II.  My sister Ann's birthday is today and the card on the right is what I decided would be the perfect card for her.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping bu.

Autumn Splendor Touched by Resist

I was looking through the photos of cards I've made and came across this one.  I think I made it for one of my Thanksgiving cards and forgot about it.  I really like the resist technique and I wanted to see how it would work on kraft card stock.  All the stamps are from a Gina K Stamp Kit called, of course, Autumn Splendor.   I think it works well.  I stamped the background sunflowers with Versamark and heat embossed with clear Martha Stewart powder.  I rubbed the centers with Memento Tangelo (I think), wiping off the excess.  I stamped the script background with Memento Peanut Brittle and then the flowers in Memento Rich Cocoa and colored with Copics.  After adding some scraps of card stock I was done and happy with how it turned out.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Another Crayon Experiment

I really had a great color pallette for this card.  The card base is a deep dark brown and the plaid is from my scrap drawer.  I still had some of the ovals left and that worked as a background for my flower.  I colored with the oranges from my box of Crayola crayons and cut it out.  I shaped the petals a bit so that it sits up a bit, using glue dots only in the center.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

At my last Card Ministry meeting we had a discussion about holding some craft retreats again in the fall.  We discussed several options of topics to play around with and this is one that I came up with.  I thought it would be fun to see what a card would look like when colored with plain old crayons.  So the other day I pulled out a couple of old favorite stamps that are of the line art type and went back to kindergarten and had a whole bunch of fun.  My first task was to set up my card base and find a DP that would work, I found this piece in my scrap drawer and it provided a good color pallette for me to work with.  Then I dumped out my Crayola box of 24 colors and used the red/violet hues along with the yellow/green colors.  It really is so much fun to play with colors and crayons are just as much fun as ever.  After I had the flower colored I took a grey crayon and outlined the petals for a little bit of shading.  I mounted the image onto a piece of burgundy card stock and then stamped the sentiment on a double ended strip of card stock.  I did one more card with crayons and I'll post that one tomorrow.  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Pretty in Pink

Did you ever have what you thought was a really good idea, start it and then have it fizzle on you???  This card is the result of that process.  While going through my DP's I found this gorgeous translucent DP from the Paper Comapny called Floral Dainty that I had forgotten about ( I also found some others that I'll show in the future) and had to come up with a way to use it.  I went ahead and set up the DP with card stock that showed it off the best, then I had no idea about what to do from there.  Luckily while I was sleeping it came to me.  I remebered the cards I made using DP's as wall paper and thought of this twist on that idea.  I had been going through my boxes of stamps and came across so many that had not been used in a long time and needed some loving.  This flower is one I'm very fond of and it is from Stamps by Judith.  I had some of these ovals left over from other cards I made so I stamped it in Memento Rich Cocoa, colored it with Copics and edged it with Papertrey Ink's Chamomile.  A brad and some ribbon finished it off.    Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Long Stemmed Flowers

When I had finished making the wedding rehearsal invitations I was left with some card parts so I decided to use some of them up.  My 6 card ministry cards were due so that's what I decided to work on.
The Stampin Up set had the iris and paperwhite flowers in it along with the calla lily and one other (I can't think of what it is at the moment) but I only wanted to use these three flowers.  I used the same format of translucent card stock for the flowers and then Cryogen white for the card base and the overlay.  The overlay was cut with the oval Nestabilitie then embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.  The flowers were stamped on the front and colored from the back using Copics.
I'm happy with how they turned out and I hope the ladies I send them to will enjoy them.  Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

Year of Flowers

While I was in Sarasota I ordered Melanie Muenchinger's Year of Flowers book/magazine from Annie's Attic and was fascinated with the designs and cards created with this stamp set from Gina K.  I had the Year of Flowers line art set but not the Pressed Flowers set that is designed to match.  I'm not sure just what this flower is but I really had fun using it.
First off is the card base, Pool from Ellen Hutson and the DP is from Memory Box Minuet.
I stamped the flower first with Memento Blue Sky then used a Memento marker Bahama Blue to highlight around the center after I used the Memento marker in Cantaloupe to color it.
I then used Nestabilities circle to cut it out and a Scalloped circle to cut out the mat in Memory Box Granny Smith (really close match to the tiny leaves in the DP).
Side note: when you order Memory Box paper packs from Ellen Hutson they give a list of the Memory Box card stock colors that match the DP's, very helpful.
I happened to glance at the top of my very cluttered desk and saw this ribbon laying there (not sure where it's from, I think it was a freebie) and noticed that it was a good match for my card, so I ran it down the front and pleated it a bit at the bottom.E
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Rose Red

Well actually it's Raspberry Fizz.  That's the name Papertrey gives this card stock.  I used co-ordinated DP from the Bitty Box Basics set on the base, then a layer of white card stock then another layer of the Bitty Box paper.
Then I got tricky, I took my Mat Stack 1 die and the Mega Mat Stack 1 die and layered them and ran them through with the white card stock.  That left me with a separate center portion that I could then rub the edge with Memento Lady Bug ink.  This makes it look as though it's another layer but it is just nestled back into the frame.
I used Memento markers to color the rose from Papertrey's Year of Flowers set, trimmed it out and pop dotted it onto the mat.  While I was making this card I kept thinking "Wow this is a bold color, not sure if I'm getting it right" but in the end I loved it.
 Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.