Roses

Esther here today sharing a pretty rose card. I created the background by ink smoosing prize ribbon and rustic wilderness ink on mix media paper. I then stamped over it with one of the rose images from True Beauty. I added some text from Texture Tiles 1 and some white paint splatters over that.  

The roses (from True Beauty) were stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  and colored with Arteza real brush pens with metallic paint splatters over top. I die cut two of the Friend Word Die in black card stock and layered one over the other for extra thickness. 

Using the barouque frame 3D embossing folder (Altenew) I embossed the frame on white card stock and die cut it with the matching die in the sweet friend die set (Altenew). A few blue sequins finished off this sweet friendship card. 

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Hello There Lilies

 

Hello friend. Esther here today sharing this friendship card that features two stamps sets from the March Release as well as a few older ones. Obviously lilies aren't just for Easter as they also make great focal points for friendship, get well, and even sympathy cards!

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To create my card I stamped both Texture Tiles 11 and Typewriter Text Background in white in on a turquoise piece of card stock and die cut the edge with a scallop edge die.  

Next I stamped the Background Builders: Stripes in peacock feathers distress ink across the bottom of of my white card stock. I layered the die cut scallop piece over top and added a sentiment from Everyday Greetings in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink.

The Alleluia Lilies were stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink on watercolor paper and painted with watercolors before die cutting with the coordinating  Alleluia Lilies Dies  and adding them to my card front using foam mounting tape.

 

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Foiled Stamped Flowers with Floral Greetings & Peaceful Peonies

Hello, it's Gracie Chavez from Graciellie Design. I love using transparencies on cards. I usually use vellum because of how delicate it looks. So I decided to use one of Sweet 'n Sassy's latests flower stamp from a set I designed -Floral Greetings- in a non-traditional way. I used a quick and easy DIY technique to foil the flowers on heavyweight vellum to create these stamped embellishments.

First, I stamped the flowers using pigment ink (which works just as well as any embossing ink), and I then heat embossed the images in gold. But because I wanted to create a metallic on metallic effect I went ahead and foiled the flowers in silver. All I did was cover the images with a piece of silver foil transfer sheet and ran them through a laminator making sure to wrap the stamped flowers within at least 2 copy paper sheets folded in half, to avoid the embossing powder from melting completely. This trick will allow you to get a distressed foil effect that lets some of the embossed areas to show. In the end, you get a beautiful silver on gold metallic finish.

I fussy cut the flowers and used them to frame the wonderful verse from Peaceful Peonies. I layered a few die cuts and used metallic, shimmery, gorgeous papers to go along with the metallic tones on the images. I added a few touches of beige here and there to make the sentiment pop and tie all the monochromatic layers together. I love the result, but I'm sure this card wouldn't have been the same without these beautiful stamps!

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Christmas Blessings

Hi friends,
Are you ready for Thanksgiving?   Tomorrow I put my timeline into action.   But for now, it's time to share one last November Release card with you.   About a week ago I stopped to get a drink at my local Starbucks, and while waiting, looked at this years Christmas gift cards.

Hmm, I think I have everything I need to create my own "gift card" as it were, and include a little surprise for the recipient as well.    And so she did (smiling).

Here's a little something about me you might not know.    As a stamper and card maker, I love to create scenes and write stories to accompany them *wink*.    Oh, you knew that?!  *tehe*   I want to share with you how easy it is to create a scene with multiple stamp sets.    First I made a card base from light blue card stock.   Then used the Landscape Silhouettes Stamp set for the background trees.   I stamped them with Memento Northern Pine and Grey Flannel (a little darker than the London Fog), then placed the first hill on top of them.   The trees in the foreground are from our November Release Stamp Set, Tender Thoughts.   I embossed them and used the coordinating die, Birch Forest to cut them out.   Then I cut out several hills.   Don't worry if you don't have a die.   These types of hills are easy to free hand cut.    The snowman is also from our November Release.   He's part of the Snowy Hello collection illustrated by Diane Zechman.    The circular tag uses our Spectacular Snowflakes Stamp set, and sentiment from our October Release, Born This Day. 

Now of course I had a little mishap *frowning*    I hadn't used my Mister Huey's Calico White mist in about two years.   Well, of course it came out like gang busters - ack!   Sometimes you can recover and sometimes you can't.   But there's no crying in baseball so you just have to move on *laughing*.   I think I'm going over to our Starbucks for a hot beverage!   That's the ticket!

May this Thanksgiving be a blessed one for each of you.   I'd like to leave you with this quote.   Teddy's grammy shared it the other day and I'd like to share it with you my friends.

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."

~ Theodore Roosevelt.

May the words of our mouth come from our heart, and may we sow kindness to all.

Happy Thanksgiving, and blessings be unto you and yours.