Elegant Wishes

Our first project at this month's Thornbury Class was this "Elegant" Card, using a colour combination of Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke and Very Vanilla.

The stamps we used were "Greenhouse Garden", "En Francais" and "Sincere Salutations".

We used Very Vanilla 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon on the flower stem which we coloured in using the Always Artichoke Marker Pen with the brush tip.  I also had some Perfect Plum Patterns DSP which blended perfectly with these colours so we added a layer behind the greeting.

For the flower we used the Stamping Off technique where we stamped the base of the flower into Elegant Eggplant ink, then stamped it off onto our grid paper before stamping directly onto Very Vanilla Cardstock.  This gives your image a paler colour to which we added the second part of the flower using the same colour ink direct from the stamp pad with the stamp-a-ma-jig for placement over the top of the first stamped image.  This is of course as you may know, 2 Step Stampin'.  We added a Clear Rhinestone Brad to the centre of the flower and finished off our card with a greeting from "Sincere Salutations".

Whitminster Card Making Class

With Greenhouse Garden being one of the stamps included in the August Promotion with 20% off its normal selling price, I decided to use it at our monthly class to show its true beauty.

Our slider card had a colour combination of Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence, Certainly Celery and Whisper White, teamed with some of the gorgeous "Cottage Wall" DSP.  We used "En Francais" to create our background on a stamped panel and then stamped flowers from "Greenhouse Garden" hand cutting them and placing them over stamped stems.  We used "Sincere Salutations" for our greeting, a fabulous set that I use time and time again.

Here is the inside, just a simple stamped flower but you could add more if you wanted to:

The ribbon is 1/4" Grosgrain in matching Certainly Celery, this width is perfect for using with slider cards.

Fabulous Friend

It was my "Fabulous Friend" Louise's birthday last week and here is the card I made for her.  I used Rich Razzleberry, Pale Plum and Soft Suede inks and cardstock to match and the lovely "Greenhouse Garden" stamp set.  This is a two-step stampin' stamp set and requires the use of the Stamp-a-ma-jig for building up the images. I stamped one of the flower images onto another piece of cardstock and hand cut it out, layering with a Dimensional directly over the top of another.  The Polka Dot ribbon is Soft Suede to match the base of the card, remember that the 3 new Polka Dot ribbons won't be around for ever, so grab them while they are still here!  The greeting is from the "Oval All" set, punched out using the co-ordinating Oval and Scallop Oval Punches then I coloured in the flower on the greeting using a blender pen with ink from the lid of the ink pad.