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Hi everyone! Here’s what I’ve been doing so far this week. The new dies from Memory Box arrived and I got busy!
I’ve always liked sunflowers and holly hocks. I suppose because they look free spirited! haha
For this card, I used the NEW Brilliant Sunflower and added the square frame from the Splendid Rose Frame from this year’s earlier release. I LOVE how these mix and match!
I made a short video of how I emboss the detail in the sunflower head…watch it here or on You Tube.
I really like how embossing deepens the detail.
I inked edges with a little Gathered Twigs Distress Ink and the mini round ink blending tools.
I colored the center of the embossed yellow piece with color pencil and added white dots with a white gel pen.
Some quick die piecing in the corners….heat embossed sentiment is from the NEW Memory Box Big and Little Words clear stamp set. It’s made to coordinate with some of the other new dies too so you’ll be seeing it used a lot! yay!
Stamped with Versamark, in the MISTI stamping tool.
You brighten my day! It’s true!
I used the NEW Misti Cut Align tool to cut the sentiment strip… I REALLY like having that tool! Tools are everything!
Some enamel dots…
So then, cuz I had experimented and cut so many sunflowers in different colors, I decided to use the white cut!
I dry embossed the yellow flower head that’s behind the white outline die… I love how it looks, it just gives it a little roundness. I glue it just in the center so the petals can kinda look free-ish.
A Distress Oxide background in Fossilized Amber and Peeled Paint using the cheap make up brushes to blend it on the card-base. I’ll link to the ones the stamp company is selling but I’m using the cheap ones and love them!
A happy, cute card! 😀 We all need a little sunshine in-between rains these days!
The sentiment is from the same NEW set as above… I am loving this set! I had fun making these two cards!
Both cards are 4 ½ inches square. You could mail this size in an A6 envelope or a 5 inch square one.
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you’re enjoying the flowers in paper or in dirt!
Here’s the products I used to make these two cards…
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Hi again! Another fun sidekick die from poppystamps. I’m not sure I did it justice but I had fun!
I die cut the frame in a piece of woodgrain pattern paper. Colored over the flower pot parts with Copic markers, BG53, 57, YG 25, 17, YR18, E99 and the birds with BG53, 57, E57, E99. I die cut the frame from a piece of cardstock and glued the pattern paper to it, making it sturdier. Then adhered it to the cardbase.
I die cut the vines in white cardstock and colored them with the same greens, YG25 and YG 17.
I stamped a sentiment from the poppystamps Birthday Blowout clear stamp set. Then on the inside I’m going to stamp ‘celebrate your day’ and ‘happy birthday’ from the same set. I LOVE it when there’s sentiments that work together in a stamp set!
I put Glossy Accents on the pots and left them to dry…then decided it needed something else, so I stamped in the white dots very carefully. hmmm… not sure I should’ve but to late now! haha
Here’s an iPhone ‘before the dots’ picture. WOW, we got new phones and man does this thing take good pictures! All I did was crop, resize and put my name on it! whoa! (a little different color tone)
Even as good as the photos are… it’s still better IRL! 😀
Memory Box update…There’s an even newer release now and mine just arrived! Stores already have them in stock so be sure to check them out! HERE they are at Starlitstudio.net. If you want to see the cards Memory Box has already made up for samples, go HERE and click on each item to see a sample, then back to shop… pretty cards!
Here’s some more great shopping! This is good through Sunday. Penny Black, Ranger, Lawn Fawn, Sizzix, just to name a few. 
Thanks for stopping by! Happy Cardmaking Day! (I know, it’s supposed to be Scrapbooking Day! lol Every day is cardmaking day!)
Here’s what I used to make this card…
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Hi everyone! Playing with new poppystamps dies this week and a new stamp too!
I inked up the new poppystamps 5 ½ x 5 ½ inch Picnic Plaid stamp with three Distress Oxide Inks using the Tim Holtz travel stamp platform. I used the panel inked with Forest Moss for this card. I like it a lot! It stamped really well. Easy to clean up because the stamp platform cover comes off, I was able to take it directly to the sink to wash the ink off between changing ink colors. Dried with a clean, damp shammy.
I die cut the plaid panel with one of the Memory Box Rectangle Basics dies to match up behind the Sidekick frame.
Using the stencil that comes with the die, I inked up the poppies with regular Distress inks and the make up brushes that look like toothbrushes. I used Barn Red, Festive Berries and Fired Brick. Then I went in with a color pencil and drew over the embossed lines from the die. I colored the stems with G95 Copic Sketch Marker. It matched the Forest Moss Oxide ink perfectly!
I die cut and colored a couple extra ‘parts’ from the complete die to embellish the sentiment.
‘Sending Happy Wishes’ is from the new poppystamps Springtime Greetings clear stamp set and stamped with Ranger Archival Black ink in a MISTI stamping tool.
Hope your Spring is shaping up all pretty and full of flowers! There’s an even newer release from Memory Box now and I’m hoping there’s some on the way to me as I type! Stores already have them in stock so be sure to check them out! HERE they are at Starlitstudio.net If you want to see the cards Memory Box has already made up for samples, go HERE and click on each item to see a sample… pretty cards!
Another card to share tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by!
Here’s what I used to make this card…
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Smiling today and enjoying the Worlds Robotics competition in Detroit via live streaming on my own computer! It’s kinda funny racing between the stamp room and the computer room because I still need to get stuff done around here! haha One of our grandson’s is on the team from here and the older one that was on the team last year is helping. Three of their brothers/grandsons are dressed in their mascot shirts that Heather, our daughter made them. So, yep, I’m smiling.
This card makes me happy too! I die cut the new poppystamps Spring Pots Shelves die in white cardstock and colored it with Copic Sketch markers. I will tell you the colors but yes, I often start out with one set of colors and end up coloring over with another set. *cross your eyes* lol I started out with YG63 and 67 for the vines but decided to change it after coloring the one pot YG17 and 25. So I quickly went over the vines with YG17… a new green color! ;D YG17 and 25 are pretty much my go to green.
For pink it was RV21 and 23 I think. Yellow is Y15 and 18 but I think I put a little YR18 in the veins. The terra cotta color is YR18, E07 and E99. The tealish blue is BG02 and 05. The tan pot is Y28. The Shelves are E35 and 37.
I used a little white gel pen here and there for accents.
The sentiment is from the Memory Box Springtime Typewriter Sentiments clear stamp set and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
The dark blue panel is die cut with the largest die from the Memory Box Wrapped Stitch Rectangles and glued to a top folding A2 white cardbase. I added 5 of the smallest size Doodlebug Sprinkles. I love them! The card is pretty fun without them though if you want a completely flat card for snail mailing. It will still mail with the sprinkles for one stamp but I put a piece of that super thin packing stuff on top of it.
Next card…
Using some of the 6×6 paper pad stash this time…yes it’s older. Carta Bella Flora No 1 it’s called. Start digging, you probably have it! hohoho
I trimmed out the Lily of the Valley Sprigs from the Circle die after cutting it and the watering can from white cardstock. Then I added a little Copic coloring again. Pinks RV13 and 14. Greens YG63, 67 and 99. Gray is W2 and 3.
I used some Nuvo Rosewater Jewel Drops to make some droplets. I made them on my craft sheet and then glued them on.
Nothing real earth shaking but I like it! But who do you send a ‘do something nice everyday’ card to?! hmmmm
Holler if you have any questions! Links below to what I used to make these cards.
Thanks for stopping by!
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