FMS.......Birthday Wishes

Happy Friday Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made using this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

This is a fun sketch and you all know I love a square card!

I decided to try to make a Sunflower card using the "Best of Flowers" stamp set.

I stamped the stem and leaves from the hydrangea flower with Black ink onto some Very Vanilla card stock and then used the Daisy type flower head for the Sunflowers. I stamped a few of them with black ink onto some scrap white and then colored with my copic markers.

I then cut out the flowers and added them to the stem and leaves on the vanilla card stock using some dimensionals. The leaves are colored with copic markers as well.

The Greeting comes from the Wetlands stamp set.

The DSP on here all comes from the Sweater Weather pack from Stampin Up. The base of the card is Early Espresso card stock and I matted with Sahara Sand and Crushed Curry cardstock.

I added some borders in Early Espresso using the Finishing Touches Edgelit dies. Finished it all off with some basic pearls.

 I LOVE these pretty Sunflowers!

Thanks for coming by today!

Vicki

Blog Candy Winner

Hello Peeps!!

Popping in here quickly to announce the winner of my Blog Candy and to share a card I made this week for the color challenge on Splitcoaststampers.

The colors this week were Crushed Curry, Midnight Muse and Primrose Petals.

I used a favorite stamp set from Stampin Up called "Best of Flowers".

I love the hydrangea in this set. I stamped it twice and colored the head using the Primrose and Crushed Curry inks with my aqua painter.

The leaves were colored with the Crushed Curry and Midnight Muse.

The DSP on here is from the Print Poetry Pack and the Comfort Cafe Pack.

The sentiment is form the retired Happiest Birthday Wishes set. I made a scrunchy bow using some very vanilla seam binding ribbon and added an antique brad to the center. 

Now onto the bog candy winner, Random Org. picked 14 and that was:

Jodi Collins aka Kharmagirl said...

What an AWESOME technique and I just LOVE the colors and stamps you used! Beautiful as always!

Thanks so much to all who left a comment and look for some more upcoming blog candy soon!

Talk to you all again soon!

Vicki

Best of Flowers.....Blue Hydrangea

Happy Friday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing the blue version or yesterday's pink hydrangea card. 

As I said yesterday, I am digging this stamp and I guess you all know by know that I love most all flowers for card making. I guess I am predictable in that and I have to ask "Do you all get tired of me making flower cards"?

I just wonder what else I would do if I didn't have flower stamps? May have to answer that question soon as the new flower stamps from Stampin Up seem to be dwindling down each year.

Did you see the retirement list?

 Two of my fave stamp sets are going to retirement, "Greeting Card Kids" and  "Beautiful Season". So very sad to see these sets leaving.

Anyway, this card started with a base of Crumb Cake and then some vanilla and the DSP on this one is from the "Print Poetry"  paper pack.

The sentiment here is from the "Happiest Birthday Wishes" stamp set. I used my stamp a ma jig to position the words on my circle piece.

I colored the flower with some Midnight Muse ink and added a bit of More Mustard to the flower centers. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Best of Flowers......Pink Hydrangea

Hello Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the Stampin Up "Best of Flowers" stamp set. 

I love this hydrangea in the set. It is a smaller version of  another favorite hydrangea from the retired "Because I Care" set. It is not exactly the same, so this one my have been in a different set that I am not familiar with, not sure of that but either way I really like it, I wasn't sure when I received the set if I would care for the smaller versions, but after playing with this one I am hooked!!!

I started out by picking out my DSP which comes from the lovely "Fan Fair" paper pack. 

I paired it up with some vanilla cream and Crumb Cake card stock.

I stamped the flower twice and colored the head using Primrose Petals ink pad and my aqua painter.

I used Pear Pizzazz for the leaves.

The sentiment is from the retired Stampin Up "Occasional Quotes" stamp set.

I made two versions of this card, I will show you the other one tomorrow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Vicki

Seize the Birthday...Vintage Birthday Wishes

Happy Sunday Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the challenge this week at Seize the Birthday.

This week it is feminine birthday cards we are to make. My favorite!

I pulled out the Stampin Up "Best of Flowers" stamp set and stamped this pretty hydrangea onto some confetti white card stock twice. I colored the image with my aqua painter and ink pads, I used Not Quite Navy and Pear Pizzazz. I added a bit of More Mustard for the flower centers and used some Crumb Cake to "age" it a bit.

I cut out the flower headon the second image and added it over the first with some dimensionals.

The main image is die cut with my circle nesties and the image is matted with a "Delicate Doilies" die cut.  

The base of the card is Night of Navy, that is sadly retiring and then a layer of the confetti white card stock.

All of the DSP on here is from the Stampin Up "Fan Fair" paper pack.

The sentiment is from the "Made For You" stamp set. I used my circle punches, 1-1/4 and 1-3/8 for the sentiment and mat.

I added a bow made with some very vanilla seam binding ribbon that I swiped through my crumb cake ink pad to age it a bit and added a crumb cake corduroy brad to the center. I finished it off with some basic pearls. Looks a bit "vintage" don'tcha think?

Thanks for stopping by today.

Vicki