Flower Trim in Summer Starfruit

Feb 15, 2013 | Big Shot, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Spring Catalog 2013, sympathy, Vintage | 0 comments

The new Stampin’ Up! Flower Trim is beautiful!  If you haven’t seen it in real life you are missing out.  And while the trim itself comes in Very Vanilla – you can change the color! On this card I changed my to Summer Starfruit – and I’ll share with you how I did that.  Here are the two versions of this card –

flower-trim-cardsThese cards are very pretty in real life and I just love the little flowers.  I cut off a couple of flowers for each card.  Do you want to know how I changed the color from Very Vanilla to Summer Starfruit?  It’s easy – here is what I did –

  • I cut off the number of flowers that I wanted from the trim and placed them on a paper towel
  • I used one of the new Stampin’ Spritzer bottles – fill it with some rubbing alcohol about 1/2 full or a bit more.
  • Use the Summer Starfruit ink refill and add to the Spritzer bottles – the more drops the darker it will be – so you’ll have to decided what is right for you.  I probably added 10 drops.  Then shake it up.
  • Spritz the flowers with the mixture in your spritzer bottle and let the flower dry – it shouldn’t take very long.

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Here are the tips on making this card –

  • The card base is Summer starfruit.
  • The layer of Whisper White card stock is embossed on the bottom edge with the Needlepoint Border Embossing Folder (Spring catalog).
  • Add a 1/2 piece of one of the Tea Lace Paper Doilies (Spring catalog) to the white card stock.
  • Stamp sentiment on the white card stock.
  • Add the leaves/stems to the doily layer.  Use the piercing tool and pierce a hole on either sides of the stems to pull the Linen Thread through and tie in a bow.
  • Attach the Whisper White panel to the card base.
  • Add the flowers to the stems – I used glue dots.

Here is another version of the card –

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If you look at the two version of the cards there are just a couple of minor differences –

  1. The stamp set that I used – So Sorry on one and Vintage Versus from the Sale-A-Bration brochure on the other
  2. The stems/leaves that I used – the Bird Builder punch on one and the Little Leaves Sizzlits die on the other.

I hope you like this card.  I do and will probably make a few more as I need some more sympathy cards and I think this one turned out very peaceful looking.  Thanks for stopping by today.  All the products that I used are available in my online store on my website – just click the SHOP NOW button – www.monika.stampinup.net

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Almost Artisan – Field Flowers Button card

Jul 6, 2012 | Almost Artisan, Cards, SU Buttons, sympathy | 0 comments

I’m back today with another card from my Stampin’ Up! Artisan Design Team entry.  I saw this idea somewhere in my browsing – where the corner of the card front was folded up.  I thought this would be a perfect idea for our stamp set Petite Pairs – it has sentiments that are split into pairs.

These are very trendy colors right now – Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White.  I wanted it to be simple.  The base of the card is Basic Gray with a Whisper White layer on the front and on the inside.  I scored the front corner with my Simply Scored tool and folded it up and adhered it with glue.  Then I added the button with the Baker’s Twine in it.  The front has the Field Flowers stamp set and then the first part of the sentiment.  Then on the inside peeking out of the folded corner is the second part of the sentiment.  Here is a picture of the inside –

I think it is a winner – clean and simple with a little twist to it.  There isn’t anything I would change.  We will be making this tonight at stamp club.  I’ll be leaving for Salt Lake City in only 9 days – I’m going first to see my upline Wendy for a couple of days of stamping fun and then to convention for the rest of the week.  I can’t wait – it is going to be so fun.  I’m working on swaps and stuff for that.

I’m also working on the ribbon shares – the In-color ribbon is packaged and the 1/4″ ribbon is all cut and I’m working on packaging it.

Have a great day!

KSU Stampers

Aug 19, 2011 | Cards, sympathy, Watercoloring | 0 comments

I really enjoying stamping each month the the girls at KSU.  Once a month I go down to campus and hold a card making class.  Next week will be my August class and we will be making some fall themed cards and a stamped candle. Hi girls – see you soon!

Here is one of the cards we made a couple of months ago –

This one was a sympathy card, but for those that didn’t need sympathy it was easy enough to change the sentiment to something else.   The stamp set is Elements of Style and the sentiment is from Thoughts and Prayers.  Stamp the large floral image with Black StazOn ink and then lightly watercolor the flowers with Marina Mist ink.  It has been so long I don’t remember where this idea came from.

Here are some picture of the girls – this was our June meeting –

Thanks for stopping by today!