SIP #49 Challenge - Flowers!

Hello and welcome to Stamp, Ink, Paper's 49th Challenge!  Wow!  It is so hard to believe we've already had that many challenges!  This week's challenge should be super easy and super fun... Flowers!  How cool is that??  I think 90% of my cards have flowers on them!  

I decided I really wanted to use two of the 2014-2016 In colors that are going to be retiring in less than a week.. Blackberry Bliss and Mossy Meadow.  

I started off with a Thick Whisper White card base 11" x 4 1/4" that was scored at 5 1/2".  For some reason I seem to be loving the top fold cards lately!  My next layer was Sahara Sand.  I stamped my sentiment from the Layering Love stamp set in the lower left in Blackberry Bliss (my absolutely favorite of the 2014-2016 In colors!).  I can tell you that I believe Layering Love will be one of my new favorite stamp sets.  I absolutely loved the retiring Feel Goods stamp set but I am thinking that this awesome set with fulfill my large sentiment need!  The reason I picked this particular sentiment is that I am planning on giving this card to my hubby on Father's Day.  He and I have been doing a lot of landscaping lately.  Almost every time we have a little time to kill, we end up at one of the local nurseries looking at flowers!  I really think even though it's not your traditional masculine card.. he will love it!  I used a partial Blackberry Bliss Striped Scallop Die Cut for the backdrop for my flowers.  It was one I had cut a while back and just ran into today.. lol  For the flowers I used a combination of Blackberry Bliss, Daffodil Delight, and Whisper White.  For the larger flowers I layered the Pansy Punch with the Blossom Bunch Punch.  For the smaller flowers I used the Blossom Bunch Punch only.  I used my bone folder to curve all of the blossoms.  The leaves were stamped tone on tone with the Botanical Blooms Stamp Set using Mossy Meadow Ink onto the same color card stock.  I used the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies to cut out the leaves as well as a few fern branches.   I also added three Pretty Pink Posh Droplets.  Hope you liked it as much as I do!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina

ICS Blog Hop - Girl's Night Out!

Hello and welcome to May's Inspire, Create, & Share Blog Hop!  If you've already been hopping then you should have landed here from Terri Takashige's fabulous blog! and already know that this month's theme is Girl's Night Out!  

Girl's Night Out may mean something different to me than it does to you.  My version of a night out with my friends is to head over to Starbucks for some coffee, maybe a little shopping and of course always a nice dinner.  When I think of my friends, it reminds me that people are so much more important than things.  I have some wonderful friends and wouldn't trade them for the world! One of my favorite sets and is unfortunately soon retiring, is "Feel Goods" and I just love the sentiment "the best things in life aren't things"!

I started off with an 11" x 4 1/4" piece of Basic Black cardstock that was scored at 5 1/2".  I added a piece of the Neutrals Collection Designer Series Paper Stack in Black with white polka dots.   I stamped my sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Whisper White Cardstock.  I cut the sentiment out with one of my Circle Framelits and adhered it to my card front with Fast Fuse.  I also cut out a Window Sheet with the same size Circle Framelit.  I made a frame out of two circle framelits by using a size larger Circle Framelit, and a size smaller framelit (skipping the size I used to cut out my sentiment and window sheet) so that it was a thick enough frame to add some strips of foam tape.  The edge of the window sheet was attached to the back of my circle frame with the foam tape   The sequins in my shaker card were from the Brights collection with a few random white sequins that I had hanging around my craft room.  After laying the sequins onto the sentiment, I attached the shaker frame with the foam tape already on it, onto the area surrounding the sentiment.   The Melon Mambo flowers were cut out using the Botanical Builder framelits. I added the small black center and then added a coat of Clear Wink of Stella onto the Petals.  For my white flowers, the larger layers were punched with the Pansy Punch, two smaller layers were from the Blossom Bunch Punch, and then a black layer that was back from the Botanical Buiders framelits again.  I put a Basic Pearl in the center of each flower.  I also used the Botanical Builder Framelits for my leaves that I cut out of Wild Wasabi Cardstock.  I used dimensionals to adhere my flowers and used multipurpose glue to adhere the leaves.  I added some Black and Melon Mambo baker's twine in two loops around the top of the card and then tied it in a bow on the right hand side to add some balance.  

Next up on the hop is my friend, and double-up line, Darla Roberts!  Just click the next button and you'll be at her blog!

Here are the Stampin' Up! products I used today:

Feel Good Stamp Set

Circle Framelits

Botanical Builder Framelits

Blossom Bunch Punch

Pansy Punch

Basic Black Cardstock

Melon Mambo Cardstock

Whisper White Cardstock

Brights Sequins

Neutrals Collection DSP Paper Stack

Black and Melon Mambo Baker's Twine

Basic pearl jewels

Mini Glue Dots

Tombow Multipurpose Glue

Fast Fuse

Stampin' Dimensionals

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina