A bouquet for mom

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Inspired by jonesdesigncompany, these rolled rose bouquets were perfect for Mother’s Day. They are fairly easy to make, but I did four of them, so cutting the circles by hand and then rolling them all up took some time. I just put Downton Abbey on the telly and the time went quickly.

The colors are Elegant Eggplant, Pirouette Pink and Rose Red, with Garden Green leaves, which I cut out with the Island Floral die (retiring soon). The base is Confetti White, also being retired and cut out with the Petal Cone die.  I embossed it on two sides with the Flower Garden embossing folder. Other items used: punches and Teeny Tiny Wishes for the sentiment; floral wire to hold up the roses and half a Styrofoam ball, and little roses made with the Sizzix 3D flower die (not from SU). My glue gun got a work out with these!

I love fuchsias!

I know I’m straying a bit from SU stamps, but I couldn’t resist this one. The fuchsia is one of my favorite flowers. I wish I could grow them but I have to settle for stamping them.

I stamped the flowers in black craft ink and watercolored with Elegant Eggplant, Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green. I used the same colors for the base and mat. The Cherry Cobbler seam binding makes a nice accent. I cut a little piece to wrap around the middle and tacked it down with Snail adhesive, so it’s flat for mailing. The fuchsia stamp set is from Our Daily Bread and the sentiment is SU’s Sincere Salutations (retiring soon).

 

Time to say goodbye…

…to a lot of stamp sets! These sets will only be available until the end of May, so let me know if you’d like to get them before they’re gone. See the list 2012_retiredstamps. They are organized by page numbers.

Happy Easter

Do I seem to be stuck on these petal cone die vases? They are a unique way to give a greeting and not just a card to throw away after a day or two (not that anyone throws away my cards – who would do that?). I made this one (for Irene also) with the oval die and my trusty Coluzzle. I used the same colors as the previous post and again, retired stamp sets and card stock. Happy Easter!

Easter hearts

Thinking outside the box again (thanks to Irene) by putting hearts together for Easter. Once again I used the Stampin’ Up! exclusive petal cone die to make the base (retired Sage Shadow), gave it texture with the polka dot texturz plate and added the greeting with oval punches. The hearts were made with the SU exclusive hearts framelits and the large heart punch. I trimmed down the mats for the bigger hearts as they were just a bit too big for the lace background (Paper Doily sizzlit).  The stamp sets I used are all retired, as is most of the card stock. Fun to put together, a little different, but a nice way to say Happy Easter!

A very simple card

I just love the look of white on white and couldn’t resist doing another one. This is made with Confetti White, popped up with dimensionals and scored with SU’s new scoring tool. The flowers are from Bordering on Romance, embossed with pewter embossing powder and watercolored, then popped up. Sweet and simple.

Easy faux tile

With the new scoring tool from Stampin’ Up! making faux tile is even easier than before. Just score card stock in whatever pattern you want, then stamp the image on the debossed side, pressing just hard enough to get a good image, but without getting any of the image in the little debossed rows. This one I didn’t even color, just left it in outline form, stamped in Soft Suede. I also stamped French Script in Crumb Cake – double background looks much better than a plain image sometimes. To finish it: ribbon, sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes, a lace border made with a punch and crimped.