This first one I used a Cuttlebug embossing template called "Textile Texture" to do the red layer. I then put blue organdy ribbon on it, layered with a white organdy ribbon with a ribbon charm that matches the swirls on the embossing template.
This one I started by cutting a piece of green paper with my Provo Craft grass pattern decorative scissors. I then stamped the flowers in 3 different colors and cut them out, adding a rivet (an eyelet without a hole) to the middle of the flower to give it a 3d effect. I then put the flowers on the card, drew the stems and leaves on and then mounted the clouds I drew and then cut out. I later added a butterfly stamp from one of the $1 Studio G sets. In the corner it says "Think Spring" in a rose color.
I got the idea for this one from http://www.ilovecraftrobo.com/. The owner of that site has templates from classes she taught and one of them was a card basically like this, but it used prima flowers instead of stamped ones. I used the flower cut out she had made, but drew my own circles for the stamped flowers, cutting out both the circles and the big flowers on my craft robo. I stamped the flowers, colored them with my watercolor pencils and blended them. I then cut them out, added mini brads in the center and mounted them on colored papers mounted underneath the holes on the inside of the card. I then took the big flowers I had cut, layered them so each layer showed and added a brad in the center to hold the layers all together. I then mounted it on the rest of the assembled card. I didn't add any sentiment, but that can be added later if we want. I made this one for a spring card swap on scrapbookaddict.com and liked it so much I made 6 more for me to keep.
I was going through my paper sticker binders where all my precut die cuts, stickers and other embellishments are held looking for ones I could send to Mindy from scrapbookaddict.com who is going to start a cropping group for autistic children in her area (her daughter is autistic). I came across these Creative Memories flower and butterfly die cuts and pulled them out so I could make a card with them. I highlighted the raised area with chalk, colored the body part of the butterfly brown with a marker, and then layered them together, adding green paper cut with my grass decorative scissors. It's pretty simple, but I like how it turned out.
I first embossed the white layer with the "Divine swirl" cuttlebug embossing folder. I then ran my versamark pad over it, embossed with heat and stick powder, and added white perfect pearl powder to give it shimmer. I then embossed the swirl stamp (the one seen on the tag) on white card stock using clear embossing powder and my versamark pad so it would basically just be see-through. I then took a q-tip, dipped it in my blue ink pad, and covered about a third of the strip with blue ink, which served to highlight the embossed stamp. I repeated the process with green and then yellow (I really need to invest in a brayer soon). I then took a circle vellum tag, stamped the swirl on it, added a little bit of color with the heat and stick powder and luster rub-ons (which are kind of like chalk) and then added the color to the tag also. I then added eyelets to the tag to put the ribbon through, mounted the ribbon with brads to hold it in place and mounted that whole assembly on the card.
I embossed with the "Divine swirl" cuttlebug folder, but put the embossing facing the card so the design is set into the paper instead of being raised from it. I then cut a little piece of the blue paper with a set of decorative scissors, punched 3 holes and added ribbon in the holes. I embossed a flower template I had, cut it out, highlighted the edge with chalk, and mounted it in on a square of white cardstock which is then mounted on the purple embossed part. I found a epoxy sticker that I liked for the center of the flower.
This one is really simple. I embossed the flower and the stem and the leave (it's hard to see the embossing in the picture) and cut it out. I then mounted it on handmade paper I had bought that has little flecks of flowers petals in it and mounted that whole thing on the card.
This one is the same as the one above it, just a different flower template.
This one is embossed with "Divine swirl" again. The pink piece of paper is cut with the same decorative scissors as the previous one and has ribbon tied to that again. I used the flower from the Cuttlebug "2x2.75 Flowers" embossing folders that usually has dots around it, but cut it out around the petals eliminating the dots. I highlighted the embossed part with chalk and mounted a mini brad in the enter of the flower. I then mounted the flower on one of the Cuttlebug "2x2.75 decorative squares 2" and added that to the overall design of the card. Lots of embossing, but I feel it came together well.
This one is my favorite card I've done lately. I embossed the pink layer with the "Textile texture" cuttlebug embossing folder. I then mounted a strip of purple cardstock on top of that. I took some prima flowers Kathy M from scrapbookaddict.com had sent me for wining a challenge last year and layered 2 different colored ones 4 times onto a strip of pink cardstock with mini brads in the center. I then mounted that pink strip of cardstock with 3d foam onto the purple strip of cardstock, making it pop up from the card some. I cut a square from pink and then a slightly larger one from purple and mounted a pair of slightly larger prima flowers on the pink square with a mini brad through the center to hold it together and mounted the whole thing in the lower right corner of the card. I discovered that I love the prima flowers and wished that they hadn't been packed away with my nick-knacks for a year while we built our house last year : ).
This one I used the "Script" cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the gold paper. I then stamped the word laugh on the red ribbon and on the gold rectangle. I mounted the ribbon across the top of the card and then mounted the gold rectangle on a bigger red rectangle and mounted those in the bottom right corner of the card. I added two blue primas layered and held together by a mini brad on a gold square mounted on a bigger red square and mounted that on the card also. I think altogether it makes a very striking card.
This one is the same card as the one above, just with the script embossed on orange instead of gold. I like the gold better, but wanted to experiment to see which looked best.
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