More floral cards

I went to a friend's Stampin' Up party a few weeks ago and bought the background sampler stamp set. It came with 4 stamps, an argyle stamp, a line stamp, a dot stamp and a floral stamp. In the new catalog there was a design showing a flower stamp that was an outline that the inside had been stamped with the background floral stamp from this set. I got the set last night from the hostess, so today I decided to play around with them and try the same idea. I used the pre-embossed cards from Die Cuts with a view and colored them with my watercolor pencils.

I used the line stamp, the floral stamp, and the dot stamp to make the background of the petals. I used the "build a flower" set I bought a while ago that is by Autumn Leaves to outline the petals, using one of the stamps from that set. The blue and pink are chalk ink and the purple is dye ink. I stamped the background stamp, then stamped the petal and center stamps on the background and cut them out. I layered the petals behind the center of the flower. 2 of the flowers I popped up with 3d foam tape and 1 flower I adhered directly on the card. The background is embossed with flowers. This card was colored with a pink pencil.

Close up of the pre-embossed card and the background stamps.

This one is the same basic card as the one above, except I used 2 blue flowers instead of the one blue and one purple. I also used a blue pencil instead of pink.

Close up of the pre-embossed card and the background stamps.

This card has a 2 1/4 inch square in the middle that isn't embossed. I cut slits along the top and bottom of the square and layered 3 different shades of blue ribbon over the square. The pre-embossed design is dots on this card. Other than that, it is the same basic card as the two above, assembled the same way and stamped exactly the same way. I used a purplish pink pencil to color the background of this card.

Close up of the pre-embossed card and the background stamps.

Heart Card

This card utilizes a couple items I've purchased in the last week. The card base is from a pre-embossed card set by Die Cuts With a View. It had 40 cards and 40 envelopes for $5, which equals about 13 cents a card (it was on sale at Micheal's), so I picked it up to play with. It has 10 different designs with 4 of each design. The middle part is from a set of small Cuttlebug embossing folders called "Fancy Corners." It kind of looked like hearts to me, so I figured it would go well with the heart card I chose to try out this morning. I got this set at Roberts on Monday, when I had a coupon for 25% off my entire order.

I used my pink Versmark chalk ink pad to add color to the front of the card and kind of highlight the embossed part, since the card was totally white. I wanted to use ribbon somehow, so after playing for a while, I cut slits down the sides of the center square and threaded 2 different types of ribbon through it, alternating the shiny pink one with the dotted pink one. Since I had cut one more of the dotted pink one than I needed, I used it to make a kind of bow below the embossed pink design. I used 3d mounting foam to mount the embossed pink design. I was originally going to have it be a square just slightly smaller than the one already embossed on the card, but the paper shifted as I put it in the cuttlebug, so it wasn't centered. I decided to see how it'd look cut out, and I think it turned out nicely.

A close up of the middle part of the card. I really like how the layered ribbon turned out. Now all I have to do is figure out some way to cover the inside part of the card so you don't see all the ribbon tails on the inside : ).

More Dots

A friend had a Stampin' Up workshop a few weeks ago. I got the "Hot to Dot" wheel so decided tonight that maybe I should actually use it. I made these two cards using that wheel.

The green strip of paper with the white circles was part of the packaging on an album kit I bought in April. I though it was pretty cool looking, so I saved it to put on cards. I think it worked well on these ones. The circle with words says "Wishing you the best" and is part of the Stampin' Up rivets set. I stamped the words in white ink, put some Stampin' Up heat and set embossing powder on it, used my heat gun to melt it, put Perfect Pearls white powder on it, then heat embossed it again like the directions said. It stands out much more this way than just stamping it in the white ink did.

The circle on this one says "Thanks so Much." I treated it the same way with the Perfect Pearls as the other one.

Thanks for looking!

Danielle

See, I am addicted to dots!

The circle around the "for you" is the dot circle stamp I talked about in my first post. I love it and have used it a lot. The red paper is embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder and has a bunch of different circles in it.

Just an everyday card. I love the ribbon and the circles.

This is a baby card. The light purple circle says "Welcome little one." There are pacifiers in the other circles.

This is the first cards I did after I got the circle stamp from Kathy M at scrapbookaddict.com. I just love the way it defines a place to put sentiments or whatever.

Another card using the embossing folder and the circle stamp. I saw this ribbon at Micheal's craft store and loved it. It is variegated, going from a light, almost silver, blue to a dark navy blue and back again.

Another welcome little one card, but this time all the circles say the same thing. My husband didn't really like the pacifier one above, so decided to try it this way.

Same card, just different coloring. Boy babies versus girl babies.

Another fun card with different color cardstock and ink.

As I said, I love dots right now, and here's the proof : )
Danielle