Mother's Day Cards

I'm a bit late posting these but I wanted to share them with you for a sneak peak of some new Stampin'Up products that will be available starting June 2nd, except for the blendabilties which will be available in mid-August.

This card was made using one of the new Stampin'Up  Hostess sets called Bloom with Hope.  The flowers and butterflies were colored with rich razzleberry blendabilites markers - light, medium and dark shade.  I am getting addicted to these new markers, so easy to use and the results are awesome. The sentiment was stamped with the new color - blackerry bliss ink that was stamped off to get the lighter shade. The background was sponged with marina mist and wild wasabi ink.

I used the Floral Frames collection dies, petite petals punch and the soon to be retired Secret Garden framelits.  The card base is crushed curry card stock and the doily was sponged with crushed curry ink.  The sentiment is a stamp from the Paper Pumpkin April project and was stamped with rich razzleberry ink.  The hearts are from the new Itty Bitty Accents Pack  punch.

This card was made in a hurry after I realized I needed another card.  I was playing with mixing and matching coordinated cardstocks that were cut in a wave pattern.  On another post, I'll share the others I made in this layout using different patterned papers.

Check out my online store if you are interested in any of the products I used HERE.  I will update the links to all the new products once the new catalog goes live on June 2nd.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers!!!

irene

Secret Garden Mother's Day Card

Hello!  I can't wait to share my latest card with you.  You often hear me say 'this is quick and easy', well, today's card is nowhere near easy.  I saw this technique on Pinterest and don't really know what it's called.  Basically, it starts with heat embossing your line image in white embossing powder on a crumb cake card stock, then you color the image with white pigment ink using aqua painter.  Wait for the pigment ink to dry or use a heat gun to dry the image completely before applying color with a blender pen.

I took it a step further on my card and masked the images to achieve the crisp layered look.  The colors I used were, from top to bottom, primrose petals, raspberry ripple, calypso coral and wisteria wonder.  The leaves were heat embossed with wild wasabi embossing powder.  The base card is very vanilla and the mat is cherry cobbler.  Very striking in real life!

 What made this particular card challenging is combining masking and heat embossing techniques.  Below is my crude attempt to illustrate the step by step process.  Create masks for all the flowers using post it notes.  Start by stamping the large flower in the center with Versamark.  Masked that first image.  Next, stamp the primrose and the wisteria flowers and cover with their respective masks.  Then, stamp the calypso flower and cover with mask as well.  Lastly, stamp another large flower at the bottom using Versamark.  Carefully take off all the masks and pour white embossing powder all over the flowers.  Set with a heat gun.  Then, mask all the flowers again and stamp the leaves with Versamark ink.  Be careful when heat embossing the leaves and make sure to move the heat gun around so you don't burn the flowers that were heat embossed earlier.  The last image on the collage below is your "starting point".  You can now color your flowers the way I mentioned on the first paragraph.

If you have any questions or need clarification, leave me a comment, I'll be more than happy to help you.

Now that's a labor of love!  I sure hope my Mom would like it!!

My next project will showcase some of the new Stampin'Up products that will be available for purchase on May 30th.  Stay tuned.....

Cheers!!!

Secret Garden - Mother Day's Day Card

For me, yellow flowers signal warm weather ahead.  Spring is here and right around the corner is summer.  That's what I had in mind when I made today's card, yellow flowers that evoke warm feelings.  It's simple and easy, especially with all the tools available nowadays.

I started with a white card stock for my base card.  The panel is also in white but sponged with daffodil delight ink around the edges.  I stamped several flowers in daffodil delight ink using the Secret Garden stamp set.  Then I brushed Crystal Effects on the surface of the flowers.  I die cut the flowers and leaves with the coordinating Secret Garden Framelits.   I colored clear rhinestones with brown permanent markers and placed them on the center of the flowers.  I had the flowers and leaves cascade from the top left corner of the panel.

I stamped the sentiment in gumball green ink and punched a piece of scrap cherry cobbler card stock using the bitty butterfly punch.  I added pearls to the punched butterfly.  And as a last step, I mounted the panel on the front of the card with dimensionals. 

That's my second Mother's Day card and it won't be the last!  Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you enjoy my "springy" card.

Cheers!!!

irene

Secret Garden - Mother's Day Card

Today's card is the first of many Mother's Day cards I'm planning to make.  It's simple and relatively easy to put together.  I'm using one more mix patterned paper die cut but this one is matted with a vanilla card stock.  If you want to see the cards made with the other mix patterned paper die cuts click HERE.

I cut a gumball green card stock for my base card.  Then I glued the mix patterned paper die cut in the center and tied the crochet trim Victoria ribbon around the front of the card.  I stamped the sentiment on vanilla card stock with raspberry ripple ink.  I sponged the edges with the same color ink.  So far, quick and easy right?  Now onto the flower ..............

I stamped three flowers from the Secret Garden stamp set on vanilla card stock using Versamark and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.  Then I die cut the flowers using the coordinating Secret Garden Framelit dies.  I used a blender pen to apply raspberry ripple ink to the three areas of the flowers as shown above.  I fussy cut the two smaller colored flowers and, using dimensionals, I layered  them onto the third die cut flower. Love the 3-D effect!  Here's a close-up.

If you don't like coloring and want to achieve the same look, try heat embossing with white or vanilla embossing powder on a colored card stock of your choice.  Die cut and fussy cut like I did and layer them together.  With colored card stock, you'll get even tones so you might want to sponge additional colors here and there to vary the color intensity and even create shadows.

There you have it.  Now if you're not a fan of fussing cutting, you can just layer multiple die cuts of whole flowers.

Thank you for stopping by today.  Until the next post ................

Cheers!!!

irene