Painted Blooms Birthday Card and Re-cycled Lipton Tea Box

Birthday Card and Gift Box

Lipton Tea has changed their packaging to include three 1 3/4" x 5 3/4" x 2 3/8" boxes that hold the teabags encased in gold foil.  I thought the boxes would be the perfect size to hold small items, candy, or other treats so I designed a lid to fit the box base.

Lid measures 3 3/4" x 7 5/8" scored on all four sides at 1"

Papers:  Whisper White, Mossy Meadow and Painted Blossoms DSP; Paper Pumpkin tissue paper

Inks:  Mossy Meadow

Punches:  Pansy

Stamp Sets:  Birthday Blossoms and Vintage Leaves + Leaflets Framelits

Bags Made From Wrapping Paper

Paper Bags made from wrapping paper purchased from Marshall's.  Bags were made to fit for orders for last month.

Papers:  Wrapping Paper, Basic Black, Basic Gray and Whisper White
Die Cut:  QuickKutz, Banners Framelits (SU)
Accessories:  Black Twine

Stampin' Up Thanks Card

Papers:  Hello Honey, Whisper White and Sahara Sand
Inks:  Sahara Sand, Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey
Stamp Sets:  For All Things and Kindness Matters
Washi Tape:  Color Me Autumn
Accessories:  Linen Thread, yellow button, white embossing powder

Awesomely Artistic Dragonfly

This is for Dragonfly Journeys, color inspiration Challenge #17 to use goldenrod, turquoise, and ruby.   Difficult challenge for me as this color combination is outside my comfort zone.

Stamps:     Stampin' Up Awesomely Artistic (Dragonfly), Gorgeous Grunge (flower dot background) which was stamped in VersaMark and heat set with Crushed Curry embossing powder.

Paper:  Stampin' Up, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise and a goldenrod from my stash.

Accessories:  Stampin' Up inks in same colors as the papers; flowers were made with circle punches and tiny pearls, hand drawn stems and leaves.  Clouds were made using sponge dauber and scalloped circle punch.  Dotted lace ribbon in Delightful Dijon.  Dragonfly was stamped in Staz-On black then highlighted with the Turquoise marker, a white gelly roll pen and glazed over with Wink of Stella.

Head on over to Jeannie's blog at http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com/
and make your own contribution to this challenge, you could win a nice prize!

I like Your Face!

I found a similar card on Pinterest and CASED it with a few changes.  I absolutely adore this Lama which is part of a larger stamp called "From The Herd" by Stampin' Up.  He makes me smile! 

Awesomely Artistic Wedding Card

All Stampin' Up Products used:  Whisper White, Blushing Bride and new Kraft Corrugated card stock.  Inks are Crumb Cake and Blushing Bride.  Stamp sets are Awesomely Artistic and Petite Pairs.  Project Life and Ovals Collections dies.

Holiday Happy

This is for Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #16 - Christmas in July

http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com

All Stampin' Up products used here.  Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, Crumb Cake  and Whisper White card stock with a touch of silver sparkle and old olive.  Frame was cut with the On Film Framelits Dies.  Stamp Sets are Hardwood and Mingle All The Way (retired).

Silk Paper Stamping

This is a project for the Starlight Stampers Club meeting tomorrow.  Our "homework" was to make something with a piece of "Silk Paper" from China.  This paper is like tissue paper but is of a heavier weight and an off white-natural color.  I chose to stamp on the paper by first, carefully, gluing it to SU Very Vanilla Card Stock and used a brayer to mesh the two papers together.

Stampin' Up small Watercolor Wonder Butterfly was stamped onto Silk Paper with Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry inks, then die cut.  Box was cut from Melon Mambo card stock with SU Baker's Box Thinlits die.

Taking a cue from fellow Stampin' Up Demonstrator, Patty Bennet, I die cut my own butterfly stamp from "fun foam" with the small Butterfly Thinlits die and stamped on the Silk Paper.  The large butterfly was also stamped onto the card stock mounted Silk Paper and die cut.  Stickles added to the body and wings.

I am not much of a pastels person, so I duplicated the card in darker colors and die cut the top of the butterfly separate from the base and glued the bodies together.  Just a little too busy for me, so in this case I do like the pastel card better.  "Spread the love" is from SU Sprinkles of Life stamp set.

This this last card I stamped and die cut leaves to look like trees and sponged a background onto Whisper White card stock.  Butterfly was stamped and then punched out.  Hello is from "All Shook Up" Paper Pumpkin Kit.

Shoe Shopping

This is for Challenge #14 "If The Shoe Fits" over at Dragonfly Journeys found here:

 http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/07/challenge-no-14-if-shoe-fits.html

Stampin' Up card stock in Melon Mambo and Coastal Cabana.  DSP is "A Girl's Life" by Pressed Petals.  Stamp set is Stampin' Up "Totally Cool" (retired from 2004).  Colored with Copics.  Handmade "Shoes" tag for the bag.  Cotton Candy Stickles added to her glasses, earrings, purse and clogs.

Stampin' Up Gifts of the Orient

This is an 8 x 8 page for my scrapbook Cookbook featuring my most favorite recipes.  Actually, this is my husband's favorite soup, probably because it has a kick from the curry and flavor of peanut butter.

The stamp set is Stampin' Up "Gifts of the Orient" (retired), I thought they were perfect for this recipe page.  Colors are SU Real Red and Crushed Curry.  Stamps were colored with Copics and trimmed with a Gold pen, the fish kite was covered with glitter.

I am entering this in the Dragonfly Journeys Challenge No. 13 - Kiss the Cook

Thanks for looking.

Cricut Baby Playtime Scrapbook Pages

Baby Boy and Girl Play Time two page 12 x 12 layouts

Cricut Cartridges used in the Boy layout:

Baby Steps

Pooh Font Set

B Is For Boy

Cricut Cartridges used in the Girl layout:

Kate's ABC's

Sugar & Spice

9 Months

B Is For Boy

Stampin' Up Note Cards and Box

 For my July Workshop I made a box of note cards with envelopes using several Stampin' Up stamp sets, punches, card stock and papers.

Note Card Box is 1" deep and holds six note cards and envelopes.

Base is Watermelon Wonder.  Stamp set is Summer Silhouettes page 121 of the 2015-16 Stampin' Up Catalog.  Inks are Watermelon Wonder, Pink Pirouette and Daffodil Delight.  Title was stamped with Scrappy Cat Playful Serif

Box:  6 3/4" x 10 1/4" 

Scored on 10 1/4" side at 5 3/4" and 6 3/4"

Scored on 6 3/4" side at 1" and 5 3/4"

Front panel is 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" 

This card is stamped with the new SU stamp set:  Awesomely Artistic

The dragonfly was stamped onto Coastal Cabana Vellum

For this card I used the Camomile wheel (retired) on the background and the Language of Friendship flowers and punched them out with the Boho Flower punch (retired)

Another Awesomely Artistic card this one with Gold Stickles

Coastal Cabana, Watermelon Wonder and Daffodil Delight Vellum stamped, punched and stylus embossed flowers, it is hard to see in this photo, but these are beautiful.  

My favorite of the six, made with Papillon Potpourri  stamped, punched and stylus embossed from the Vellum.  This card has Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight and Night of Navy.  I heat embossed the flower stems in with white embossing powder.  Again, this picture does not show how stunning the butterflies really are.

To make your own colored Vellum, use a brayer to ink on color to one side of vellum, it takes a while to dry so set it aside for about an hour or so.

Note:  When embossing the colored vellum it is best to stamp your image on the UN-INKED side and to emboss with you stylus on the inked side, this way the beautiful white lines show through your image and give it depth.

Thanks for taking a look, have a great day!

Stampin' Up From Land To Sea Jellyfish (Medusozoa)

This card is much more vibrant than this picture shows.  This is not my design, I found a beautiful card by Sandy McIver showing the bokeh technique and decided to give it a try.  

Here is a link the Sandy's beautiful card and tutorial:  

http://stampingwithsandi.com/new-stamp-set-from-land-to-sea/

Stampin' Up By The Seashore

This sandy little crab coming out of the water was stamped onto watercolor paper in Dusty Durango ink and filled in with a water brush.  I placed a mask over the crab with Post-It tape and stamped swirls of water and foam bubbles in Versamark ink and heat set with white embossing powder.  A sponge was used to add Coastal Cabana ink over the embossed water then I stamped the swirls again in Coastal Cabana.

Baked Brown Sugar was used to sponge over the basked crab and then the sand was stamped all around.  Base of the card is 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" in Bermuda Bay layered with So Saffron, Coastal Cabana and Crumb Cake.

I liked this card so much that I made several of them, some with the crab going into the water.  The crab is from the Stampin' Up set By The Seashore and is retired.

Under The Sea Watercolored Seahorse Cards

110# White card stock was used as the base for this card.  I used a stencil around the edges and smoothed on Ranger Texture Paste.  Watercolor paper was painted with Stampin' Up Coastal Cabana and Tempting Turquoise inks and while still wet it sprinkled it with sea salt, let it dry and brushed the salt off.  Then using a seahorse stencil cut from the Cricut I smoothed over more Texture Paste.  A light coat of Wink of Stella was applied to the seahorse and bubbles.

For the second card I used a base of Coastal Cabana then a sheet of Naturals.  This time I painted the background on watercolor paper then applied a tissue paper seahorse to the center, while the seahorse was drying, I added Texture Paste all around the edges.  In the end I did not like the look of the seahorse, so I applied some water and Calypso Coral ink.  White twine and colored beads were added to the bottom.