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I'm still suffering a little tummy upset from Cancun, I think.  Plus woke up with a sinus migraine, so my day didn't really get started until this afternoon!  I almost forgot to get my post ready for Stamping 411's sketch challenge today!  Selene created another fun sketch for us to try. 

I had one of Stampin' Up!'s Fifth Avenue Floral reinker rose "starts" on my desk that I hadn't used yet.  I made up a bunch of them several months ago.  This one was done with Summer Sun and Pumpkin Pie…making it an almost Cameo Coral color.  I love roses this color!

I used Stampin' Dimensionals to place the rose on top of the Whisper White layer, and that was placed on Cameo Coral.  I used a piece of Kaleidoscope Designer Paper in the background and placed on the base card of Cameo Coral.  I wrapped the Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon around and tied a knot.  I punched the leaves from the bird punch and ran them thru the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder for some texture.  Finally, I added "get together" from Stampin' Up!'s In A Word stamp set in the Summer Mini, inking it with Cameo Coral and Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write Markers, then punching with the Large Oval Punch.  I placed it on the Scallop Oval punched from Cameo Coral. 

So, it turned out completely different that what started in my head, but I'm actually pretty pleased with it!  Make sure to check out the rest of the Stamping 411 Design Operators to see what they've done this week!  Then use the sketch to create your own card and upload it to Inlinkz over on Stamping 411…it's easy to play along!

Fifth Avenue Floral – Reinker watercolor

Last week, I demonstrated the Reinker Watercolor technique to a couple people who missed my class so they would know how to make up their card samples.  Since I had the Fifth Avenue Floral rose on my table, I decided to finish it off into a card!  I used Pixie Pink and Pretty in Pink reinkers for this one…I love the combination!  I tried to leave a little more white space on this, too! 

My base card is Pixie Pink and I added a strip of Sweet Always Designer Paper on the left side.  Then I stamped "Life is what happens…" from Full of Life** on Whisper White, using my markers to color it Pixie Pink and Chocolate Chip.  I layered it onto Chocolate Chip and then placed the Rose on dimensionals over the top edge.  I cut two Little Leaves Sizzlets with my Big Shot  from Certainly Celery and placed them under the Rose.  This is a pretty simple card that packs a lot of WOW, I think!  I still have several Rose samples sitting on my desk…I’m sure you’ll be seeing them in the future!

Remember…my VACATION SPECIAL is going on NOW!

**Full of Life is still available on the Dormant List.

Fifth Avenue Floral

Today’s card started with a challenge by LateNightStampers to recreate a card on Sherrill’s Blog.  I chose this card by Laurie Schmidlin to recreate.  To accept the challenge, I had to change at least two things on the card.

So, last night, I started playing with the Reinker Watercolor technique? and made up several roses and flowers.  This is a WOW technique featured by Connie Ingram at the Seattle Stampin’ Up! Regionals.  On this Fifth Avenue Floral rose I used Almost Amethyst and Lavender Lace.  Since they dried overnight, I was able to cut out the rose this morning and build my card. 

The base card is Lavender Lace and I layered a piece of Tea Party Designer Paper on top.  I added a piece of Lavender Lace in the background and two banner strips, edging each of them with White Craft Ink.  I stamped A Note For You from Sweet Sentiments Hostess set with White Craft and embossed with White Embossing powder.  Then used my Circle Scissors Plus to cut out the smaller circle in Whisper White and larger circle in Almost Amethyst (wow…this circle cutter is the BEST one I’ve ever used!)  I layered my cut out rose over top of the circles with dimensionals and popped all of it up with more dimensionals.  I used the Big Shot to cut out some Build A Flower Sizzlet petals out of Sage Shadow for leaves and ran them thru the crimper, then inked the edges with Sage Shadow and placed behind the rose.  Finally, I added the button touches which I loved on Laurie’s card (wish we had the Corduroy buttons in ALL our colors!)  I used a Clear Round Button backed with Lavender Lace cardstock for mine and two small white buttons from Latte Designer Button Assortment.  Oh, I also added a White Taffeta bow and piece of ribbon over the bottom banner piece.  I loved this challenge…turning Laurie’s inspiration into my own piece of art. 

I have a class tonight and need to finish cleaning up my Studio.  I’ll have more time to play today with all the dried roses and flowers laying on my desk!

Have a wonderful day!

Set:  Fifth Avenue Floral, Sweet Little Sentiments (Hostess)
C/S:  Lavender Lace, Almost Amethyst, Whisper White, Sage Shadow, Tea Party DSP
Inks:  White Craft
Other:  White Craft Embossing Powder, Clear Button, Latte Designer Buttons, Build A Flower Sizzlet dies, White Taffeta Ribbon, Linen Thread, Circle Scissors Plus

Manhattan Flower

REMINDER:  It isn’t too late to order the March Card Kit.  Payment is due by March 24 (extended since I’ll be out of town).  CLICK HERE for more information and to see the Kit samples!  This is an excellent masculine Kit, so don’t miss out!

This was one of the cards my Stamp Club attendees made last weekend.  Everyone LOVED the new Manhattan Flower Textured Impressions Embossing folder that is now available!  It makes such an elegant impression, I hope the picture does it justice!  Together Forever is stamped from that stamp set in Basic Black on Very Vanilla and I wrapped Kraft Taffeta ribbon around the Very Vanilla layer.  The Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware is the perfect added touch to this card!  With the Embossing folder, you really don’t need anything else!

Inside, I used the matching Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set in Sahara Sand and Basic Black and added the welcome that is in the Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Congratulations!  This would make a perfect Wedding or Anniversary card!  In fact, I’m going to change the greeting inside, and change out the front to Brushed Gold cardstock for my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary card next month!

Hope you have a wonderful day!  The weather here is supposed to be GORGEOUS today, but then drop down 20 degrees tomorrow…  I’m SO ready for Spring and I see signs of buds on the trees and the crocuses are popping up their heads.  There was even a FAT Robin sitting in our tree yesterday.  Yeah!

Set:  Fifth Avenue Floral, Together Forever, Congratulations Sale-A-Bration
C/S: Very Vanilla, Basic Black
Ink:  Sahara Sand, Basic Black
Other:  Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware, Designer Label Punch, Manhattan Flower impressions folder, Kraft Taffeta ribbon

Fifth Avenue Floral

Another set from this catalog that I LOVE!  I’m hooked on using Kraft, Black and White with this set.  I think it makes for a very elegant card! 

This card was my Control Freaks swap for the New Catalog Swap.  I started with a base of Basic Black.  Whenever I use a black base, I always include a 1/4 of Whisper White on the inside so I can stamp a greeting.  Then I stamped one flower randomly in Basic Black ink.  I used my embossing buddy and then Versamark with the large flower, adding White Embossing Powder and heat setting it.   I used Itty Bitty Backgrounds to add some black speckles in the blank areas.  The designer paper is from Urban Oasis and I was careful to just cut two lines of the spirals.  I added a tag cut from Lots of Tags Sizzix Die (LOVE it!) and used the greeting from Really Retro with two black mini brads to secure it to the cardfront.  I wrapped the Stripe Organza ribbon around the Kraft piece and layered it onto the Black Base.  I was so pleased with this card that I used it at my last workshop!  This group was very enterprising, though…I saw lots of awesome variations!

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Sets:  Fifth Avenue Floral, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Really Retro
C/S: Kraft, Basic Black, Whisper White, Urban Oasis DSP
Inks:  Basic Black, Versamark
Other:  White EP, Lots of Tags Sizzie Die, Mini Black brads, White stripe organza ribbon

DCDB 113 – Fifth Avenue Floral

Last night at the Technique Class, my customer (hi Polly!) thought Baja Breeze and Sahara Sand would be a good color combo!  She was RIGHT!  I added a little Perfect Plum in the mix to match up with the sketch we used today for the Designer Coffee Break Diva’s challenge.

I started with the base card of Sahara Sand.  On the Baja Breeze layer, I stamped the large flower from Fifth Avenue Floral in Baja Breeze, then ran it through my Big Shot with the large polka dot Texturz plate…can you see the polka dots?  Then I used the Scallops #2 die to cut the larger scallop circle from Whisper White and stamped the larger flower in Baja Breeze and the smaller flower in Sahara Sand, overlapping it slightly.  I used the Lots of Tags Slizzlits die to cut the curvy tag and added a greeting from Really Retro "Good for You!"  LOTS of dies on this card, but they make creating SO easy it is hard not to use them…kind of like punches!  lol!  Finally, I added some Kraft ribbon and vanilla mini brads from the Hodgepodge Hardware kit.  Pretty simple card with lots of style!

Make sure to check out the other Diva’s cards today.  if you are interested in being a guest Diva, make sure to contact Heidi below!

Chris Austin
Dannie Graves
Dee Tollaksen
Heidi Michel
Julie Semones
Kristin Moore
Selene Kempton
Lisa Freeman
Vivian Swain

 Have a GREAT day!

Stamps:  Fifth Avenue Floral, Really Retro
C/S: Sahara Sand, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Perfect Plum
Inks:  Baja Breeze, Sahara Sand, Basic Black
Other:  Sizzix dies:  Scallop Circle #2, Texturz Backgrounds, Lots of Tags,
Kraft taffeta ribbon, Vanilla mini brads