Painted Poppies note card, #jai507

My inspiration for this card is from the Just add Ink challenge, wow what a fun sketch to play with.  The team cards are fabulous, see them HERE.

My colors are, Lovely Lipstick (retiring in a few days), Mossy meadow and Whisper white.   The DSP is from the Peaceful Poppies DSP.  I have so much left, and I love it so much!  I have a problem.  When I love a paper set, it's hard for me to use it, especially my favorite pieces.   It's quite a problem, every year lately I'm ending up with so much left over.
I used a white card base and covered the whole front of that with my patterned paper, then managed to somehow do a decent cut of the design side.  I took the white part and ran it through the new  Ornate floral embossing folder, stamped the green over that a bit, then stamped, colored and cut out my Poppies and leaves. 
I used my watercolor brush and my ink pad mixing the color in my lid.  I then stamped the sentiment, from the Butterfly Gala stamp set, on a piece of leftover white and cut that out using one of the Rectangle Stitched dies. 

That's about it, but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.  I never know when I start.

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Butterfly Hello, #gdp242

For this card I'm using the inspiration from Global Design Project #242.   I love black and white with just a pop of color.  Ok, I might have gotten a little carried about with the pop of color, but I like it.  
Here is the challenge page and the challenge.

I started with the Botanical Butterfly DSP and decided on Lovely Lipstick, a retiring color, for my red.  The stripy paper is from Best Dressed DSP.
After putting down the ribbon I cut one butterfly from the paper and colored it, then cut a black scalloped circle for behind.   Next came the Hello,  which I layered onto vellum to help it show up better, then gel glitter drops for some bling and there you go.
The circles came from the Layering circles die set.

I hope you enjoy.

Stampin Up, #fms435, Hugs greeting card

Inspiration for this card is from the current Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge. It was such a cute sketch that I just had to play. 

Isn't it cute and so adaptable.   I used a newly acquired stamp and die set, Positive Thoughts, and Natures Thoughts dies, lots of really neat texture type items and a lot of fun to play with.  Since I wanted to emboss the Very Vanilla layer, I die cut the pieces instead of just stamping some of them. 

My colors are Pretty Peacock, Rococo Rose, Crumb cake and Very vanilla. Perfect use for my Pretty Peacock ribbon and rhinestones.

The embossing is done with the Mosaic folder, and the sentiment cut out with a small die from the Rectangle Stitched Dies, the ribbon is the Scalloped Linen Ribbon in the incolors.

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Just wanted to say, #jai504 color challenge, Ornate Thanks

I am so in love with all the pieces of this Ornate set, including both bundles. This is my first attempt at the Ornate Thanks stamps and dies.

My inspiration this week is from the Just Add Ink color challenge.  I'm not sure why I haven't used these colors together before, they are classic and gorgeous.  See the challenge here.

I just knew I had to start with the rose border die in the set.  So, I die cut my piece of Smoky Slate, then took a piece of watercolor paper and watercolored my Rococo Rose on it, then placed it under my die cut piece.  
Next I cut a small piece of Basic Gray, and used the little tiny border die on the left side, gluing it onto my smoky slate.

I then cut a piece of the Basic gray and embossed with the Ornate Floral 3D folder. After cutting my 4 1/4"x 5 1/2 " piece for my card base, I attached the embossed piece leaving just a tiny bit of the Rococo Rose showing on one edge.
After adding the Glitter Enamel dots (retired) and the sentiment I was done. 

I used a small piece of the Ornate DSP, gluing it to the envelop flap and then trimming around the flap. 

Be sure to holler if you have questions, you'll have to come back to my comments to get your answer, but I'll try to be quick.
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All days are beautiful

I was inspired to try this background effect by a member of my group.  Peggy made hers straight across with big wide stripes that are beautiful.  I decided to try doing smaller ones and I love the cross ways look. And yes, it looks handmade, it should. You don't have to be too careful.
I just used a ruler, put a drop or two of refill ink in the lid of my ink pad, spritzed some water in there too. And, using my Aqua painter swirled it around and dipped into that carefully spreading the watered down ink onto my watercolor paper. Keep an eye on the bottom of the ruler, and wipe it off after each stripe.   I stated in the middle, went down from there, turned it and did the other end. Very simple and fun and you have pretty striped paper in any color you want.  This one is Grapefruit Grove, one of the incolors that is retiring next month.

Besides the Grapefruit, I used Very Vanilla, Basic black and Pool Party.
Also used are Floral Essence stamps, Stitched Label dies and the Perennial Flower punch.

I hope you enjoy. Thanks for stopping.