Stampin Up, PPA 319, They say it's your birthday

Color challenge week at the PPA this week.  Here are our colors:

I did use seveal products to get this one like I wanted it, but some are easy substitutions.
The main set is Grateful Bunch stamps and punch.  I stamped the leaves around the white piece, then just used my Aqua painter, picking up a bit of ink from the ink pad and lightly added in color without coloring in all the space and smearing the stamped image.

A bit of grunge was added, stamped in the butterfly and added the stamped and punched flowers. The DSP is from Blooms and Bliss and the ribbon from a new 3 pack in the holiday catalog.

The choice of colors this week comes from Peggy Noe, she does such lovely things on her blog, go check her out, she is our featured stamper this week.

Click on any image below to see the product in my store.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Suite Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$21.00

Grateful Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Ribbon 3/8" (1 Cm) Trio Pack

$11.00

Blossom Bunch Punch

$18.00

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Stampin Up, Pals Paper Arts Challenge #306, Hello

This week we have a sketch challenge by non other then our Pals fearless leader, Mary Fish.
Here is the sketch:

This one made me stop and think for a long time.  It's not my normal style, but I do hope you enjoy what I came up with.
I stamped the leaf twice in full then just partial for under the top set.
I made it very simple, used the 1 3/8" circle punch with Pink Pirouette CS. Then I stamped and punched out 3 sets of the Grateful Bunch flowers.  I'd like to point out, if you have not seen the set, the stamp for all three are together in one stamp.   It fits perfect into the punch to do them all at one time.  That is a great time saver.

I used Melon Mambo for the stamping of the flowers, then I used my blender pen to lightly color in the flowers. You just squeeze out a bit of ink onto the inside lid of the ink pad, and dip into that to pick up your color.

I layered them using dimentionals and added the Hello (love that little hello and the font) from Thoughtful Banners.

I used Mini Macaron for the leaves and inked around the white with it as well.

Sure hope you enjoyed this one, thanks for stopping by!

Grateful Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Blossom Bunch Punch

$18.00

1-3/8" (3.5 Cm) Circle Punch

$16.00

Thoughtful Banners Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

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Stampin Up, Flowers, Flowers, Flowers.

Todays card is one I did for my class.  I'm always looking for some new idea or technique for them, they really keep me on my toes.

I started thinking about framing something, and this set just seemed to fit the bill.  This is from the Grateful Bunch bundle.  All three sizes of flower are on one stamp, set up to easily cut out at once using the punch.

My colors for this are Peek a boo peach, Emerald Envy, Dapper Denim, Perfect plum, Smoky Slate and Black and Whisper white.

After cutting the base card, I cut a piece of Smoky Slate just a bit smaller.  I used my Hardwood background stamp, stamped off once then stamped onto my paper.   I used the Timeless Textures Stamps to add some texture here and there around the outside edge of the gray.

Then I stamped the leaves just once.  I added the sentiment up toward the top with black ink.

I stamped and punched out all my flowers in 3 colors, then I took my top layer,  and used my trimmer to cut the inside out leaving 1/2" on each edge.  Then I used my blender pens to color the flowers in. It's not necessary, but I love the look.  I scattered the flowers around, some popped up and some not randomly.

Tip: If you don't have the trimmer or you just feel challenged cutting the middle out, you can take a square die, cut leaving 1/2" or so at top and sides, then after cutting once, slide the die down until it is 1/2" above the bottom and cut again.  That is what I ended up having my class do, it was way easier.

I added some pearls and was done.  Just click on any of the product images below to go to my store.

Hardwood Clear-Mount Stamp

$15.00

Grateful Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Blossom Bunch Punch

$18.00

Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

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