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.
Thanks for coming.

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.

Abstract Impressions, #JustAddInk424

I love, love, love the 2 new Stampin Up purples.   Purple is kinda my color along with blues.
First off, I can't take credit for this design, I rarely CASe a card, but I was so in love with Debra Daam's example that I had to try it.
Find Debra's card here: 

Today my card is for the challenge at Just Add Ink.

The die set for this doesn't have the flowers, just the big corner and a gorgeous butterfly, so I had to fussy cut the flowers. The very small flower is a die in the set though.
Pay close attention to the little black lines on the clear plastic the set comes on for placement. Having a stamp positioner helps a lot, but we used to do it with out.

I used the new Curls and Swirls embossing folder, ran it through the Big Shot, sponged on some smoky slate, the cut the large floral corner and when I did that I used the Multi purpose adhisive sheet.  That allowed for it to be put down without having to mess with glues.

For the tiny flowers, I took a couple small left over pieces of watercolor paper and spritzed both sides, that keeps it from curling so badly, then used my Aqua painter to pick up color from my ink pad and brush onto my paper.  I just put small areas at a time so that I could place my little die over more then one color.  I just used the 2 purples, Highland Heather, and Gorgeous Grape, but a bit of Aqua might have been interesting, I didn't think about that. 
I used the mini dimentionals for under the center, then put the glimmer dots in the center.

So, if you have questions, just ask in comments and I'll answer there, blogger doesn't allow us to have email address's from comments.

Thanks for stopping by.

Abstract Impressions Photopolymer Stamp Set

$26.00

Springtime Impressions Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Glitter Enamel Dots

$7.00

Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets

$10.00

Swirls & Curls Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.50

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