With Sympathy card, JAI375, Painted Harvest stamp set

I'm playing along with Just Add Ink 375 today.    I put off getting this set until I just couldn't stand it any longer. I was seeing so many gorgeous cards, and so many ways to use this stamp set!  So, today was the day to give it a try.
Here is this weeks sketch: Click here to check it out.

The sun flower is a 2 step stamp, it and both sets of leaves have 2 stamps, you stamp the first more solid stamp then the 2nd stamp with the details on it. You can use the same color, just stamp the first stamp off onto a piece of paper, then onto your project so that it's lighter.   Here I used Peekaboo Peach with Pumpkin pie details.
Who knew?  Peekaboo Peach is just a much lighter shade of Pumpkin pie.

I originally sat down with a big piece of paper to play with lots of color schemes and see how they looked to select one for my project, but this was my first image and my last, it was perfect.

The DSP is part of the suite for this set, it's called Painted Autumn.   Beautiful images, and with double sided paper if you don't like one side, there is always another. 

The scallop piece is from Seasonal Layers Thinlits, part of the Colorful Seasons bundle right now.

While I'm here posting I wanted to let you know about a new, just announced special from SU. They have a special stamp set they are giving out with a $300 order,  you still get all the benefits from your order, plus this set.   You can place one order for yourself, go in with a few friends, or have a workshop.

Also:

Painted Harvest Photopolymer Stamp Set

$21.00

Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Painted Harvest Photopolymer Bundle

$33.25

Leaf Punch

$16.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

Teeny Tiny Wishes Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$27.00

Fun Fall card for GDP102, Count Your Blessings

I thought about doing Christmas for this weeks GDP challenge, but I just am not in the mood to go full on Christmas just yet.  Pretty soon though, and of course I've gotten some sets and done a couple or so already, but it's over 100 here in AZ still so I'm really in the mood for fall, might take another month, but a girl can dream, right?

I had a strip with 3 of these embossed, watercolored leaves  from a previous class project, so I decided to make use of it and cut one out with my Stitched Shape Dies.  The 2" punch was the perfect size to put a small bit of  Soft Suede around it. 

I love the sentiment, and the font is darling!  I've been waiting to use it on something. It comes from the Count My Blessings set.
 I also splattered my white CS before putting anything else on it.  The little cut out leaf is from the same set, Colorful Seasons, but from the matching die cuts, Seasonal Layers Thinlit Dies.  It's a fabulous set that will take you all through the year.

Go here to see what everyone made, and maybe enter the challenge yourself.

Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Count My Blessings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set

$27.00

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Bundle

$54.00

Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies

$33.00

Linen Thread

$4.50

2" (5.1 Cm) Circle Punch

$18.00

Versamark Pad

$8.50

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

$5.00

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Celebrate You, FMS280

It has been a little while since I've posted to my blog.  Life has just gotten in the way for awhile. But it was a good thing.  We had good friends stop and stay in their coach.  We spent a lot of time showing them the sights, and just visiting.   Any time left over I needed to recoup, I am far from where I would like to be with my energy and strength yet.

So, this week at FMS the sketch is so open to most anything. I had several ideas in my head, but this is something I haven't done in some time so I went with it as we do have the perfect stamp set for it.

When I first started stamping, way, way back in the dark ages, we used to make our own backgrounds, there was no (gasp) pattern paper.   I choose 2 leaves and one flower for my background, then looked over the colors until I found 3 I liked together.

Here is the sketch for this week:

The leaves have 2 stamps each, one for the base and one for the veins in the leaves. I used the same color for the veins, after I was done stamping all the elements. You could use a darker color, up to you, but I liked the subtle effect here.

I used a bit of black twine for some contrast and a stitched oval framelit for my sentiment.
There is a die set for this as well and I thought about cutting one of two pieces to layer under the sentiment piece, but it seemed busy enough to me.   I generally keep my on the simple side.

I hope you enjoyed, please check out all the cards, they are all wonderful.

Suite Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$21.00

Botanical Blooms Photopolymer Stamp Set

$17.00

Basic Black Solid Baker's Twine

$3.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies

$35.00

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Mojo Monday 487, Small things

This was a fun card to make.  It took awhile to come up with something I was happy with, but I love how it turned out.  I did the Mojo Monday sketch this week.

After the colorful background, I decided I wanted to do black and white to offset the colors and bring your eye to the front.

The flower was die cut from the Flourish Thinlits die set, and layered over one of the Stitched Shapes.

Here is this weeks sketch:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Flourish Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies

$35.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

$30.00

Layering Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$16.00

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