Just Stamping for JAI

Hello friends, the card I am sharing with you today was made for the lovely Anna from the Angel ATC swap group I am in. It was her birthday yesterday.

 The colours I have combined on this simple card are River Rock and Rich Razzelberry which look fantastic together. The ovals where cut on the Big Shot with nesties and I simply stamped the flower from the Every Moment set, added the butterfly, also from the set and coloured using my blender pens. I then stamped the butterfly from the soon to be released Strength and Hope set and cut it out. The sentiment on both the front and insert are from the also soon to be released Bring on the Cake set. No card is complete without a beautifully coordinated insert, so again I stamped the flower and butterfly and coloured to the inside. I have decided to enter this into this week Just Add Ink challenge number 61 as it is clean and simple with no embellishments although I am not sure if the scallop oval is breaking the rules??
I hope you like my card, Anna certainly did!


Cheers Dani xoxox

Supplies List:
Stamp Sets:  Every Moment, Strength & Hope, Bring on the Cake

Cardstock:  River Rock, Rich Razzelberry

Inks:  Black Stazon, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

Other:  Big Shot, Blender Pens

JAI #52 entry

Hiya,

Well the girls over at Just Add Ink have chosen a sketch challenge for us this week. Because I don't have a very big supply of ribbon, I originally set out to use white ribbon and stamp on it with black stazon, thus setting my colour combo of black and white. Well the black and white stayed, however the ribbon idea changed! Non the less I am still happy with what I have come up with. I love, love , love the Upsy Daisy stamp and find that the delicate Every Moment stamp goes really well with it. A gentle shade of black added with the blender pen was all this flower needed to finish it off.

 
Supplies list;

Stamp sets; Every Moment (121508) Upsy Daisy (115898)

Cardstock: Basic Black and Whisper White

Inks; Black StazOn and Basic Black stamp spot


Accessories; Versa Mark, White embossing powder, Heat Gun, Black Ribbon, Top Note Die, Big Shot.Corner punch. Blender Pen

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Happy Creating, cheers Dani xoxox

Because I Care

This evening I would like to share this card I made for my Mum's birthday using the delightful Because I Care hostess stamp set and the new Texture Plate from Stampin' Up! that you will find in the Summer Mini.
The colours I have put together are probably my favourite combinations in Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry, I have also added some accents with Blushing Bride.
 To get the lovely soft colour in the hydrangea, I first stamped the image onto Very Vanilla card stock using Old Olive on the stem and Blushing Bride on the flower head. Taking my aqua pen, I then light swirled over the whole flower head image which just softened off the lines and allowed the colour to bleed into the petals. Next I took my stamp-a-ma-jig and carefully lined up the image, this time inking up the flower head only in Rich Razzleberry. Again using my aqua pen, I blended some of the colour from the flower centers out into the petals. This just gave the flower some depth, but be careful not to let it get too wet or you begin to loose the crisp outline of each flower and that gives the whole image a blurry kind of look.
I used Blushing Bride and Rich Razzleberry to blend the edges of the card stock. I layered this onto a piece of Old Olive which I scalloped down one side.
I love the new texture plate, it almost gives your card stock a fabric kind of look. I have ran a piece of Rich Razzleberry through the Big Shot and sponged the edges of both that and the DSP i have layered it on. This all got added to the Old Olive card base. A piece of ribbon from the mistletoe bonus that was available in the Dress Up Christmas Promo and what you see is the end result.
No card is complete without a lovely center, so I used the single petal and the leaves off the flower, the sentiment is from the Every Moment stamp set, which by the way, my Mum loved the saying.
I have you have fun playing with this idea.

Cheers Dani xoxo