Thinking of You Trio

Three cards today featuring Lovely Blossoms and Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You from The Greetery. Each card uses Concord & 9th inks. I love how different each color combination looks on my cards. I hope you will too!

Card #1

I stamped this bloom in unusual colors for a flower but so fun. The flower center was stamped in VersaMark ink and embossed in a Ranger gold EP. The tiny tag sentiment is from Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You (The Greetery). I stamped this long before I looked for the background panel. Boy, did I luck out with an ancient paper pad of tropical papers. The bright panel was trimmed with SSS Wonky Rectangles.

Card #2

This card uses the smaller bloom from the Lovely Blossom set, stamped and die cut, 

before adding it to a previously colored PTI Center Style: Feminine die. 

Card #3

On the last card I directly stamped the blooms on a panel trimmed with a Nordic Frames die (The Greetery). Another small Sentiment Suite tag was added to keep the focus on the florals. The panel was framed in green letting the holes share some color through the open holes. It was glued to an apricot top-folding card.

Well that's all folks. I'm linking all three to the SSS Monday Challenge: Bright, Cheerful Colors. Thanks for stopping by today. See you on Instagram too.

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JUST A LITTLE NOTE

 Nothing like new Concord & 9th inks and card stock to prompt playtime in the craft room. I've been stamping away since they arrived last week and will share more cards later but wanted to get these two cards posted before the CAS(E) this Sketch #382 disappears tonight.

 As I poked through my stamp folders, I found a seldom used old PTI set called Note Niblets. I bought it because of its graphic style which includes many sentiments, florals, and other seasonal objects. My original idea was to stamp and die cut the small envelope, add the appropriate sentiments, and anchor them with one of the linear stamps. After ruining three card fronts with inky mistakes, it occurred to me that washi tape would serve the same purpose as the horizontal line that was failing me. Thus my card using Stardust (which I think of as curry), Mushroom and Eggplant - a complete meal trifecta!! The first card uses PTI Soft Stone paper and the second, Neenah white.

The second card evolved from noticing a roll of music washi tape and combining it with a musical note wood stamp. I have a few music stamps due to my hobby as a pianist, organist, and singer. The same color inks were used but in different spots.

I am also linking this to SSWC - anything goes!

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Thinking of You

Today's post features a set of "thinking of you" cards, one of my favorite genres to make. They fit a lot of categories i.e. sympathy, birthday, encouragement. I've admired Julie Ebersole's "mondo" series of stamps for a while and recently purchased the hydrangea and amaryllis mondo stamps and dies.  I'm sharing three of the Mondo Hydrangea cards. Here we go!

I smooshed three distress inks on an acrylic block, misted them before laying down a piece of lavender cardstock. The hydrangea was stamped in black ink, clear embossed, and die cut. It was foam mounted on a piece of pattern paper glued to a white card front. Purple Stickles decorate the flower centers. The Greetery tag and sentiment was attached with a twine bow and a PTI Feature Frame finishes the design. 

The bloom and sentiment were stamped on water color paper and embossed with fine gold EP. After painting the various petals with four distress oxide inks, the bloom was masked and the panel was splattered with more DO inks. It was cut with a PTI Noted Scallop die and directly adhered to an aqua card. It reminds me of cloisonné and is stunning in RL. 

Once again I smooshed distress inks on an acrylic block, misted it before laying white water color paper upon it. The bloom was stamped with DI and clear embossed before it was die cut. A sentiment was stamped on a soft stone panel and an Altenew Dotted Swirls Debossing Cover die added texture to the panel. The bloom was foam mounted to the panel and clear rain drops were added . 

These cards are linked to Simon Says: Thinking of You

This week fog and smoky air gave us this impressionistic sunset.