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TGIF – Spring is in bloom with Kay

by Betsy May 8, 2020

written by Betsy

Happy Friday! Kay is here with some beautiful springy projects using the Fleur Impressions set. We just had this set come back into stock in the shop, so Kay’s timing is perfect. Whether you’re new to this set or you’ve had it in your stash for a while, Kay’s beautiful cards will make you want to get this set inky!

Spring has finally made it’s way to my neck of the woods, and the flowers are blooming everywhere! We live out in the country here, and we have so many beautiful wildflowers. I am totally loving the flowers and warmer temperatures and it has inspired my card making too. I love the Fleur Impressions stamp set so much and wanted to explore some different color schemes using the different flowers in the set. I came up with two different cards, one with a warmer feel and one with a cooler feel.

My first card uses the warmer colors. I stamped the flowers in shades of red, orange and yellows. For the background, I used the Flappable Stencils. I used the stencil that makes the stripes and just rotated and stenciled a second time to give the look of plaid. I then speckled with a little bit of the same color ink.

For the frame, I used the Nordic Frames dies. I cut out the medium one and then used the smallest to cut out the center. I layered this over my background with foam tape. I then die cut all of the flowers with the Fleur Impressions coordinating dies and adhered those to the frame with foam tape. The sentiment is from the Sentiment Suite: Birthday stamp set.

And here is the same card, using the same supplies just with different colors! And if you know me very well, you know that purple and blue is one of my all time favorite color combinations!

I hope you have enjoyed my card today and I hope you are enjoying sunshine and flowers where you live too!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

May 8, 2020 14 comments

TGIF – Spring-time Robins with Kay

by Betsy February 28, 2020

written by Betsy

Most of us here in the midwest are looking for signs of spring…any sign of spring! One of the best is to see the first robin of the year. Those little guys are smart and if they’re around, you know spring has arrived (or will be here very soon)! Kay is here for today’s TGIF with a beautiful project that’s the perfect reminder that spring will be here soon…

As winter draws to an end here, my thoughts have totally turned towards warmer days and spring flowers, and so I was inspired to bring out some pretty floral stamps to play with. I love the Fleur Impressions stamp set from The Greetery and had not had a chance to use that set yet, so was exited to play with it for this card. I also paired it up with a cute little bird from the Robin & Wren set, and created a frame to set it all off with the Nordic Frames dies.

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For the background, I blended some purple and blue distress inks, then splattered some of those same colors along with some white acrylic paint.

To create the frame, I used the two smaller size frames from the Nordic Frame dies, layered the smaller one inside the larger of the two and cut them out together. I adhered this to my blended panel with foam tape. I stamped all of the pretty flowers from the Fleur Impressions stamp set, and little bird from the Robin & Wren stamp set, in different shades of purples and blues. I then cut them out with the coordinating dies, and added them around the frame with foam tape.

For the sentiment, I used the Hello from the Signed and Sealed Stamp set, and Beautiful from the Sketchbook Roses stamp set. I cut these out with the coordinating dies and added them along the frame with foam tape.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today and I hope it inspires you to do some spring crafting!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugs,
Kay 🙂

February 28, 2020 26 comments

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TGIF – Mixing Florals with Dawn

by Betsy January 31, 2020

written by Betsy

It’s Friday! That means it’s time for some inspiration from the Inspiration Team…

Dawn is up today and she is going to town mixing florals in her classic style. Just wait until you see the beauties she has created for you today! Let’s see what she has to tell us about these gorgeous projects…

Hey Friends! So it’s time for another TGIF and I thought this was the perfect time to dive a little deeper into something I ran out of time and didn’t get to show you during the last release. I wanted to specifically highlight the leaves from the Botanicuts Rose die set!

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Even if you never used the flowers from this die set (…which of course you would never do, because that would just be crazy since they’re so pretty! Ha!), the leaves from this die set are totally worth the price of the dies! The leaves are not only gorgeous and super easy to work with, but they go with literally every floral image you may already have in your stash! And I’m going to attempt to prove it with my cards today! 🙂

I pulled from my stash of die cut florals to create these cards….these flowers are from a variety of stamp sets. With them, I put together three different cards, all with these same leaf dies from Botanicuts Rose! I die cut the leaves from white card stock and then quickly and easily blended ink on them with blending brushes. They were colored in minutes!

Whether the florals are all the same color palette or a variety of colors, whether they’re watercolored or stamped, whether they’re roses or wildflowers or even a wheat stalk, these leaves are the perfect accent for all of them! And not only that, but if you’re like me and you keep a stash of extra die cut florals on hand, adding in some of these leaves makes for a fast and easy pile of cards whenever you sit down to create!

Aren’t Dawn’s cards amazing? She is so good at combining lots of elements and pulling them all together in her classic Dawn style. So beautiful! Here’s the shot of all three of them together one more time…

Before I go, I wanted to update you on restocks. Unfortunately we are a bit behind schedule as to what I have been telling those who’ve emailed to ask about restocks, but they are coming soon (hopefully sometime today)! The first batch of stamps and dies are here, and we’re working on getting them checked and packaged up. We have another large wave of dies scheduled to arrive early next week. Many of you have enquired about the items from the latest release that are out of stock – the dies are included in next week’s shipment, but the stamps won’t be back in stock until mid February.

January 31, 2020 12 comments

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Pretty Summer Bouquet by Dawn

by Betsy July 12, 2019

written by Betsy

Dawn shared a gorgeous card on her blog yesterday and I asked her if I could share it here with you all as well, in case you missed it! Dawn used several of our sets to create this absolutely beautiful and lush bouquet in our Just Mason Around jar. Can you pick out all the different sets she used? Scroll down past the photos and I’ll list them so you can see if you were right! 🙂

Dawn’s jar is filled with flowers from the Fleur Impressions set and some Eucalyptus from the Simple Things set. The little cluster at the base of the has the large blooms from Fleur Impressions and I also spy a bit of Blooming Branch tucked in there! Did you get them all?

Also – a restock update! We’ve gotten notice that all of the stamps and dies that are currently out of stock are on their way (earlier than we anticipated)! We’ll get them all packaged and ready to go as soon as we can so we can get them back in the shop! Hopefully by mid to latter part of next week. If you have your eye on something, you’re encouraged to sign up for the email notifications on the product pages to get a back in stock notification!

July 12, 2019 9 comments