Scraps into a Birthday Card

My stamping desk is a big mess with scraps and stamps. I couldn't part with this distress background piece. When I found this green cardstock to match, it was very fun to make this card. I'm still on a roll with Stampin' Up's What I Love set, which is also sitting with the mess on my desk.

Used Distress Oxides peacock feathers and broken china. The distress oxides are so much darker and thicker than the regular distress inks. I stamped off on some of the fill-in, more solid flower stamps. Sometimes the ink coverage was uneven, so then I didn't stamp off.  I wanted to let some of the paper show through. 

The Happy Birthday was from an old Stampin' Up sentiment set called God's Blessings.

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Flower Cards

Made these flower cards with two Stampin' Up! sets:

Lots of Lavender and What I Love.

This card and the next were inspired by Lee Ann Greff's card here (pinterest link)

Here is the inside of the card.

Used white Georgia Pacific cardstock. The green layer may be a Stampin' Up paper, but I don't know for sure.
Inks: Stampin' Up!-going grey, almost amethyst, wild wasabi, certainly celery

Ranger-jet black
Stamps:  Lots of Lavender by Stampin' Up!

and sentiment stamp by Savvy stamps
Hero Arts plastic sequins applied with acrylic medium.

Variation using orchid opulence ink (SU).

Sentiment from an old SU set called Simple Sketches.

Here is the inside of card.

This card was inspired by Marie-Josée Trudel's card (pinterest link).  I used google translate and learned from the comments that Maria-Josée white embossed some flowers before stamping. She used watercolor paper. I used white matte coated cardstock from Ranger. It held up well and didn't warp with the embossing and applications of water/aqua brush to blend the inks. To get my splatters I applied the pine needles ink pad directly to my craft sheet, added water from my aqua brush, then flicked that ink across the layer.

Inks: Distress-pine needles, broken china, tumbled glass, shabby shutters
Ranger-jet black  for sentiment stamp from Stampendous
Sponged the paper banner with broken china ink

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Mini Stampfest with Lynette

Lynette and I had a little time to stamp last Wednesday, August 29.
We each made two cards. We were inspired by a card I saw online-I think on Pinterest. It was created by Tami Hewlett and she has a blog, Swimming in Stamps but I cannot find the card any longer.

We used watercolor paper to stamp the flowers and leaves from a Stampin' Up! sell-a-bration set called What I Love. My friend Hetty gave that set to me way back in 2017! We used distress broken china ink for the outline flower and tumbled glass for the solid part. For the leaves we used Stampin' Up! wild wasabi ink.  After stamping we used a water brush to try and create some watercolor effects. We did not get as much movement of color as we hoped on this first attempt.

So we each made a second card, stamping more quickly and then using the water brush. Not sure

We used Versafine onyx black ink for the sentiments, fussy cutting the banner edges of the paper. We sponged the layer with broken china ink. 

Sentiment stamps: Stampin' Up!, Tim Holtz Bird Talk#2, Annette Allen Watkins

Sequins from Hero Arts attached with acrylic medium.

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