Gorgeous Botanicals

Today’s card has some fun elements.
We combined Gorgeous Grunge stamp set
with Botanical Gardens designer paper to
create a card with lots of different textures
and designs going on.
Beautiful Blessing logoThe card base is Thick Whisper White.
A strip of the Botanical Gardens designer paper
was added to the left side.
The “blotches” from Gorgeous Grunge was
stamped in Cajun Craze and Old Olive ink.
The small dots were stamped with Pool Party ink.
The frame stamp is from Rose Wonder stamp set
and was stamped with Old Olive ink.
The words are from the same stamp set and
stamped with Cajun Craze ink.
It was cut out using the coordinating
Rose Garden Thinlits and attached with
dimensionals.  The final touch was
adding three Black Candy Dots.

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Helping Me Grow Pink Daisy

After this month's Stamp of the Month Class
I wanted to go outside and pick a bunch of flowers.
Unfortunately our weather isn't cooperating to
let me do that so the cards will have to do for now.
This is the final card from my class which featured
the Helping Me Grow stamp set.
Pink Daisies logoThe card base is Basic Black — 5 1/2" x 7 1/4"
Score at 4 1/4".
Add a layer of Pink Pirouette 2 7/8" x 5 3/8"
Then a layer of Shimmery White 2 3/4" x 5 1/4".

Stamped the daisies with Archival Black.
We colored them in using the Aqua Painters and
Pear Pizzazz, Pink Pirouette and Rose Red inks.

We added some dots from Gorgeous Grunge
stamp set and Smoky Slate ink (stamped off).
I wanted just very light dots.

We stamped the cute label on Pink Pirouette
with Black ink and cut out with the
Rose Garden Thinlit.
Stamp Sweet Friend with black ink
and attach with dimensionals.

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Hyacinth, Maybe??

Yesterday’s post said Lilac — send me your thoughts.
Well, I heard back from my flower and tree expert, Rorie.
She says this pretty flower is a Hyacinth and I
believe she is right.  It is a pretty flower no matter
what it is, so here is another card using that stamp.
The set used is Helping Me Grow.
Thank You Lilacs logoWe started with Wisteria Wonder card base.
We added layers — Basic Black, Pear Pizzazz and
Whisper White.
We stamped the flower with Memento ink
and colored in with inks and Blender Pens or
Aqua Painters.
We stamped THANK YOU with Memento
on Wisteria Wonder cardstock and punched
out with 1 3/4″ Circle Punch which is layered
on a 2″ circle of Pear Pizzazz which is
layered on black that is punched using the
2 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch (retired list).
We added a banner of Pear Pizzazz that was
punched on both ends with the Triple Banner Punch.

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