Flower Pot Cards

These Flower Pot Cards have been around for quite a while. They're fairly easy to do & can be adjusted in size if need be. I've added a template at the bottom of the page with the measurements that I prefer.

I made the blue one first then, had to make another one for a workshop using current products (& that would be so time consuming). I ended up doing the one in the middle for the workshop.

Stamps: Mixed Bunch
Colours: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze & Whisper White.
Punches: Blossom, Petite Petals, 1/2" Circle & Scallop Edge Border.
Extras: Woodgrain Embossing Folder & Thick Baker's Twine.

Insert sentiment stamped from Kinda Eclectic, in Blackberry Bliss.

Stamps: Mixed Bunch
Colours: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze, Lost Lagoon & Whisper White.
Punches: Blossom, Petite Petals, 1/2" Circle & Scallop Edge Border.
Extras: Honeycomb Embossing Folder & Whisper White Stitched Ribbon.

Insert sentiment stamped from Kinda Eclectic, In Mossy Meadow.

Stamps: Peaceful Petals
Colours: Pool Party Certainly Celery, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla.
Punches: Scallop Edge Border.
Extras: Fancy Fan Embossing Folder, Pool Party Ribbon & Gold Embossing Powder.

Perfect Peacock & Blendabilities

I had seen something on pinterest that made me want to try this, although blendabilties on dsp isn't ideal, I'm still glad I gave it a go. This card did get a mixed reaction from the people who seen it.
 Colours: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil, Delight Old Olive & Pumpkin Pie

Colours: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil, Delight Old Olive & Cherry Cobbler. + Dazzling Diamonds.

Colours: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil  Delight & Old Olive. + Gold Glitter

Colours: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil, Delight Old Olive, Night of Navy & Wisteria Wonder.  + Dazzling Diamonds.

I guess I was think along the lines of albino peacocks when I did this one, not to mention the vase full of beige coloured peacock feathers on the counter of a shop I had been in recently (which kept playing on my mind till I had got it on paper). I was going to water colour this image because I had stamped it onto Sahara Sand  card stock instead of Whisper White, but then I realized I had stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink, which of course will bleed with watercolouring (you can see my little experiment with the butterfly in the bottom right hand corner - the natural is Blendabilities & the blue is water colour).
Colours: Blush, Natural, Nude & Ivory. + White gel & Chalk Pens.

The red phoenix version. I was hoping for a bit of flame effect in the tail, I don't think I quite got there, but the gold glitter looks great in real life.
Colours: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil, Delight Old Olive & Cherry Cobbler. + Gold Glitter.

Pop-up Cake Card

I had a couple of birthday cards to make for people who both like purple & one bakes fabulous cakes.

So of course I had to do the pop-up layered cake card, which works best with dsp (patterned paper), the only purple dsp I had was the old retired Flirtatious Specialty.

So here are the results. 

Stamps: Cupcake Party
Punch: Cupcake Builder
Framlits: Chalk Talk
Colours: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Egplant & Blackberry Bliss.

Close up of cupcake on card front.
I've rock 'n' rolled the bottom of the cupcake, or patty pan if you like.

Inside the card - Three tier cake pop-up
Punch: Scallop Border
Extra: Dazzling Diamonds

The other card turned out a bit more simple (no pop-up inside this card)
Stamps: Cupcake Party
Punch: Cupcake Builder , 1 1/4" Circle, 1 3/8" Circle & Scallop Circle.
Embossing Folder: Decorative Dots.
Colours: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Egplant & Real Red

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To see the more including the pop-up present stack card click here.

Techniques & Sweet Stuff

 Here some cards focusing on techniques such as Stencil spraying, Sponging ,folder printing & Blendabilities (Alcohol Markers). Products used in these projects include, Stamps; Papillon Potpourri, Hello There, Kinda Eclectic, Everything Eleanor & Petite Petals. Punches: Elegant Butterfly, Bitty Butterfly, Label Bracket  & Petite Petals. Framelits: Hexagon Hive, Chalk Talk and Apothecary Accents.

Colours: Calypso Coral, Hello Honey, Daffodil Delight, Mossy Meadow Tuxedo Black & Whisper White.

Colours:  Hello Honey, Daffodil Delight, Mossy Meadow Tuxedo Black & Very Vanilla.

Vanilla Seam binding ribbon & pearls go really nicely with Very Vanilla card stock.

Colours: Hello Honey, Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana, Soft Sky, Pistachio Pudding, Wild Wasabi, Tuxedo Black & Whisper White.

I cut a stencil out of card stock using the Hexagon Hive Framelit. Adding a little bit of snail adhesive  then tapping off the excess stickiness with your finger tip helps to hold the stencil in place, without sticking to your work too much.

I spayed with a few of squirts of Daffodil Delight & few of Pool Party.
(In this particular photo the stencil has all the colour -as I had used it several times before - and my card stock is Whisper White). I just used alcohol (Isocol - rubbing alcohol) several drops of ink refill until I was happy with the colour.

I used the swirl from Everything Eleanor & stamped it in Soft Sky ink.

Sponged the edges with Hello Honey ink.

Cut out a tag from Chalk Talk framelits in Daffodill Delight card stock. Add a ;layer of Hello Honey  ink to the Honeycomb embossing folder, close the folder with the tag inside & press down firmly to transfer the ink. (It's like stamping with an embossing folder). Then sponge the edges with more Hello Honey ink.

Stamp the words ( So Sweet of you ) from Hello There, in Hello Honey ink on Hello Honey card stock.Punch out with Label Bracket Punch, sponge the edges with more Hello Honey ink.

Stamp the flower from Petite Petals in Hello Honey ink on Whisper White card stock.Add some daffodil Delight ink to the center of the flower using a sponge dauber. Punch out with Petite Petals Punch.

Stamp the fuller flower from Petite Petals in Wild  Wasabi ink on Pistachio Pudding card stock.. Punch out with Petite Petals Punch, then cut with scissor to create leaves.

To make the butterfly (from Papillon Potpourri)  stamp in Memento  Tuxedo Black ink onto Whisper White card stock.

Allow black ink 20-30 seconds drying time, colour once over with the brush tip in the lightest shade of Coastal Cabana Blendabilities Markers.

Next I used the bullet end of the dark Coastal Cabana to trace along the top edge of the butterfly wings.

Again with the darkest shade using little stokes, I went over the first dark line and extended it 

Next with the medium shade of Coastal Cabana, go over  all the dark areas and continue to extend it further,  and keep using the same stoke style.

One more time go over and extend the dark area, this time using the Lightest shade. (This step may not be necessary with the other coloured Blendabilities, but for some reason the Coastal Cabana needs more work to blend).

Finally give a last coat of the light shade all over using the brush tip.This step makes all the difference when blending, as you can tell in this picture I have only coloured in the left wing.

Punch  out using the Elegant Butterfly punch. 

All the pieces to make the tag  + adhesives & dimensionals.

All pieces put together creating a card full of techniques and sweet stuff.

Razzleberry & Blendabilities

Lucky for me, my down line happens to be a really great friend who shares everything, including new Stampin' Up! products. So of course I didn't have very many colours in the blendabilities to start with, but borrowed as many as could. This stamp set was borrowed too : x

 Stamps: I Like You

Colours: Rich Razzleberry, Coastal Cabana, Old Olive, Whisper White, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Jet Black Memento & Naturals White.

Techniques:  Blendabilities, silver pen (for dotting the flowers)

Extras: Window Frames Collection Framelits.

Satmps: Hardwood, Everything Eleanor & Kinda Eclectic.

Colours: Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Smokey Slate,  Basic Gray & Jet Black.

Techniques: Blendabilities & Brayer,

Extras: Apothecary Framelits

After colouring the flowers with the Rich Razzleberry blendabilities, I added some white gel pen to the stamens, fussy cut them,  then added a rhinestone.

Everything Eleanor

My new favourite stamp set.... Everything Eleanor, it's just beautiful and I love it!

Stamps: Everything Eleanor & Hello There.
Colours: Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey, Whisper White & Tangelo Twist.
Techniques: Water colouring, White Embossing , Sponging & Fussy cutting.

Stamps: Everything Eleanor & Hello There.
Colours: Soft Sky, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Naturals White & Daffodil Delight.
Techniques: Blendabilities, White Embossing, Sponging, Piercing & fussy cutting.

Londi's Birthday card. I tried to make the butterflies on the card match the butterfly on the necklace (which was part of her present).Stamps: Everything Eleanor & Sassy Salutations.
Colours: Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White, Naturals White, Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder & Tempting Turquoise.
Techniques: Brayering, White Embossing & wet wipes + ink refills.

I folded a wet wipe & added some ink refills (Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder  & Tempting Turquoise), this was like making a ombre or multi-coloured  ink pad. First I inked up the solid butterfly on the multi-colored wet wipe, stamped onto white card stock, the using a stamp-a-majig stamped the out line butterfly over the top with Blackberry Bliss.

After the two step stamping of the butterflies, I punched them out & added some Dazzling Diamonds.

Katrina's Birthday card.
Stamps: Everything Eleanor & Sassy Salutations.
Colours: Blackberry Bliss, Sahara Sand & Whisper White.
Techniques: Water colouring, White Embossing, Sponging & fussy cutting.

Once the flowers have been stamped onto the Sahara Sand card stock  with the Blackberry Bliss ink, you can use an Aqua Painter to colour them, by spreading the ink around (you don't even need to add any extra ink).
(You may notice the bird is stamped in Sahara Sand ink here... Well I decided I wasn't happy with that, so I used the Stamp-a-majig to go over it with Blackberry Bliss ink, & I reckon I got it pretty spot on. Happy with that)

Then I added some high lights to the flowers with a white gel pen.