Get Well Soon Camellias and Thank You

Hello everyone!! I'm here to share a card that I made with one of my new stamps from Power Poppy called Simply Camellias.

I stamped the bunch of flowers from Simply Camellias with Memento Tuxedo black ink, as I wanted to color them with Copics. I colored the image using YR68, Y38, Y35 and YR31 for orangish-yellows, V17, V15 and V12 for violets and G99, YG67, YG63, YG61 and YG03 for greens. The color scheme was inspired by the beautiful pic shared in the Power Poppy - Hues To Use. I cut the panel into a oval and inked the edges with distress ink Antique Linen and Vintage Photo. The script background is actually a napkin from the Dollar Tree. I adhered the napkin on a piece of cardstock and applied mod podge over it (I wasn't sure if it was necessary, but did it anyway). I wrapped a brown twine around it few times and added the bow after adding the image panel. 

 

For the sentiment I used the one from Kennedy Grace Creations' Grace's Little Note. I didn't know where to add the sentiment!! Have you ever faced this dilemma? I just couldn't find a place in the entire card to place a small piece of sentiment!! After a lot deliberation, I finally settled on the top left. I inked the edges of the card base with Distress Ink vintage photo. Though I didn't like this card very much when I had finished it, now I think it kind of looks ok.

Thank you for stopping by. I've been receiving some very kind and lovely comments on all social media including blog, FB groups and Instagram. Thank you so much. I'm overwhelmed with your love and kindness. So, once again, thank you from the bottom of my card. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

Submitting this to:

• Addicted To Stamps - Anything Goes
• Power Poppy - Mix and Match
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• Power Poppy - Hues To Use
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• Simon Says Stamp - work it Wednesday 
• Word Art Wednesday

Shabby Chic Birthday Wishes

Hello everyone!! It's time for my Inspired By Stamping DT post. I'm always intrigued by the vintage shabby chic cards. I love to look at them. But I don't try to make them often because I really don't know where to start with the layers. Recently, for the Inspired By Stamping July release, I made a kind-of vintage card (see here), for which I received some appreciation in FB groups (most likes was received by my copic-colored card here). It motivated me to try it again. So here am I, with a shabby chic card, with lots of flowers and distressing, giving you the step-by-step detail of how I made this as well.

My first difficult step was to choose the layers - how many and how big. I had decided to use the papers from the Inspired By Stamping Vintage Florals Paper Pad. After much debating, I settled on these papers and sizes.

I distressed the edges of the papers with scissors and inked them with Distress Ink Victorian Velvet. I also inked the edges of a white A2 card base.

Next, I added lace and ribbon on the card panel (A) of size 4" x 5 1/4". Both the ribbon and lace are from the Inspired By Stamping Pink Ribbon collection.

Then, I layered the card panel C on top of card panel B. 

Then I adhered this onto the card panel A, next to the ribbon and lace. I also added some lace on top of it.

Then I adhered the card panel D

Now comes the fun part - adding flowers!! I used flowers from Mixed Flowers and Paper Roses from Inspired By Stamping. I inked the flowers I also added a few leaves cut from my Cricut.

For the sentiment, I stamped the "birthday wishes" from the Summer Bouquet stamp set on to piece of white cardstock and cut it out into a fishtail banner. I sponged the edges with Distress Ink Victorian Velvet and curled up the banner. Then I adhered it near the flowers.

Then I adhered the entire panel on to the card base (which I had already inked with Victorian Velvet)

Here's another look of the card.

That's it. So what do you think? Does it qualify as a shabby chic card? Or does it need something more? Do tell me.

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Submitting this to:

• Crafty Cardmakers - Lots of layers
• SSS Monday Challenge - You've got the edge - distressed and inked edges
• SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday
• Virginia Lu - Summer Creations - flowers
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GIU Day 3 - Shabby Chic

Hello everyone!! Welcome to day 3 of my Growing in Unity!! This week, till Friday, I will be sharing projects that I made with Unity Stamps. Thank you so much for the lovely comments on my first two posts. Let's get on to the project for today.

People who follow my blog on a regular basis know that I create clean and simple cards most of the time. But I do love the look and cards with lots of layers and different folds, decked with flowers and other embellishments! There are a lot of different things on my to-do list. Criss-cross cards has been on that list for a long time. I finally decided to check that off my list. Also, I wanted to make a shabby chic card for a long time. I guess this qualifies as shabby chic.

I used a dark brown card stock for base. I recently bought a pack of paper napkins from Dollar Tree that had a Paris inspired design on a script background. I bought it with dreams of using it on a big decoupage project. But, as always, I haven't done anything with it yet. I decided to use it for the diagonal panels because it matched with the script background of the stamp I was planning to use. I cut card stock panels first and used mod podge to glue the napkin to it. I sponged the edges with distress ink Gathered Twigs.

I used the stamp from Unity Stamps' Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful and embossed it with brown embossing powder. I sponged the panel with distress ink Old Paper and colored the flowers with Seedless Preserves.

I used a punched butterfly and sponged it with distress ink Seedless Preserves and used Nuvo pale gold pearl drops on it. The flowers are handmade. I used a 5 petal flower punch and sponged it with Seedless Preserves. I shaped it and used some pollen from my stash.

For the pull-out panel, I decided to recycle a package backing from Itsy Bitsy embellishment pack that I had bought more than 2 years. I couldn't bring myself to throw it out. I matted it with brown card stock and punched out the border.

Here's the original packaging:

So how do you like this card? Do visit me every day this week, and leave your thoughts and comments. I will pick 2 winners at the end of this week and they will win 25 random stamps from Unity!! How awesome is that!! See you tomorrow with another new and exciting project.

Submitting this to:

• Addicted To Stamps & More - Anything Goes
• Crafty Cardmakers - Shabby Chic
• Penny Black - Anything goes with stamp
• SSS Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday
• Wow Embossing - The entire stamped panel is heat embossed