Peonies

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today I have a floral card to share with you. 

It’s no secret that I love Susan’s Garden dies. I used the Spellbinders - Double and Single Peonies die set to make the flowers. I used leaves from this set and the Spellbinders - Foliage and Ladybugs die set. I used copic markers to add some shading to the flowers. The background die is also from Spellbinders - from the Amazing Paper Grace line called Cannetille Rectangle die set. I love the gold on black. 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day. 

Submitting this to:

• Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - A bit o green
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge - A bit o green
• Word Art Wednesday 

Red Peony

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today I have a shadow box with a handmade flower in it. 

Recently I watched one of Susan Tierney Cockburn’s live video where she showed how to make a shadow box, a different way. I wanted to try it. I used this Single And Double Peony die set from her line to make the flowers using red card stock. I used the Spellbinders - Amazing Paper Grace - Cannetille Rectangle die set to die cut the window and the frame in gold card stock. Here’s a closer look at the floral arrangement. 

How do you like this today? Please let me know! Thank you for stopping by today. Have a great day. 

Submitting this to:

• Simon Says Stamp - Monday challenge - Sparkle and Shine 
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday challenge - Let’s have some fun - love making 3 dimensional flowers! My way of fun!
• Word art Wednesday 

Lily of the Valley

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today I have an easel card with 3D flowers. 

I used the Spellbinders - Susan’s Garden - Lili of the Valley die set for making the flowers and foliage. It was pretty easy to make and I love making 3D flowers. I die cut the oval window with Tutti Designs dies. The heart flourish on the right is a dies from Heartfelt Creations. The sentiment die is from Creative Expressions - Belated Birthday Wishes, which I die cut multiple times and snipped off the belated. Here’s a pic when it’s closed. 

What do you think? Do let me know. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Submitting this to:

• Time out challenges - New - birthday is a new year :)

Peace, Love And Joy

 Hello everyone! Today I have a card that I made for a couple of challenges. 

I used the Spellbinders - Poinsettia die set designed by Susan Tierney-Cockburn to make the poinsettia. For the pine bough and pine cone, I used the Elizabeth Craft Designs - White Pine Pinecone and Bough, also designed be her. I decided to do a see through shaker window with arch dies. I used a mix of red and gold shaker mixes. The background is Altenew - Deck Planks 3D embossing folder. Now, this is an easel card. 

The stopper for the easel is the sentiment die cut, which is Altenew - Fancy Peace. I layered multiple die cuts to get the thickness. The other part of the sentiment ‘Joy and Love’ is from the Inspired by Stamping -  Poinsettia stamp set, stamped in gold ink. Here’s a better look at the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by. Peace, Joy and Love for a wonderful new year! 

Submitting this to:

Simon says stamp Monday Challenge - A new start - new year, new start of holiday cards for the year

Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge- Something new - New year, new technique for me (see through shaker easel)

Chickadee Snow Globe

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today I have a Christmas card with shaker snow globe on an easel - oh and there's a chickadee inside the snow globe :)

I recently bought a die set from Momenta that has snow globe dies and a few transparent shaker domes as well. I wanted to use it for this card. I inked the background with Hero Arts Tide Pool ink. I die cut the chickadee using the dies from Honey Bee Stamps - Lovely Layers - Winter birds. The leaves inside the shaker are from the Honey Bee Stamps - Lovely Layers - Peony. I used a mix of different sequin mixes for the shaker. For the berries, I colored white pearls with Copics. The pine boughs are from Elizabeth Craft Design - White Pine Pinecone and Boughs. For the background, I used Altenew - Deck Planks 3D embossing folder.

Here's the easel look. For the stopper on the easel, I used the sentiment die from Crafters Companion - We wish you a merry Christmas. I die cut multiple layers of the sentiment and adhered them together to get the thickness. 

Here's a closer look at the sentiment die cut. The shaker dome adds a nice effect to the shaker snow globe. I spent more time on deciding what to use as a stopper for the easel than making the whole card, lol!

How do you like this card today? Please do let me know. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Christmas Pinecones and Ornaments

 Hello everyone!  I have a Christmas in July card with some pinecones and ornaments today.

I had this image of of Christmas ornaments hanging from a pine branch with pine cones in it with a kind of wood grain background on my mind, that was the inspiration for this card. I started by embossing a piece of 5 x 7 card stock with Craftwell - Woodgrain Cottage embossing folder and inked the raised edges with a light brown ink. Then I die cut all the pieces on my Craftwell SNAP. I used the Greetery - Botanicuts Pine Bough die set to die cut the pine cones on brown card stock. For the pine boughs, I used Spellbinders - Susan's Garden - Evergreen Foliage die set on light green card stock. I used my Copic markers to add some shading to the pine boughs. I used the Memory Box - Snowflake Ornament to die cut the ornaments. I used the Your Next Stamp - Merry Christmas die to cut the sentiment. Now it was just a matter of arranging the die cuts. I used liquid glue to adhere all of the die cuts. 

For the inside of the card, stamped a simple sentiment in black and stamped some pine bough and some berry branches from The Ton - Outline Holiday Cones in gold ink. This card is easy to make in batches, I made 20 of them. 

I loved how this turned out. Please let me know your thoughts and comments. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Birthday Orchids

Hello everyone! I'm on Craftwell blog today, with a beautiful birthday card with orchids. 

Please visit my blog post to see how I made it. 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Lily Of The Valley Basket

 Hello everyone! I'm on the Craftwell blog today, with a lovely floral project. 

Do you like it? To see how I made it, check out my blog post here.

Do let me know your thoughts and comments. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

GIU Day 5 - Refuge

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today is Day 4 of my Growing in Unity Week. Today I have a floral card for you using Refuge stamp set.

 

I stamped the sentiment on a tag. I embossed a piece of white card stock for the background. I added some handmade flowers made with Susan's Garden - Bee Blossom dies and ivy leaves from Ferns and Ivy die set. 

How do you like this card? Let me know in the comments. This is my last post as GIU for this year. Unity Stamps has generously offered $20 gift credit to 2 people who comment on my GIU posts. You have until Sunday night to comment on all my GIU posts. I will pick 2 random winners on Monday.

Thank you for stopping by today.  Hope you have a great day.

Farewell Gladioli

 Hello everyone! I'm on the Craftwell blog today, with this floral farewell card. 

To see how I made this card and the supplies I used, visit my post here. I love Susan's Garden Dies.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!

Framed Coreopsis

 Hello everyone!! I'm sharing this card on the Craftwell blog today.

I have used Susan's garden dies to make these flowers.  I have more details on the Craftwell blog here. Do visit my post there and let me know what you think of my card.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day.

Tinkerbell Birthday Banner

 Hello everyone!! Welcome back! I'm on the Craftwell blog today, with the banner I made for my daughter's birthday. My daughter wanted a Tinkerbell themed birthday party this year and I decided on making a tree stump cake for her, with Tinkerbell and fairy figurines. I wanted to make a banner that would go well with the cake design. I couldn't find much inspiration on tree stump banners online. So I decided to make my own version. Warning: This is a picture heavy post!

I started by cutting the banners using the outer die from Spellbinders Double Heart Gatefold die set. Then I embossed all the banner pieces with CraftWell Woodgrain Cottage embossing folder. I swiped the Brutus Monroe macchiato ink over the embossed lines. I die cut all the alphabets using Altenew Mega Alphabet dies on gold card stock. I adhered the letters on to the banners with foam tape.

For embellishing the banner, I decided to use flowers. I had a lot of flower dies, some of them were not even used once! What better time to use them than now! So I took out a bunch of die sets from different companies and started die cutting them. My Cut N Boss and SNAP were working full night shifts!

Here are some of the flower/buerfly dies I used : Crafter's Companion - Classic Lily, Crafter's Companion - Chic Butterflies, Karen Burniston - Flower Pot pop up, MFT - Lily, Sizzix - Anthurium, Sizzix - Sweet Pea, Spellbinders - Coreopsis, Spellbinders - Floral Oval, Tutti Designs - Lily Of the Valley. 

My other daughter punched out some leafy vines using a MS punch. I added all these flowers, butterflies and leaves to the banners.

The banner came out exactly the way I envisioned! It looked so pretty on the green/yellow tulle backdrop I had made. If you are short on time, my only advise would be to use those huge floral frames (like the Lily of the Valley or the Floral Oval) instead of making 3D flowers - those 3D flowers will take some time but they are worth every second!

Here's a look at the entire setup with the cake and the cupcakes.

A closer look at the tree stump cake with some cake moss.

Let me know how I did! My daughter absolutely loved the decorations and the cake! Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great day.