Imagine and Flourishes LC Blog Hop

Welcome to the Flourishes Blog Hop sponsored by Imagine and Flourishes LC.  We have a great line-up of projects from the Artists In Residence from Imagine and the Design Team for Flourishes.  Your comments will enter you to win some wonderful prizes from Imagine and Flourishes LC. 

I was privileged to work with the Winter Bouquet Stamp Set with wonderful daffodil flowers.  The ribbon just called out to be a red and green plaid ribbon.

Skill Level:  Beginner

Time:  1 hour

Step One:

 Stamp focal image in Memento Tuxedo Black on vellum trimmed to 4 1/4” x 5 1/1”. Heat set ink with a heat tool. From the reverse side color the image with Memento Dual Tip Markers.  Start with the lighter shade first then add highlights with darker shades.  Dandelion, Cantaloupe, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy, and Rhubarb Stalk are used here. Heat set ink.

Step Two:

Stamp tag in Memento Tuxedo Black on white cardstock.  Stamp sentiment inside of tag in Memento Lady Bug. Ink Memento Bamboo Leaves on the tag with an Ink Blusher.  Fussy cut the tag.  Determine placement on the card and stamp tag on the front of the image.  The fussy cut tag will be layered over the image, so the string will appear to be tied into the bow.

Step Three

Die cut frame for image.  I used Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles.  Ink frame with Memento Bamboo Leaves with an Ink Blusher.  Ink edges of card base with Memento Lady Bug and an ink Blusher. 

Step Four:

Adhere frame to vellum and trim vellum as needed.  Adhere vellum/frame to card front.  Adhere tag with dimensional foam adhesive. 

Imagine:

Memento-Tuxedo Black, Bamboo Leaves, Lady Bug

Memento Dual Tip Markers: Dandelion, Cantaloupe, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy, Rhubarb Stalk

Ink Blushers

Other:

Vellum

White cardstock

Elizabeth Craft Designs-Stitched Rectangles

I love reading your comments AND they will allow you to win some fabulous prizes from Imagine and Flourishes LC.  Hop through and visit these blogs for more inspiration!

 Imagine Blog

Barbara Thompson

Toni Storie

Alison Heikkila

Beverly Cole

Kren Kurts

Neva Cole  <-- YOU ARE HERE!

Roni Johnson

Linda Lucas

Davi Long

Jennifer Vanderbeek

Naomi Gong

Vickie Yeakley

Nadine Carlier

Rebecca Ednie 

Gloria Hayoung Lee

Mark Melnick

Shirley Qu

Martha Lucia Gomez

Terre Fry

Mary Prasad

Trisha Traxler

Monica Edwards

Flourishes L.C.

Thank You!

We have a sketch to work with this go around at Retro Rubber Blog Challenge.  Come join along and create your own card to share with us!

I recently had a birthday and need a few thank you cards to send out.   

So I grabbed one of my oldest stamps purchased at Michaels in about 1994 that is actually a Rollagraph Thank You stamp to create a background.  I rolled it at an angle using Memento Potters Clay ink to ink it up.  Searching through my left-over scraps I found a strip of paper inked Kaliedacolor Tomato Vine that I pressure embossed with Sizzix’s Thank you embossing folder.  After sanding the color off to pop out the image in white I trimmed it to fit the card.  Another scrap of specialty paper is layered underneath.  Another left-over bit was colored with All Purpose Inks in Black Pearl and Chocolate is stamped with Distinctive Impressions Thank You (1995) image in Memento Potters Clay.  The edges are also inked in Potters Clay using an Ink Blusher.  After adhering the layers together, it is ready to be sent out!

Do come and play along with us at Retro Rubber!  Remember to use a stamp that is at least a year old and state how long you have owned the lovely image!   

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Glitter and Sparkle #215 Thanks

Pixie’s Snippets Playground Week #256

Aloha Friday Challenge #85 Thanks

May Your Home . . .

It is Thanksgiving time, a time to reflect on the blessings in our life and the sentiment expressed in this stamp is ideal for the perfect Thanksgiving card.  I wanted the image to pop with different colors so I decided to use a quick technique with Memento Dual Tip Markers and color directly on the stamp.  Adding a wreathe of fall colored leaves adds to the festive autumn feel of the card.

Jump on over to the Imagine blog and check out the tutorial.  It is amazingly easy to create a color coordinated card with Imagine products! 

I am pleased to enter this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Monday Challenge Thanks/Thanksgiving

Crafty Cardmakers #177 Dry embossing

Come and Get It Ribbon or Twine
Emerald Creek Dare Holidays

Tom Turkey for your Table

Head over to Imagine's blog for the fun tutorial on this cute Tom Turkey

Turkeys are synonymous with Thanksgiving and the fall holidays.  We have enjoyed raising a few on our mini-farm, and my favorites were the Bronze Breasted turkey.  They had beautiful iridescent colored feathers, and the Tom turkey would strut around showing off his beautiful tail plumage.  This was the inspiration my version of a pine cone turkey to add to our table decorations.  A little irRESISTibles Texture Spray, Kraft card stock, and almost any large flower die can be used to create a cute turkey.

He will take about an hour to create plus dry time!  What are you waiting for?  Go have some fun and make a few for your table. 

Be Thankful and a color challenge

I must say that the year is zipping by and it is already almost Thanksgiving!  This is the inspiration for our challenge at Retro Rubber for the next two weeks.  Be thankful! And use the photo for your color inspiration.

I recently purchased a fun die from Cottage Cutz that is the Cornecopia.  That was the start for my card, but then came the Retro Rubber inspiration to use a really old Fiskars burlap roller from about 1998, plus Unity Stamp Company’s  . . . today I am Thankful set from October 2014.

Step One:

Ink burlap roller stamp with Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves and roll over white card stock.  Trim to A7 size and round corners.

Step Two:

Ink Unity Stamp Company’s  . . . today I am Thankful sentiment in Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle, stamp on white cardstock, and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.  Die cut with Spellbinders Labels Eleven and ink edges with an Ink Blusher and Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle.

Step Three:

Die cut white cardstock with Cornucopia from Cottage Cutz.  Identify each tiny piece and shade to Pastels chalk.  This was the quickest and easiest way to color and shade the tiny pieces. 

Step Four:

Assemble the card by adhering burlap stamped background to A7 size Kraft card base.  Adhere the Cornucopia pieces together with repositionable Xyron adhesive.  I ended up moving them around before I was totally satisfied!  Apply permanent adhesive to the completed composition and adhere to the card from.  Adhere sentiment with dimensional foam adhesive. 

Please do join us in this challenge and share your creation with us at Retro Rubber Blog Challenge.  

Remember to use at least one stamp that is more than a year old and share how long you have had it and to enter 10 or fewer challenges.