Stampin' Up! Paper flower cards

Stampin' Up! products are so varied and today I wanted to show you a couple of cards that were created using punches and the Stampin' Up! Big Shot machine.  Embossing folders were used to texture contrasting background papers; the flowers were created from a Big XL die and the leaves were created using a sizzlits die.  Punches were used to make the centre band and highlight the stamped greeting.


Pink Pirouette with Wild Wasabi on a background of Soft Suede

So simple yet gorgeous...


Soft Suede, Pink Pirouette

Rose created this one - stunning...


Created by Rose Christian - stunning to say the least



In gold, Marina Mist and Real Red this card is highlighted with silver glitter paper and Wild Wasabi.  A prize for any Mum on her birthday or for Mother's day or just to say thank you.

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Wedding & Cards of Love 2

Stampin Up Hearts Collection Framelits 125599 are a must to add to your die collection.  I was asked to make wedding card samples and hearts are generally used on Cards of Love, so I saw this as a great opportunity to use the SU heart collection framelits and experiment with colour.

Black and white with the shimmer of silver was the basic idea, but then I added some colour with the pink - Melon Mambo.  The greeting is embossed using white embossing powder.  How I love SU embossing powders simply because of how fine they are, just look at the detail!


SU Rhinestones balance the card out nicely.

and a little closer too see the detail in the flowers

and a little closer there...detail of the butterfly and flowers again

So then my attention turned to the Dress Up framelits 130101 and I began to play again, keeping in with the Black, White and Silver...


The background is embossed with the Stripes EF 123128

 

A closer look at the ticket dress cut and pearls, just LOVE that silver glimmer paper 124005!

Last but not least, I've gone to purple;  you can of course use any colour you wish,  but I used Wisteria Wonder.  This is a simple layout that can be use with any shape - heart, butterfly, flower, animal, it really does not matter...


French Foliage (W123557 / C121166) has wonderful splats that are great at breaking up the background.  Overlay coordinating ribbon on top of the base card and under the focal point of the card and you have a very pretty card.

I sprayed Frost White Shimmer Paint 116854 (mixed with rubbing alcohol in an SU Spritz126185) diagonally across the card to give that gorgeous shimmer for a wedding card.

Three more simple ideas for cards of love that can be used for the occasion of wedding, engagement, anniversary or even valentines day.

Thank you for stopping by and having a look and please leave a comment as I would love to hear from you.

Boy Birthday - Robot

A robot themed party, what fun!  My dear friend, blog editor and photographer, has a gorgeous little boy who turned 3 recently.  The party was themed Robots so I went to my craft boxes and dusted off an oldie but goodie stamp set Lots of Bots.  As always I turned to the internet for inspiration and these cards are what I came up with...

The images are coloured using ink and a blender pen and SU Markers. I've used Real Red and Not Quite Navy card stock.

I love using brads, even though I don't very often!

 

Tempting Turquoise, Real Red and Grey are used on these cards. I placed the colours differently and was amazed at the differences that produced.


I embossed the grey panel with the Striped embossing folder 123128

Not Quite Navy and Real Red are set on the Crumb Cake base card.

Then I turned to crumb cake and combined with this retired DSP,I created these two cards.


I used Tempting Turquoise, Real Red and Crumb Cake base card and added the nuts as brads to add to the dimension of the card.  The robot is cut out and lifted with dimensionals

love the little nuts!

Last but not least the final product given to the Birthday boy.

These were so fun to make, I had a real run on them.  Hope you like the layouts, colours and ideas.
Thank you for stopping by and having a look, I hope you have a lovely day crafting...