"Using The Floral Stem Collage From Poppy Stamp"

Good Monday to all on this beautiful July 24, 2017
Some are returning to work after a glorious weekend.  Some are still resting after taking trips and tours this weekend.  Some have not had a weekend break.  It will come later on in the week.
Any way we look at it, we're glad you're safe and sound enjoying your work, your relaxation, and/or your pleasure.
I'm sharing a card using a die from Poppystamps, Inc.
I had admired this die since seeing Jennifer McGuire use it on her blog and YouTube video  about two months ago.  I waited until there was a sale before I purchased it. (I love sales, free shipping and BOGO).
This is a very impressive die cut.  The flower stays in the frame and it comes with an extra petal.  What I did was...(1) cut out the die with the flower once and the petal two times. (2) Used distress inks to color the petals...wild honey and ripe persimmon and the stem with peeled paint. (3) stacked the petals using foam tape. (4) distressed the edges of the frame with black dye ink (Hampton Art). (5) Used green mulberry paper (http://www.milehighnetstores.com/) to back the frame. (6) used various colors of cardstock to layer my image until it was finally adhered to the Neenah white cardstock base. (7) stamped the sentiment using Hampton Art jillibean soup "handwritten sentiments and finally (8) I added Ranger coral liquid pearls around the sentiment.

entry for

WordArtWednesday     Challenge #292- #293 - Anything Goes

entry for 

http://www.cropstop.com/blog

Items used from left to right:

• Mulberry paper (assorted from http://www.milehighnetstores.com)
• Floral Stem Collage Poppy stamp die
• Hampton Art jillibean soup "handwritten sentiments"
• Ranger liquid pearls "coral"

Thanks for your time, your viewing and your past comments.   Love hearing from you and hope you will come again.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,

Lois

"How Old Is Old?"

Happy Friday to you my friends, followers, visitors and viewers.
Let's have a grand ole' time this weekend.  Let's celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July with fun, food and family.

It's Friday and I usually see what I have in my stash to make a card. I call my post, "What's In My Stash?"
Today, I've been inspired by the June Hero Arts kit.  I don't have the kit but I thought I had some of the pictures of the stamps that were in the kit.  I went way, way down in my stash because I remember getting an African theme book at the beginning of my scrapbooking days and had not thrown it away (it still had a few pages left and the cardstock was really a heavy weight).
Yippee!, I found it but was not so happy to find that most of the animal pictures had been used or cut out of the book (DCWV Safari Chic stack).  I had two pages with the elephant on it so my card was made from those two pages, a Recollections stamp set and NUVO bronze and white crystal drops.

I'm going to enter this card over at Cropstop.com/blog   June Challenge Link Party #29

http://www.cropstop.com/blog/cards/ahoy-embossing-tutorial/

Come and join me.

Here is the card I made.  The focal is made out of one of the sheets of DCWV Safari Chic Stack cardstock.  With the second sheet, I fussy cut out the elephant and decoupage it on top of the first one.  I used the white NUVO drops and colored in the tusk and added bronze NUVO drops for the eyes and for embellishment.
Using the Recollections stamp set, Versa mark ink, gold embossing powder, and black Archival ink.  I stamped the sentiment with the Versa mark and heat embossed the gold powder.  I stamped the sentiment again with the black ink moving the paper less than an eighth of an inch to make the gold embossing a shadow effect.  Below are two of the items used in the making of this card.

Thanks for visiting today.
I always enjoy your view and your comments.

Sending you a hug and LOVE,
Lois