step 2 - While the stencil is still wet, carefully lift it up, flip it over and stamp with the stencil onto a second piece of cardstock.
 step 3 - Once the ink is dry, use a pine needle stamp and Spanish Moss Versafine ink pad and stamp additional images onto your card.
 step 4 - Add some color by making red berries using irRESISTible Pico embellisher. Leave to dry and then assemble your card.
And there you have 2 quick cards using one single stencil with two great effects.
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July 23:
StencilGirl Talk
Gwen Lafleur
Carolyn Dube
Carol Baxter
Mark Melnick
Jowilna Nolte
Terre Fry

Once you get into the groove of living a creative life, it is amazing how easily you find your products
from various crafts, can work for all kinds of applications. Today I am using POP Paint to create some beautiful stamped flowers on a card.

 The orange/red colour of the Flamingo POP paint matched perfectly with the colour of my tag making for a beautifully designed card.

 step 1 Stamp various flowers from the Clear Stamp – Daisies (ER-C10) rs3174
stamp set in grey ink onto white cardstock.

Cut out the flowers around the edges and shape them slightly.

step 4 Colour another piece of cardstock with Zest paint and leave to dry.

Once dry, cut out small circles for the centres of your flowers. I cut mine freehand but you can also use a circle punch.

step 5 – Gather all your parts together. Some painted flowers and some plain flowers, and then layer them on top of each other. Adhere the flowers together to form a single flower unit.

Assemble your card with all your pieces. Add a coloured tag, sentiment card, your layered flower and some rub-ons to the folded card and then finish off with some diamante and other dimensional elements.

Products used
Clear Stamp – Daisies (ER-C10) rs3174
POP Paint 28ml – Zest pp0013
POP Paint 28ml – Flamingo pp0002
Textured C/Stock 216g 12″ X 12″ White 10 Shts/Pck (2) sb4970
Craft Guillotine – 6.25″ pct809

what have you done with your POP Paint today?
Ask for POP Paint at your local craft store.

Setting the scene for a special birthday celebration always begins with a special invitation. And what better way to create an invitation than using the fabulous Silhouette machine.

I used the beautiful barn image cut on my silhouette and then turned it into an invitation simply by adding some wording inside.

 step 1 - Insert the image into the silhouette software. Drag the image the size you want it to be.

step 2 - Cut the barn image out of AC smooth cardstock. I cut the same image three times in three different colours.

step 3 - Print the wording onto white typing paper first to determine the correct size. Then print the wording onto some patterned paper from the Kaisercraft Old Mac paper range.

step 4 - Use the door frame from the cut outs to cut the wording to the correct shape and size. 

step 5 - Assemble the invitation with the wording inside. To finish off the outside stamp some grain images using gold Brilliance ink.  

I found these little seedling cups in a store and the colouring worked perfectly to support the theme. A few little identifying tags on toothpicks help identify what’s inside each cup.