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Hello! Kim here to share with you a card using The Cabbage Rose and Keep Calm stamp set. I am also using the Tangrams Art Stencil to create my background.
I embossed the Cabbage Rose using white embossing powder. I then created the background using Sweet Stamps' Tangram art stencil in shades of Dandelion and Montego Bay. I created a mask for the cabbage rose using a piece of post it note. I colored in the image using a shade of yellow, green and red. I used a water brush to distribute the colors. The sentiment is from the Keep Calm set. I freehand the banner and adhered it onto the card using 3d tape. I felt it needed something so I randomly added some rhinestones.

I made a mistake of swiping the red ink with the first card below and it smeared a bit onto the stenciled background so I ended up with two cards :) The top one I placed the stencil in a different direction.

Hello

Hello! This is Kim and today I am sharing this card using the Cabbage Rose stamp. I embossed the image using clear embossing powder. I then watercolored it in then fussy cut and popped it onto the circle die cut using 3d foam tape. I also sponged the background using blue and green ink. The sentiment was die cut several times to create dimension. 

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Rosey Posey Card

Hi, Josette here with my Tuesday installment.  I am on a flower kick, I so want it to be spring.  Which it might be soon.  The weather in Texas is warm and sunny and the animals are shedding like crazy.  So even though I don't have flowers blooming in my yard, they are blooming in abundance in my craft room!!

This was a very fun card to make.  Using Cabbage Rose stamp, I stamped it randomly onto white card stock and then inked with Spun Sugar distress ink.

Pre-Inking.  Note I turned the card around in the final version.

Next, I used watercolor pain in a red and green and laid down an irregular patch of red and green.

Stamped the image onto each of the two sections and cut them out.  By doing this I get the look of shading and variation of color without actually coloring.  By stamping last, the ink stays bright and crisp.

After cutting out, I layered them and added highlights (lowlights) with a black glaze pen, a placed a few rhinestones in the center.

A black ribbon finishes the look.  Rhinestones were added to the ribbon and on the center of one of the background roses for added bling.  This was mounted on a pink matt and then finally onto a White A2 Card base.

Until next week,
Happy Crafting
Josette

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Time for Spring Flowers

Josette here with another Tuesday inspiration.  It is just February but I am so ready for spring.  Down here in Texas the weather has warmed to a wonderful 76+, the sun is out and with all the recent rain the grass is green.  I am sure spring is near.  So on that note, how about some Spring Flowers.

Don't you just love that cabbage rose stamp: it is available here at the Sweet Stamp Store.

If you follow my Blog you know how much I love backgrounds.  I have boxes of them  So I pulled one out.  This one was made by spraying ink onto a white card.  I did a whole series of backgrounds using a color wheel.  These a yellow green,  true orange and a bright yellow.  I am unsure of the brand of ink but it was very glittery.

I first stamped the flower in the corner, this was more for a "target, then masked it off and stamped the remains images in Versamark and heat set with clear embossing powder.

The flower was stamped on a white cardstock with Momento ink and colored with Copic Markers.  After coloring I cut out the image and mounted it on 3D squares.
After a dry run placement before permanetly adhering, it just didn't seem quite right.  So I located a  doily, stamped a circle with a sentiment,  cut everything down and placed it under the flower.  Better.  The flower ended up lower than anticipated, but the doily covered it up.  Lastly I added a bow that was made from seam tape and colored with a Copic Marker that had been used to color in the leaves.    This was mounted on an A2 white card.
I think it is stunning and very simple to complete.  A good use of a background.  What do you think?
Until next week,
Happy Crafting,
Josette

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Have a Beautiful Day

Hello Stampers! My name is Kim and I blog over at Lily Patch Stamps. I am one of the new Sweet Stamps Sweeties. This is my first project and I am so excited to have the opportunity to create with the beautiful stamps and dies from the Sweet Stamps store.
I am using the Cabbage Rose stamp and coloring in with Copic markers. The butterfly is a Sweet Cuts die called Flutterby. I love the dainty feel it lends to the card. I stamped the sentiment onto the white cardstock and freehand the banner.

Art Nouveau Garden

Good morning Stampers! I'm glad to be back with you for another Guest Designer post. The theme for this week's challenge is 'In the Garden'! You can find that challenge here and I hope you play along with us this week. I actually combined the Monthly Technique Challenge along with the weekly challenge for this project. The Monthly challenge is to create a Double Side Step card and you can read more about that in the previous post.

For the center medallion, I used the Cabbage Rose ATC 1011Stamp and stamped out several images on white card stock. I colored three images with my alcohol markers and cut out the center part of the flower, the midsize section and the entire flower excluding the leaves. I cut out leaves from several of the images and kept those separate. In the next step, I assembled the flower using foam dimensional dots. I chose a die cut image of designer paper as the background for this center flower and attached the flower to this background with another foam dot. Once the flower was in place, I decided on where to place the leaves and then added a bit of Crystal Stickles for a little glitz!

The side panels were made using the Art Nouveau Vertical Border 4008 Stamp which I stamped onto smooth white card stock. I colored the leaves and flowers with alcohol ink markers and it looked good but I wanted a little something more. I decided to also color the background and when it was finished, it looked like designer paper which matched perfectly with the actual designer paper that I used on this card.

For the sentiment, I lined the card base with the same designer paper that I used to back the stamped images and then layered two additional die cuts on top. One in a contrasting but matching designer paper to which I added bling. The top layer is smooth white card stock that I stamped the Special Day Sentiment. I edged the die cut with a light aqua alcohol marker and added more stickles.

If you would like to see a complete materials list for this project, please visit this post on my blog.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Paula