Papillon Potpourri

Hello fellow stampers! Well, I'm on day two of my creative challenge and so far so good.  But the week isn't over yet.  Do you ever sit down to create a card and don't know where to start?  You can have an idea of what you want to create but not sure what to do? Well, one thing that I do is look at past blog sketches or color combos.  Doesn't matter that the deadline has passed to include your project, a good sketch is always a good sketch!

Well, that's what I did for my card today, I went back and looked at the archives on the Sunday Stamps blog and I came across this cool sketch. It made creating so much easier!  You can see the original post here. So next time you're in a creative rut, try looking at past sketches.

We used the framed tulips embossing folder this past weekend at Spring Fling and I was missing it so I used it for this card. Using our white gel pens makes perfect dots between each tulip. Gotta love products that coordinate, the large butterflies from papillon potpourri go with the elegant butterfly punch.  The smaller ones coordinate with the bitty butterfly punch from the Spring Catalog! Except I used the beautiful wings embosslits.  The 1/4 stitched grosgrain ribbon is the right size to layer on top of the needlepoint embossing folder. The sentiment is from the Spring Catalog, the Pop-Up Posies Designer kit. And there you have it, another card completed using the current color challenge from Sunday Stamps! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Until next time. 

Button Buddies Flower easel card

Happy Sunday Stampers!  Have you played along with us at Sunday Stamps yet? We have an awesome color challenge this week.  Melissa is our wonderful host and my fellow designers have created some beautiful creations.  Come check us out and play along with us!

When I saw Melissa's color challenge it took me awhile to think of how I wanted to use it.  Last Monday at our Shoebox Swap meeting I got a cool easel card from my fellow demo Becky and I wanted to try it out. I really like the flower stamp from the Button Buddies stamp set so I used to create a sunflower. I didn't use any ink pads for my card, just our Many Marvelous Markers!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a chance to create something this week!

Stamp Sets:  Button Buddies and Pretty Petites

Card Stock:  More Mustard, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Subtles DSP Stack

Other:  1/2 Scallop Dots Ribbon, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Neutrals Designer Buttons, Stampin' Dimensionals, Petite Curly Label punch

Sunday Stamps Challenge

Hello stampers!  Happy Sunday.  I'm having so much fun designing for the Sunday Stamps blog challenge.  Steph is our host this week and she has an awesome color challenge for us. Have you played along with us yet? Join us!  Come check us out here.

Have you tried the triple time stamping technique? It's such a cool technique.  This week for my creation, I followed the instructions from Spiltcoast Stampers on this technique.  It's been awhile since I created a square card and I love the way it turned out!

The base of the card is crumb cake and I layered the whisper white onto the raspberry ripple. I inked the Hello, Doily with crumb cake,  stamped off first then stamped onto the whisper white. It creates a nice subtle effect.  Inking the flower from Blooming with Kindness with raspberry ripple, I stamped it three different times. Running the Beautiful Wings Embosslits with perfect plum dsp through the big shot, I scattered the butterflies throughout my card. I also decorated the inside of the card with the color challenge. So now it's your turn to create something!

Until next time.