SAB card

Yesterday we had our monthly Bloomin' Buds meeting and it's great to see some new team members and the team have had a few promotions this month.

This was my swap card:

I've used 3 different Sale-a-bration stamp sets - Avant Garden, Delicate Details and Designer Tee.

Inks used are Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Sweet Sugarplum and Peekaboo Peach.
I've sneaked another lovely Stitched Shapes Framelit in there too!

Dragonfly Dreams

Back to a simple but effective card using a piece of the new Falling in Love Designer Series paper and the Dragonfly Dreams bundle (20 photopolymer stamps and 5 lovely thinlit dies).

Peekaboo bear

So, in the interests of getting maximum use from a set of stamps todays card is very much like yesterdays but slightly different!

I've used the same bear from Cookie Cutter Christmas but this time in Marina Mist - doesn't he look cute?

The background is a super new embossing folder called Cable Knit Dynamic Textured Impressions, it's a much chunkier folder than usual to give a deeper impression.

Sentiment from Suite Sayings, cut out with the same framelit as the previous card and some linen thread used.

Trio of Flowers Pt2

And the second card in my trio:

I've used the same colour suite but this card has no Melon Mambo.

I've used some Neutral Crumb Cake Designer Series Paper in the background and then a layer with Watercolour Wash stamped on it.

Lots of Labels Framelits are used for the layers and finished with Crumb Cake Stitched Satin Ribbon, Linen Thread, Paper Piercing with Updated Essentials and another sentiment from Cottage Greetings.

Wild About Flowers Trio

We have a Bloomin' Buds weekend away this week and have all chosen a stamp set to make 3 cards with.  We then provide all the card, stamps etc for everyone else to make our 3 cards so will come home with a great selection.

I've chosen the set Wild About Flowers and this is my first card:

It is pretty much a case of a card I saw on Pinterest and I have made it in the past but this time have added 3 coloured circles behind the images to make them pop a little more.

The sentiment is from Cottage Greetings which is a lovely font.

I've used the scoreboard to mark some lines on a second layer of Crumb Cake and added some Linen Thread.

Colours used are:
Old Olive
Tangelo Twist
Hello Honey
Melon Mambo

Wild about flowers

Hello to any new viewers I met at the weekend, it was super to come across Stampin' Up fans I hadn't met before.

I'm off to meet up with some of the Bloomin' Buds in Poole tomorrow which is always a lovely morning.

This is the card I've made for a swap this month which was another Pinterest steal:

The card base and extra layer are Crumb Cake.

The raised layer has some score lines from Simply Scored on it which I think is really effective.

I've said this before but this new stamp set is brilliant!!
It's called Wild About Flowers and is a photopolymer set with 12 stamps in.  It was soooo easy and quick to use.  There are 3 different 'stems' and 3 different sets of flower heads which go with a particular stem.  Because you can see through the stamps it was a delight to use so the flowers sit where they should.

It was quicker to do all the prep and stamping for 9 of these than it was to stick them all together.

I've wrapped some linen thread around the card under the score lines and added a little bow.  The flowers are cut out using a 1 3/8" punch.

The sentiment is from the Tin of Cards stamp set and stamped in Early Espresso.

I hope this has tempted you - I'll try to do a card next showing off the full stems on a card.

Golden Feathers

This is another card we made at Bloomin' Buds last week.

The base is one of the mini note cards & envelopes in crumb cake that you can buy in a pack of 20.

We used the Four Feathers stamp set and embossed in gold on vellum and cut out with the matching framelits.

Sentiment from Hey You and finished with some glimmer card stock, designer button and linen thread.

We also used a white gel pen on the dots on the feather which gives a good effect.

Off to Andrea & Gill's party tomorrow so will try & share the make & take - but no sneaky peeks today!
Jill

Simply Trees

A quick post today with a share using the ever-popular stamp set 'Lovely as a Tree'

I have simply stamped this image in Soft Suede and layered on a piece of matching card.

The base card is Naturals White which has a soft fleck to it and worked brilliantly for this sample.

Sentiment from 'Express Yourself' hostess set and finished with some linen thread.
Jill