Free As A Bird Against Painted Glass

In the midst of cancer treatment, my thoughts have been turning more and more frequently to escape!  On this particular day I was thinking about the tragedy of the fire damage to Notre Dame in Paris and was inspired to use the Painted Glass stamp set.

Freedom and escape were in my thoughts as I created this card with the Free As A Bird and Painted Glass stamp sets

For me, the bird (from the Free As A Bird stamp set) represents freedom, escape and hope as it sits on the branch, poised to fly off, with not a thought in its head except finding the next meal!

Thank you for visiting (and your patience).
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products available for purchase from my online store

Free As A Bird Bundle

$89.00

Painted Glass Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$31.00

Seasonal Layers Dies

$56.00

Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$16.00

Classic Label Punch

$31.00

Magnolia Lane Ribbon Combo Pack

$15.75

Glitter Enamel Dots

$12.25

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

$15.25

Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

$15.50

Bermuda Bay Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

$15.50

Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

$15.50

Seasonal Leaves

Lost your mojo?  Hunting for your creativity?  We've all been there.  It may not feel like it now, but it will come back to you again.  In the meantime, take a look around your room - you may be surprised to find inspiration in something very ordinary that you normally overlook.

Finding myself in that very situation, I found inspiration in the little calendar that sits in the corner of my craft room.

Colorful Seasons stamp set, Seasonal Layers dies
and the Layered Leaves 3D embossing folder combine to create this card

 The other side of the calendar has a very different pattern - maybe I'll CASE that in the future!

My leafy card together with it's inspiration

Wondering how I cut the tops of the coloured 1"strips?  With the use of one of the dies in the Botanical Tags set - see below. 

Placing the Botanical Tag die to trim the top of the coloured strip

The card colours I used were Soft Sea Foam, Shaded Spruce, Granny Apple Green, Mango Melody, Cajun Craze, Merry Merlot and Blackberry Bliss.  It's a great way to use up some of those odd little bits of cardstock!

Thank you for visiting.
'Til  next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase in my online store

Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$16.00

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set

$47.00

Seasonal Layers Dies

$56.00

Botanical Tags Dies

$47.00

Stitched Rectangle Dies

$61.00

Versamark Pad

$16.50

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$10.50

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

To A Wild Rose with Layered Leaves

I'm sure I can't be the only crafter with an assortment of backgrounds, half-finished thoughts, leftovers and discarded bits floating around the craft space! Really?  Am not am I?

Time and energy are in short supply at the moment, so I hunted through those bits and pieces looking for things that I could assemble together.  Not bad eh?

To A Wild Rose - all purpose hand made card

The background was one of several I did a while ago with an embossing folder and Brusho Crystal Colour that is now retired.  (However, for anyone wanting to have a go at this, the new Pigment Sprinkles are very similar but even nicer colours!).

The flowers are from when I was experimenting with the To A Wild Rose stamp set.  I only used two of the three stamped layers so that the card colour became the lightest shade.

All I had to do was layer it all up with some ribbon and a little bit of bling in the form of Noble Peacock Rhinestones.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase from my online store

To A Wild Rose Bundle

$93.50

Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$16.00

Old Olive/Pretty Peacock 3/8" (1 Cm) Reversible Ribbon

$13.00

Grapefruit Grove 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Grosgrain Ribbon

$10.50

Petal Pink A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Highland Heather A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Pretty Peacock A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Noble Peacock Rhinestones

$9.50

Petal Palette on Brusho Layered Leaves

Last week I made some backgrounds with Brusho Colour Crystals and embossing folders and shared the first card I made which used the Woodland embossing folder.  This time I've made a card with one of the Layered Leaves backgrounds together with the Petal Palette stamp set and coordinating Petals & More Thinlit dies.

Sometimes the back of the watercolour background is more pleasing that the front!

I really didn't like the "front" of this background - it came out rather dark and very speckled - so I turned it over and used the back!

This is the front of the background - I decided to use the back
Brusho Colour Crystal on Layered Leaves embossing folder

The base card is Mint Macaron, to which I added a layer of Blueberry Bushel.

The foliage is cut from both Blueberry Bushel and Tranquil Tide cardstock and I offset them a little when I adhered them to the card front.

I stamped the bird with Blueberry Bushel ink and then coloured it with a Pool Party Stampin' Write Marker before cutting it out with the coordinating die and adding to the card with dimensionals.

I used a Calypso Coral and Tranquil Tide Stampin' Write Marker to add ink to the floral stamp and then added some colour and shading with Mint Macaron and Petal Pink Stampin' Write Markers before cutting out with the coordinating die.  TIP: When adding ink to stamps with markers, breathe heavily on the inked stamp before stamping - the moisture in your breath will reactivate any ink that may be drying out.

To add the flowers to the card, I tucked the stems under the die-cut foliate with a little glue and popped the floral end up on Stampin' Dimensionals. 

Some of the elements are popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals
Petal Palette stamp set, Petals & More dies, Brusho Colour Crystals and Layered Leaves embossing folder

The greeting from the Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set is stamped with Blueberry Bushel ink and cut out with the Classic Label Punch, shortened using this process.  I then glued it to the Blueberry Bushel label that was shortened using this method.

Finishing touches were the bow of Calypso Coral Ombre ribbon and some Glitter Enamel Dots.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All products are available for purchase in my online store

Brusho Crystal Colour

$52.00

Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$16.00

Petal Palette Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$61.00

Petals & More Thinlits Dies

$59.00

Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$63.00

Many Marvelous Markers

$215.25

Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Classic Label Punch

$31.00

Calypso Coral 1/4" Ombre Ribbon

$12.25

Glitter Enamel Dots

$12.25