The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: Wild About Flowers

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Friday, 17 February 2017

Wild About Flowers Revisited

This card is entered into this week's Crazy Crafters Project Highlights. Click here to see the other great cards.

I made a big effort recently and tidied up my crafting space - big pat on the back for me!! As part of the process, I went through the pile of "rejects" that had been growing on my desk - making myself either use them or throw them away (aghh!)

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Wild About Flowers works very well as a silhouette stamp

This was one of the pieces that caused me to hesitate - I thought the watercolour background had turned out a bit bland - before finally deciding to use it. I made the panel at the same time as I made this card, in order to used up the ink.

I kept it simple and used some strong colours in the layers to counter-balance the pale colours of the watercolouring and, with the addition of the banner, I was quite pleased with the result.

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'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Sunday, 30 October 2016

You've Got This Sympathy Card

Sometimes inspiration comes from some fabric, a photo, painting, advertisement or shop display and occasionally it's a mystery. There's no mystery with this card, though. This beautiful card by Kylie Bertucci really inspired me, although I can only aspire to her complete mastery of the Clean And Simple style (CAS) that eludes me.

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A combination of stamps from the You've Got This, Butterfly Basics and Wild About Flowers sets


The sentiment is from the Flourishing Phrases set

I used Crumb Cake ink for the watercolouring and added a tiny touch of Daffodil Delight to the centres of the flowers.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Wild About Flowers on Watercolour Background

Being very short of time this week [been busy making video tutorials! ;) ] has forced me to think of ways to create a card quickly.

For this one, I combined a simple background with a silhouette and then used layers of cardstock and paper to give it a lift.

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I think the layers give a bit of grandeur to something very simple

I used the English Garden Designer Series Paper with Pumpkin Pie and Mossy Meadow cardstock for the layers.

For the background: I inked the Watercolour Wash background stamp with Pear Pizzazz and Pumpkin Pie inks and spritzed water onto a piece of Shimmery White cardstock before stamping onto it. I let the colours run a bit and then dried it with my heat tool.

Once the background was dry I used Archival Black ink and the Wild About Flowers stamp set (another generous gift for advancing to Silver - thank you again, Kylie Bertucci!). It's a two-step stamp set but oh so quick and simple to do!

I added some Blackberry Bliss ribbon for good measure - this particular version is retired now (I don't use my ribbon fast enough!) but some of the Rich Razzleberry Cotton Ribbon would have done the trick if I'd had some.

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'Til next time
Stephanie

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