Tuesday, March 31, 2020

My Guest Stamper

I, like I'm sure many of you, am missing my grandkids!  Although they don't all live near enough to visit regularly, I still like the thought of being able to visit when I want.  And because of these unusual circumstances, I can't.  So I'm making cards to send, like this one:


A few of my grandsons are dinosaur lovers, so I thought this would be appropriate for one household.  The Dino Days stamps and Dino dies had enough dinosaurs to make one for each child.  I even labeled them so there wouldn't be any fighting over them!  😄


After stamping and cutting them out, I added them to a Whisper White Stitched Rectangle, but I needed to fill in the back, so I cut a few of the Timeless Tropical palm trees with the In The Tropics dies.  And mounted it all to some of the Tropical Oasis Designer Series Paper.

Now little Charlotte, who is 3, just sent me a card that she made.  As the "stay at home" orders began coming out, I knew that my daughter-in-law would need help with 4 kids under 9 years old.  So I packed up a full box of card bases, lots of punched pieces, and a whole bunch of retired bling, and sent it off with instructions to send cards to friends and family member whom they can't see right now.   And I got this:


She got a little help with the printing from her mom, but she did this all herself.  Look at the inside:


There's even a picture of Charlotte and me!  L.O.V.E!

And the back:


And here she is: Charlotte, creating her card:


I heard that the flower and dot embellishments made great stick-on earrings for Charlotte and her little sister, Matilyn (age 18 months).  😁


I miss my little Charlotte (and her sister and brothers!), but am stayin' in touch through Stampin'.  How about you?


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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Sending Flowers

I have a friend who is struggling with family illness, so I wanted to send her a card.  But since I ended up with some leftover pieces, I decided to create one more.  So now I have two:


I love how they came out!

The Sending Flowers dies are a special-order item, not currently shown in a catalog.  But I had gotten them and love the bright, cheery flowers, good for many occasions.

The dies are circles with flowers in the middle.  I cut off the top part of the circle and fit my flowers behind a rectangle frame.  Let's take a closer look:



I first cut the die with Call Me Clover cardstock so I had green stems, leaves and flowers.  After trimming the circle I attached the stems to the back side of a Thick Whisper White frame cut with the Stitched Rectangles dies.  Then I used the two flower dies (included in the set) with a variety of colors - Gorgeous Grape, Melon Mambo, Real Red, Pineapple Punch and Grapefruit Grove.  I glued them to the flower tops, and then used a brand new embellishment - the Gilded Gems (coming in the upcoming Annual Catalog in May) for the flower centers.


Then the "basket".  I had two sentiments and needed the baskets to be different sizes, so I used the Stitched Rectangles with Crumb Cake cardstock and then ran them through the Basket Weave embossing folder.  A quick wrap with ribbon/bakers twine, and I was done with the front.


Layering these flowers against a plain white background wasn't very exciting, so I used a sponge dauber to swipe some Balmy Blue ink across the card base within the outline of the frame.  Thought it came out great!  Then the framed piece was adhered, using Dimensionals for some height.

Here are the two greetings, one, a "flagged" banner, and the other stamped directly on the card.  Which do you like better?



Sending Flowers is still available, but I don't know for how much longer.  If you like what you see, snatch it up soon!

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