Petite Petals

The third card in the tin also uses a piece from the one sheet wonder.
I started by stamping the sentiment! Mainly because if this doesn't stamp as beautifully as you expect or you smudge you design a different card to cover the mistake!
This stamped beautifully. There are so many lovely sentiment stamps in the catalogue.
I have layered the one sheet wonder onto a 'sliver' of each colour of card. Then punched out the flowers using the Bo Ho blossoms punch, middle size flower and the Itty Bitty punches for the middle bit. This small set of 3 punches is also on the retirement list , I have then added a rhinestone.

I think this has to be my favourite card out of the tin.

Petite Petals

Today we continue with cards in the tin. I wanted to have the 2 main colours used as a single card. Today we have Hello Honey in all its glory.
I have used a sheet of the designer paper stack as the background then  whisper white stamped with one flower in hello honey they a piece of the hello honey ribbon. These ribbons are really silky, they tie bows beautifully. I punched out a few flowers and added a rhinestone for a bit of bling, sticking them on with glue dots. I finished off with a sentiment from the ....... spam set which is on the retirement list, so only a week left to get this one. I punched this out with the ........... punch

Petite Petals

This stamp set bundle in the spring summer catalogue is such good value for money and only available for another week as a bundle, saving you 15%.
I have used it with 2 of the new colours, Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey. These colours go so well together.
The designer paper is a sneak peek at one of the paper stacks in the new catalogue, available from July 1st.
Exciting isn't it!
This week all the cards will be what I made to go in this tin.

The first card was made using the 'one sheet wonder' method. I stamped a full A4 sheet of card with the three flower stamps in the three colours, leaving a little white space. Its best to start with the darkest colour then the next and lastly the lightest. Then you will need to go back and add more to fill up some of the spaces.

I layered this onto a piece of the Hello honey. Stamped the sentiment inHello Honey and punched out then used the Blackberry Bliss ribbon for contrast.

TIP. I have found using stampin'Up! glue dots to stick the bows on really easy compared to glue or dimensionals. Find them in my online shop www.karenwatts.stampinup.net

Pretty isn't it?

Ikat again

Here are the last 2 made with this stamp set. So versatile. All of these are stamped with the new 'In Colours" they are really lovely.

These two are very simple, random stamping over the page then a sentiment. I would be pleased to receive either they are so bright and cheerful.

Polymer Ikat Number 3

This card has a very different feel to the previous 2. But uses stamps from the same set just in a less organised way. The tangerine twist colour really pops . Using one of the stamps to give a leaf effect I used the Mossy Meadow, but stamped off first to give a lighter touch. Keeping the sentiment simple works well as the foliage and flower is quite busy. I think this set might stay on my desk!
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Mixed Bunch and a sneak look at blendabilities and a paper from the new paper stack

New to Satmpin'Up1 are blendabilities. They come in packs of 3, 3 shades of one colour. I have used the Rich Razzleberry as this is one of my favourite colours.
I punched out the flower then coloured trying to get the petals to fade from dark in the middle to light at the edge. It does take some practise. When you are colouring it all looks very dark but as it dries it fades out giving a smoother colour.
The style of card is an old favourite with a punched out piece which gave me an opportunity to show you one of the papers in the new paper stack. I have then used the punched out flower, sponging light around the edges and adding a pearl. The card colour is Blackberry Bliss, one of the new 'in colours' I know I shall use a lot of this.

Stampin'Up! Polymer stamps. Ikat

For this card I have used 2 further stamps from the Ikat set. Its a bit fairisle like, you know golfer jumper style!

Again this has been stamped freehand, its so easy with the polymer stamps as you can see through them.

The colours used here are from the new 'In Colours' Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey. The tags are made with the tag top punch which I have used to make a very special card which I will show you on Monday. The make a wish stamp set was still on my desk from last week and I do like it..... can you tell?