Flourishes - Peach Roses

Hi there!

I made this Mother's Day Card for the latest Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge #216 to "Frame It".

I used the Roses Are Red Set and colored them in peach shades with Prismacolor Pencils and mineral spirits.  I had my heart set on making peach colored flowers, but hopefully this doesn't look too pumpkin-y!  I used these beautiful Timeless Rectangles to frame the image and to create a mat frame.  I love the laciness of these dies.

Card recipe:

Stamps: Roses Are Red (Flourishes), Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU)
Paper: Neutrals Cardstock Stack, Mariposa Mat Stack (DCWV), Whisper White, Peach Parfait (SU)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Timeless Rectangles (Spellbinders), distressing tool, Paper Lace II Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), adhesive pearls (Want-2-Scrap), Bow-Easy, Olive Wrinkled Ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), mineral spirits, Prismacolor Pencils: Light Peach, Peach, Mineral Orange, Pumpkin Orange, Pale Vermilion, Black, Kelp Green, Olive Green

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Flourishes FTTC216 - Frame It
Really Reasonable Ribbon #70 - Mother's Day & Ribbon/Lace
Addicted to Stamps & More #41 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  Tomorrow I'll have a cute little CottageCutz gift project to show you!

Blessings!

Kathy

Poppies for Mom

Here is another card I made using the Plant a Little Love stamp set from JustRite. 

I'm not used to working with large round images, so I took a bit for me to balance things out.  This is the first time I used my circle nestibilities and the first time doing the stenciling around the image the "right" way.  I found instructions for this technique on Paula Williamson's website found here.  The key is using the wheat chalk ink that she recommends.  It came out pretty good I think. 

I also used a Sizzix embossing folder called "Ornate Flower and Frame".  I loved the way the middle of it had an embossed circle to go with the circle image - hopefully you can see that.  Then I didn't want too much white, so I decided to emboss a smaller strip to match down the middle in the salmon color, I sanded it a little, then added a mat of guacamole behind it.  I love this guacamole color and have used it for a while.  I think the new green (can't remember the name) that Stampin Up has out is pretty similar.

I couldn't think of accents to use on this, then I thought, 'butterflies in quacamole'!  I actually had some of these already made up from another project that I ended up not using.

The coloring is my FAVORITE thing to do.  Makes me almost feel artistic.  I love matching colors to the paper colors.  I'm still working on doing the shading better, it just takes time to get it right.  I used my Prismacolor pencils and oderless mineral spirits (aka gamsol) with stumps.  I left tiny bits of white here and there to brighten it and also a few dabs of white gel pen.

When it got down to the wording for the front, I was stumped.  I didn't like any of the shapes I had to go with this.  Finally, I decided to just cut around the words and pop it out a little.

The supplies I used are:

Stamps: Plant a Little Love (JustRite), Well Scripted (Stampin Up)
Paper: Guacamole (Bazzills), Salmon (Coredinations), Whisper White (SU)
Ink: Black (Momento), Wheat chalk ink (Versamagic), Old Olive (SU)
Accessories: white gel pen, Nestibilities' Standard Circles Small #6 & Large #5, sponge, Sizzix Ornate Flower and Frame, Embosslits Beautiful Wings (SU), oderless mineral spirits, stumps
Prismacolor pencils: Pale Vermillion, Poppy Red, Pale Sage, Olive Green, & Dark Green.

Hope you enjoy this!

Kathy

Unique Boutique Items

These are pictures of some of the things I will have for sale at the Unique Boutique this Saturday March 27th.  Hope you are able to stop by!

Brag Books

 Post-it Note Holders

Baby Onesie & Matching Card

Photo/Note Holders

Tile Coasters

Bookmarks

Mother's Day Cards

Treat Bags for Easter

Rose for Mom Card

I started this card originally for the Very Vintage challenge TLC263 on Split Coast Stampers, but I'm not sure it's really that vintage.  Probably vintage enough.


Somewhere along the way, it turned into a special card for my mom who passed away 3 years ago as of Sunday the 14th. She loved roses and when I first got this stamp set (my first set) back in the 90's (?), I made her a bunch of cards gold embossed and colored with markers.  She loved those little cards.

I've been doing crafts pretty much since I was born and she always wanted me to have a gift shop to sell the things I've made. Since last summer, I have been doing these papercrafts almost every free minute I have and even did 4 craft show/boutiques. I keep thinking about how happy she would be to see what I have been doing these past few months. I think she would be proud of my accomplishments.

Vintage Coral Mother's Day Card

This is another version I did of the Vintage Vogue card.

Favorite for Week Listing

I'm so incredibly thrilled!!  I was mentioned in this week's "Favorites for the Week" on Split Coast Stampers!  Wow, what an awesome honor!!  This is the card that was favorited.  Thank you to "StampingServant" for acknowledging me!!