Fleur Impressions

And more stamped images from my craft room!  These are the Fleur Impressions and Oopsie Daisy flower stamps from The Greetery, arranged in the cute Just Mason Around jar.

I again pulled out the Knit Wits stencil, and used it with some ink blending of Tattered Rose and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide inks.  Sentiment is Perfect Sentiments from Pinkfresh Studio, gold embossed.

Budding Beauties Autumn

Current mission is using up some of those bits & pieces that I had previously stamped, that are sitting in my craft room.  I have more than a few :-)  All but the sentiment (Spellbinders) are from The Greetery.

I began with some ink blending with Tattered Rose and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxides.  I used the Knit Wits stencil to add a little texture overtop, using the same inks.  Just Mason Around is a fun multi-step stamp set that creates the mason jar, and all of the florals are from the Budding Beauties Autumn stamp set.

I added spatters of gold paint to my card, then stacked the You Are Everything Betterpress sentiment over a mat of glitter cardstock.  A few gold pearls finished it off.

Petite Criss Cross

I recently acquired the Petite Criss Cross press plate from Spellbinders.  *I love anything sewing themed for cardmaking, and thought this would be a great background to coordinate with products that I already have.

I foiled the plate onto some pale peach cardstock with some copper foil, then added the smaller frame from Hoopla Oval by The Greetery.  I inked and spattered the frame a little to make it look more like a wooden embroidery hoop before gluing it down.  The floral bits are all from the Embroidered Blooms die set (also The Greetery) that I had cut out previously for a project - always happy to use up a few leftovers.

The hardware for the hoop was cut from some rose gold metallic cardstock, as was a halo mat for the sentiment.  The sentiment is from the You Are Everything Sentiments press plate, pressed in Copper Pot ink.

Flourish & Vine Valentine

My third project with the December Betterpress Society plate, Flourish & Vine is going to be my husband's Valentine!  The lovely heart shape makes a very elegant one, and I had the idea to do cardstock strips under the opening.

I wanted rainbow order, and in my head this was more of a pastel look, but ended up being dusty looking shades (which I'm good with!).  I adhered the strips onto an A2 sized piece of black cardstock.

The image was pressed with Betterpress Black ink onto some warm grey cardstock, and I pressed the sentiment from the Sealed Cord and Faux Seal Sentiments set.

I used my Art Impressions Rounded Edge Stitched Rectangle die to trim down my panel a little, and adhered it to the base with some thin 3D foam adhesive.  A few iridescent jewels finished it off.

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Sweet Leaves Valentine

I have owned the Sweet Leaves Frame stencil & die set from Pinkfresh Studio for a while, and had stenciled up a panel, and never used it - until now!  I still make valentines for my adult children, and decided this would be a pretty one for my daughter.  I used the coordinating die to cut out the images, not realizing until I was assembling the card, that the frame actually has a right side up - I thought it was the same in either direction.  You can see across the middle, where the die/stencil don't line up!  Oh well, my daughter will still appreciate the colours and sparkle.

A Quick Valentine

I needed to put together a last minute valentine for an elderly relative that I was visiting today, so I dove into my stash to see what I had on hand.  I pulled out a couple of papers from Lawn Fawn's Let's Polka in the Meadow pack, and cut one into a large heart.

The flowers are all from Fleur Impressions by The Greetery, that I already had stamped and ready to use in my craft room, so I was able to decorate my card quickly, and finished it off with a gold 'love' die cut.

Thought You Knew!

I'm sharing my favourite new Spellbinders press plate today!  This is the 'Thought You Knew', which I purchased from The Papercrafter's Workshop.

I made two 5 1/2" square cards, using some ancient Lawn Fawn rainbow paper!  I pressed the plate onto some Prism Watercolour paper with Betterpress Black ink (a 3 1/4" square), then painted them in ombre fashion with Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers distress ink.

I used a fine paintbrush, and painted in the 'shadow' edges on each word, with the ink at full strength, and it really made the words pop!  Plus I used some glittery gold paint to paint in the heart.

I cut a slightly larger square of Brushed Gold Treasured cardstock from Spellbinders as a mat, and adhered it down to the card base, one of them on an angle.

The pressed images were adhered with 3D foam adhesive.  I've used two different floral stamp sets from The Greetery, Oopsie Daisy and Fleurs - both of which I had stamped and ready to go, to decorate my cards, and added a few iridescent pearls to one of them.