Greenery Invites Set

I have the third card to share today using Greenery Invites from Art Impressions - all with gold foil using my Minc machine:

When I first went to use this stamp set, being that it is intended for weddings, I got on Pinterest to see what are current/trendy colour combos for weddings.  There was a lot of blush pink, navy & neutrals, so I knew that these papers from Pink Paislee would be perfect.

This is a 5 1/2" square card that I made by running the wreath image and sentiment through my Minc machine to add gold foil.  I die cut them both with stitched dies, matted with a matte navy cardstock, and then onto the shimmery blush square of cardstock.  The sentiment is adhered with pop dots for a little dimension.  Enjoy!

Greenery Invites - You're Invited

Sharing my second card today using Greenery Invites - again using my Minc machine to add gold foiling to the font and corner images:

 It's so hard to photograph glimmer!  But I think you can see in the first photo how pretty and shimmery this is in real life.  After die cutting my sentiment with a stitched square die, I mounted it on navy and then a larger square of shimmery blush cardstock.  The corner images were fussy cut and mounted with foam tape.  You can find the Greenery Invites set on the Art Impressions website, here.

Greenery Invites

Keeping my roll going sharing a card made with the new Greenery Invites from Art Impressions:

I knew from the moment I saw this set, that I wanted to do some gold foiling!  So using my Minc machine, I foiled one of the wreath images, and my sentiment.  I matted the large circle with some wonderful shimmery blush pink cardstock, and added a few gold sequins to add to the glimmer.

I'll be posting my other two cards using this set over the coming days.

Cheryl's card

One of my sisters is lucky enough to have her birthday fall on Mother's Day every so often, so here is the card that I sent her:

 Once again, it's my current favourite stamp set: Floral Invites from Art Impressions.  I really love how this one turned out, with the bold flowers and multi-coloured greenery, coloured with Copic markers.

I die cut my image out and raised it with 3D adhesive,  onto my warm yellow card base.  I die cut a larger circle from the polka dot paper, and also adhered it to the base with 3D adhesive tape - it's a great look.  Happy Birthday to my big sis :o)

Last Floral Invite Card (for now!)

Here's the 3rd card I made with the Floral Invites set from Art Impressions - I'll show the trio of coordinating cards first, and then scroll down to see the little Thank You card on it's own.

 Making cards that coordinate, just makes me happy!

I'm pretty sure that this was 4 1/4" square (I've long since sent it on to Ai!).  Thank you cards are often a little smaller than regular cards, so I just focused on die cutting the sentiment with my hexagon stitched dies, and added one of the little sprigs coloured in Copic markers.  The background has a soft blending of Distress Oxide ink, and then was spattered with a little deep blue ink.

Another Floral Invite card

Here's the second card I made using Art Impressions new Floral Invites - I had fun doing a little ink blending for the background:

The flowers are coloured with Copic markers, then fussy cut and adhered with foam dots over the geometric outline & sentiment.

Floral Invites

Art Impressions has really knocked it out of the park this season with their amazing floral stamp sets.  5267 Floral Invites is one set that I can't get enough of... so I'm going to share a bunch of cards over the next few days.  Here's my first:

I started by choosing my colour palette, and colouring the image with Copic Markers.  I knew that I wanted an ink blended background, so I fussy cut the image out to show it off.  On my white cardstock base, I started by blending Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink, and then went overtop with Shaded Lilac to create that blue/green colour - I know, it's a little bit of an odd combination, but I was really pleased with the results.  I scribbled my Tombow Dual Brush marker in #565 Deep Blue onto a palette, and picked it up with a wet paintbrush - then created spatters over the whole base, along with a few sprinkles of straight water to add a little interest.  I die cut one of the sentiments included in the set and mounted it and the wreath with 3D foam tape onto the base.