More Adventures with Two-Tone Flora

I woke up this morning thinking about this stamp set and had to play with it some more. Here are two more cards:

I don't often make top folding cards, but both of these are. The large die is a bit of work, but I think it's well worth it! The card bases are Basic White with layers of Fresh Freesia and Balmy Blue underneath the large die cut piece. The die is from the Two-Tone Flora die set as are the dies used to cut the flowers and leaves. I used Fresh Freesia, Pale Papaya and Balmy Blue for the flowers and Granny Apple Green for the leaves. I think I would go with a darker color for the accents on the flowers though, Tone on tone just doesn't quite cut it. I added a computer generated sentiment and some rhinestones to add some bling! I found this card by Amy Koenders this morning and watched the video and got some ideas for making these. She used the tone on tone technique, but I think that I might try something a bit different next time I make cards with this set. The card from yesterday used a darker color for the accents and I think I like that style better.

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Playing with Two-Tone Flora

I saw this card and given my love affair with Poppy Parade I felt it only right to give it a try. Here is the result:

I made the card base Poppy Parade so that the gorgeous die cut could highlight the color underneath. I made several flowers and had a hard time lining things up. If anyone has any tips on how that works I would love to hear from you. The darker color is Merry Merlot and the flower is Poppy Parade. I then cut them out using one of the flower dies in the Two Tone Flora die set. The leaves were stamped with Pear Pizzazz and then cut with the die. I added a computer generated sentiment cut with a Stitched Rectangle die and called it done! I want to play some more with this stamp/die set, so look forward to a few more samples. The big die has a lot of pieces to cut and pop out, but in the long run it's worth it for special cards. I don't think I would do it for a camp though as I would need to cut too many.

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Couple more cards to share

I saw this card on Stella MacKay's blog and have wanted to play with this design ever since.  I finally sat down and made a couple of cards:

I love this flower and I think it is just perfectly elegant stamped in color but not colored!  What do you think?

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I couldn't help myself ...

I saw this card by Kittie Caracciolo and I immediately knew that I was going to case it. Elegant and gorgeous (as is everything she creates), it was love at first sight. Here's my interpretation:


I wanted a bit more color and have been itching to use my new Pinefeather paper and ribbon from PTI - it reminds me very much of Handsome Hunter, a wonderful SU color that has now been retired. In fact, you really could not tell them apart if compared side by side! I used a panel of white and added a panel of white embossed with the dotted swiss embossing folder and mounted on Pinefeather. Then I used my nesties to create the frame and image panel, stamped the trees from Scenic Season (SU) in Handsome Hunter and popped up the frame with dimensionals. I punched some nice ferns with one of Martha's punches and added some gold baubles. I kind of like it!

I've been fighting a nasty cold since we got back from Wyoming and haven't had much energy to be creative. It's a good thing there's talent like Kittie's out there to get me off my duff and creating again!

It's going to be a really fun day at Sentimental Sundays tomorrow, so be sure to stop by and there's a new challenge coming on Kaboodle Doodles on Monday too!

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~chris

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And yet another Chat inspired card....

I am in love with this flower and this color combination! Here's another card inspired by the fabulous Chat:


Lots of family in town for my niece's wedding this weekend, son, mom, brother, sister-in-law, nephew - busy time and posting may be a bit sparse and my visits to your blogs may be a few days behind schedule, but it's for good cause!

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~chris

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The cat can come out of the bag ....

I mentioned in my post about my downline card here that I would let you all know where the inspiration came from. Well now I can. The fantastic Renee Van Stralen accidentally put up a card on her blog and took it right back down again, but in that teeny time it was up I saw it in my Blog Reader and I grabbed it and went with it. Here's her card and you can click on it and go to her blog post about it:


I just loved this card but when I went to find it again so that I could give her credit for inspiring me, it was no where to be found. I emailed her and got the low down on what happened and assured her that when she posted her card I would be sure to let all my readers know where the inspiration came from.

So now you have it - go, go right now, and visit her blog and check out all the gorgeous creations she has there to share with everyone.

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~chris

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Case of a Case

I was blurfing the other day and came across this card on Wanda's blog. I immediately fell in love and just could not get it out of my head. Wanda says her card is a case of this card and so I guess that makes my card a case of a case! Here it is:


I really thought this MS apple punch would be perfect for this card and I am very pleased with how it turned out. Card base is Old Olive. DP is from the Homespun Collection from Memory Box. I punched Very Vanilla and then punched again with the scallop square punch (SU) and layered on Real Red. I had these little containers of buttons from the $1 bin at Target and I added some red grosgrain ribbon from SU (sadly this is being discontinued - but happily I managed to snag some for my stash before that happens). I used my rick-rack die from PTI and that finished it off!

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~chris

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