Flowers for You

Hello!  I have been playing with another challenge from Creative Confetti Challenge-Sketch It Out! Using the sketch shown below I  created a card with a zinnia stamp from Power Poppy Vibrant Thanks set.  The zinnia was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on white card stock and colored with Copics. I sponged the background with a DOI. I cut the image with an oval die and attached to a scallop oval of Green CS.  I used a background of patterned paper from Blank Canvas pad by First Edition that I inked with a Copic marker. The floral paper inspired the colors that I used for coloring the flowers. A sentiment was heat embossed on a strip of green vellum and added to the card. I used a card base of textured mint cardstock and added some dewdrops for embellishments. 

Other challenges:
Allsorts Challenge: 581/582 Flowers All Over

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Papers

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Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Guest Designer for Retro Rubber Challenge #138

Hello! Welcome to my studio. I have not spent much time here for the last few weeks but I am back now to post as a guest designer for one of my favorite card challenges   Retro Rubber.  This great challenge gives me  an opportunity to use some of my oldie but goodie stamps. 

The theme for the challenge is Anything Goes and you must use stamps older than a year.  For my card I have reached back in time to 2011 to use a stamp set from Flourishes ( no longer around) designed by  Marcella Hawley.  The Zinnia set is one of my favorites and I have used it many times.  I stamped the Zinnias on white card stock with Memento Toffee Crunch ink and colored with Copics using my favorite color combo of pink and green.  I added some highlights and accents with colored pencils and a gold gelly roll metallic pen. I stamped the sentiment from the same set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I trimmed the image with a Spellbinder scalloped oval die and placed on a background of patterned paper from DCWV Hello Darlin' stack. I attached this to a Pink card base.  I finished with some Dewdrops that I have had in my stash for many years. 

Please pull out some of your older stamps and join in the fun at Retro Rubber Challenge. You have until July 10 to enter.
Thanks to all the design team at Retro Rubber for inviting me to be a guest designer....it was an honor.

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Have a great day! I love reading your comments.
Theresa

A Box of Zinnias

Hello!  One of the challenges at Creative Confetti this month is All Boxed Up-put your image in a boxed shape/layout for graphic punch.  So what I did was to put an image of Zinnias in a box that I created with Patterned Paper. On white cardstock, I stamped the Zinnias from an older set designed by Marcella Hawley and colored with Copics.  Then I added my box that I designed from patterned paper and stamped the sentiment from the same set.  Finished with a card base of another patterned paper with glitter that coordinated with the box. 

Challenges:

Creative Confetti Challenge: Always boxed up.
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using patterned paper. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Butterfly and Zinnias

Hi Friends!  This card is for the Creative Confetti Challenge-Make It With Metal. I used stamps from Power Poppy set Vibrant Thanks.  I stamped the zinnias, one of my favorite summer flowers, with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with Copics and used a Gelly Pen in the centers. Stamped the sentiment with Distress Oxide Ink Fired Brick. Used GKD Yellow and Grass Green cardstocks for the layers of my design.  Since butterflies are always flying around my zinnias, I added a metal butterfly charm (from my stash) for the metal element on the card.  

Other challenges:
Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge: #403 It's a Charmed Life-add a charm

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge 356 Anything Goes

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Thanks with Flowers

Hello! Playing again with the combo of Black and White.  I used another old Flourishes stamp set Zinnias  by Marcella Hawley dated 2011 to create this card. Heat embossed both the image and sentiment with clear EP after stamping with black ink to give some shine.     Other supplies used: White and Black CS, Memento Tuxedo Black ink,  Clear EP,  Cuttlebug Argyle EF, Spellbinders Frame Die.  This was a great image to use since there are so many details.  I have used this stamp many times with lots of colors but this is the first time to simply stamp in black. 

Challenge:

CAS on Friday: Challenge #149 Flowers

The Paper Girls Challenge: #167  Black and White

Tuesday Throwdown: #423 Embossing. Use heat embossing on image and sentiment and dry embossing on black frame

Retro Rubber Challenge: #102 It's all about Black and White.  Stamps are about 7 years old.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Colorful Zinnia Bouquet

Hello!  I love zinnias and they are my favorite summer flower.  And they are the perfect pick for this color challenge.  Sometimes an idea for a card just does not turn out like you think it would.  I knew what stamp would be great to use for the color challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and I thought I would do a watercolor but use Versamark and heat embossing for stamping the image. Using a old favorite Zinnia stamp by Marcella Hawley, I did 4 tries with the embossing using different EP before giving up (see on the left) and then stamped the image with GKD Amalgam ink which works well with Copics and Watercoloring.  The result with stamping on water color paper and water coloring with Distress Oxide Inks worked much out to my satisfaction and I also used all the colors in the Color Combo Challenge. I colored with Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron, and Broken China.  Used Memento Sweet Plum marker for the darker color.  Finished with a sentiment from the Zinnia set and added my painting to a Blue card base. Easy-peasy once I gave up on the embossing. 

Challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown: TT400 Color Combo Inspiration

Thought I'd share a card that I made in 2014 with the same set but with Copics:

 I love reading your comments. Theresa

Colorful Zinnias

Welcome to the studio!  I know that you have  heard me say that Zinnias are one of my favorite flowers ....and I am using one of my favorite stamps on this card.  I knew when I saw the challenge from Just Add Ink I had to pull out this much used stamp from Flourishes Zinnias set.  I stamped the image with Memento Espresso Truffle ink on ivory CS and colored with Copics and added some Yellow glaze to the centers.   I stamped the sentiment with Memento Bamboo Leaves.
I used dies from Spellbinders Devine Eleoquence to create layers of the image with Pink CS on a Yellow card base. Love this die set.  Finished with a yellow satin bow.

Challenges:
Just Add Ink: #278 Inspiration Challenge

Crafty Catz: Challenge #291 is Anything Goes

All Sorts Challenge: Week 327 Lots of Layers

Simon Monday Challenge: Use Stamp and Punch/Die cut

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Make it Colorful.

Let's Craft and Create: Challenge 105 Use Dies or Punches

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Mini Card for Timeless Tuesday

Second post today.  Scroll down to see Monday's CASE Challenge.

The challenge at Flourishes Timeless Tuesday is hosted by Broni. Her challenge is  to create a mini card! Just make a small version , no larger than 4″ x 3″.   I made my card 4' x3", a perfect size to enclose with a gift. I used a Flourishes Zinnia image which was a great size  for the card.

Supplies:
Stamps: Flourishes "Zinnias" and "Taglines"
Ink: Memento Espresso Truffle
Copics: YR 07,12,21Y06, YG03
Yellow Glaze Pen
Papers: GKD White CS, SU Pattern Paper
Martha Stewart Double Loop Punch


I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Happy 4th Birthday to Flourishes

Flourishes is lighting the candles and getting ready to sing to honor their fourth birthday! And, as a way to celebrate, I’m happy to say I was hand-picked to help them have a bit of a party as a designer for their customer appreciation hop! The only challenge here was to create a card or project using my favorite Flourishes stamp set. Later on in this post,  I’ll tell you how you can win some wonderful Flourishes goodies too!  But first my card with my favorite Flourishes Stamp ( at least for the moment...it changes with each great new release.)

Flourishes are my favorite stamps especially floral ones illustrated by Marcella Hawley (was not paid to say that) and it was very hard for me to select my favorite stamp for this hop but I chose "Zinnias"  because they are my fave summer flowers.  These stamps are so easy to color and zinnias grow in so many, many colors----the color combinations for these stamps are endless. 

  I stamped the Bouquet Image with black and colored the flowers with Copics and added some yellow glaze. I paper pieced the bowl and lid with patterned paper and applied Glossy Accents for the glassy look.  Layered the image on a green doily backed with pink card stock. Card base is pink matted with solid green and a floral print mat that coordinates with the colors of the Zinnias. Finished with a sentiment tag "tied" on to the bouquet and a vine with dew drops flowers along the bottom.  I finished the inside of the card shown below. My card is a 5.5" square with plenty of room to showcase the stamp. It is so easy to create with this beautiful stamp set. 







Supplies:

Flourishes "Zinnias" shown on left

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Bamboo Leaves

Copics in Pinks and Green

Sakura Glaze Pen

Papers: BasicGrey Sweet Threads

              Bazzill CS

              White, Greens from Stash

MS Vine Trim Punch

Cheery Lyn French Pastry Doily Die

Nesties Label 4

Dew Drops and Twine



              

Now more about those wonderful prizes! What can you win? Take a peek at this fun and festive blog candy!

Stamp Sets that you can win.

If you’d like to learn more about how you can win all of these stamp sets, just click HERE to read up on today’s hop and challenge!  You have until September 1st at 5PM CST to enter!

If you arrived here by way of Misti then you are on the right path!  But  if  I am your first stop, you’ll want to go back to the Flourishes Blog to start this hop from the very beginning! You will not want to miss any of the amazing projects being showcased.  Next up on the hop is….Toni. 

But before you leave,  please write a comment because a lucky winner will be selected from comments left on one of the designers' blogs. A winner will be selected next Friday, September 2nd  and announced on Flourishes Blog.

Check out all the rules and the ways to win, including a card challenge, at Flourishes Blog.

Good luck to all.

Thanks to everyone who stopped in and left a comment.

I'd also like to thank Julie for inviting me to be part of this great celebration blog hop.
I wish everyone at Flourishes a "Very Happy 4th Birthday".

Theresa