Love Blossoms Blog Hop

Welcome to our Blog Hop where we are featuring the products contained within the beautiful, "Love Blossoms" kit, that is only available through the end of this month.

This kit contains items to create 12 beautiful greeting cards, with various sentiments. In fact, when you buy all the products together, you get them at a 20% discount.

Should you only choose to get the stamp set, these beautiful floral images and greetings, are great for various occasions. 

These are the beautiful pre-designed cards, although you can do with the supplies as you choose. For this Hop we were challenged to use the kit contents on our artwork so it will be fun to see what everyone has designed.

If you are coming from Haley's Blog, you are on the right track. You can find a complete list of participants by clicking here.

In trying to decide what I wanted to do, after falling in love with the cards we created with the kit, I settled on using the spotlight technique. I have done it before, and seen it used, with floral images and thought this would be perfect for it.

I stamped the image multiple times on a piece of White Daisey cardstock and then used Raspberry ink to color the flowers, using the shaded image in the set. Because of the intricate details of the design of the solid images, there is natural shading provided, making it seem like I am a talented artist. I so love when that happens for me!

The leaves and purple flowers (of which I have no idea what they are LOL) were colored in, using the ink pads, with a Waterbrush Pen! (I love them!)

To create the spotlighted image, I first finished the floral piece of stamped paper. Then, I used the Thin Cut Circle to cut out an image. Using the stitched circle from the Shaker Card Thin Cuts, I cut the border out of Thistle cardstock. Both of those pieces were 3-D onto another circle.

While the card is a little busy from what I am used to, I truly love how it turned out; and I hope you do too!

(I CASEd this card design from Stampin' Savy.)

Thanks so much for stopping by and now, please head over to Cat's Blog. I'm totally excited to see what the other Consultants have created to share with us!

Happy hoppin'!

She Believed She Could So She Did!

It is almost time to say goodbye to the fabulous National Scrapbooking Month product line, "Live Beautifully". The products are available while supplies last or through May 31, 2017 (midnight MST).

While I loved all of the products created for this exclusive offer, I do believe the stamp set was my ultimate favorite. The title words and phrases are perfect for many types of occasions.

I cut "believe" out of the piece of Blossom cardstock and then stamped the images as shown (inks: Pomegranate and Willow). Then, I cut out "believe" four times and stacked those letters on top of each other.  

The phrase was stamped in black ink and some clear sparkles were added for some fun dimension.

Stacking the letters really added some fun dimension to this card. While it was not difficult to make, it did take a little bit of time as I glued the letters on top of one another.

If you would like to order any of these time-sensitive products, be sure to visit my website ASAP and before they are gone for good on May 31st!

Wishing you all the best during this short work week!

(Technique gleaned from Jennifer McGuire.)

National Scrapbooking Month Blog Hop

For this hop we are highlighting the beautiful and exclusive product line, "Live Beautifully", that is only available this month and while supplies last. It is a beautiful paper pack and stamp set that are perfect for celebrating National Scrapbooking Month, although I chose to use them to create a greeting card.

Live Beautifully Paper Pack

Live Beautifully Stamp Set

Live Beautifully Cut Above Kit

There are various products to purchase this month, at a great price, so be sure to check out all that is available to you by clicking here. The image of the stamp set is pictured above.

If you are coming from Sheila's Blog, you are on the right track. You can find a complete list of participants by clicking here.

I decided to create a pretty simple card incorporating the two rose and leaf images included in the stamp set, and my favorite sentiment (although I do love the other one as well).

To create this card, I stamped the roses in Lemon and Raspberry inks and used a black Journaling Pen to fill in the details on the flowers. I did the same with the leaves, first inking them in Willow, stamping off onto a scratch paper, and then rolling it again in Willow ink. That is what provided the two-tones on the leaves.

A few Gold Gems, some 3-D foam tape to add dimension, and the sentiment in Black Ink is all I added to this card. I love being able to create simple but purposeful cards that I can reproduce in a timely manner.

Consider letting me know what you think of my card and then head over to Michelle Stewart's Blog and see what artwork she has to share with you.

Happy hoppin'!