Monday Sunshine with Concord & 9th

 

Hello!  How about some sunshine to get ready for Monday morning?!  I have a cutie here from Concord & 9th with their newest Turnabout Stamp called Folkart Flower.  These stamps are a nice way to create your own layers of colour in a patterned paper style of print with up to 4 colours of ink, or you can stamp with less colours, even monochrome.  And this one is extra fun because you can choose to remove the center of the stamp to make space for a focal image.  I picked a fun colour combo I liked that sang Spring to me.  

I’ve paired the background stamping with some pretty die cute flowers from the Build a Bloom Dies to coordinate with the stamping.  This card is a 5 x 5 size.  

The sentiment is from the Turnabout Stamp, and I’ve added some extra enamel dots and leftover paper pieces to accent the middle like confetti.   

Thank you for dropping by!  

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Monday Sunshine with Concord & 9th

Bee Day Toile

Hi friends!  I hope its a happy Friday for you.  We have been in the deep freeze here so my heart is getting a bit of a longing for spring to come.  We’re no where near that, but I can dream with today’s card made with Power Poppy’s set Bee Kind Toile.  It’s such a magical and elegant set, where everything your little heart desires related to bees and to toile is packed in its mega size.  I created the focal piece with the honey cake included in the set, surrounded by some of the small toile and bee elements and coloured it up with Copics.  I die cut it with a stitched die that mimics a bit of a bee’s flight path.  

For the background I stamped a toile pattern and then coloured it up to match the main image, adding in a bit of B60 and B63 for softeness and contrast from the main image.  It’s such a pretty background - it was almost a shame to cover it up!  

Because the whole card is quite busy with all of the pattern, I decided to accent it simply with this lovely bow cut from a TCP bow CutUps die.  

There’s a little sparkle on the bee’s wings that you can probably catch in the top left of the main image.  Happy BEE day to you!  

Allison Cope
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Katie Sims
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker
and Marcy at the Power Poppy Blog

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Bee Day Toile