Cross-Stitched Roses with The Greetery

 

Hi There!  Today I’m playing with some pretty products from The Greetery.  The stencil is called Rose Tapestry which I’ve ink-blended in coral and bright green shades.  Next I paired it with the Aida Cloth Texture Plate, it really gives you the sense of cross-stitch fabric.  

Funny enough, I didn’t feel like my Big Shot gave the paper enough texture, so I lined up the texture plate again, sure that I had it perfectly set, and it “hopped” the cutting a bit - but ironically I don’t mind it.  Somehow the tiny double dots are really sweet!  

For the sentiment and little embroidery hoop I used the Hoopla Mini Dies, the Hoopla Mini Inserts and Mum’s the Word stamps and dies.  With a little iridescent cording and enamel dots, it’s ready for a Birthday!

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Cross-Stitched Roses with The Greetery

Birthday Party and Cake with Power Poppy

 

Hello!  I have a few birthday designs to finish out this week, and today I’m starting with a sweet combo card using the prettiest cake on a stand from Power Poppy called Layer Cake Digital Stamp Set.  It’s perfectly decorated, and displayed!  Coloured up with Copics, in a sweet colour palette.  

Next, I paired the image with the confetti dies and stencil from The Greetery called Celebration Streamers Stamp and Stencil, and the Curly Q Streamers Die for the background Party on the paper.   

The sentiment is from the polymer version of this set, with a few enamel dots that coordinate with the candy on the cake.  

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Birthday Party and Cake with Power Poppy

Sweet Spring Curios with The Greetery

Hi there!  I was in the mood for something petite and pretty that spoke Spring.  So, I pulled out the pretty dies from The Greetery in the Curio Collection, both the Curio Spring Findings die set and the Curio Summer Findings die set.  I chose a soft pastel Spring palette, and ink blended colour onto all the different elements, pairing that with a Kraft Postage Collage Die, from Waffle Flower.   

I stencilled the background shapes with the coordinating Waffle Flower Postage Collage Stencil to add some soft blue ink to the background, and I also ink blended the background with Kraft coloured ink and then splattered to coordinated with the robin’s eggs.  

The sentiment uses The Greetery’s New Day Sentiments stamp set.  After ink blending on the strip, I stamped it in black ink.  A couple of wood veneer star accents keep it whimsical and natural.  

 

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Sweet Spring Curios with The Greetery

Thankful for You with Simon Says Stamp

With being gone all of October, I really didn’t get enough time to create with Autumn themed designs, so I’m sneaking in a couple more this week.  Today’s design uses Simon Says Stamp’s Fresh Air Fall Flowers.  The variety of leaves and flowers give you many opportunities to mix and match.  Once I found a colour palette I liked, I did all the stamping and die cutting. 

Sometimes card designers can feel like florists don’t you think?  Playing around until we find an arrangement we like?  I placed the layers on a card base with The Greetery’s Herringbone Parquet Die.  It adds great texture.  

The sentiments in the set are really great, especially for the season.  Have a happy Monday!  

 

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Thankful for You with Simon Says Stamp

The Perfect Sunflower with Power Poppy

I do love the beauty of Sunflowers, and there are so many beautiful illustrations of them in stamping, but I don’t think there is any better one that this design from Marcy’s skilled hand at Power Poppy.  It’s called simply called Sunflower Power.  I haven’t coloured it in so long, and it was just the right season to pull it out.  

I started colouring the design with Copics, and finished up the detail work with Coloured Pencils.  This way you get the saturated colour start, with the fin lines of a sunflower petal and leaves.  After colouring I trimmed it carefully and placed it on some rich rust cardstock using an MFT framed die.  The background is created with a gorgeous pierced plate that I’m so taken with from The Greetery called Pierced Plaid Pierce Plate.  I’ve added deeper ink around the edges for more texture.  

I added in ink splashed die cut leaves from The Greetery using their Big Branches: Ruscus Die.  The sentiment is stamped with the polymer version of this sunflower stamp set, and I’ve splattered some gold paint over the design to make it shine.  

The perfect Sunflower, am I right?  :)   

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The Perfect Sunflower with Power Poppy

Mush-room for Gratitude with The Greetery

 

Hello and Happy Tuesday evening!  I don’t know where you are but we are getting a few extra days of Summery weather this Autumn and it’s a delight to enjoy.  However, my creative hands are much more interested in all the Fall colours and textures.  Today I have a card created with The Greetery’s Botanicuts Toadstool Garden dies.   I began by cutting out the toadstools in a variety of warm colours along with some grass with a retired die from The Cat’s Pajamas.  

After assembling the toadstools, I added some Copic marker accets to increase the dimension on the fungi, and placed it all on a Lemongrass background which I ran through The Greetery’s Pierced Plaid Pierce Plate.  My goodness, does that ever give you beautiful texture!  I created an “interior frame” with a stencil and white ink, and also incorporated a cross-stitch frame with The Greetery’s Hoopla Oval Die, outlining some of the woodgrain details in the frame with a Copic marker.  

The sentiment is from The Greetery’s Thankful Heart Stamp and Stencil set.  And just to balance the design I added in a wood veneer butterfly which I added some colour to with ink, Copics and a white gel pen.  It’s definitely feeling Fall!  

Thanks for joining me today! 

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Mush-room for Gratitude with The Greetery

Autumn Mums with The Greetery

 

We’ve just come home from an evening walk that was glorious.  I love Autumn walks.  The leaves have just started to turn colour, the air is still warm but not humid, the sunsets are truly beautiful.  It’s lovely to move into Fall.  Today I have a cozy arrangement of Mums from The Greetery called Mum’s the Word. It is a fun combination of stamp and stencil, where you begin by stencilling in background colour and finish with stamping the details.  

I used a rich palette of deep rosey shades and deep greens, cutting the framed flowers out with the Coordinating Die. I also added in a few extra stencilled and stamped blooms to fill out the framing and give a greater sense of dimension.  

The sentiment is stacked up in a few layers, and I’ve added in a few enamel dots for a perfect Autumn Birthday card!  

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Autumn Mums with The Greetery

An Acorn Spray with The Greetery

Today I thought I’d bring in a little Autumn Acorns with The Greetery!  This pretty die set is called Jumbo Curiosity: Acorns Die, and I’ve paired it with the Herringbone Parquet Die for the background.  I cut all the acorns and leaves on coloured cardstock (supplementing with the larger Oak leaves from Concord & 9th’s Autumn Inlay Die).  I ink-blended the leaves with Distress Ink, and hten added in some detailing with Coloured Pencil.  

The deep blue background is also ink-blended, with splatters of gold paint throughout to add some metallic splash.  

I love this beautiful sentiment for fall - "Every ending is a new beginning”.  It is from the New Day Sentiments Stamp set and is embossed in gold.  A rustic twine tied bow completes the spray.  

Thanks for joining me today!

 

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An Acorn Spray with The Greetery

Inspired High Top Converse from MFT

 

I find inspiration to be such a fun topic!  A few weeks ago we happened to be in mall looking for a birthday present for our son, when I spied a new colour of Converse runners across the store - a beautiful soft blue green caught my eye!  TOO cute!  But I don’t love the high tops as much as the low ones so I passed on them (plus it wasn’t my Birthday!)

Then I keep coming back to inspiration with Converse runners where embroidery artists work magical little floral scenes on the shoes.  And hey - why not do it on paper shoes!  So, that’s where this card was born.  

Using these products from MFT:  LLD All-Star High Top Dienamics, and the Everything Wonderful card Kit dies (couldn’t find them in the store), with the Everything Wonderful Sentiments.  

Building this adorable shoe was so fun!  I did all the assembling first and then punched holes into the design to form some flowers (and I’m no expert at this), and then stitching with some embroidering floss.  

Then I created the background with a die from The Greetery Aida Cloth.  I creates texture and is a nod to the embroidery.  

Then I added in all the pretty stitchable flowers from the kit in coordinating colours, and the stamped sentiment.  

This gives you an idea of the kind of inspiration I’ve been influenced by, so great aren’t they?  

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Inspired High Top Converse from MFT

Hibiscus Mercies with The Greetery

My heart has gone out to the town where The Greetery is located.  All around that Iowa, SD area faced unrelenting rain storms a few weeks ago and its created significant flooding issues.  And while I can’t fix a flood, I can create with some beautiful designs from The Greetery with my hopes and prayers for a full recovery.  

This beautiful set of Botanicuts Hibiscus dies is gorgeous to layer up and feels like summer sun to me!  After I had cut all the flower dies up I added some coloured pencil detailing to them.  It happened that  our daughter was over and she suggested a navy background - and wow was she ever right!  I love the deep drama of the dark colour against the pops of the hibiscus blooms.  

I chose to use a background die from Concord & 9th called Plaid Card Front Thick Die.  This created some strong texture.  I also embossed the whole plaid die cut with clear EP which not only deepened the colour, but added some shine too (but a doozy to photograph!  :) )

The embossed sentiment uses The Greetery’s sentiment set called New Day.  And that scripture passage is a beautiful encouragement.  

Thanks for joining me today - I hope you are enjoying the sweetness of Summer!  

 

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Hibiscus Mercies with The Greetery

Family Graduation with the Greetery

We had some great celebrations going on last weekend, our older son and his girlfriend graduated with their undergrad degrees (with distinction!).  Both of them are heading to Masters studies this fall.  Today and tomorrow I’ll show you the cards I made for both of them.  Today our son’s card is up!  I’m just crazy about their Confetti Encore Suite of products!  For this design I used the Award Winning Die and the University colours (green and gold) to create this celebration ribbon.  A bit of gold shimmery paper really makes the sparkle come out in the ribbon and in the metallic stars.   The cardstock is Evergreen and Stardust from Concord & 9th.  

The background is foiled with the Ticker Tape Foil Plate and then I added the gold embossed sentiment with the Inflated Sentiments Stamp Set.   And to make it feel like even more of a party I also used the Curly Q Streamers, and some gold sequins.  

And my sweet sentimental son even told me how much he loved the card, and how happy he was to have it.  (swoon!) 

Here’s a couple of pictures of them from the day. 

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Family Graduation with the Greetery

Ginkgo Love with The Greetery

In this life I have been so very blessed to have a husband who is such a good Dad.  All the things a kid hopes for in a Father are things my beloved exemplifies, and I thank the Lord for Him!  This was my card for him for Father’s Day, it incorporates the very beautiful Ginkgo Botanicuts from The Greetery, which I picked up on their recent sale.  Did you know ginkgo symbolizes resilience, healing and longevity?  Perfect for a card for him!    

 

I love that these leaves can be masculine in theme.  I started with Eucalyptus cardstock from Concord & 9th and ink blended both Eucalyptus and Rainforest ink onto the leaves to given them some depth and bring out the detail veins in the die.  Then I splattered them wiht Rainforest ink and white acrylic paint.  

Next,  I placed them onto a card base cut from Pebble cardstock which I had ink blended deeper mushroom ink onto.  Its a great earthy look.  Some leaves are glued down some are popped up slightly for a great sense of dimension and texture.  

The foiled sentiment is from Spellbinders, Must-Have Sentiments Glimmer, and it’s foiled in a gunmetal silver shade.  To keep it very simple since there is some much going on with the leaves, I added a few coordinating enamel dots.  

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Ginkgo Love with The Greetery

Award Winning Retirement with The Greetery

Hi There!  Today I’m bringing you another instalment in a seriew of cards I made for a friend to give to co-workers.  This one was designed for a man who was retiring, so I wanted it to have a bit more of a masculine feel.  I picked up my new goodies from The Greetery from their Confetti Encore Collection.  If it’s a celebration, this bundle of products is the perfect way to create great designs. 

I began with a fun colour palette (Concord & 9th Mushroom, Seaglass and Tidepool), and then went about foiling the Ticker Tape Hot Foil plate in silver on deep charcoal cardstock.  Next I added in layers of Curly Q Streamers Dies (they really make it feel like a party!), and then formed my fun Award Winning Die into a “blue ribbon” using the sentiment from the Inflated Sentiments embossed in silver for the sentiment.  Little touches like silver metallic cardstock add to the award winning feel of the design.  

I think it combines to make a really fun card that is full of celebration.  Also - perfect for masculine or feminine designs depending on the types of paper you use.  Thanks for joining the party with me!  

 

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Award Winning Retirement with The Greetery

All Star Dad with Power Poppy

Hi There!  With Father’s Day a few days away, I thought I’d pop in and show a design I created a few weeks ago for a friend to purchase.  This design is created with a retired Power Poppy’s set called Play Ball.  It has great elements of a sports theme, and you can get part of the set in digital still available as Baseball Vignette.  

I coloured all the designs with Copic in a spring green and yellow combo, trimming out the layers, and also incorporating a postage theme with the dies.  The herringbone parquet background is from The Greetery and makes a perfect backdrop. 

A few stars and enamel dots accent and tie the colours together in a fun way.  Thanks for popping in!

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All Star Dad with Power Poppy

Peaceful Lilacs with The Greetery

Happy Sunday evening!  For us in Canada its a long weekend, and I’m so grateful for the extra time of rest.  A friend asked if I had any cards for retirement, and I had to admit I didn’t!  But, hey I’m a card maker and I love to create, so I put some creative time into a few retirement cards this weeked.  This first design is a breath of fresh air from The Greetery, using the very lovely Lilac Botanicuts Die.  

 

I cut the lilacs on watercolour paper and pulled out my Daniel Smith watercolours and added pretty purples and pinks (Carbazole Violet and Quin Violet) to the blossoms.  This die set is great because you can get so much dimension with the extra single blossoms added to the main branch.  After adhering everything together I came back with my Zig Clear Real Brush markers to add some deeper colour and the centers to each blossom, as well as some definition on the leaves.  After everything was adhered together I added splatters of watered down white acrylic paint.  

The card background is ink blended and then texture is added with Waffle Flower’s Sweet Plaid Texture Plate.  A retired Ric Rack die added a little accent along the top and the purple foiled sentiment is from Spellbinders called Yana’s Sentiments Glimmer.  

A dreamy peaceful design!  Thanks for joining me today! 

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Peaceful Lilacs with The Greetery

Inky Blossoms with Alex Syberia

Hello!  I hope you’ve had a great day today!  Do you ever rediscover a technique after not using it for a while?  The most recent Instagram Challenge at Simon Says Stamp is ink blending, and I’d forgotten how wonderful it is for adding colour blends, especially with emboss resist!  

I started this lovely design with Alex Syberia’s digital stamp Full Bloom (from May 2020).  Coloured up the blooms with Copics and coloured pencils.  

 

Next, I tooks the background stamp from Simon Says Stamps called Lace Heart Kaleidoscope embossed it in white and then used ink shades that coordinated with the colouring to create an ombre background.  I love the pops of colour and blends between the colours, and it makes such a nice background for the card.  I also cut a few Big Branches: Ruscus Die from The Greetery onto white cardstock to ink blend as accents.  The leaves coordinate well with the stamped design.  

I also foiled a pretty sentiment onto vellum from Spellbinders Slimline Confetti Background doing some fussy cutting to trim it out.    

Vibrant and saturated.  Just how I love my flowers!  Thanks for joining me today.  

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Inky Blossoms with Alex Syberia