Thursday, April 30, 2026

SYMPATHY BLOOMS

 The Gallery Blooms Bundle and The Right Words stamp set were used for today's card.

The Gallery Blooms flower stem was heat embossed with Black Embossing Powder and then colored with Flirty Flamingo and Old Olive Watercolor Pencils.   This makes the coloring even easier because the raised image helps keep you in the lines!  😄.  After coloring, a Water Painter was used to blend the pencil color a bit.  

Watercolor Pencils are probably one of the easiest coloring mediums to use, but there are still a few tips and tricks to get the results you want.

Watch this video to learn a little more about the technique.

The card base and the frame are Smokey Slate cardstock.  


I kept the color palette soft as that feels appropriate for a sympathy card.  


Both sentiments on today's card are from The Right Words Stamp set.  This is an excellent set with a nice variety of thoughtful sentiments.


For a free tutorial of today's card, use this link to download a PDF with all the dimensions and step-by-step instructions.

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Monday, April 27, 2026

BEAUTIFUL GALLERY - PRETTY AS A PICTURE

Happy Monday Stamping Friends!  This week I will be saying goodby to the Beautiful Gallery Suite of Products.

It's always a little sad to see some products leave, but we need to make room for more new and exciting products that will soon arrive.

For this card I die cut a two-piece frame from one of the beautiful designs in the Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper (DSP) using a Gallery Blooms die.  I layered the larger outer frame directly to the card front and then popped up the smaller inner frame with dimensionals.


The Gallery Blooms Dies includes many different small floral die cuts.  I cut several of each from Basic White Cardstock and then colored them with Stampin' Blends--no stamping, just coloring the white die cuts with Blends.


Once I had them die cut and colored I arranged them inside the frame.  The colors I used were Mossy Meadow for all the stems and greenery, Calypso Coral and Petal Pink for the flowers.  When it was complete, it reminded me of a window box filled with pretty flowers!

The background behind the "window" is another design from Beautiful Gallery DSP.


For the inside of the card I used the same two DSP designs.  The message layer was die cut with a Beautiful Motifs Die.  I love these dies.  Some do not cut out the complete image.  Rather they just cut portions of the image to create texture.  It provides a very interesting and unexpected effect.

Use this link to download a PDF Tutorial with all the dimensions and step-by-step assembly instructions.

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Thursday, April 23, 2026

LOVELY & BEAUTIFUL - TEMPLATE TIME

On Monday I made a very geometric, contemporary card with my Sketch #8.  Today's card has a very different vibe and is for the flower lovers!

The card still uses the same sketch.  I just turned it to the Portrait Orientation.  The Designer Series Paper (DSP) used for the Triangles and a couple of the flower layers is from the gorgeous Lovely & Beautiful DSP collection.  

It is so sad, but this beautiful Suite of Products is on the Last Chance List.  However, the gorgeous Lovely & Beautiful Designer Series paper seems to have escaped "retirement" for now.  At the writing of this post it was not on the Last Chance List.

NOTE:  Last Chance Products are only available while supplies last.  Once gone, they are gone forever!

I had a difficult time deciding which of the pretty Lovely & Beautiful designs to use for my triangles, but the large "gilded" flowers are so pretty, so that's what I ultimately chose.  I paired it with a Petal Pink Card base, and a large flower in Calypso Coral.

A gold die cut Pistil for the flower center and Pearlized Faceted Gems add a little more bling!

For the inside of the card I used sentiments from the Beautifully Celebrated Stamp Set and a fairly old favorite, Happy Labels.  A DSP strip across the top adds a bit of color and coordinates the inside of the card with the card front.

Use this link to download a copy of the tutorial with all the details.

If you would like some hints on how to easily create a card using this Design Sketch #8, watch this video to see how easy it is.  You'll also see a sneak peek of an adorable new Suite Collection coming on May 5.

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