Wednesday, July 30, 2025

CONEFLOWER INSPIRATIONS

The black and white woven background on this card makes me feel nostalgic.  Does black and white tile make you think "retro?"  There must have been someone in my childhood that had black and white tiles!  Not in our house, but it's somewhere in my memory.


This background was made with the Faux Tile Backsplash Technique, and it is mad by weaving strips of black and white cardstock.  Once the weaving is completed, the surface is covered with VersaMark and heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder.  That heat embossing makes it look like glossy tiles in a backsplash.

I demonstrated this technique on Learning with Friends a few weeks ago.  If you missed the video, you can always watch the replay.


Once I had my black and white tile background completed, I debated on what color to use for my Coneflower and the mat layer.  I went back and forth between pink and yellow and finally decided on the cheery Lemon Lolly Yellow.


The dies that come with the Coneflower Celebrations Bundle provide the option of having your flower open! So, my flower has a secret place to add another greeting.


Isn't that fun? I love it, and I think it deserves a little closer look.


The stems and leaves were stamped with Granny Apple Green ink on Granny Apple Green Cardstock.  Lucky me -- no fussy cutting required because they have coordinating dies!


The messy Bakers Twine "bow" was tucked behind the sentiment.  No, it isn't a real bow.  It's a faux bow.  I didn't want it to look too "structured," as I thought the black and white tiles provided enough "structure".  The card needed a little messy whimsy.  Or maybe that was just my excuse because I'm not good at making bows!


The inside of the card was matted in Lemon Lolly.  All sentiments on the card were stamped with Pecan Pie ink to soften the starkness of the black and white just a bit.

Use this link to download a tutorial with all the cutting dimensions and step-by-step instructions.

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Monday, July 28, 2025

SIMPLE STAMPED CONEFLOWER

This week I will be featuring the Coneflower Celebrations Bundle.  You may feel like you have all the flower stamps that you need.  I thought that same thing -- until I saw this in the Annual Catalog. This stamp set and dies are beautiful and so fun to play with.

To make this card I masked the vertical area in the middle of the card and then used my Blending Brushes to add color.

After completing my soft pastel stripe, I simply stamped the coneflower over the stripe with Black Memento ink.  It doesn't get much easier than that!  But isn't it pretty?

The sentiment, also from this bundle was also stamped directly to the card front.  The Bubble Bath bow and some Fresh Freesia Tinsel Gems dressed up the simple card.

Colors used for the blended stripe from top to bottom were Highland Heather, Fresh Freesia, Bubble Bath, Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green.

I repeated the blended stripe on the inside of the card and stamped the butterfly from the same stamp set. 

The inside sentiments are also from Coneflower Celebrations.  I decided to use the Belated Birthday sentiments because I needed a couple of "oops I'm late" cards recently and discovered I didn't have any.  So, I thought I better make couple for my stash.

If you would like detailed instructions for this simple card use this link to download a FREE TUTORIAL.

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Friday, July 25, 2025

JUNGLE FRIENDS

My jungle friends are stopping by to send a great big THANK YOU to you, my stamping friends and followers.

You met George the Giraffe and Marty the Monkey on Wednesday, but today they want to introduce you to a new friend, Reese the Rhinoceros.  Reese is a vegetarian and only eats plants so we don't need to be afraid of her, but I'm hoping she brought some of her Peanut Butter Cups!  Afterall, Peanuts and Chocolate are from plants, right?


Reese is a little shy and is trying to stay hidden behind the leaves of the Jungle, but she is so huge that she is not totally exceeding.  Since George and Marty already met you, they feel like old friends, so they are more boldly poking their heads above the leaves.


Lilly, who also met you on Wednesday, was feeling left out, so she insisted that she also needed to pop in to thank you.  Since she was a little grumpy for being excluded, she's hanging out on the inside of the card and pouting a bit.


Marty, who loves to entertain and make others smile, snuck on to the envelope when I wasn't looking.  But it's OK.  She's too cute to get mad at.

You have now met all of my Silly Safari friends.  Zebo, the Zebra, (who is taking a nap and not here today), George the Giraffe, Marty the Monkey, Reese the Rhinoceros, and Lily the Leopard have all popped in this week to say hi.  I suspect they may be back again sometime.


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