Birthday Blossoms

Orange is not one of my favourite colours but I really like how this card in Pumpkin Pie turned out. I used some retired DSP for the card front. The image is from Birthday Blossoms. It's a bit hard to see from the photo but the flower on the right of the card has been punched with the Pansy punch, the two leaves cut out and all raised on dimensionals. The centre of the flower is punched with the smallest circle punch. Plain Pumpkin Pie was adhered to the top portion of the Whisper White and then the left hand corners were rounded. The new wonderful Triple Banner punch was used to cut the sentiment from Birthday Blossoms.

Don't you just love the Sky Blue against the Sahara Sand. I haven't used that combination before. The sentiment is from Blessed By God and the flowers are from Flower shop and punched with the Pansy Punch. I inked them with a combination of Marina Mist, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede using the Baby Wipe technique. More on that in another blog. The daisies were cut using a die from Flower Fair framelits.

Calypso Coral layered on the new Tip Top Taupe is the basis of this card. A piece of Burlap ribbon was used and flowers cut from a DSP in the new Pretty Petals DSP stack. The leaves were stamped from Birthday Blossoms and then cut by hand. The idea of using the Burlap was cased from Dawn Olchefske.

The card front was embossed with the new Brick Wall embossing folder. The design was cased from http:karentitus.com/winning-Stampin-up-handmade-cards-tour/. The sentiment is from Birthday Blossoms as are the leaves. The flower was made from Elegant Eggplant cardstock which had been punched using a scallop punch and then petals were made by carefully cutting in towards the centre. The oval die was used to cut the sentiment and the next size as a Matt for the sentiment. The new thick Whisper White cardstock was used for the card base. This is soooooo much better for card bases than using the normal thickness!

A beautiful card cased from Claire Daly. Elegant Eggplant against white is always pretty. Birthday Blossoms was used for the flowers, leaves and sentiment. The flowers were punched with the Pansy Punch and leaves were cut by hand. The Whisper White card front was scored using the Simply Scored tool and a pearl was used in each corner.