Mojo Monday 283 - Fabulous Florets & Print Poetry

Another week at Mojo Monday, MOJO283. This week's sketch designed by Carole Burrage and since it's the beggining of the month, it's contest week where you have a chance to win some Verse Stamps up to 7 winners max. Click here to go directly to the challenge.

Most importantly, have fun with the sketch. I was glad myself to work on a card and with this cute sketch. Here is mine below: 

Wanted to try out some new items from the spring catalog especially this new embossing folder called Honeycomb and once again had to pull out this cute stack of DSP called Print Poetry. It has such a variety of cute papers in the stack.

I'll tell you that I got stuck on which stamp set to use and in the end pulled out: Fabulous Florets and for the sentiment: Lacy & Lovely since I love the font so much. For the flowers, I used Raspberry Ripple directly onto Daffodil Delight cardstock and fuzzy cut.

For the leaves, Lucky Limeade matched up very well with this DSP and as you can see I used several basic rhinestones to add an extra touch.

Last but not least, added some new ribbon from the spring catalog called: Natural 7/16" Trim. For cardstock, I used Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse, and of course Whisper White. Hope you enjoy and have fun creating!!

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Double the Fun Again - Random Stamping using Fabulous Florets

I love random stamping and haven't done this technique in a long time, so of course I took one of my favorite sets called: Fabulous Florets to do this.  Basically, you take any cardstock and create your own DSP paper by  stamping at random different images on paper and applying different colors on it and or you can do random stamping all using one color.

Try to work in triangles when stamping in random with larger images and than go in later with smaller images to fill in gaps.

If you'll notice, I took a similar layout and re-did it by turning the card another way and than did some minor adjustments. First, I took about 3/4" from the bottom of the top card by tearing it. Than, I took a sponge dauber and used Melon Mambo ink to apply it to the bottom edge that I tore. 

Finally, I took the Contempo Wheel and embossed it in white over the black cardstock and used the Eyelet Punch Border for the top. (inside the cover). When you close the card, the black bottom portion will show up as though it's part of the card design.

Since I had some paper left over from the random stamping, I decided why not use it, so I did another card, but this time it was a 4x4 card, so I ended up with 2 cards for the day.

Here is the picture of the 4 x4 card

For this card, I didn't do any tearing as you can see, but I did add a 1 3/4" circle using Pacific Point cardstock for the bottom left corner and than stamped 2 flowers using Melon Mambo Ink on So Saffron cardstock, cut them out and placed the smaller flower on top of the bigger flower using stampin dimenionals and added a basic pearl to finish it.

For the leaves, I used Old Olive Ink on top of Pear Pizzazz cardstock. Hope you enjoy!!

Ink colors used for Ramdom Stamping: Melon Mambo, Marina Mist, Old Olive Pin It

Get Well Soon Card using Fabulous Florets

Happy Fourth of July to everyone!! Had to make a great well card and so I thought Fabulous Florets would be perfect for this. Some of my favorite colors were used, Real Red and Marina Mist.....here is another view

I cut out a little piece of Pear Pizzazz Ribbon to create a base look for the foliage on the right side of the card and than added a few basic pearls to add a little embellishment to it.....here is a close up below.

Stampin Dimensionals were used under the flowers to raise it and the leaves under it to give it more of a 3D look. At first, I only added the 3 flowers on the left, but thought it was too simple, so I added the foliage on the right hand side. Let me know your thoughts.

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Birthday Card - Fabulous Florets with Jolly Holiday

Okay it seems I'm a little stuck on this paper and stamp set, so here is another card using both Fabulous Florets and Jolly Holiday. This stamp set is just so cute with the flowers, so it's hard to resist but to do another card.

For this one, I decided to add pearls and gems to see how they look together on a card and l loved it. At first, I wasn't sure about combining both together but in the end it works. Of course I had to use my stampin dimensionals and for the sentiment, I used the stamp set called: You're a Gem.

Baby News: The doctor says I only have 12 more weeks to go and so far everything has been great with my health, but of course every time I go to the doctors office that scale keeps going up....oh how I hate to go on that thing. I think it's wrong.....funny how at home it's less. Better yet, I don't even like to go on it.

Talking about countdown, there is only 4 more days left til June 30th for last chance items. It's a great time to get your favorites still plus take advantage of clearance rack by shopping online. Here are the list for last chance items that are retiring:

 LAST CHANCE STAMPIN' UP! ACCESSORIES LIST

(Only available while supplies last......Discounts up to 40% off selected items)

LAST CHANCE STAMPIN' UP! STAMP LIST

LAST CHANCE DEFINITELY DECORATIVE LIST

Feel free to email me anytime if you have any question on how I did something or what I used. I would love to hear from you.

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MOJO196 - Sketch using Fabulous Florets

Here is another week challenge sketch at Mojo Monday website called MOJO196 designed by Julee Tilman. 

To play along, make a project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery. Then leave a link to your project using the linky widget at their website. Here is mine below....

Here is a close up of the flowers and the use of stampin dimensionals. I first stamp the images using Cherry Cobbler right on the cardstock called Daffodil Delight and than cut out flowers.

Now to give it a 3-D look, I took one of the smaller flowers, added some stampin dimensionals and put it on top of the larger flower. I than took the other 2 smaller flowers and added more stampin dimensionals to sit above the oval. I than thought, let me add leaves to the card so I than cut out several leaves using old olive ink on top of pear pizzaz cardstock and placed them under the flowers.

I decided to sponge the oval using so saffron to give it a little more color around the oval before placing completely down. Finally, I added Basic Pearls in different sizes. Hope you like!!!  

Supplies Used:

• Stamp Set - Fabulous Florets (123027) C,  Teeny Tiny Wishes (115370) sentiment
• Inks - Cherry Cobbler (119669), Old Olive (102277) 
• Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Black, Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight
• DSP - Jolly Holiday (117159)
• Other - Stampin Dimensionals (104430), Basic Pearls (119247)
• Punches -   1 1/4" Circle (119861), 1 3/8" Circle (119860)

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