Fly away Tag

My time on the Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen ended in June (shortly before I left for vacation). I am still shocked and honored to have been asked to be on that team. Thank you, Jenn, for the wonderful experience! You rock! Remember to check out the AMAZING DD Gallery this month. (You have to be a fan club member to see it!) The designers all did a fantastic job!

Here is one of the first Dirty Dozen projects I ever created....

Materials-Stamps: Bird-Inkadinkado; Birds in Vines-Flourishes; Weathered bg-SU! ; Paper: Tag (Paper Reflections); cs- white, riding hood red, choc chip ; Ink: Memento tuxedo black; Ranger- Fired Brick, Tea Dye; SU!- banana, more mustard ; Accessories: Flower Soft, Sponge, Copic markers, Embossing powder-black, clear; Versamark, heat tool, May Arts ribbon; hemp, oval punch (SU!), Round tab punch (SU!), Gelly Gems (Gel-a-tins), Jumbo eyelet (SU!), Cropadile (We R Memory Keepers); dimensionals (SU!).

To create this I took a plain white tag (Creative Tags by Paper Reflections) and sponged the entire thing with banana ink (SU!). Then I sponged the outer edges with more mustard ink (SU!). I took my SU! Weathered background and inked it in Ranger Tea Dye ink and stamped over the tag. I used Flourishes, LLC set Bird in Vines for the background flowers. I embossed them in Ranger black embossing powder and then colored the leaves with Copic markers.I used some white Flower Soft on the petals to give them some texture. I stamped the bird on some white cardstock with Memento ink and colored it in with Copic markers. I cut it out, embossed it with clear embossing powder and popped it up on the vine with a dimensional. I stamped the sentiment in Ranger Fired Brick ink. Next, I sponged Ranger Tea Dye ink all over the edges of the tag to create more depth around the edges.The top detail is created by punching the round tab punch (SU!) and layering a red oval punch on top of it and then attaching the jumbo eyelet. I added some Gel-a-tins Gelly gems along the edge of the tab punch. Finally, I added a piece of hemp and some May Arts Ribbon and done!

You can still participate in the Twilight challenge HERE.

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Flowering Friendship

Hi everyone! Happy Wednesday...

Nope. Tooth issue still unresolved. Going again today....sigh!

On to something fun---Here is a peek at a new set from Flourishes, called Nasturtiums...

Stamper's Dream store will be carrying this set and the other new Flourishes releases at 10 p.m. CST Friday night!!! I stamped the flowers in versamark and embossed them in gold on watercolor paper. I did this twice so I could pop some of the leaves and flowers up on foam tape. I water colored the flowers with SU! reinkers and a paint brush. I cut out the flowers in an oval shape by tracing the inside of an oval Spellbinders die and then cutting it out so I could leave some detail outside the edges. Then I framed the flowers with a gold scalloped oval (Spellbinders). Check out Michelle's store for a great selection of the new Spellbinders dies!

I used my Scor-Pal to create a nice embossed grid on the background white layer.

I framed them in gold and added the little sentiment in the set on a tag to attach it to the main panel. I added a touch of gold to the edges of the tag with a Zigpainty pen. The cording and ribbon are both from May Arts. You can find tons of awesome May Arts ribbon HERE!

Materials used: Stamps-Nasturtiums (Flourishes); watercolor paper; Versamark; gold embossing powder (SU!); heat tool; Memento tuxedo black ink; SU reinkers; paintbrush; gold cardstock (SU!); gold cord (May Arts); ribbon (May Arts); Gold Zigpainty pen; Fiskars Lace corner punch; gold eyelet; gold brad (SU!); tag punch (SU!); Spellbinders oval and circle Nestabilities; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); foam mounting tape.

Keeping it short until I feel better. Thanks for all of your prayers. I am going away this weekend on a trip to the beach with all of my sisters so I hope that I get some relief soon so I can actually enjoy the trip.

Have a great day!

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Something Else to Dream About.....

Fun announcement---Yipppeeeee!!!! Stamper's Dream will now be carrying Flourishes stamps.....AND to help celebrate---the Stamper's Dream Design team is showcasing the newest Flourishes release on our blogs this week.

Today, a few of us are posting with this awesome new set called: Strut Your Stuff! I just adore the fun look of all the sentiments in this set and I have never owned a peacock stamp before---so I was lovin' this!

My first card features the beautiful peacock and the fun sentiment "Strut Your Stuff":

For my second card, I wanted to showcase another sentiment in the set which reads "live life in Color." How great is that? So....I went with some color on this one:

In addition to TONS of fabulous stamp lines, you can also find beautiful May Arts ribbon (like I used in the cards above) and pearl adhesive stickers at Stamper's Dream Store! The new Flourishes releases will be available at Stamper's Dream at 9 p.m. EST on Friday (Feb 13th)!

Check out these awesome blogs to see more Peacock fun:

Charmaine Ikach

Kimberly Crawford

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Featured Stamper

I created this card for the featured stamper challenge on Splitcoaststampers. This week the featured stamper is RoseAnn (CuttersCallous on SCS!) She created a beautiful card that you can see here.

I used the same main stamp by Flourishes but changed the sentiment. I also rotated the sketch to make a horizontal vs vertical card.

Thanks for the great inspiration RoseAnn. Hope it did your card justice!

Materials used: Stamps-Flourishes; cardstock-ruby red, white, choc chip, basic grey; ink-black, red; gold embossing powder; versamark; heat tool; ribbon (May Arts); stickles-red; satura stardust pen; Copic markers.

One more day to post for the blog candy!!! And lots of fun news coming soon!