Category: Birthday

June Instant Garden Introduction: Pure Prairie Bouquet

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Rowhouse Greetings | Pure Prairie Bouquet by Power PoppyIt’s the 15th of the month so that means a new digital release from Power Poppy and this month Marcella has outdone herself. Earlier in the summer, Marcella spent time immersed in the study of prairie wildflowers, looking through the native plants of regions all over the country, including the Midwest, Great Lakes region, and the Northeast. Marcella first shared this image when it was still a work in progress and then again as a fully realized watercolor. This beautiful prairie bouquet features coreopsis, coneflowers, asters, prairie clover, bee balm, and Indian paintbrush. I loved it so much that I threatened (jokingly, of course) to go on strike if Marcella didn’t release it in digital format. Luckily, I didn’t have to do that!

As you can see, I flipped and rotated the and then cropped it to focus on a specific area of the digital stamp. That’s the beauty of working with digital images — it’s so easy to experiment with the image to make it your own.

Rowhouse Greetings | Pure Prairie Bouquet by Power Poppy
Rowhouse Greetings | Pure Prairie Bouquet by Power Poppy

For the inside of the card, I printed the full image as a watermark and overlaid it with one of my favorite sentiments from the Countryside Bouquet Digital Stamp.

Rowhouse Greetings | Pure Prairie Bouquet by Power Poppy
Rowhouse Greetings | Pure Prairie Bouquet by Power Poppy

Be sure you stop by the Power Poppy blog and get some inspiration from the Instant Gardener team.

Cheryl Scrivens
Barbara Walker
Nancy Sheads (that’s me!)
Jessie Banks (welcome to our newest team member!)
Broni Holcombe
Debbie Olson
Jennifer Dove

Supplies

Paper: Bazzill Basics in Hollywood; X-Press It Blending Card by Copics
Stamp: Pure Prairie Bouquet  (*) by Power Poppy; Countryside Bouquet by Power Poppy (sentiment)
Dies: A2 Matting Basics B by Spellbinders
Copics: G20, G43, BG72, YG01, YG67 (leaves); RV10, RV13, RV14, RV17, Y15, V04 (Indian paintbrush); B000, B00, B23, V04 (New England Cornflower); V01, V04, V17, Y15, B15 (Prairie Clover); YR000, E93, RV55 (Coneflower); Y11, Y15, Y17, Y19, R05  (Coreopsis); Y11, Y15, Y35, Y38, R05, N3, N5, Signo Uniball Gell pen in white (Butterfly); B10, B0000, B000, BV20 (Background)

Items marked with an asterisk (*) were provided by a store or the manufacturer. All other items were personally purchased.

Rowhouse Greetings | Birthday | Cupcake Mouse by Mo's Digital Pencil

Cupcake Mouse

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I colored this image several days ago, but just got around to turning it into a card. It took me all day. I looked at hundreds of images on Pinterest to get ideas, rifled through dozens of sheets of scrapbook paper, and browsed every birthday stamp set that I owned. All day. Sometimes making a card is a process that can’t be rushed.

But in the end, I have to admit I’m happy with the end result.

Paper: Classic Crest Cover Solar White 110#; Kristin from the Perfectly Plaid Collection by Lawn Fawn.
Stamps: Cupcake Mouse by Mo’s Digital Pencil; Sprinkles and Smiles by Penny Black.
Dies: A2 Basics B by Spellbinders
Copics: W00, W0, W1, W2, E000, E00, E93 (mouse); RV10, R81, R83, R85 (ruffle); RV10, R81, R83, R85, BG0000, BG000 (clothes); BG0000, BG000, W00, RV10, R81, R83, R85 (hat); E000, E00, E93, BG0000, BG000, BG11, R83 (cupcake)

Items marked with an asterisk (*) were provided by a store or the manufacturer. All other items were personally purchased.

 

Beautiful Lady

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My current obsession is with Altenew stamps so of course I’ve already acquired several of them to play around with. Since my style tends to be clean and simple, a card featuring a single sprigg of Lantana from the Beautiful Lady stamp set seemed like a good place to start.

I stamped the image on watercolor paper with VersaMark and heat embossed it using Stampendous! Embossing Powder in Detail White. The image was watercolored using distress inks and a water brush. After the image was dry, I applied Ranger’s Micro Glaze to seal the distress inks. The sentiment — from Penny Black’s Sprinkles and Smiles stamp set — was stamped on vellum with Stazon ink. Add a few enamel dots from Echo Park’s Jack and Jill Collection and we have a winner!

Supplies

Cardstock: Neenah Exact 110 lb; Canson Cold Press Watercolor Paper; Sky Blue Dots by American Crafts; Specialty Vellum by American Crafts
Stamps: Beautiful Lady by Altenew; Sprinkles and Smiles by Penny Black
Inks: Versamark, Stazon in Jet Black and Versafine in Onyz Black by Tsukineko; Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Pine Needles, Mowed Lawn, Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar.
Embellishments: Stampendous! Embossing Powder in Detail White; Jack and Jill Girl Enamel Dots by Echo Park Paper Co.

Work in Progress: Persian Motifs

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Persian_Motifs_grandeI recently purchased several Altenew stamps and finally had a chance to play around with them. I’m not particularly skilled at heat embossing — I usually end up with more embossing powder scattered on my workspace than on the card — but the Persian Motifs stamp set seemed perfect for a little heat embossing and a lot of distress inks.

Work in progress — final product later!

Supplies

Paper: Canson Cold Press Watercolor Paper
Stamp: Persian Motifs by Altenew
Inks: Versamark by Tsukineko; Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Pine Needles, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar.
Embossing Powder: Stampendous! in Detail White

Rowhouse Greetings | Birthday | DC Batman by Silhouette Design Store

Happy Birthday Gavin!

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This afternoon we were suppose to have a birthday party for my nephew Gavin who turned six years old earlier in the month. So I got up early and made his birthday card so that I could tuck in his gift card from ToysRUs. But poor Gavin ended up at the ER this morning with a diagnosis of pneumonia, so his party was postponed to next weekend.

Honestly, I love how his card turned out and I think that he’ll love it as well. The images are print & cut SVG files available from the Silhouette store (for personal use only). The file for the background was intended as a pop-up card, but I was afraid that such a card in the hands of a six year old would wear out quickly, so I printed the background image twice — first as a solid, uncut backdrop and the second time so that I’d get the areas that needed to be popped out. I then mounted it as a second layer using foam pop dots to give it dimension. After cutting out Batman on the Silhouette, I also used pop dots to attach him to the front so the card has lots of dimension. I added Gavin’s name to the reflection from the Bat light and used more pop dots to place it on the front of the card.

The card uses the following files available from the Silhouette Design Store:

The type font for the sentiment is (what else) Batman Forever and available to download at  Dafont.com.

Rowhouse Greetings | Birthday | DC Batman by Silhouette Design Store
Rowhouse Greetings | Birthday | DC Batman by Silhouette Design Store