A Cup Of Roses

Hi Crafty Friends!

Being on a roll with one-layer cards, I made another one using one of the retired STAMPlorations stamps which are now available as digital stamps from their Digital Store here. It's the A Cup Of Roses stamp ...

The roses were coloured using my metallic pencils and the background was sponged using the Ovals Flexi-Template and Kitsch Flamingo DI. I intentionally didn't ink up right to the image as I rather like the little white halo for added dimension. the other advantage is that the image doesn't need to be masked off, one can carefully apply ink close up using small make up brushes.

Again this card should be easy to recreate using the digital stamp. If you wanted to mask the flowers, simply print on copy paper, fuzzy cur and use repositionable double sided tape to adhere the mask in place.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

hugs
Monika 💕

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Spring Cuppa

Hello Crafty Friends!

Spring has firmly set in, and the coffee-loving cardmakers are celebrating with a blog hop/linky party.

I thought I'd join the party as part of STAMPlorations DT. Shery is one of the hop's sponsors and asked us, if we wanted to take part. All the DT's projects can be seen here on the STAMPlorations Blog.

Well, I am offering you two pieces of inspiration. First up is a slider-shaker using A Cup Of Roses, one of the new sets, and the large rose from the Blossom Overture set in combination with all thre of the Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies.

Here is briefly how it was made:

• you basically cut a frame using the largest and smallest of the nesting dies for the top frame
• cut another frame using the largest and the middle one of the nesting dies for the slider and spacer frame with the top cut away to form a U
• cut a piece of acetate
• cut a piece of card using the large nesting die for the backing and to stamp the cup of roses on.

• colour the stamped image
• stamp, colour and fuzzy cut the large rose
• stamp the sentiment on the slider
• add a tab to the slider and partially attach the rose
• assemble card making sure to put foam tape and sequins/confetti/pearls between the cup of roses panel and the acetate
• the slider and its frame sit between the acetate and the outer frame

Next up is another shaker card, this time a little gungy using sentiments from the Bloomin' Spring Coffee Basket in combination with the Coffee Cup Silhouette Die.

• I picked a piece of card with a splodgy background and masked the area where I wanted the coffee cup shaker to go
• next I picked my sentiments, used one to stamp the background and the other one to stamp on a strip of card
• I die-cut the coffee cup from gold mirror card and wonkily assembled my shaker finishing off with some sequins

Here is another look at both cards.

I am linking my first card up with:
Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Spring Hop

That's it from me for today. Have a lovely weekend!
hugs
Monika xxx


here is what I used from the STAMPlorations Shop, remember to apply my personal discount code STAMPGIRLMONIKA (not case sensitive) at check out for a 20% discount on their stamps ***, stencils and dies:

A Cup Of Roses, Blossom Overture Bloomin' Spring Coffee Basket

  

Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies, Coffee Cup Silhouette Die

 

*** Discount code works on sale items too