STAMPlorations new release - layered poppies

Hi again peeps! Back today with another beautiful set from the new release from Shirley B. over at the STAMPlorations shop. Today we're introducing Layered Poppies.

First I used my Altenew red inks to stamp the two layers of each of the three blooms onto sky blue PP. Then I stamped the outlines in black.

Layered Poppies stamp

Bloomdala Bliss stamp

Bloomdala Bliss: Felicity die

 inks, green embossing powder

To complete my design I did some tone-on-tone inking through a Felicity scrap paper die cut (using it like a stencil) to represent three clouds up top. Then I drew stems with a Versamark marker and added some texture by heat embossing them.

For my next card I went with more white space, and my fave, random stamping.  Hope you'll forgive me that I didn't use the set as a "layered" stamp here, but I have to tell you, when I first received the set the first thing that I saw was a butterfly. Do you see it too?

Layered Poppies stamp

Layered Watermelon stamp

 embossing powder

I considered adding pattern or at least antenna to the butterflies but then decided that the entire design was so abstract I'd leave it as is. The pops of color and texture make sure your eyes go to the images and I'm pretty sure your eye (brain?) sees a butterfly.

Don't you love Shirley's artistic designs? I just love her sketchy outlines, regardless the theme!

That's it from me today. Check out all the DT's creations over at the STAMP blog. Leave comments all around and you might be the lucky winner of one of Shirley's new stamp sets (to be announced on 6/29 on the STAMP blog.)

Thanks for coming by.  CU soon for the STAMPlorations 13th Birthday celebrations!

hero arts layering waves for the retiree

Yesterday's card reminded me that I had made a couple retirement cards which I had not yet shared.

First up - how about hanging out at the beach? Out comes the fabulous Hero Arts Layering Waves and Layering Sea and Sky. 

I used Altenew inks for the stamping (just flipped the last layer of sea over and used it to stamp some "sandy beach". Trimmed the sea panel down and adhered it to a cardbase. Created the setiment (hello retirement) with a stamp from the set and some die cut letters. The Adirondack chair die is Impression Obsession.

If you know Germany, you'll understand this next one...

Our road signs alerting you you've left one town and are entering another look like this. My card indicates that you've left "work" and are entering "retirement". Used the Papertrey Block Alphabet die.

I'm joining the Anything Goes fun at SSS Wednesday Challenge one more time and A Blog Named Hero AG.

hero arts layering waves for the beach

Another one of my commissioned cards for a gal who truly enjoys giving handmade cards. And she claims the recipients enjoy receiving them too! Yaaaaay.

Today's card - a birthday card for boyfriend's father who has a place at the beach. Don't have to ask me twice to make a beachy card. Out comes the fabulous Hero Arts Layering Waves and Layering Sea and Sky. Added the "hello" sentiment from the set and one from STAMPlorations Party Time  on a strip of vellum.

I used Altenew inks for the sky and sea. Brushed on some Tea Dye DI for the beach. And used my embossing ink pen to add some spots of heat embossed frothy waves for some texture too.

I'm joining the Anything Goes fun at SSS Wednesday Challenge and the Blog named Hero Anything Goes challenge. Thanks for visiting.

three for grandma - altenew beautiful day

More commissioned cards.

Next request was for a card for boyfriend's Grandma who lives in England. She was a market lady and loves flowers. Hmmm. How could I not pull out an Altenew set?!?

I used Altenew Beautiful Day (I have the layering stamp plus the die so I decided to make multiple versions.) First up I put a NBUS impression plate (Altenew Dotted Swirls) to use for the cream colored background. And chose my other colors based on the January Inspiration challenge.

I stamped the layers with orange and green tones and spritzed the flowers and leaves with water to get that watercolored look. Added a bit of perfect pearls shimmer too but it's difficult to capture on camera. Oh, and pearls. Cuz pearls just belong on a Grandma card, don't they?

So for the second version I wanted to use reds and pinks. Decided to pair them with kraft. And I inked tone on tone through the Altenew Deco Wallpaper stencil. The heat embossed sentiment is Avery Elle Oh Happy Day. BTW, this is the card my friend chose.

Used the same ink-layers-with-light-to-dark-then-spritz-with-water method. There's shimmer on these too!

The third version ain't my favorite. But I thought, well how about a dark background. And then why not blue? Why not blue roses?  And how about contrast stencilling -  I used white pigment ink. Not sure if the dots are cool or weird? But I like the solid area at the bottom that left just a bit of space for the tiny Inkystamp Winzige Grusse sentiment.

I'm taking this last one over to Die Cut Divas where it's about New Things. The die to this stamp set is new to me and really makes creating with these lovely roses easy. Thanks for stopping by.