Bloom with Hope Using Markers

Good day my friends, I hope you are all fine.  We are trying not to wash away, as I typed this post yesterday morning, we had already had 2.5 inches of rain with more still coming down.  I wonder if we need to start building a Ark, lol!

Yup, once again I'm using the stamp set, Bloom With Hope.  This time I pulled out my SU markers and a Blender pen to color the image with.  I used Baja Breeze (retired) and Marina Mist.  The center is colored in with Daffodil Delight and So Saffron.  I then fussy cut it out and mounted it on a Real Red banner to the card base that has been laying around the craft room way too long, so it is time to make it into some cards.

I used the sentiment from the Bloom with Hope set and some Black Staz-on and stamped my sentiment on some retired Marina Mist ribbon, whew, it turned out great too!  I also added some Basic Rhinestones too.

Well off to do some more painting, ah the joys of remodeling :)  See ya soon,  Mary

Million and One

Ok, I fooled you with the title, didn't I!  Yep, as stated last week, this will be my last Bloom With Hope, for awhile, anyway.  Also today is the day, woohoo, that you can order from the new Stampin' Up! catalog!!  I hope you have a piece of paper handy to make your wish list with too.

Well, on this Bloom With Hope, I used the Coastal Cabana Blendabilities.  Oh, they've told us that they may be available either in late June or early July.  They want to make sure that they have a good supply of these so that they don't have to put them on back order right away.  The card stock is Whisper White and Pool Party.  Embossing folder is Decorative Dots and I added some Crushed Curry splatters with the Gorgeous Grunge too.  For the black, it is Staz-on.  For bling I added the Basic Rhinestones.

I'm sending this card to someone who placed an order with me, I hope she likes it!

I hope you have fun shopping in the new catalog, have a great day!!  Mary

Bloom With Hope, Revisited

Are you sick of seeing this stamp set yet?  Well, I only have two new stamp sets, this one and the Work Of Art, but I'm ready to start playing with some others next week, although I will be showing you one more on Monday, sorry about that!

For this card I just inked up the two stamps I wanted to use, one in Pool Party and the other one in Island Indigo, makes for a quick and easy card.  I saw a card like this on another demonstrators blog, but using a different stamp

Card stock is Whisper White, Pool Party and Island Indigo.  I punched the one flower with a non-SU 1-  1/2" scallop punch, which fit this flower really well.  I added a large pearl to the center too.

I would make a card like this again with some other punches, very simple and easy to make.  Have a great day.  Mary

Bloom with Hope

Well today I'm going to share two cards with you that I made with the new Hostess set called, Bloom with Hope.  I like it because you can color the flowers in with either markers or Blendabilities.  You could even ink up the images with ink and stamp on Whisper White that way too.  I'll have to give that a try and maybe on Friday I can show you a card made that way!

 This card was made with Daffodil Delight, Smoky Slate and Whisper White card stock, DSP is the Watercolor Wonder.  I used the Banner Framelits for my banners.  I also used the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set for the splatter background, along with some Basic Pearls and Rhinestones.  I choose to make both cards sympathy as I didn't have any pre-made.  Oh that is Linen Thread wrapped around the base of the flowers.  I used Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive Blendabilities to color the image with.

The second card I used my Color Coach to pick colors that would go with the Cherry Cobbler Blendabilites.  I was quite surprised that they suggested Calypso Coral!  So I pulled some out and went with it, I think it looks really well with the color image.  I used a strip/scrap of Daffodil Delight card stock that I ran thru the Decorative Dots embossing folder, wrapped some new thick Baker's Twine around (ops, I thought it was Calypso Coral but it is Crisp Cantaloupe), along with some Basic Rhinestones and Pearls.  The splatter is again added using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.  The banner was cut out with the Banner Framelits.  Black Memento ink was used to stamp the images with.

It was a great day because I got to create and have fun with my ink and stamps, I hope you have a great one too!  Mary