Blossom Designs

Happy Birthday

Still no baby!  LOL.  I obviously make things way to comfortable for my children and they don't want to leave home!  LOL.

I am going to sit down today and go over all the posts I have drafted from the team weekend away back in August.  I only have to complete the recipe from each card but so far, I've not been able to sit down comfortably with the laptop and work it out.

This gorgeous card is designed by my good friend Nicky Adamson.

I really LOVE the colours Nicky chose for her card.  I just love the black - makes the other colours really stand out.

Happy Stamping,

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Supplies
Stamps: Eastern Blooms.
Ink: Rose Red, Bashful Blue, Versamark.
Paper: Rose Red, Whisper White, Basic Black, Washington Apple DSP .
Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch.

Friendship

I'm on a roll....another sketch challenge completed!!  Woo hoo!

If you are at all worried about joining in sketch challenges.....don't be!  The sketches are open for your interpretation.....meaning you don't have to keep your card to the same scale, your card can be either portrait or landscape or you can add as many or as little embellishments as you like.  I kept my card to the standard A6 size (A4 cardstock cut in half and then folded in half) so it is a smaller scale to Jen's.  Give it a go and after all, it is only paper - you can always make another one!!

  
Here is Jen's Sketch For You To Try.

Happy Stamping,

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Supplies
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Think Happy Thoughts.
Ink: Old Olive, Tangerine Tango.
Paper: Haiku DSP, Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White.
Accessories: 1/4" Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals, Olive Fine SupernovaGlitter, Eyelet Border Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch.

Happy Birthday

I'm on a roll with making cards for my friends birthday's coming up within the next few weeks.  I still have to make more for June but I'm getting there - slowly!  LOL.  I have friends who live in the UK and Germany so I need to be a little bit organised with those cards to get them off in the post in time.

I stamped the card and then thought it needed something else to complete it.  As I had just been through the Idea Book & Catalogue (writing out another wish list!), I remembered the flower fusion tin was in almost the same colours as my card.  Ah-ha!!  *light bulb moment*.  So now you see those gorgeous flowers with some rhinestone brads (in coordinating colours!).

A nice close up of the flower fusion.  New to the current catalogue is Flower Fusion Too (page 144) which uses 2 of the in-colours (pink pirouette & baja breeze) along with chocolate chip.  Very nice.  Using these flowers you can make a simple card stand out that little bit more.

Happy Stamping,

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Supplies
Stamps: Happy Everything, Eastern Blooms.
Ink: Old Olive.
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Old Olive.
Accessories: 1/4" Pumpking Pie Grosgrain Ribbon, Flower Fusion, Circle Fire Rhinestone Brads, Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads, Paper Piercing Mat & Tool.

Mother's Day Card

I hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day last Sunday.

I had to take Oliver to a 5th Birthday party at McDonald's at 10am (I didn't know anybody there as it was a boy from Oliver's pre-school).  Speaking to Karen (Zack's mum), we couldn't work out how Oliver got invited as the two boys don't even go to school on the same days!  LOL.  For whatever reason, Zack wanted to invite Oliver.

This is the card I made for my mum - well it is a flower pot card!  I've seen a few around on blogs and just had to give it a go.  I did make mine a bit bigger than the tutorial I found (which I now cannot find to link you to it!).  I'm so sorry to the originator of this card for losing your link.

I used my crimper (I think for the first time!! *gasp*) on the leaves and then just cut them out freehand.

Here is the inside of the card.  Very simple but I like it.  Obviously, I wrote on it after taking this photo. *wink*

I also made a stand for the card.  I wanted mum to be able to look at it like a normal card so I had to make something for her to be able to do that - a stand.

Happy Stamping,

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Supplies
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Occasional Greetings.
Ink: Pretty In Pink, Rose Red, Real Red.
Paper: Whisper White, Close To Cocoa, Certainly Celery, Raspberry Tart DSP.
Accessories: 1/4" Pretty In Pink Grosgrain Ribbon, White Gel Pen, 2-way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds.

I apologise for the lighting in these photos.  I was up until nearly midnight making this plus another card which I needed for the following day and I knew I wouldn't have time to take a photo in the morning.

Eastern Blooms

I finally broke open my Eastern Blooms set from the Summer MiniCatalogue with the inspiration coming from Marelle Taylor - a well known Australian demonstrator.

Now, I would normally not put these colours together but when I saw what Marelle had done, I loved it, so I CASEd it!  I did put my own creativeness on it with the felt flowers and the greeting. 

Here is a close up of the flowers (Flower Fusion).  Can you see I used 3 punches for the greeting?  The circle punch, the oval punch and the designer label punch.

Happy Stamping,

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P.S. - don't forget that Sale-A-Bration ends in 2 days!  Please hurry to get your order in on time to earn those free stamp sets.

P.S.S - I will have some blog candy to give away shortly, so keep watching!