Pretty Picado

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I'm celebrating Fun Friday with some birthday cards.

Jack will be 15 soon.  Where did that time go?

He likes hot pink and purple so I used my new Pretty Picado stencils and embossing 

folder that I got recently.

While I was at it, I made a birthday card for one of our daughters that has

a birthday soon.

I hope you have fun this Friday!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps: 

Ink:   Strawberry Slush, Gumball Green, Crushed Curry

Paper:   Polished Pink, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Pretty Picado Stencil & EF, Capsule Basics, Capsule Filagree, Twisted Crepe dies (Grtry), Sentimental Die Set (Avery Elle), Large Numbers Framelits (ret SU)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Special Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   Strawberry Slush, Gumball Green, Crushed Curry

Paper:  Neenah Solar White

Other:  Pretty Picado Stencil & EF, Capsule Basics, Capsule (Grtry)

Enjoy!

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Petals

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I've had these Petal Perfection stencils and dies for a year now.  I used them once

for this card and always intended to play with them some more.

I really like how the stenciling goes to the edge of the dies!

I'm trying to work on my stenciling techniques.  I fear I still have a way to go, but

Michele's tip on using the Misti is a big help.  Now to get control of the coloring!

I used mixed media paper for these flowers and stenciled a set in yellow and one 

in pink.  I used mixed media paper just in case the coloring didn't turn out so well.

Sometimes a damp brush works good to smooth the color.

I put a few of the flowers in a vase and mounted the bouquet on a piece of

embossed vellum that had been in the drawer waiting for just the right card.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #828 - Mood Board Below (Flowers)

Pinkfresh Studio June Challenge - Flutters & Florals (have PFS florals)

Seize the Birthday #328 - Use Acetate or Vellum (Vellum)

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Four Petal Sweet Day Flowers (SB)

Ink:   Garden Green, Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness (DI)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Vellum, Neenah Solar White

Other:  Petal Perfection stencils & die (PFS), Vase Collection 1 (PTI), Texture Fades Botanical EF (TH)

Enjoy!

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Christmas Postage

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I didn't get into the postage stamp craze.  I would have liked to but

I had just bought the Greetery Curio dies and couldn't justify it.

But my friend Nance got the postage stamp dies and stencils and was

nice enough to bring them to a couple of our playdates.

She had an extra gift set of these little poinsettias and shared them with me.

That was a year ago or two?

They got set aside and I found them last week.  They were a perfect fit for

Narelle's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

It's pretty self explanatory.  I used Encore gold for the centers and dots and

heat embossed with gold powder so they have some shine.  The sentiment 

is gold embossed too.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Easy Holiday Expressions (Ton)

Ink:   Encore Gold, Real Red, Garden Green

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Postage Stamp & Poinsettia Stencil & die (Waffleflower), Easy Holiday Expressions die (Ton), Gold EP, Subtle EF (ret SU)

Enjoy!

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Father's Day

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This stamp was a gift.  It's old and stained but stamped beautifully.  All that was needed

after stamping was a tiny bit of coloring.

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use embossing folder option Boys to Men

I.D.E.A.S. - Embossing Week

Krafty Chicks - CAS

The Male Room - Outdoors

  

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Loon (Northwoods 1999)

Ink:   Nocturne (VC), Bordering Blue (ret SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Molded Frame EF (SB), TH Watercolor Pencils (Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke), Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils (Olive, Dk Green, Brown)

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More Birdies

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When I made this card, I die cut a couple sets of birdies and they 

needed a home.  So for some Friday fun,  I'm playing with these 'tweet' birdies.

Three found their way on this card.  I die cut the frame from patterned paper with

a very subtle pattern and popped that over some embossed leaves.

Two more found their way to welcome a new baby.  I rarely need a baby card, but

my daughters ask for one once in awhile.  That yellow cardstock was a gift from a

friend.  I love this light, bright shade and will be sad when it's all gone.  Fortunately

she gave me several 12 x 12 sheets.

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Rosemal Reflections (Grtry)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, DP (?) 

Other:  Birdies die (SSS), Leafy EF (SB), Mini Slimline die (SSS)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Welcome Baby (?)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Yellow Texture (?), DP (?) 

Other:  Birdies die (SSS), Square Peek-a-boo Window die (MFT)

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