OSAT Blog Hop Mother's Day

 

Welcome to the One Stamp At a Time Blog Hop for April - Mother's Day!  I hope you enjoyed Andrea's fantastic projects and enjoy the rest of the blogs along the hop! 

My mom's interests were my inspiration for my card and project.  I hope she likes them! Here is the front of my card.

This is made with a whisper white card base, matted in blackberry bliss, and then added a layer of painted blooms DSP embossed with the spring flowers folder.  The painted petals stamp set was used for the sentiment (embossed in gold) and flowers (blackberry bliss & wild wasabi).  A layer of wild wisabi is used to mat the whisper white with the flowers on it.  I used our wonderful jute ribbon as a background, but modified it by cutting it on top and bottom and peeling some of the layers away.  A couple of these layers were then used to make the bow. I don't stamp the inside very often, but wanted to do so on this card.  This sentiment is from my go-to stamp set called Teeny Tiny Wishes! A list of all materials used for both projects is at the bottom of this post.

My mom recently visited while she was on spring break.  A favorite place for us to visit is the botanical gardens.  We had a beautiful day, and we enjoyed this field of crocus which was my inspiration for my other project.

My next project is framed art inspired by this scene at the botanical gardens.

Here is a more detailed view.

 

My project used one of my current favorite Stampin' Up! sets - Sheltering Tree!  The tree is early espresso and pink pirouette.  The grass is done in wild wasabi with flowers in daffodil delight, perfect plum, and elegant eggplant (with garden green stems).  I used my scallop punch to make a template for my clouds and then sponged on the whisper white cardstock in both soft sky and marina mist to create the sky. This is matted with a 5x7 early espresso cardstock in a 5x7 white frame from any store.

Thanks for visiting and hop on over to Debbie's blog for the next stop in our One Stamp at a Time blog hop!   

Darla - http://stampinwithdarlaandsisters.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Eva - http://evascardsandthings.evabussom.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Tina - http://tinascropshop.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html 
Elizabeth - http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/2015/04/09/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop/ 
Andrea - http://onestampinmothertucker.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop.html
You are here------> Megan - http://meganttstamps.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Debbie - http://www.davdesigns.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day.html
Holly - http://hollyshobbs.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mother-day.html
James - http://stampinstud.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-hop.html
Diane - http://stampandembellish.com/2015/04/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day/
Maggie - http://www.maggiemadecards.com/osat-blog-hop-mothers-day 
Wynn - http://mycraftyside1.blogspot.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop_9.html
Martie - http://martie-pollard.squarespace.com/welcome/2015/4/6/april-mothers-day-osat-blog-hop
Justin - http://jkcardsonline.com/2015/04/osat-mothers-day-blog-hop/

Supplies for first project......

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Supplies for second project......

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A fun & recent birthday card

I recently worked on this birthday card for a to be determined birthday......

It uses a technique called "stained glass."  To do this you stamp with Versamark and then put embossing powder on vellum & heat the embossing powder.  I let them dry for a little bit and then took my SU markers and colored on the back of the vellum.  It's important to stay inside the lines of the embossed image.  Allow it to dry after you have colored, otherwise it comes off on your fingers (speaking from experience).  :)  I then punched out the flowers to add to my card.

Interested in more details or for ordering supplies - feel free to contact me!

OSAT Blog Hoppers Spring Flowers

 
This is my first Blog Hop, so I am super excited to share my card.  Here's the spring flowers card I made to share with you!

I started with a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" crumb cake cardstock and stamped the SU Hardwod stamp on it for the card base in chocolate chip ink.  I then stamped a second one in order to cut out the 3d pieces of the door.  Cut out 4 squares that are 1 3/8" and add stampin dimensionals to the back of them and adhere to card base.  Set this aside as we move onto the wreath.

Use a scrap piece of cardstock to cutout the flower wreath base.  I used the 3 3/16" and 2 3/8" circles framelits to create the wreath base for the flowers.  Stamp and punch out 5 or 6 flowers using our 2013-2015 In Colors (Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Strawberry Slush, and Coastal Cabana) using the Petite Petals stamp set & punch.  Layout the flowers on the wreath base until it is a look that you like.  Spread glue over the wreath and start adhering the flowers to the wreath base.  When this is complete, take your extra flowers and add stampin dimensionals to them and pop a few up on the wreath.  Add a small piece of ribbon to the back of the wreath.  I used the Coastal Cabana Sale-a-bration ribbon, and I looped it and adhered to the back of the wreath with glue dots.  Use stampin dimensionals to adhere the flower wreath to your card base.  Place a chocolate chip candy dot to create what looks like a door handle.  

The sentiment is from the painted petals stamp set stamped with chocolate chip on whisper white cardstock.  Punch it out using the decorative label punch.  Using the same punch, punch the background piece out of chocolate chip cardstock.  Cut this background piece in half horizontally to mat your sentiment & adhere.  Add stampin dimensionals to the back of the sentiment.

Now it's time to put everything together for your easel card!  Cut a piece of crumb cake cardstock to 4 1/4 x 11" and score along the 11" side at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2."  Fold at the 5 1/2" score line and then fold back at the 2 3/4" score line.  Add adhesive to the top 2 3/4 x 4 1/4" section getting it ready for your card base.  Add the card base and then the sentiment and ta-da your card is complete!!!  At the bottom of the post is a supply list of materials I used.  

Thanks for visiting and hop on over to James' blog for the next stop in our One Stamp at a Time blog hop!  

Eva - http://evascardsandthings.evabussom.com/2015/03/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flowers.html

Elizabeth - http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/2015/03/12/spring-flowers-blog-hop/

Debbie - http://www.davdesigns.com/2015/03/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flowers.html

Tina - http://tinascropshop.blogspot.com/2015/03/osat-spring-flowers-blog-hop.html

You are here ----> Megan - http://meganttstamps.blogspot.com/2015/03/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flowers.html

James - http://stampinstud.blogspot.com/2015/03/osat-showers-bring-spring-flowersor.html

Holly - http://hollyshobbs.blogspot.com/2015/03/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flowers.html

Darla and Nancy - http://stampinwithdarlaandsisters.blogspot.com/2015/03/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flower.html

Andrea - http://onestampinmothertucker.blogspot.com/2015/03/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flowers.html

Diane - http://stampandembellish.com/2015/03/osat-blog-hoppers-spring-flowers

Martie - http://martie-pollard.squarespace.com/welcome/2015/3/5/spring-flowers-osat-blog-hop

Justin - http://jkcardsonline.com/20…/…/osat-spring-flowers-blog-hop/

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Butterfly Grapevine Spring Wreath

I love our Stampin' Up! Butterfly Thinlets Dies!  This project was super simple!  I cut many butterflies out of half sheets of cardstock, and they are hot glued onto the grapevine wreath.  This wreath was purchased at a big box craft store and is roughly 14 inches. 

Interested in purchasing the Stampin' Up! Butterfly Thinlets Dies - please contact me.
 
Saw the inspiration on Pinterest for a similar idea here..... http://www.uptodateinteriors.com/2014/03/butterfly-spring-wreath.html

Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper Framed Art

This is a project we are making in a class tomorrow!  Here are the details....
You start with the super beautiful Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper.  This 12x12 is one of the designs in the package.  The butterfly thinlets were then used to cut out the large and the small butterflies on the big shot.  The large one was cut in basic black and adhered with glue dots along with just a touch of rhinestones on it.  The small one is blackberry bliss and two of them were cut out.  A dimensional was put between the two layers, so it has a bit of dimension to it.  The beautiful banner blessing stamp set was then used in blackberry bliss ink to stamp the verse in the corner on whisper white matted with daffodil delight.  The verse was popped up from the layer with dimensionals and adhered via snail.  The frame is a beautiful shadow box found at Home Goods. 

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Curvy Keepsake Box Creatures for Easter

After Christmas I haven't seen many people creating creatures with the curvy keepsake box, so I thought I would try a few. 

More details to come!

January Birthday Class

I kicked off the new year by hosting a Birthday theme class!  The first card we worked is where I choose these two patterns out of the new Adventure Bound DSP stack for this masculine birthday card.  You can choose many different combinations for this card and even change the embossing to silver with a silver background square.

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