Inspired by all the little Things 25

Hey Friends, This week at Inspired by all the little Things #25 we have a pretty Chrysanthemum photo inspiration. It's Mum season here but I haven't planted any yet this fall, better get on it! 

I chose to play with this gorgeous WPlus9 Beautiful Bouquet Mums stamp set colored with Copics. The gold embossed sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp Friendship Blooms set.

After die cutting the colored panel with Avery Elle Wonky Stitches die, I adhered it to a rust colored card base and added gold sequins. I like to keep my sympathy cards simple, not even sure if it is ok to have sparkles on this kind of card?

This week our guest is Bonnie Sharp. Come on over to the blog and see what we have cookin! 

Stampin Royalty 346 -Fall Theme

Inspired by all the little Things # 17

Hi all! It's Memorial Day weekend in the USA. We've got some unseasonably warm weather and it's perfect for a holiday. Feels like summer! 

For this weeks Inspired by all the little Things #17 Challenge, I went with the spike-y looking  flowers in the inspiration photo along with the colors.  

I heat embossed the Inkadinkado image (set is called "meadow") with white embossing powder on Ranger water color paper. I laid down a wash of clear water then dropped the darker colors close to the images. Those colors were Picked Raspberry and Seedless Perserves Distress inks. Then I added Milled Lavender and Spun Sugar in the outer wet edges and let them do their beautiful spreading magic. To help the spreading process along, I spritzed clean water from a mini mister. For me, this is key to getting the look I want. Then let AIR DRY. 

The rest is obvious, white heat embossed Hero Arts sentiment on a piece of heavy weight torn vellum, a couple of punched butterflies adorned with PPP sparkling clear sequins adhered to a dusty green mat and white card base. No foam tape for easy mailing. 

Thanks for visiting and please come play with us this week! 

Kim :)

Also submitting to Simon Says Stamp Wed. Challenge -Anything goes

Sympathy.Card

Hi all, I made this for a friend her lost her Dad last week. I used a "Lord have Mercy" sketch but missed the posting date. Darn! I hate that. I was last weeks sketch challenge.

I am entering this is the Shabby Tea Room "Old meets New" challenge for this week. The button is old. The rest is fairly new. I have only been paper crafting for 2 years so most of my stuff is new. BUT, that divine paper from Basic Grey's Nook and Pantry line is kinda vintage. God, is it gorgeous!
I embossed the cream colored CS which is textured like watercolor paper. So pretty! I purposely stamped the SU flower image lightly with chalk ink so it could look watercolored then stamped the sentiment over it in brown (momento rich cocoa).
I used some cream ribbon I got at Joannes (?) and some bakers twine in brown/white. Did you get some yet? It's very "in" right now! I got mine from Papertrey but could kick myself cuz a day later Die Cuts R us had it cheaper and in lots of pretty colors.
Thanks for looking.
Kim


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