Blossom Party & Faux Cloisonne

I have been designing cards for my upcoming card buffet and wanted to share one with you.  My daughter, Luella, was with me for five days and we always have a great time together designing cards and making 3D projects.  I love this retired DSP and wanted a flower to show it off so it reminded me of the Blossom Party die, it is really sad that I have had this die for over a year and never used it. :(  But the great part of having a card buffet is that I am getting all of my DSP out and my dies and having a great time creating!

Blossom Party

Isn't it just too cute?  The next card we learned how to do Faux Cloisonne in our Technique class Thursday night and I have decided to add it also to the card buffet since I love how the butterflies turned out.  Do you have a lot of glossy catalogs or old Stampin' Up! Catalogs hanging around?  When I started cleaning out my stamp room last week, I couldn't believe how many I had still, but we put them to good use with this Technique.  First the cards:

Faux Cloisonne with Flores Suaves

Isn't the butterfly so lifelike?  It is from the Flores Suaves (Soft Flowers) stamp set.  First we found a picture in the colors we wanted to use for the butterfly, then rubbed over the image with the Embossing Buddy then stamped the image using Versamark, sprinkled on black Emboss Powder (you could also use gold or silver) then heated it with a Heat Tool.  Cut them out by hand and the paper ends up feeling like plastic and really takes a bend well.  This technique works well with open stamps (not a solid image) like this butterfly or a flower.  Check out my next post that qualifies for two challenges.

Flores Suaves Mother's Day Card

Getting ready for my Mother's Day Card class on May 3rd.  I had purchased the Flores Suaves (my Spanish speaking daughter told me it means "soft flowers") over a month ago and I finally had time to play with it.  This morning bright and early, 5am, I was going through my huge amount of emails and one of the other demonstrators had tried a technique called "Tapestry Paper" I was so intrigued by it that I went over to Sage Kimbel's blog Stamping Madly and checked out her video and was inspired!

Flores suaves Mother's Day Card

I just love this technique!  The card just glows.  I originally bought this stamp set because my husband, Scott, the Bee Keeper(20 hives and counting) says that this bee is very close to the real thing.  And the butterfly with the set is beautiful also.

Flores Suaves #112913

Recipe:

Stamps:  Flores Suaves, Messages for Mom, Baroque Motifs (Love this one too)

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede Classic Inks, Cherry Cobbler Craft Ink

Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake and Naturals Ivory Card Stock

Accessories:  Champaign Mist Shimmer Paint, Stamping Sponges, Brayer, Cherry Cobbler 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon(this goes away on 4/30, so stock up now!) Decorative Label Punch (come to class to see how I transformed this punch into the punched shape on my card), Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Old Olive, So Saffron and Cherry Cobbler Markers

And here are some close-ups of the card: