Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Waltzingmouse Blog Party

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When I sat down to make a card for this month’s Waltzingmouse Stamps Blog Party, I realized I had only one flower stamp in my Waltzingmouse Stamps collection! While this limited my design options somewhat, I still managed to put together this clean and simple design using that single flower stamp—the sweet tulip from the Nordic Spring stamp set—and some inks from Imagine Crafts. Imagine Crafts makes the fabulous Memento inks I use almost all the time and they generously sent me some of their other varieties of inks to sample.

I used a combination of Brilliance (a fast drying pigment ink) and Versamagic (chalk ink) inks for the card. I picked a springtime color combination of a bright green for the stems and pastel pink and yellow for the flowers. The strip of flowers is matted on a yellow textured cardstock panel. I stamped one of the gingham images from the Gingham & Co. set on a white panel in Sunflower Yellow ink, then stamped the “thanks a bunch” sentiment over it in Pearlescent Thyme. The green ink has a pretty, subtle sparkle to it IRL! I adhered the gingham panel to the bottom of a celery green card base, then added the flower strip on top.  Not bad for one flower stamp!

Materials Used:
Nordic Spring, Gingham & Co., and Compact Sentiments stamp sets (Waltzingmouse Stamps); Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme and Sunflower Yellow and Versamagic Pink Grapefruit inks (Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts); Certainly Celery and Whisper White cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); yellow textured cardstock (Bazzill)

16 comments:

  1. Will, the only flower you had, was a good one! You made a beautiful spring card, with the pretty colors and the gingham!

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  2. what a lovely row of spring tulips Lori! So bright and sunny!

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  3. So sunny Lori! The tulips are perfect and I love the yellow gingham!

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  4. Your creativity really shows, Lori! Great job with your "limited" supplies! ;-)

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  5. Oh Lori...what a bright and cheerful card you have designed. I just adore these little Nordic flowers and how they look so great all in a row! Thanks so much for playing along with the Blog Party today! Hope all is going well with you and Chloe! =)

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  6. Such a lovely row of tulips and love the spring colours!

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  7. Definitely feels like spring has come when I look at this card!!
    Lovely and bright.

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  8. such a nice spring looking card ! perfect as allways :)

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  9. Beautiful tulips Lori, I can't wait to see mine pop up!

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  10. So very pretty. Everything about your card says spring.

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  11. So Lori and sooo perfect!! Love those flowers, colors, and gingham!

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  12. Clean, simple, fresh, zesty - just fabulous!

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  13. This is just too darn cute!!! Your flowers are as sweet as can be.

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  14. Lovely choice of colours - I wouldn't mind tiptoeing through those tulips !!!

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