Magnolia Flower Birthday Card

Elaine Greenwood - Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Good Morning everyone, yesterday I took time to create a flower for my card using the Magnolia Memory Dies.  These flowers are very easy to make, maybe not so good on cards (for mailing purposes) but they would be great to use as embellishments on boxes and gift bags.

Here is a link to a video from Stampin' Up! showing how you can create the flowers.  I didn't use the Hot Air Balloon Punch as I wanted my flowers to be smaller.

Here is how I created my card:

• Thick Whisper White cardstock cut at 8 ½ x 5 ½ scored at 4 ¼.
• Using two sizes of the Stitched Rectangles Dies diecut a frame from Blackberry Bliss cardstock.
• Cut a piece of the Perennial Essence DSP a little larger than the inside of the frame and adhere it to the back of the frame.
• Using the Magnolia Memory Dies, diecut the three flower dies from Whisper White cardstock, four leaves from Mossy Meadow cardstock and the small stamen from So Saffron cardstock.
• Sponge the edges and centres of the three flower dies using a sponge dauber and Rococo Rose Ink.  Gently shape the petals of the flowers with a bone folder and then adhere them together with multi purpose liquid glue.  Attach the stamen to the centre and then add a Gold Faceted Gem.
• Using the die from the Detailed Bands Dies cut out two, one from Rococo Rose cardstock and the other from Whisper White cardstock.  On the Whisper White centre piece, stamp the sentiment from the Floral Essence stamp set in Rococo Rose Ink.
• Attach the band to the card using multi purpose glue and then insert the Whisper White sentiment in the centre.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and that you will make some of these flowers yourself.  I must say that I don't do very good at taking pictures; this card looks much better in person.

If you live in Canada and would like to purchase items I used to create my card, you can click on any of the following products and it will take you directly to my store.  If placing an online order under $200.00 please use the August Host Code 2XD24XCV.

Product List

Floral Essence Photopolymer Stamp Set [149450] $22.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $11.25	Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133675] $12.00	So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [105118] $12.00
Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133676] $12.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Rococo Rose 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150882] $12.00	Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper [149100] $15.75
Stitched Rectangle Dies  [148551] $48.00	Magnolia Memory Dies  [149578] $48.00	Detailed Bands Dies [149549] $52.00	Rococo Rose Classic Stampin’ Pad [150080] $10.25
Gold Faceted Gems [144141] $6.75	Sponge Daubers [133773] $7.00	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50

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Floral Essence Challenge Card

Elaine Greenwood - Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Today I am sharing a card I made for our team's challenge.

• For this card I started with a card base from Blackberry Bliss cardstock cut at 8 ½ x 5 ½ scored at 4¼.
• I cut two pieces of the Perennial Essence DSP, one was 1 x 5 ½ and the second was 2 ½ x 5 ½.  I adhered these two pieces to the card front leaving a ¾ inch space in the middle.  I diecut the long die from the flourish dies in Petal Pink cardstock and centered that in the ¾ inch space.
• Next I cut a piece of Whisper White cardstock at 2 ¼ x 4 ¼ and adhered that to the card base.
• On a piece of Whisper White cardstock I stamped the floral image from the Floral Essence stamp set three times using Petal Pink, Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss Inks, the centres of the flower were stamped using So Saffron.  I fussy cut the flowers out.  I then stamped the leaves using Old Olive and Mossy Meadow Inks and punched them out using the Leaf Punch. 
• I also punched out leaves from a Copper Foil sheet using the sprig punch and die cut two sets of leaves using the die from the Detailed Bands Dies.  The flowers and leaves were then arranged on the card and adhered using multi purpose glue and dimensionals.
• The sentiment was stamped using Blackberry Bliss Ink on Whisper White cardstock using a sentiment from the     stamp set, diecut with a Layering Circles Die which was then attached to a Scalloped Circle diecut from Blackberry Bliss cardstock.  The sentiment was attached with dimensionals.  

If you live in Canada and would like to purchase items I used to create my card, you can click on any of the following products and it will take you directly to my store.  If placing an online order under $200.00 please use the August Host Code 2XD24XCV.

Product List

Floral Essence Photopolymer Stamp Set [149450] $22.00	Perennial Birthday Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151240] $30.00	Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133675] $12.00	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985] $12.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Copper Foil Sheets [142020] $6.75	Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper [149100] $15.75	Leaf Punch [144667] $22.00
Sprig Punch [148012] $24.00	Detailed Bands Dies [149549] $52.00	Flourish Dies [141478] $39.00	Layering Circles Dies [141705] $48.00
Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [147092] $10.25	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [147091] $10.25	Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [147108] $10.25	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad [147109] $10.25
Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] $10.25	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090] $10.25	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

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Mosaic Mood Specialty DSP Cards

Elaine Greenwood - Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Here are two cards I made with the Mosaic Mood Specialty DSP.  I fussy cut the hummingbirds, butterfly and flowers to make my cards.

Here are close ups of the individual cards:

I used both Blushing Bride and Soft Suede cardstock for my card bases and these were cut at 8 ½ x 5½ and scored at 4¼.

The next layers, one in Blushing Bride and the other in Soft Suede cardstock were cut at 4 x 5¼.  

The Very Vanilla Layers were both cut at 3¾ x 5 and both were embossed using the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder.  The layers were attached using Snail adhesive.

I fussy cut the hummingbirds, butterfly and flowers.  The flowers and butterfly were glued down using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  The hummingbirds were attached using both sizes of Dimensionals.

The Happy Anniversary sentiment is from the retired Best Birds Stamp set and was stamped using Soft Suede Ink and diecut using one of the dies from the Stitched Labels Dies.

The Birthday Wishes sentiment is from the Varied Vases Stamp set and was stamped using Soft Suede Ink and diecut using the Stitched Rectangle Dies.  

Hearts were diecut using Blushing Bride cardstock and the Stitched Be Mine Dies.  These were attached with Multipurpose Liquid Glue and a Rhinestone was placed in the centre of each.

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If you live in Canada and would like to purchase items I used to create my card, you can click on any of the following products and it will take you directly to my store.  If placing an online order under $200.00 please use the July Host Code 4UP7HUBW.

Don't forget to check out the Clearance Rack, there are quite a few Christmas items in there.

Product List

Blushing Bride 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131198] $12.00	Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [115318] $12.00	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101650] $13.25	Mosaic Mood Specialty Designer Series Paper [149478] $20.00
Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $10.25	Subtle 3D Embossing Folder [151775] $14.00	Stitched Labels Dies [146828] $45.00	Stitched Rectangle Dies [148551] $48.00
Stitched Be Mine Dies [148527] $48.00	Paper Snips [103579] $13.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220] $6.75

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