Saturday, March 8, 2025

CSF Saturday Blog Hop - Casing Melissa Davies

This week's Create With Stamping Friends Saturday Hop CASE is Melissa Davies! This card from way back in July 2023 was my inspiration:

The colors are Night of Navy, Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral and Garden Green. I needed a card for our son's girlfriend's birthday next week and I love the colors and layout of this. Her favorite color is yellow, so something with Crushed Curry was a good choice!

I started with the Country Flowers bundle. Since we don't have Crushed Curry Stampin' Blends, I used the Crushed Curry Watercolor Pencil with a Blender Pen for the tea pot vase.


The Country Flowers Dies provided the Garden Green leaves and Calypso Coral flowers to fill the vase. They're shown off against the Night of Navy Textured Notes rectangle die cut, which is adhered to the Mini Corrugated embossed background. The greeting was borrowed from Something Fancy. I needed it to fit the die cut strip!


That's all for today - see you next Saturday! Up next is Libby Fens at Libby Stamps. Or click the "back" button to go back to Lori de Groot at Loritamarie Crafts.

 
 
Stampin' Up! products used:
  • Stamps: Country Flowers, Something Fancy (greeting)
  • Paper: Basic White, Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Night of Navy
  • Ink: StazOn Jet Black
  • Accessories: Textured Notes Dies, Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder, Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels, Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2, Blender Pens


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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Thursday Challenge - CSF859


The Create With Stamping Friends Thursday Challenge this week is a sketch. Rather than use a die cut for the center, I embossed the Elements of Text image in gold on Basic Beige for the focal point.

Then the floral sprig was stamped on each side in Gray Granite and colored with Soft Sea Foam and Fresh Freesia Stampin' Blends.


The Basic Beige panel was trimmed down to 3 7/8" x 4 3/4" and adhered to the Fresh Freesia card base.


I stamped the greeting in Memento ink and fussy cut it before adhering to the card with dimensionals. Antique Pearls really coordinate so well with Basic Beige!

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Saturday, March 1, 2025

CSF Saturday Blog Hop - Casing Libby Fens

Today's Create With Stamping Friends CASE is Libby Fens, and this card from last December is the one I chose. The colors are Basic White, Granny Apple Green, and Berry Burst.

I love the CAS layout of this card, and it could really lend itself to so many different occasions! Like three balloons with Happy Happy Birthday underneath. Or three snowflakes with Let It Snow. But the weather has been pleasant ("False Spring") here in Tennessee, so of course I'm dreaming of flowers.


The front of the card base was embossed with the Soft Waves 3D folder first. Then a 2 1/4" x 5 1/2" strip of Granny Apple Green was matted on 2 1/2" x 5 1/2" Basic White. The greeting from Storybook Friends was stamped along the bottom of the G.A.G. panel and it was then adhered to the card front.


The blossom in Choose Happy was stamped on Basic White three times, then colored with Berry Burst and Granny Apple Green Blends and die cut with one of the Stylish Shapes circles. Those circles were adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals. To keep the CAS look, I didn't add any embellishments. Shocking, no? 😆


That's all for today - see you next Saturday! Up next is Libby Fens at Libby Stamps. Or click the "back" button to go back to Lori de Groot at Loritamarie Crafts.
 

 
Stampin' Up! products used:
  • Stamps: Choose Happy, Storybook Friends (greeting)
  • Paper: Basic White, Berry Burst, Granny Apple Green
  • Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, plus Stampin' Blends Combos Berry Burst & Granny Apple Green
  • Accessories: Stylish Shapes Dies, Soft Waves 3D Embossing Folder

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