Get Well Memo

Swinging back to some bright colours for this one! I've pulled out Office Accoutrement and teamed it with Boho Backgrounds and Sincere Salutations. The large flower was inked with Rose Red, then I wiped the ink off the outline and used the Pumpkin Pie marker to ink it up before stamping on Whisper White cardstock. I also stamped the small flower twice using Rose Red ink and twice using Pumpkin Pie and cut all flowers out. The Memo image and sentiment were also stamped on Whisper White using Certainly Celery and Old Olive ink. I've also punched the edge using the spiral punch, then torn the piece and lightly distressed the edges. The Taken With Teal background has been stamped with the Boho flower background using Teal ink. I felt the flourishes on the "Original" stamp were a good match for the swirls on the background, so I stamped a row of them on Regal Rose cardstock using Rose Red ink. I created a faux bow overtop using turquoise and tangerine grosgrain ribbons. The large flower, with it's two smaller flowers attached with a Turquoise brad, has been popped up on dimensionals and I've finished the card off with a circle clip from the Antique Brass hodgepodge tin.

Office in the Springtime

Since the new catalogue is for spring I thought it was time I got some spring-ish colours out. Haven't managed to put Office Accoutrements away yet, this time combined with an old favourite, the Paisley background. The large flower is stamped on Whisper White twice, once with Cool Caribbean, the second time it is double stamped, firstly with Cool Caribbean and then it has been kissed with the Paisley that was inked in Tempting Turquoise. These are then trimmed, with the inner part mounted just in the centre so the petals sit up a little. The flower centre is a Lovely Lilac button. The cardbase is Certainly Celery with the Paisley stamped in VersaMark, on top of this is a layer of Lovely Lilac (scallop edge courtesy of the corner rounder with the guard removed), a layer of Regal Rose with the small Office flower stamped in Whisper White. To finish it all off is some white grossgrain and white organdy ribbon.

Going Green

It's not long now until the Spring mini is here. This is another card using the flowers from Office Accoutrement, along with something I've never used before... raw chipboard. Something else I never thought I would do is combine Old Olive and Always Artichoke. If I've wanted a not-quite-green green it's been one or the other, never both. But I've now decided they go really nicely together, lifted by a bit of Cameo Coral. The flowers were both stamped on Whisper White, the larger one stamped twice to get a more intense colour. Add an olive button, artichoke brads and ribbon, a dash of VersaMark and a Finest Flourishes stamp and voila!

Sweet Flowers for You

Still in a purple mood, but wanted something a bit simpler. For this I stamped the large flower from Office Accoutrement in Perfect Plum on Whisper White and trimmed, mounted it over a faux stitched strip of Elegant Eggplant, with a Pale Plum button centre. The sentiment is from Everyday Flexible Phrases, stamped in Elegant Eggplant on Pale Plum, punched with the round tab punch and mounted with a couple of celery brads. It's all mounted onto a Cool Caribbean long note card (available in the Spring Mini), which I stamped a few times with the small Office flower using VersaMark and some piercing to the corners.
And then to finish the day off I thought I'd do something I haven't done since... possibly ever! A card with NO stamping! Yes, such a thing exists, hehehe. On a Tempting Turquoise card base (corners rounded with a small corner rounder punch) I have used some pieces from the Little Reminders tin (yes, you guessed it... available in the Spring Mini). Possibly the only card I have ever made that came close to a 10 min construction time... Simple, but I like it.

HB Memo

I felt a desperate need ro play with some purple, so thought I'd pull out another Spring Mini set and get playing. This is Office Accoutrement (with a Warmest Regards sentiment tossed in too). The large flower was stamped twice, once with Pale Plum, and once with Elegant Eggplant, the eggplant trimmed to the outside, the plum trimmed to just the inner part. The small flower was stamped in Perfect Plum and then they were all mounted together. I stamped three of the small word stamps on Sahara Sand, Pale Plum and Whisper White using Elegant Eggplant and punched them out using the fab new tab punch (also available in the Spring mini). Two of these are attached to the back of a piece of Certainly Celery that was stamped with the memo in StazOn (sentiment in Ellegant Eggplant), the Whisper White one is attached to the front with two celery brads. The final piece is the calendar, stamped in Elegant Eggplant on Whisper White, trimmed and the date marked with the celery marker (though it's a bit hard to see in the photo). All mounted on a Perfect Plum card base. Nice and purple, hehehe