Flower Potpourri Farewell

Tomorrow is the last chance you will have to order products from the current Stampin' Up! catalogue, and the Stampin' Up! Occasions catalogue. Fabulous products like these...

I so so love the Spring Flowers embossing folder, and I am really sad it isn't carrying over to the next catalogue. The Petal Potpourri set also won't be in the new catalogue either, nor will the coordinating Flower Medallion punch. I loved the variety of styles in Petal Potpourri, and of course I am a punch fanatic so always sad to see one go. As sad as that is, tomorrow will be your first opportunity to purchase new items, like the Mint Macaron cardstock and Dotted Lace Trim! There's so many things I love in the new catalogue that it does ease the pain of what we'll be saying goodbye to.

This card is pretty straight forward, the flower was stamped on watercolour paper in the Rose Red and Perfect Plum ink, then the aquapainter was used to just spread the colour to fill in the petals and flower center. I also picked up a bit of ink from the inkpad itself to add a bit more to the base of the petals to make the colour there more intense and add a bit more depth to them. I also sponged a little bit of Pear Pizzazz around the edges of the punched leaves to help them stand out against the Mint cardstock.

And today's colours are...

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KW Colour Inspiration #49

Woohoo! It's been a while since I have had a chance to work on one of Kristina's colour challenges straight away, and they were nice strong colours this week. I teamed the colours with last weeks Weekend Sketch Chellenge, once again I played a bit footloose and fancy free with the sketch. I know I have said it before, but I use sketches as a starting off point and if the end result doesn't follow the sketch to the pixel so be it, as long as it got me going I am happy. I've used Petal Pizzazz again, I'm really loving the shapes of these flowers (I initially got it as a replacement for Bodacious Bouquet but I'm starting to love it in it's own right). I've also broken out another new set - On Your Birthday, which is another one I bought purely to replace another retiring set (It's Your Birthday). I feel there is a bit more variety in the sayings with this set so I can see I'll probably end up liking it in it's own right too! The other new things on this card are the Kiwi Kiss striped grosgrain, and the Pewter Build-a-brad for the top flower center (insanely easy to use).

And I've finally remembered to upload my third card for the Elite blog, another card that uses Petal Pizzazz.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Pacific Point, Basic Black, Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Petal Pizzazz, On Your Birthday
Inks: Pacific Point, Rose Red
Accessories: Pacific Point "marker", Kiwi Kiss "marker", Rose Red marker, Basic Black marker, Pewter Build-a-brad, Rose Red double-stitched ribbon, Kiwi Kiss striped ribbon, dimensionals
Show watched while creating: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Cute Pizzazz

Wednesday night was the Inklings April cyberstamp, this time hosted by Dani. Her first challenge was a colour combination which I absolutely loved the sound of... but ended up focusing on just a few colours so I think I kinda lost the effect... oh well! I started with the Cute & Curly sentiment, and then enlarged a template from the SU! demo site to make a textured Teal layer, stamped with the flowers from Petal Pizzazz and mounted on a the Chocolate card base. The other new product I used are the flowers, from Flower Fusion Too (yummy Baja, Chocolate and Pink Pirouette (that I didn't use)).

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Chocoalte Chip, textured Taken With Teal, Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Cute & Curly, Petal Pizzaz
Inks: Taken With Teal
Accessories: Chocolate Chip marker, Taken With Teal marker, Flower Fusion Too, Soft Subtle brads, Curly Label punch, dimensionals
Show watched while creating: SAf v Aus ODI cricket