SSS Happy Camper, Groovy Flowers

 *This post contains affiliate links to Simon Says Stamp.

A really simple card today using the recently released Groovy Flowers dies.

There are three sizes for flowers that you can use on their own, or layer for more dimensional flowers.  I cut the three sizes from three shades of pink.  The flower detail pieces were cut from white and the centers from gray.  I then mixed and matched the pieces to create a variety of flowers.

For the background, I pulled out a panel from my stash that had been created ages ago.  This was just white mist over black cardstock using the Parquet stencil I designed for Neat & Tangled ages ago.

The flowers were popped up with foam tape.  I added a sentiment strip to finish things off

Blessed to Know you with Neat & Tangled Lovely Lotus

Hi all!  I'm over on the Neat & Tangled blog today sharing this card featuring the Lovely Lotus stamp set and Parquet stencil.

I started by stamping my images with Fairy Dust ink from WPlus9.  It's a very light gray which is great for no line coloring.  In this case you still see a bit of the gray though because the colors I used for my coloring were so light (RV000, RV00, RV10 and YG01, YG61, YG63, along with the colorless blender).

Because the gray still showed a bit, I figured I would fight fire with fire and added some accents in gray using an N1 marker.  

Once my coloring was done, I die cut the images, and then arranged them over top a panel I created by misting my Parquet stencil with some white Dylusions spray over a very dark gray cardstock piece.  

The front most flower was popped up with some adhesive foam.  Since it was so close to the bottom of the panel, I could trim off the bottom of the stem and use that to double as the stem for the first flower.

The sentiment is also from the Lovely Lotus set and was popped up over the florals with two layers of foam tape.

That's all for me today.  Thanks so much for visiting!

*Affiliate links in text to Neat & Tangled and below to Ellen Hutson

Lovely Lotus, Neat & Tangled Clear Stamps

Lovely Lotus, Neat & Tangled Dies

COPIC Sketch Marker RV000, Pale Purple

COPIC Sketch Marker RV00, Water Lily

COPIC Sketch Marker RV10, Pale Pink

COPIC Sketch Marker YG01, Green Bice

COPIC Sketch Marker YG61, Pale Moss

COPIC Sketch Marker YG63, Pea Green

COPIC Sketch Marker, 0 Colorless Blender

Stretching your Stencils

One of the techniques I teach in my Craftsy class involves selectively cutting out portions of stencils to create a totally different design.

I had some time this weekend to just play and I pulled out my Parquet stencil.

It's rotated 45 degrees, and then I traced and then used a cutting knife to remove these alternating triangle portions.  I love what a different look this is.

Since I wasn't really planning ahead, I ended up with a cut out area that wasn't quite symmetical.  If I had planned ahead, I would have made it symmetrical and used it on the horizontal, adding the sentiment in the center.  But, I was flying by the seat of my pants here, so.....



I knew I wanted to pop the panel up over some black cardstock, but I wanted some brightness, too, so I cut three 1" squares of colored cardstock to add behind the squares/diamonds.  I found the perfect patterned paper to accent the design from an old BG 6x6 pad.

A simple partial sentiment from Calathea was embossed on black to finish this off.

I love this technique because it allows you to take one thing and create something totally different.  Hope you're inspired to take a fresh look at your stencils!