Altenew Peony Bouquet Flip Cards

I adore these Tonic Studio Flip Flop die sets when I need to make something special and don't have much time.  I got a little panicky last night when I realized I needed to make two birthday cards and a sympathy card for today.  

                                         

I stamped these lavender flowers with Tim Holtz distress Ink.  The layers on these Altenew Peony Bouquet stamps are pretty easy to line up in my Misti if I just pick a few spots to concentrate on.

I'm into stripes lately, both in my quilt borders and cards.  They just seem to coordinate with everything.  This beautiful gold and white striped Stampin' Up vellum called to me from my stash.

I used two different Tonic Flip Flop dies, an oval and a rectangle.  The die cut sets include a large die to cut the flip flop card (over 5 x 7) which can be sized to different dimensions and several layering dies for the shape area. There's a sentiment die for the center, but I chose to pop up my peonies for my focal point and put my sentiment on the back.  I dug out my Marvy stamp pads from a hundred years ago and now I remember why I love them so much.  The pinks and reds stamped very evenly and I am happy with the bright, vivid colors. Good thing I have the reinkers because I think I'll be using them a lot for my layered stamps.

The little swirls around the flowers were the scraps from the die cut frame.  Glad I didn't throw them away!  I added a pretty sparkly gold bow to my side panel and some sequins to match the flowers and I'm almost done.

I use tons of die cut sentiments because I can put them anywhere on the card, even over stamped images, and I don't have to worry about ink smudges.  This "Prayers" image is from Hero Arts and it has several stamp phrases to go with it.  And, of course, I messed up stamping the "sending hugs" phrase, so I just stamped it again on another piece of paper and popped it up over my boo boo. I'm a boo boo guru. 

Thanks for visiting.

Go forth and be fabulous.

Nancy

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Just Keep Swimming - Hero Arts Color Layering

I love the new Hero Arts color layering stamps so much that I fear I'm in danger of collecting them all. I was so excited when I saw this Goldfish set at Joann's. I had seen this You Tube video by Jennifer McGuire and decided to give the acetate window panel a try. This technique is a little tricky at first, but after you have done it once it's easy and you can use it on many different kinds of cards.

                                           

The  beauty of these Hero Arts three-part color layering stamps is that you can use coordinating inks to build color and detail into your image without much effort. My MISTI stamp positioner helped me to line everything up easily.. 

The stamp set also includes the sea weed and the sentiment so I was able to complete the whole card with just one set.  I layered different shades and textures of blue paper (one glitter) for the "water" on the card front and added some pearls for bubbles.  I have several friends who could use this encouraging message.  How about you?

Thanks for visiting.

Go forth and be fabulous.

Nancy