It's time again for another blog hop with the Freaks! This month's theme is Spring or Easter.
Finally I can start playing with flowers again! I love stamping for Christmas and other occasions but flowers are my first love.
You may have arrived from my friend Barb's blog. Weren't her projects great?
First up I have a spring-like card featuring a fun punch trick. Gotta love those punches!
I called this technique 'dropped circles' on a previous card. But these strips are horizontal so that doesn't quite work here....
I cut 5 strips of pastel colored card stock - So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Wisteria Wonder and Bashful Blue. I made sure these measured slightly less than 1 1/4" in width. You'll see why next.
I
inserted a piece of card stock (Marina Mist here) in the punch where
you'd usually put it. This piece helps for the next step. Now put your
1 1/4" card stock strip (pink here) in through the back of the punch, not where you
usually put it though! See how only half of the strip will be cut in a half
circle? The blue card stock helps you insert it easily and not get
caught on the inner metal parts of the punch.
I used the Spring Sampler stamp set in the Spring catalog, stamping them in coordinating ink color on Whisper White card stock and punching them out with a 1" circle punch.
The greeting verse is from the 'Rain or Shine' stamp set and stamped onto a White die-cut from the Lots of Tags Sizzlits.
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Next is a pretty flower I saw on Pinterest:
I made a flower from our Blossom punch. I used just 5 Raspberry Ripple Blossom punched pieces to get this beautiful flower.
The box is one of our Kraft boxes on page 161 of the main catalog. I covered it with pieces of our More Amore Specialty dsp and added an embossed tag from the Pop-Up Posies kit on page 18 of the Spring catalog. The 'just for you' stamp is also from the same Posies kit.
****I'll be posting a step-by-step tutorial to create this flower next week.
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The next card is one we made at a recent workshop.
This simple yet pretty card was cased from my talented friend Susie Wood. It's so easy too!
We stamped the single 'Easter Blessings' stamp first using Lucky Limeade ink and then die-cut it with the new Oval framelits. It's added to a Pretty in Pink labels framelit piece and then to one of our pretty doilies. The patterned paper pennant is cut from Sunshine & Sprinkles designer paper in the Spring catalog.
It's finished off with a little butterfly stamped with the Sale a Bration stamp set 'Bloomin' Marvelous' and then punched with the Itty Bitty Butterfly punch. Remember, the Sale a Bration promotion is over in just a few days!
And now you're off to see the beautiful cards Yvette has to share with you. Enjoy the tour!
How did you do the gray ???? that the flower and tag are on?
Posted by: Trish | March 21, 2013 at 05:40 PM
Three gorgeous projects. Love the cards and colors. The flower is gorgeous. Love the trick with the punch.
Posted by: JoAnn B. | March 20, 2013 at 07:56 PM
Fabulous cards, but that flower...can't wait for your tutorial....TFS!
Posted by: Carol Carriveau | March 20, 2013 at 02:40 PM
You have lovely projects for this blog hop! Thanks for sharing your talents.
Posted by: Karen Seitz | March 20, 2013 at 09:18 AM
Three BEAUTIES, LeeAnn!! I have seen that flower on PInterest, too, and have been meaning to try it! You've pushed me over the edge on that now!!! :)
Posted by: Wendy W. | March 20, 2013 at 05:44 AM
Your cards a re gorgeous but that flower is incredible! Love it!
Posted by: Justin | March 19, 2013 at 09:56 PM
LeeAnn, that flower/box is stunning, and the dropped circles are adorable!
Posted by: Cindy Elam | March 19, 2013 at 09:36 PM