How Sweet Tutorial

Happy Monday to you! Today I have a new Sweet Strawberries card to share with you.

To begin, I stamped the small strawberry plant on Pure Luxury white card stock, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored with Copics, starting with YG05.

Then I added YG97.

Started the strawberries with R89.

Added R29.

Added R24.

Then filled in with R22.

I used Spellbinders™ Nestabilities® Lacey Circles to cut out the image, then sponged with Memento Cantaloupe ink while still in the die template.

I cut an arc into a sticky note and used it to mask the top of the image. Then I sponged Memento Bamboo Leaves, creating a bit of a foreground.

Then I used W5 to add a shadow under the strawberry plant.

I stamped the sentiment on Pure Luxury White and cut it out with another Lacey Circles die template, also sponged with Memento Cantaloupe. I stamped and colored the small strawberry w/ flower and cut it out, adhering it to the sentiment layer. I cut a branch using Spellbinders Foliage Shapeabilities® set, and sponged Memento Bamboo Leaves while still in the die template. All the layers were adhered with Pop Dots. The card base is Pure Luxury Sweet Corn, 5 ½ by 4 ¼ inches. I added score lines to the card base with my Scor-Buddy. 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a great start to your week! 

Sweet Strawberries Rubber Stamp Set	Spellbinders S4-328 Foliage	Spellbinders Lacey Circles S4-293	Spellbinders Grand Calibur
Scor-Buddy	Jumbo Sponge Dauber	Pop Dots	Pure Luxury Card Stock
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Wild Savannah Tutorial

Hello! I'm back from the Spellbinders™ retreat and what an amazing experience it was. I'm still giddy. We learned so much and were given so many wonderful products and supplies by the fabulous cross promotion companies that work with Spellbinders. They treated us like royalty spoiling us with surprises, classes and so many dies I don't know which to use first. I will always treasure the friendships I made there. I used a few of those products on my card today, along with images from my new rubber stamp set, Wild About You.

To begin, I stamped the giraffe with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored in with my E51 Copic marker.

Added some shading with E33.

Then a little more shading with E35.

I used E37 to fill in the spots. After coloring, I cut out the image.

Next, I stamped the giraffe with Memento Tuxedo Black in and used E00 and E53 to do a bit of shading. After coloring, I cut out this image, too.

For the background, I cut a piece of Pure Luxury Ivory to 4 1/2 by 3 inches and sponged Memento Desert Sand ink.

Sponged lightly with Memento Rich Cocoa.

Next, I used sticky notes to mask the top and sponged more Memento Rich Cocoa, keeping it darker at the top and fading toward the bottom.

I stamped the small grass using Memento Rich Cocoa.

 Stamped the tree with Memento Rich Cocoa.

I used W5 Copic to add a shadow behind the tree.

Next I used my Grand Calibur® Die Cutting Machine to cut a piece of Graphic 45 designer paper, from the Tropical Travelogue collection. Graphic 45 is one of the wonderful companies that generously supplied product to the whole team. I love this zebra print! I used the third smallest die template from LF-190 Grand Labels 4 to cut the paper and sponged lightly around the edges with Memento Rich Cocoa while still in the die.

I wanted a narrow frame of Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown around my pattern paper, so I trimmed along the sponged line on my paper.

Next I cut some little branches out of Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, using S4-328 Foliage. Here I got to use another awesome present to the design team, from Xyron! This nifty little machine is called Create A Sticker and it is so cool for adding adhesive to small, delicate pieces. You just feed the little brach into the top of the X.

Then at the bottom of the X you pull on the tape and out comes your piece. You tear it off, lift the top plastic away and it is ready to peal off and stick on your project. It was supper easy and the adhesive covered the entire branch.

Here is another look at the card. The finished card size is 8 by 5 1/2 inches and card base is Pure Luxury Kraft. The zebra is adhered directly on the background and the giraffe is popped up with Pop Dots. The sentiment was stamped on Pure Luxury Ivory and also adhered with Pop Dots.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope your day is wonderful!

Wild About You Rubber Stamp set	Spellbinders Grand Calibur	Spellbinders LF-190 Grand Labels Four	Spellbinders S4-328 Foliage
Xyron Create A Sticker	Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue	Pop Dots	Jumbo Sponge Dauber
Memento Ink Pads	Pure Luxury Card Stock

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Red Poppies

Happy Friday! I'm still in Phoenix, at the Spellbinders DT Retreat, but I've auto-scheduled this post. Melanie's gorgeous poppies, from Stately Flowers were calling to me, so I made this before I left.

I stamped the poppies on Pure Luxury White card stock and colored with Copic markers, starting with R29.

Added R08.

Added R05.

Then filled in with R02.

For the centers, I used E35 in the highlighted areas and E49 in the shadows.

Filled in the foliage with G24.

Then added some shading with YG95. After coloring, I cut out the flowers.

I cut a piece of Pure Luxury White with Spellbinders Labels 9 Nestabilities and sponged Memento New Sprout while still in the die.

Sponged Memento Bamboo Leaves at the bottom.

Then stamped the silhouette branch, from Gina K Dogwood and Butterfly, using Memento Bamboo Leaves.

I layered with Pure Luxury Fresh Asparagus, cut with Spellbiners Fleur De Lis Square die template, and a Pure Luxury Creme De Menthe. The card base is Fresh Asparagus (4 1/4 by 5 1/2).  I added the score lines with my Scor-Buddy. I also added some self adhesive pearls to accent. The sentiment is from Whimsical Wishes and stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

Stately Flowers Rubber Stamp Set	Whimsical Wishes Rubber Stamp Set	Self Adhesive Pearls	Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Square
Spellbinders Labels 9	Spellbinders Grand Calibur	Scor-Buddy	Jumbo Sponge Dauber
Memento Ink Pads	Pure Luxury Card Stock	Pop Dots

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