Category: Stamp Sets

Karen Burniston Design Team August Challenge – Charmed

Fabulous Flamingo, KB Beach C, KB Circle Charm
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The Karen Burniston Design challenge this month is Charmed – so I used the Circle Charm die along with the Beach Charms to make my card.  The paper is Tropical Chic and the stamp set is Fabulous Flamingo from Stampin Up.  I used the palm tress on the front.

On the inside I added the flamingo charm.  The colors are Blushing Bride, Granny Apple Green and Shaded Spruce.

The body of the flamingo is DSP from the Tropical Chic paper.  The wing is the stencil part of the die colored in with a marker.  These charms make it so easy to create a card!  Make sure to check out the other Charmed Designers 🙂  Hugs, Fran

Karen Burniston – http://karenburniston.typepad.com

Shelly Hickox – http://shellyhickox.blogspot.com

Summer – Hills Painter – http://1craftypainter.blogspot.com

Karen Aicken – http://paintedmountaincards.blogspot.ca

Helen Cryer – http://diningroomdrawers.blogspot.com

Kelly Booth – http://cruzinkellster.blogspot.com

Frances Byrne – http://stampowl.blogspot.com

Fran Sabad – https://fransabad.com

Picture Perfect Birthday

Picture Perfect Birthday
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A few days ago I showed a Christmas card that had this wreath shape made with the Gina K wreath builder template.  While I had the template out, I decided to look through my stamps and see what else I could come up with – and I decided on this!  This is a 2 step stamp in the Picture Perfect Birthday set done in the 2 new purples, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape.  (The hearts are Melon Mambo – seriously!)


Christmas Blended Seasons

Blended Seasons
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Not a great picture – sorry – but this is the Christmas holly image from Blended Seasons  I stamped the image, colored it with Stampin Blends and fussy cut it to make a border.  The bells were stamped, colored and cover with vellum so the sentiment would stand out.

For this one I used the bells stamped in a circle to make a square card.  To do this I used the Stamparatus and Gina K’s wreath builder template.  The DSP is Under the Mistletoe – my favorite color for Christmas!  Hugs, Fran

Fall Blended Seasons

Blended Seasons
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This is the autumn/fall image included in the Blended Seasons stamp set.  For this card I stamped the image on Crumb Cake card stock and colored it in with the watercolor pencils.  First I colored them in white, then add the other colors over top.  The background is the Basket Weave embossing folder – such a nice, deep impressions.  I finished it off with some metallic pearls.  Hugs, Fran

Blended Seasons

Blended Seasons
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This is a special set for the month of August – Blended Seasons.  It come with beautiful stamps that cover the entire year!  For this card I embossed the floral image and watercolored it.  The sentiment is from Kindness & Compassion.

This is the same floral image colored with the watercolor pencils that are available as an add on.  The sentiment is the Celebrate You die and the words are from Another Wonderful Year. You can’t see it on this picture (!) but there are score lines next to the image done with the Simply Scored tool.  The Celebrate is covered with Dazzling Diamonds.

This is my case from the flyer – colored with the Stamping Blends.  This sentiment is included in the set.  The set is huge!!

And this is what I did with the left over die cut piece!  I’m not wasting anything!  So that’s what I’ve done with the floral image from the set.  Check back tomorrow to see another image from Blended Seasons.  Hugs, Fran

Sheltering Tree Watercolor

Sheltering Tree
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Sandy Allnock did a video using trees and watercolors and I wanted to play along.  The only tree I had at hand was the Sheltering Tree stamp so I went with it.  Using markers and watercolor paper, I stamped the tree and then added the leaves with re-inkers and an aqua painter.  The idea was to create a shadowed area  underneath the leaves.  Think I might need to try again 🙂  But it was fun and great way to stretch my watercoloring abilities.  Hugs, Fran


On the Farm

Another Wonderful Year, KB House & Fence, KB Outdoor Scene, KB Tree Pop Up, Stitched All Around
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This is my Father’s Day card for my dad.  I used all kinds of stuff to make this card!  The stamps are MFT Animal Farm and the sentiment is Stampin Up’s Stitched All Around.  Those cute clouds are Karen Burniston’s Outdoor Scenes. The card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 Crumb Cake with Old Olive patterned paper.

Inside features the Karen Burniston Tree Pop Up and the House & Fence Pop Up.  I fashioned the house to match our farm house by stenciling the background with a brick stencil very lightly – going for the look of stone.   The grass is also from the Outdoor Scenes die.

I made a few simple boxes to pop up some of the animals and some are attached directly to the back.  I had to trim the tree (!) so the horse could peek through!  And  yes, we raise black angus cattle so the poor dairy cow had to have a make over!

The sentiments are from Stampin Up’s Another Wonderful Year and Truly Tailored (retired.)  This is when I realize I’ve used a birthday sentiment!!  So in the final version I’ve covered up the birthday part with Happy Father’s Day!  Sheesh!  Hugs, Fran

Accented Blooms

Accented Blooms
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This is my Catalog Case of Accented Blooms – done in Old Olive.  The banner flag is embossed with the Layered Leaves embossing folder and the image is colored with Stampin Blends.  The sentiment is punched out with the Tailored Tag Punch and it[‘s all finished off with some enamel glitter dots (retired.)  I think this set is just beautiful.  Hugs, Fran


Abstract Butterfly

Handwritten, Itty Bitty Greetings
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So this is a very busy card 🙂  I started with the new background stamp, Handwritten, that was stamped on a piece of Gorgeous Grape card stock and embossed in white.  Over that is a die from the Springtime Impressions Thinlits in white.  I die cut a circle in So Saffron and another one from vellum.  The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Greetings.

The butterfly is die cut in Highland Heather and a scrap piece of printed vellum and a piece of black.  I added antenna from fishing line dipped in Dazzling Diamonds.

The card is finished off with rhinestones and a coat of Glossy Accents on the body of the butterfly.  Hugs, Fran