Flower Pot Pop Up – Stamper's Blog

It’s Spring! But unless I put some snow on this card, it’s hard to believe! The Paper Pros Challenge this month is spring flowers so I started with Karen Burniston’s Flower Pot Pop Up dies and the Flower and Bee die. The sentiment is from Stampin Up’s Beautiful Bouquet. The card is 5 x 5.

I die cut a circle and made a wreath with the flowers. The flowers are accented with white gel pen and Crystal Nuvo Dots in the centers.

Inside is the Flower Pot Pop Up and lots of flowers and bees. When you are adding things inside the Flower Pot and around it, you need to check that things aren’t hanging outside of the card and that the embellishments on the inside don’t keep the card from closing.

I embossed the pot with Stampin Up’s Basket Weave embossing fold and a bit of Crumb Cake ink. Very springy! Thanks for taking a look and make sure to check out the other Paper Pros to see what they did with the challenge theme. Hugs, Fran

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

Sandy Diller – http://sandydiller.blogspot.com
Donna Wright – http://oldredshed.blogspot.com
Shelly Hickox – http://shellyhickox.blogspot.com
Summer – Hills Painter – http://1craftypainter.blogspot.com

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

Raquel Mason – http://raquelmason.blogspot.com

Caz Counsell -http://stampingcaz.blogspot.com

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

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

Frances Byrne – http://stampowl.blogspot.com
Fran Sabad – https://fransabad.com

It’s time for another Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge and this month it’s Ghosts! I’ve create a large 6 x 6 Basic Black card stock base card to share today. The tombstones from the Halloween Scene dies were stamped in Basic Gray ink on Smoky Slate card stock using SU’s Marbled background stamp. The bats and pumpkin are from Halloween Elements and the fence is from Karen’s House & Fence Pop Up. The background is Distressed Oxide inks pounced and sprayed and smooched until I liked the results 🙂 I added black Nuvo drops scattered around the scene.

The inside uses Karen’s Flower Pot die as a big tombstone with ghosts flying out of it! I repeated most of the outside elements to the inside and added some retired Halloween stamps as a greeting.

The ghosts are attached to strips of acetate to make them float. The bricks on the tombstone/flower pot are done with SU’s brick stencil and embossing paste tinted with Smoky Slate re-inker. I went over the bats and pumpkins with Shimmer pen – gotta have glitter!