Growing Green Three Ways

Hello Everyone

Three cards today, all made with the Growing Green stamp set - I seem to have been doing a lot with flowers recently.

This one is watercoloured and finished with tiny seed pearls.

The next one I did as a make and take a while ago. The hardware and designer paper is now retired, but it was a fun way to use it up!

Finally here is a different colourway. I did it in Wild Wasabi and accessories with Lucky Limeade Bakers twine.

I hope you have enjoyed these projects - I love the different looks you can get with just one stamp set.

Love Elizabeth X

A Tropical Wedding

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A while ago a friend of mine asked me to come up with some designs for her wedding. She wanted a tropical theme as she is getting married in the tropical sunshine.

First I came up with a bright card which reminded me of a tropical boquet my DH once ordered for me while we were in Florida. I showed an example with my own wedding details on it, printed on to Vellum cardstock from Stampin' Up! The stamp set I used was Greenhouse Garden.

The second design was much more subtle and used the Growing Green stamp set, plus the stem stamp from Cottage Garden. I watercoloured each flower, and layered some using pearls. I added a spray of Champagne Shimmer Paint for some subtle glimmer.

Here is the inside of the card....

Finally I made a little matching favour box...

Hope you like what I created.

Love Elizabeth X

Growing Green Two Ways

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Today I am sharing two cards made with the Growing Green stamp set. This is an outline set allowing you to colour in or leave a very simple outline effect.

I have used a co-ordinating designer paper, (retired now), on this card and also included a single a la carte stamp called All a Flutter.

The second card I made quite recently. Here I used an Aqua Painter and ink to paint the leaves. For the rose I used two pieces of watercolour paper from Stampin' Up! Once again I painted using the Aqua Painter. I cut out the centre of one of the roses and layered up with a dimensional to make the rose pop.

I hope you like today's cards.

Love Elizabeth X

Pop up Gift Card Holder

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Here is a project I taught at our classes last month. It is a pop up gift card holder box. I had designed it a while ago, but was never really happy with it until I did a Big Shot re-design.

Here is the original...closed and open

Well it was OK - but I wanted something a bit prettier, so I came up with...

I used the Growing Green stamp set and the Scallop Circle and Circles #2 dies to create this topper...the underneath pop up bit is just the same...

I am much happier with the second version and it was a fun project to teach.

Hope you like it too.