Four Frames Easter Card

I kept thinking about my mom today. She has been gone for a long time, losing a fight with cancer. So I decided to make a card in her memory. She loved purple and she had one of the greenest thumbs around. She had a real knack for growing climbing roses.

This card also features one of the sneak peak stamps from the Idea Book and Catalog for 2011-2012.

Materials>

Card Stock: Perfect Plum for the card base (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") and enough to punch 2 decorative lables; Very Vanilla (3 3/4" x 5") and enough to punch 1 decorative label; Basic Black (4" x 5 1/4") and enough for 2 labels.

Stamp Sets : Elements of Style and Four Fames,Teeny Tiny Wishes

Punch: Decorative Label

Ink: Perfect Plum, Basic Black, Old Olive, So Saffron

Other: 1/4" Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Beautiful Wing Embosslit die, dimensionals, aqua painter

Putting It Together: Center and adhere the black rectangular piece to the Perfect Plum card base. Stamp roses in plum ink on the top left of the vanilla card stock. Use the aqua painter to pick up Perfect Plum ink and color wash flowers. Also, use it to paint leave in Old Olive in the same manner. Color center of flowers with So Saffron. Sponge Perfect Plum around the Very Vanilla panel. Using the die, cut out butterfies and attach 2 as show in the photo. Attach ribbon and bow.

Stamp floral frame in Perfect Plum and color as you did the flowers on the Very Vanilla panel. Stamp the sentiment in the center of the frame and then punch it out with the Decorative Label punch.

Punch out 2 Perfect Plum labels. Cut one in the middle horizontally and the other vertically. Cut and splice to form a border frame around the floral frame. Repeat the process with the black paper to form a second frame behind the plum one. Use dimensionals to attach frames over the ribbon.

Visit my web page to learn all about getting those wonderful frame stamps that work with thte Decorative Label punch www.sharonmassey.stampinup.net

Inspiration

This card was made for my 10 year old grandson, because I am so very proud of him. He fasted for 30 hours to raise money for World Vision. Right now he is truly an inspriation to me, because he is doing exactly what we all are called to do - sacrifice for the good of others .

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This card just takes a few minutes to make. The base is the standard 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored and folded at 4 1/4", in Sahara Sand card stock.
A 2 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of Early Espresso DSP was glued on the bottom of the card front. A 5 1/2" piece of Early Espresso was punched with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border. The result was adhered to the top of the DSP. The definition of inspire was stamped on the top, right of the Sahara Sand. This sentiment came from the "Define Your Life" stamp set.

A 2 5/8" scallop was punched out of Early Espresso. A 2" circle was punched out of Crumb Cake. The owl from the "Punch Bunch", which is in the "sale.a.bration" catalog, was stamped on the Crumb Cake circle. This circle was glued onto the scallop and then embossed with the "Square Lattice" folder.

Where ever you are I hope that your days are blessed and filled with much happiness.

Beautiful Butterflies

Wow! I just got my "Beautiful Wings"embosslit die and had to try it out. I absolutely love it. It cuts and embosses 5 butterflies, the distance bewteen wing tips range from 5/8" to 1 7/8". I put 2 on the outside and 3 on the inside.

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I formed a Pink Pirouette card base. I cut out a piece of Basic Gray card stock and adhered a piece of 1/8" Pretty in Pink Taffeta ribbon 1 3/4" from the top and a second one 1 1/2" from thte bottom. The I centered and attached this panel to the pink card base.

Then I stamped the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set rose in Basic Black ink on the top part of my Very Vanilla card stock. I stamped a second rose onto a sheet of copy paper, cut it out, and used it as a mask. I then stamped the lily from the same stamp set on the bottom of the vanilla card base, making sure part of it overlapped the rose. I created a mask for the lily. I coverd both the rose and the lily with their masks. Finally,I stamped the last flower from the set between the rose and lily.

I colored the rose with Pink Pirouette and Pretty In Pink inks and the lily with Melon Mambo, Peach Parfait and Basic Black. I cut the flowers out on the right side only and then attached the resulting piece on the top left of the gray panel.

I cut the butterflies out of Whisper White scraps with the embosslit and sponged them with Pretty In Pink ink .

I punched out 1 3/8" x 5/8' oval in the Pink Pirouette and stamped my sentiment on it. I dotted a border around the oval. Then I placed the oval between the ribbons.

Materials:

5 1/2" x 8 1/2 " Pink Pirouette card stock scored and folded at 4 1/4", plus a 2" x 1" for punch

3 1/2" x 4 3/4" Basic Gray card stock

2" x 4" & 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" Very Vanilla Card stock

2 - 4" pieces of 1/8" Pretty In Pink taffeta ribbon

Basic Black, Mellon Mambo, Pretty In Pink, Pink Pirouette, Peach Parfait and So Saffron Inks.

Beautiful Wings embosslit

1 3/8" x 5/8" Oval Punch