Stampin’ Up! Sunshine Textures for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop

Mornin’, y’all –  welcome to another edition of the Happy Stampers Blog Hop.  This week is a color challenge – check it out!

I’ve discovered a crafter truism.  There’s nothing better than a whole bunch of new toys to play with.  And, there’s nothing worse than a whole bunch of new toys to play with!  I have so many goodies – and more coming! – that I want to play with, it’s just really hard narrowing it down.  But I managed to pick…three….for today’s card.  The main player is the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits, with some Touches of Texture thrown in.  And some Brushwork Alphabet to round out the line-up.  All mixed with a little Playful Palette DSP.  Take a look-see:

Bright and busy, huh?  But I think it’s kind of fun – and it’s going to suit the person who will receive it – and I think that’s kind of the point, isn’t it?  🙂

I started by SNAILing some of the Sweet Sugarplum paper from the Playful Palette DSP stack onto a Blushing Bride mat.  The next step was to stamp a few of the fun flower images from Touches of Texture in Blushing Bride onto a smaller panel of Very Vanilla card stock.  I stamped it off once before stamping the panel.

Then I SNAILd that to a Blushing Bride mat and then to a larger Emerald Envy mat.  And SNAILd it at a cocky angle to the card front.

All the die cuts you see come from the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits set – which I got as a bundle with Sunshine Sayings, saving myself 10% (in addition to my demo discount, of course – ask me how to get your demo discount – and an extra two free stamps sets this month! 😉 ).  I cut the flower dies in Blushing Bride and Emerald Envy and used Multi-Purpose Liquid Glue to adhere them to the small panel.  I made sure that their stems came together – I was creating a bouquet! 🙂

The little butterflies are cut from Sweet Sugarplum and Very Vanilla and I doubled them up, gently curling their little wings.  Once I adhered them to the card front with Liquid Glue, I added little strips of Pearl Basic Jewels for their bodies.

The sentiment – from Sunshine Wishes again – is cut three times from Emerald Envy and then stacked together with more Multi-Purpsoe Liquid Glue.  I love the sentiment dies in this set – they’re a very pretty font, but they also have some substance to them, giving them a little weight in the card composition!

Oh yes – I totally sounded like an artist right there. 😉

I added the sentiment to the card front with Liquid Glue.  The final pieces were to add a little double bow – tied with Blushing Bride and Emerald Envy Solid Baker’s Twine – and some gold stars from the Metallic Enamel Shapes set.

On the inside, I stamped more of the Blushing Bride Touches of Texture flowers – stamping them off once first, and then I made my sentiment.  I say “made my sentiment” cuz that’s exactly what I did!  The very fun Brushwork Alphabet stamp set, combined with some Emerald Envy ink, let me write my own custom-made sentiment!

Isn’t that a beautiful font??  I stamped each letter individually – because I wanted to push them all together, with closer spacing than I could have gotten by placing all the letters on an acrylic block at the same time.  It’s pretty easy to line up – this is a photopolymer stamp set!

I finished it with one more gold star and SNAILd it onto a Blushing Bride mat and then into my Emerald Envy card base.  Then, I popped the card front on with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the card was done!

On the front of my Very Vanilla Medium Envelope, I added some more Touches of Texture Blushing Bride flowers – some inked straight and some stamped again without re-inking…

…and then I added a custom flap cover with more of the Playful Palette DSP.

Et Voila!  Sunshine Wishes delivers fun flowers and butterflies – and four fun sentiment dies (Love, Hope, Congrats and Sunshine) – that coordinate perfectly with the Sunshine Sayings stamp set.  Or – as you can see here – do all the work themselves!  Hope that you like! 🙂

Now that you’ve seen my card, please take a little time to visit all the Happy Stampers Team blogs today!

If you click on the Next Blog button, you’ll go right to Jari Francis’ page.  And you can just click on the names below to go direct to all the blogs!

Sandi MacIver

Amy Koenders

Shelagh Freemantle

Mary Deatherage – YOU ARE HERE!

Jari Francis

Kristi Gray

Heather Wright-Porto

Have fun on the Hop!

TTFN

Mary

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