Thanks to Garden in Bloom

Hello again, this week's card is a simple thank you card inspired by a colour combination challenge over at the Global Design Project.

They provided the colour combination to use all I had to do was create the card, easier said than done this week! If you follow me on Facebook you'll know I was hoping for a crafting fairy to magically appear and put the card together for me.

Unfortunately a fairy didn't appear so I had to put it together myself. I knew I wanted it to be a thank you card as I have run out but that was about it until I had a flick through the Stampin' Up! catalogue and saw Garden in Bloom with their instructions on how to emboss an image using their embossing powders. I love the shine you get with embossing powders, it just makes the flower pop! I've used Stampin' Up! Copper embossing powder on this one, although the photo makes it look more brown than copper. 

When I first saw Garden in Bloom I knew I wanted it, I loved the butterflies and bees in the set, but I don't think I've used it since I bought it. I do that far too often! I decided to do a similar flower to the one shown in the catalogue but using the colours set in the challenge. I pulled out a scrap of DSP, my stitched framelits dies and ta da the below card was created. I hope you like it!

The lovely Lotus Blossom - Part 1

Morning everyone, as I'm sure I've said in one of my previous posts the Lotus Blossom set has to be my favourite set from the Sale-a-bration offerings this year and so for my first class of the year I just had to make full use of the Lotus Blossom set. As we made four different cards I have split these posts into four parts but they may not necessarily be consecutive as I have several other cards to show you at the moment so you'll just have to keep coming back in order to see all four cards!

This first card was inspired by a swap I received from Charry at Stampin' Stars training (to see all of the swaps I received make sure you check out my Facebook page), I really liked her mix of blue with crumb cake and decided to give it a go myself. I'm really liking the idea recently of using stamps to create my background instead of relying on patterned paper so I might be giving this technique more of a chance in future makes. This was my favourite card of the four and so I did get a little carried away with adding different bits to it, you don't have to do it as complicated as this you can keep it as simple as you'd like.

Don't miss out on your chance to get this gorgeous stamp set. It is only going to be available during Sale-a-bration so get your orders in quick before it's gone for good.

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