Creation Station July Blog Hop--The Great Outdoors

 Welcome to the July Creation Station Blog Hop!

So glad you are here.

We have a fun and wide-open theme hop today:  The Great Outdoors.  You are going to see a variety of projects today celebrating Summer in the Great Outdoors.  We hope you will follow along and hop with us by clicking on the "Next" link at the end of each post.  You'll be glad you did!

I am so inspired by the great outdoors, but I always find greatest peace in a colorful meadow.  Today, I created two different meadows--one filled with wildflowers and one a field of poppies.  Each meadow was framed in a shade of green (Soft Sea Foam and Garden Green) representing the outdoors. Each frame was stamped with its same color using images from the Painted Poppies stamp set (#151599) and die cut using the Stitched Rectangles dies (#151820).  The background of each meadow is a Balmy Blue sky created with the large splatter stamp in the Painted Poppies stamp set. The sentiment on each was stamped and die cut using a Tailor Made Tags die (#155563).  The card base on each is Basic White Thick card stock.

The wildflowers in this first card were stamped using the Dragonfly Garden stamp set (#154411) and Crumb Cake ink.  The wildflowers were colored with the following Stampin' Blends Combos:  Pale Papaya, Daffodil Delight, Tahitian Tide, Fresh Freesia, Soft Sea Foam and Granny Apple Green.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set and was stamped in Soft Suede ink.  The card was completed with a bow of Linen Thread (#104199) on the tag and some tiny Brushed Brass Butterflies (#158136).

The poppies on this card were stamped in Early Espresso ink and colored with Poppy Parade and Sweet Sorbet combo Stampin' Blends.  The greeting is from the Peaceful Moments stamp set (#151595) and was also stamped in Early Espresso.  The card was completed with a bit of gold Simply Elegant Trim (#155766) on the tag and a splattering of gold Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots (#156506).

Hope you were inspired by my cards created with two of my old favorite stamp sets.  Now, let's get inspired by Denita's Great Outdoors favorites:

To Denita's Blog . . . 

Have a wonderful weekend wherever in the outdoors you go.  Happy 4th to my U.S.A. friends: it's BBQ and/or beach time!

--Sara Nell