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

  

 

A Dandelion Thank You--#tgifc315

It's color challenge week at TGIF Challenges! We have BRIGHT colors to use this week:  Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight and Magenta Madness.   I started my card for this challenge with one of my favorite background techniques.  I inked up a Clear Block "D" (#118485) with all three color ink pads, spritzed it with water and pressed it into a piece of watercolor paper (#149612):

I love that you never know how these clear block prints will come out!  This one came out with lots of Mango Melody and Magenta Madness and just a bit of Daffodil Delight with some little splatters of Mango Melody on the side. 

To complete the card, I stamped the dandelion bunch image from Garden Wishes stamp set (#154408) in Jet Black StazOn ink (#101406).  I used a masked out greeting image from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set (#154411).  I stamped the "Thank you" in VersaMark ink (#102283) onto watercolor paper and heat embossed it with Black Stampin' emboss powder (Basics set, #155554).  I placed a strip of Mango Melody card stock under the greeting piece and cut it at the same angle as the greeting piece.

I layered my watercolor piece over a piece of Basic Black card stock.  I colored a piece of white baker's twine (Baker's Twine Essentials Pack, #155475) using my Mango Melody Dark Stampin' Blends (now retired--oh no!) and tied it around the layers and under the greeting piece.    Three Matte Black Dots (#154284) and a card base of Mango Melody complete the card.

Check out the wonderful projects using this color combo over at TGIF Challenges here.

Have a wonderful week!

--Sara Nell

Dragonfly Meadow--#tgifc311

This is sketch challenge week over at TGIF Challenges, but this week we've been challenged to make a slimline card, instead of using a sketch.  You can make these about any size you want.  Mine is 3-1/2" x 8-1/2" basically because our Basic White thick card stock is 8-1/2" wide.  I cut a piece 7" long and then scored it at 3-1/2" to create my card base.

To create a meadow, I stamped the wildflowers image from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set (#154411) in Soft Suede across the front of the 3-1/8" x 8-1/8" Basic White Layer.  Then I colored the flowers using Stampin' Blends in the following colors:  Soft Suede Light, So Saffron Light, Soft Sea Foam Combo, Seaside Spray Light, Mango Melody Combo and Rococo Rose Light.  I used a Soft Suede Stampin' Write marker to create a bit of splatter. 

Three dragonflies were punched out of Seaside Spray card stock using the Dragonfly Punch (#154240, or in a combo with the stamp set for 10% off, #156224).  Each dragonfly was centered with a Basic Pearl Jewel (#144219).

The greeting is from the same stamp set.  It was stamped in Misty Mountain on Basic White and die cut using a label die from the Meadow Dies (#155852) which will be available in the new Annual Catalog on May 4.  White baker's twine from the Snail Mail Twine combo Pack (#154579) was wrapped around the layer and tied in a bow in the middle scallop of the greeting label.  

The stamped piece was layered over a Seaside Spray pattern from the Sand & Sea Designer series paper pack (#154288).

Check out more slimline card designs over at the TGIF Challenges Blog here.

Have a great week!

--Sara Nell