Dynamic Dimenstion Take2

Back with another beautiful creation from Cibele.  Take a peek at her ADORABLE card for the Dynamic Dimension challenge.....

Love this one.  Here's a view from the inside......

I love the 'pop-up' inside.  This is one of my favorite kits for that reason.  What an adorable birthday card.  :-) 

I love that she added a touch of Ultra Fine Sage for grass.  Such a beautiful touch.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a good one!

Jen

Grows with Love

This week's Sprinkle challenge over at the Flower Soft Forum (FSC29) is to use Flower Soft on cards that feature ovals. We'd love to have you join us, wherever that theme takes your imagination! I sort of missed the last challenge to make a frilly feminine card (FSC28), so I combined the two challenges.I watercolored this stamp called Grows with Love using reinkers, then cut out the image using an oval cutting template. I added dimension to the stamped piece by adding Flower Soft (Ultrafine Sage, Ultrafine Raspberry Fizz, Baby Pink); I also cut along the bottom of the dress and around the sleeve and bow, embossed from behind, then popped up those areas with foam tape.

Maybe you can see the cut and raised areas in this photo....
If you'd like to join in on the challenge, pull out the Flower Soft - you might even win a prize! Post your project in the Splitcoast Gallery by using the keywords flowersoft (one word) and FSC29. If your project is also Spring-themed, you can add the keyword FLOWERSOFTSPRING for another chance to win some great prizes. We'd love to have you join us!

Country Church Pop-up

Thought I'd experiment with the Country Village Topper Kit and try making a pop-up card... I wasn't really sure what I was doing, so I hit a couple of snags, but it turned out ok after all!

The kit has 2 elements for each scene - here you can see the dimension this gives. I used Lavender, Christmas Green, and Ultrafine Sage Flower Soft to add dimension to the vines. The sentiment I used is from Heart & Soul Rubber Stamp Co.The pop-up elements are created with strips of cardstock... the important thing is that they are all the same width, but the height of them can vary. A small one might be scored at .5", 1.5", 2", and 3" with a little overhang on one end to create a rectangle (2 sides are .5" long, and the other 2 are 1"...... the important thing to remember is that you are creating rectangles... so make sure your sides match up.).

Hope you'll give the Country Village kits a try!

Country Village

The Country Village Toppers feature beautiful artwork and are so fun to embellish! Here's a simple card I made from the Cottages kit. I cut out the foreground panel first, then layered the two panels together to die cut them (I used Spellbinders Labels 8). Next I embossed and debossed with a large ball stencil, cut out the door area, and used a glitter pen on the windows. I used Flower Soft on several of the floral areas - to the vines on the roof I added Ultrafine Sage and Raspberry Fizz. There is Lilac Flower Soft on the potted flowers, Polar White on the plant by the open door, and I mixed Polar White and Ultrafine Ocean for the plant in the foreground.Here are some close-ups of different areas of the card, so you can see the dimension!
Thanks for stopping by!
Dina

Tutorial: Layering Flower Soft

Below are some photos of the process of creating this card, which uses several colors of Flower Soft on the focal panel... hopefully it will give you some help and ideas for mixing and layering Flower Soft on your projects! This image is from the Country Village Download.

Those are the steps I used!

Some tips:

--If you only have one shade of green, that would work just as well. Additional shades add to the depth of the scene, but if you have lighter colors, you can actually shade the Flower Soft **after the glue is dry** using alcohol markers.

--In the last step, I added Sand Flower Soft to the whole scene. This isn't really necessary... but I think it adds a bit of highlight and also gives a more vintage look. If you only have bright colors to work with, mixing them with Sand will give the area a lighter appearance.

If you have questions, please feel free to ask them here!

Dina

whole or part?

Just wanted to share how versatile the Charlie's Ark "I Love You" set can be - here are two cards I created using the same set:The first card is watercolored using reinkers, as a winter scene (with Polar White snow and an Ultrafine Sage shag carpet!).

A card in the Flower Soft idea gallery inspired the second card - it was a bit tedious, but I love the results. I wanted to use just part of the "I Love You" image so I carefully colored just Charlie with a Marvy LePlume II marker. (If you didn't want to have to be so careful with a marker, you could stamp the whole image, and just cut Charlie out.) I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to position the bird on Charlie's finger (the bird is from one of the Moments in Time Christmas sets, called Little Friend), and also colored just his outline with a marker. I colored the image with Touch Twin Markers.

Hope this inspires you to look at your stamps in a different way today!

Dina

Just a Touch..............

Even just a little dash of flower soft can enhance an image that you're working with. As you can see with this card, it took very little flower soft to create additional dimension. I think Misery Stella looks like she's having a Monday! Speaking of which, I am running REALLY late this morning so I'll make this short and sweet. I used Ultrafine Ocean, one of the new colours from Flowersoft, as well as Ultrafine Sage on my card. In addition, I created the pretty gold border with the fun peel off stickers that you can find here

Flower Soft meets Impression Obsession

A Little Later this week, August 11th to be precise, the Design Team Members of Flower Soft and Impression Obsession Stamps are joining forces for a Fun Blog Hop! You won't want to miss all the DT Creations and to see how perfectly the Flower Soft and Impression Obsession Images can be combined for the most beautiful of creations!

I'm sharing with you one of the images that I chose for the Hop this week. It's called Window with Planter. What I loved about this image in particular, was that I was able to combine FOUR different colours of Flower Soft in the image. I used Christmas Green, Ultrafine Raspberry Fizz Ultrafine Sage and Heather

Be sure to follow the blog this week for all the details on the hop! I'm REALLY looking forward to it!

Supplies:

Stamps: Impression Obsession
FS: Ultrafine Sage and Rasberry Fizz, Christmas Green and Heather Regular Mix
DP and CS : Stampin' Up!
Image coloured with Prism Pencils
Button : Misc


Happy Stamping!


~~Vicki~~

A nother new way to use Flower Soft

Hope you all enjoyed a wonderful weekend! I've used flower soft for flowers of course.....for feathers and fur, sand and snow!!! This week, I decided to use Flower Soft just to add some fun texture to this Halloween Card!!! There's absolutely no stamping required with this fun and funky card. I essentially filled in a Rub On (Boo) with Ultrafine Sage Card Soft.

You could recreate a similar card by hand drawing the lettering, printing a large sized font onto your cardstock, or using some jumbo letter stamps. I really liked the outcome of this card.

The Sketch I used this week is from The CPS Sketch Blog! Flower Soft is Sponsoring Sketch #77. You have until July 31st to load up your creations to get the opportunity to win some fun Prizes from Flower Soft. Click HERE for details and to upload your creation

Supplies
Halloween Rub On's Tangerine Tango Cardstock - Stampin' Up!
Ultrafine Sage Flower Soft

Color Challenge at Paper Craft Planet!

Flower Soft is sponsoring (with a sweet prize!) a Color Challenge at Paper Craft Planet this week!

Head on over and check it out!!! 

I used the Country Taglets for my card. These come preprinted with 3 square images (2 different designs in the pack). I chose to cut the images out and mat them. I added Ultra Fine Sage and Sweet Pea Flower Soft to the three flower images. I put a dab of Flower Soft glue in the button centers and added Sweat Pea (instant matching embellishment!).

Here's a closer look:

Toppers: Country Taglets - Flower Soft®
Papers: Bazzill
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Brushed Corduroy
Flower Soft® (Ultra Fine Sage, Sweet Pea) Flower Soft glue,

Other: getwell2you(The Stamps of Life), sponge, sewing machine

Have a great day!!!

Jeanne

For Dad

Good Morning!

Hope that you all enjoyed your weekend! Fathers Day is soon approaching here in Canada and the United States and I thought I would share a card with this theme.




Sometimes just a wee touch of Flower Soft will make a big difference on a card. I really like to use the Flower Soft to create grass and sand and such on Designer Paper. It's often difficult to use your colouring mediums on this paper, especially when the colours are a little darker. The Flower Soft creates a lovely base for you, which in turn grounds your image. Visually it keeps your image from appearing to be floating in mid air and is more visually pleasing. I used Ultrafine Sage on this particular Project. In addition, I used a little dab of Ultra Fine Strawberry on her Barrettes and earrings. I really love that I can add dimension without too much bulk


Guess what? You can see the second epsiode of Flower Soft TV today. Noreen is featuring the Starter Box today! Be sure to check it out HERE

Card Recipe:

Stamp: Desiree: Totally Stampalicious, Dad sentiment- The Stamps of Life
DP: Sugar Rush-Basic Grey
Copic Markers
Ultrafine Sage and Strawberry Flower Soft


Happy Stamping!