Sea Shore

Hi all, our card of the day comes from Jeanne Streiff. She has made this gorgeous picturesque beach scene and added the perfect sentiment. With some subtle use of Ultra Fine Sand to add texture to the beach.

See Jeanne's Blog here inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com

Chillin' with Flower Soft

Here are a couple of chilled out, relaxed scenes from Vicki Harper. With a sprinkle of Ultra Fine Sand and digital stamp designs from Make it Crafty these cards make me want book my vacation right now. Caribbean maybe? So bright, colorful and inviting :)

See more great cards made by Vicki on her Blog scrapdeliciousdesigns.blogspot.co.uk

Hammock

Copic Markers, Make it Crafty digital stamp

Beach Chair

Copic Markers, Make it Crafty digital stamp

Creating Sandy Scenes

We are hoping for a little bit of Summer this week at Flower Soft.

We challenged our design team to create Sandy Scenes with our Ultra Fine Sand. Dawn has chosen this super cute image from Elisabeth Bell's Simpler Times downloads and created a perfect Summer scene. Really expert coloring and some fantastic sandy texture ♥ it!

See more from Dawn on her Blog here dawnanewday.blogspot.co.uk

This close up really shows the sandy texture you get with Ultra Fine Sand.

Winter Chill

I love this blustery bear image from I Brake for Stamps - the image is colored with Touch Twin markers, and fuzzed up with a little Sand Ultrafine Flower Soft. I used Polar White on the snow, and added a little dimension to the image by cutting and embossing from behind. The sentiment is computer generated.Thanks for looking!
Dina

Pumpkin Cupcake

Our American customers are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving this week! We wish you a joyful celebration. We truly all do have so much to be thankful for.Speaking of celebrating, and food......... have you ever used Flower Soft to add realism to your stamped images of food? This pumpkin cupcake would be a tasty Thanksgiving treat... I added Sand Ultra Fine Flower Soft to the cupcake wrapper for some crumb texture. All stamps are from Impression Obsession.
Thanks for looking!
Dina

Hope You Can Cling To

Flower Soft is one of the sponsors for Splitcoaststampers' annual card drive known as Hope You Can Cling To. Through a month-long series of challenges, participants create cards that are donated to the UT MD Austin Cancer Center so that patients in the breast cancer center can receive and share encouragement through the gift of a handmade card. You can find out more information about the card drive and challenges HERE.
Here is one of the cards I made as a sample for an upcoming challenge, using Diecut Dimensionals Wildflowers - the preprinted and diecut elements of the set are perfect for quick and beautiful cards. I cut a hole in the precut oval shape to frame the sentiment (smARTworks), and layered additional roses over the ones on the oval. Each flower was shaped with a large stylus. (For a tutorial, you can visit this post.) I sprinkled Ultrafine Sand Flower Soft in each flower center.

Thanks for visiting!
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

Happy holidays!

Hi, everyone, it's Dina.....! It's my first time posting over here, so I feel a little funny... but you'll be seeing me every Tuesday here at the Flower Soft blog now, so I hope you like what you see! Since we're moving into December (where did the year go?), I thought I'd share a holiday card - this is a stamp from Impression Obsession called Goldie on Ornament. I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils.Because I didn't want to lose the detail of the ears, I used the Ultra-fine Sand Flower Soft a bit more sparingly than normal so some of the shading and lines would show through. I used Polar White Flower Soft on the rim and ball of his hat...I've found that I like the look of a couple of layers of Polar White - after the first round is dry, you can go back and add more glue and Flower Soft over the top for more dimension. (Note - do wait until the glue from your first layer is dry, or you will end up with a fluffy mess at the tip of your glue bottle. Don't ask me how I know.)

Happy crafting!

Dina

Sharing my Blog HopCard

Publish Post

If you haven't had a chance to participate in the Flower Soft/Impression Obsession Blog hop, please do before the 18th. For all the details, please scroll down a couple of posts and you can see how you can win some gift certificates from both Flower Soft and Impression Obsession. For all the details on my card , please visit HERE

Happy Stamping!


--Vicki~~

hAPPY

Just Beachy!

The weather's been sizzlin' here in the great north! With unusually warm temperatures, we've been enjoying a multitude of water sports here. Even days at the Beach! I'm loving the Ultrafine Flower Soft (Sand) for creating Beach scenes. It even feels like sand and goes on so easy.



These little images are from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps! The punch is from EK Success and the Little fellows are coloured in Copic Makers with some Copic Spica Highlights!

Try some Sandy Flower Soft for your sizzlin' Summer Projects~

Happy Stamping!

~Vicki~~