Happy Birthday Wishes

Flowers.  What can I say?  I love flowers!  Which is only one reason why I wanted to play along with The Paper Players Challenge.  Another reason was to share the Avant Garden stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.  It is a favorite and is free with a $50 order.

My card base is made using Whisper White Thick cardstock.  The center square is cut from Whisper White cardstock using the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.  The main flower is stamped in Wisteria Wonder ink and the leaves are stamped in Pear Pizzazz ink.  I stamped off the other flowers to give a softer look as well as the leaves.  The center of the flower and the sentiment were stamped using Early Espresso ink.  The stitched square was added to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals.

And there you have it.  Another pretty flower card added to my stash of birthday cards.  I never seem to have enough of them.

My inspiration for my cards comes for The Paper Players Challenge.  For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Wacky Watercooler January Mini Hop Number Two

Welcome to our January Mini Blog Hop Number Two.  Each month, on the third Thursday of the month, a group of us get together to hop and share projects from Stampin' Up!'s current catalogs.  It's always a lot of fun.  This is our second hop for the month as we wanted showcase the new Occasions Catalog and the new Sale-A-Bration Catalog.

You should be coming to my blog from Lisa Kmiec.  After your visit with me, head on over to Jayme Ziemer.  And, as always, our Hop runs in a circle.  Whether you start at the top and go forward or start at the bottom and go backward, you will always wind up where you started.

For this hop, I used two of my newest stamp sets, Beautiful You and Avant Garden.  Beautiful You is from the 2017 Occasions Catalog.  I think it's going to be a very popular stamp set and one of my favorites.  Avant Garden is from Sale-A-Bration.  It's one of the free stamp sets you get when you place a $50 order.  And, for both projects, I used the new Watercolor Pencils also found in the 2017 Occasions Catalog. 

For my first card, I used the Beautiful You stamp set which is found in the 2017 Occasions Catalog.  I love the images and sentiments in this stamp set.  For my colors, I chose are Pacific Point, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Daffodil Delight.  All of these colors come in the new Watercolor Pencils set.  I can see hours of fun ahead of me.

Stamp Set:  Beautiful You; Inks:  Basic Black Archival, VersaMark; Watercolor Pencils:  Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pacific Point, Rich Razzleberry; Cardstock:  Rich Razzleberry, Watercolor Paper; Patterned Paper:  Serene Scenery; Other:  Aqua Painter, Black Embossing Powder, Fancy Frost Sequins, 5/8" Whisper White Organza Ribbon

For my second project, I used the Avant Garden stamp set.  It's one of the free sets offered during Sale-A-Bration when you place a $50 order.  I love this flower image that is in the set.  I used the Old Olive and Real Red Watercolor Pencils and blurred outside the lines of the image.  The sentiment I used is from the Rose Wonder stamp set.

Stamp Sets:  Avant Garden, Rose Wonder (sentiments); Inks:  Tuxedo Black Memento, Dapper Denim; Watercolor Pencils:  Old Olive, Real Red; Cardstock:  Dapper Denim, Shimmery White, Whisper White Thick; Other:  Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies, Rose Garden Thinlits Dies, Seaside Embossing Folder, Frosted Sequins, Pearl Basic Jewels, Linen Thread

That is all from me.  The next stop on your tour is Jayme Ziemer.  To see her wonderful projects, click the image below.

If you'd like to revisit Lisa Kmiec and see her great projects again, click the image below.

To start at the beginning you can click the image below to go back to the Wacky Watercooler Stamping Blog.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha