Plentiful plants

 Hello & welcome to my blog!

There will be many happy parents in Melbourne at the moment as many of the students returned to school, even if only part time. I'm back full time & the children, whilst out of their usual school routines, are happy to see their friends & use our new playground which was installed at the beginning of lockdown. Poor cherubs didn't get to use it but now they are making good use of it. Full time at work takes a little adjustment but I'm lucky that when I need to have a little 'me' time I can immerse myself in creating. 

And that's exactly what I did for this week's creations.

My focus stamp set is Plentiful Plants which co-ordinates beautifully with the Perfect Plants dies & Bloom Where You're Planted DSP. It is such a gorgeous suite but each part of it can be purchased separately. I loved immersing in nature for these creations.

This is a close up of the different types of plants in the stamp set. Here are some pics that give you different views.


The base of this card is Crumb Cake, the 1st matt on both front & back is Very Vanilla & the 2nd matt on the front is Early Espresso which I ran through the embossing machine using the Timber embossing folder.  I stamped the pots on Crumb Cake, Early Espresso & Very Vanilla & the plants on Evening Evergreen & Verry Vanilla but the pot on the inside platform was fussy cut from the Bloom Where You're Planted DSP. . I ran a piece of Very Vanilla through the embossing machine with the Tasteful Textures folder before die cutting the hanging macrame frame but the imprint is very soft. All the plants are stamped in Evening Evergreen. The small piece of brickwork that the ground plants are sitting on is just a snippet of the Bloom Where You're Planted DSP for some contrast. The sentiments are simply stamped on Very Vanilla as the busyness of the card front didn't need any more colour or detail. If you would like any more details on how to create this card, I have a free tutorial available on These Are My Stamps.

The second card I have for you is a triple layer card. It looks tricky but is actually very easy to make.

 


I started with a piece of Basic White cardstock & used a variety of the greenery stamps in Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz, Granny Apple Green & Old Olive. I used Stitched Rectangle dies to cut 2 smaller rectangles out of the stamped images then used slightly larger dies to create some Garden Green Matting. This gives the illusion that there are 3 pieces of stamped card when in fact it all came from the one piece! It's a bit sneaky but don't they say 'work smarter not harder'? 😆 Once I had layered all of the pieces together I adhered it to an Evening Evergreen card base. I finished it off with a simple sentiment from the Art Gallery stamp set with a tiny Pear Pizzazz backing & a simple bow made with our Embroidered Ribbon. Quite simple but effective.

My final card is one I made during a Craft-A-Long-Athon last weekend. I incorporated the colours of a challenge I'm in to kill two projects with one card. The colours are Bumblebee, Pool Party, Cinnamon Cider & Early Espresso. I used a layout from Nancy Stollnitz at Nancy's Nifty Notes as inspiration.

I wouldn't have thought to use Pool Party with the other Autumn toned colours but I really like how they contrast. I only used Basic White & Early Espresso cardstock for the base & matting with some scraps of Pool Party for the sentiment matt & dragonfly made with the Dragonflies Punch & a little layer of Shimmery Crystal Effects. The bling is simply a few Genial Gems.

So that is all I have for you this week but I have my mid-week blog on Wednesday which will be showing you how to add a different look to the background of a card & next week's blog will be showcasing a new Christmas stamps set & dies - Tidings & Trimmings stamps & Christmas Trimmings dies. I hope you can come back for both of those blogs.

If you would like to have a catalogue sent to you then please message me & I'll pop one in the mail for you. 

If you would like to order any of the products I used in these cards I have put some links below that will take you directly to my Stampin' Up store Shop with me

If you would like to order any cards or other ready made products then head over to my Facebook shop at CraftedbyAlison

Thanks for stopping by. Stay safe and I hope you have a wonderful week. XX Alison






























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