Botanical Bounty, Part 4

Hey hey, y'all, I am continuing my creative streak with a few more floral cards, since I still had stamp sets out for that CAS on Friday botanical challenge.  So here's what I've got:

Ooooh some old sets here, Petal Prints and Elegant Cheer and me just playing around with some color combinations for the Sunday Stamps sketch challenge:

Well, it started with the sketch but I added some layers and they morphed a bit.  I was just having some fun with those pressed flower stamps, ya know?

I also had More Petal Prints out so I made one more:

And actually I think this is the first time I've used More Petal Prints, though I've had it for years, but at least I used all three stamps in the set for today's card.  Thought I'd give the SUO Challenges colors another go, and let's just say this is not my favorite color combination ever.  I thought I'd go really old skool on this one and just do stamps, ink, and paper, no dies or anything else (except Dimensionals).

Anyway, not much time before I go grab the kiddo from school.  I'm hoping to take him out for dinner early so maybe we can watch the livestream of the Artemis splash down tonight.  And it's about time that we named a mission to the moon after a goddess actually *associated* with the moon.  Apollo is such an attention hog.

*runs before Apollo can shoot me with arrows*

Cheers!

Supplies, first card, all SU!
Stamps:  Petal Prints, Elegant Cheer
Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Strawberry Slush gems (they were close enough), Wink of Stella

Supplies, second card, all SU!
Stamps:  Petal Prints, Elegant Cheer
Ink:  Old Olive, So Saffron, Delightful Dijon
Paper:  Old Olive, So Saffron, Delightful Dijon
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Noble Peacock rhinestones

Supplies, third card, all SU!
Stamps:  More Petal Prints, Gifts of Spring
Ink:  Lemon Lolly, Peach Pie, Pretty in Pink, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Lemon Lolly, Peach Pie, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Watercolor Minis

Happy Friday, peeps!  It's Day 2 of the Snapdragon Stamps move-a-thon, but luckily I made a card (two, actually) for today's Flashback earlier this week.  Starting next week I'll be going to a Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday post schedule until we get to the next house and I get my craft room set up again.  But for today, let's check out Watercolor Minis!

Also features Sage Advice

I remember that this one was super-fiddly when I made it, trying to get all the quilt blocks on the edges trimmed exactly right.  I liked the effect, but I never made another card like this ;)

Also features Filigree and Sincere Salutations

Also features Filigree and Sincere Salutations (again)

Ok, for some reason I can't manage to get any text in between these two cards but they're the same except for colors anyway.  I still miss Eggplant Envy; it was a couple shades lighter than the current Elegant Eggplant.  I love Elegant Eggplant, but sometimes it comes off so dark that it's hard to distinguish from black.

Also features All-Year Cheer and Roses in Winter

I liked using the roses in Watercolor Minis as the tiny version of the roses in Roses in Winter, as you can see here.  And that's the Flashback, so here are today's two new cards:

I knew I had used the rose a lot, but maybe not the tulip, so I decided to do a kinda CAS design with the tulip stamps.  But after I made this one on Sahara Sand, I wasn't sure I liked how the colors turned out on top of the colored cardstock, so I made a second one with a Whisper White card base.

Just a little brighter, and doesn't muddy up the tulip colors.  Once again I used an older layout from Clean & Simple Stamping:

And that's all she wrote this week.  Have a great weekend, peeps!

Supplies, last two cards only:
Stamps:  Watercolor Minis, Elegant Cheer
Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Strawberry Slush, Old Olive, Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Something Borrowed DSP
Accessories:  Blackberry Bliss ribbon

Friday Flashback: Morning Soft

Hellooooo stampy friends!  I'm late, but finally here with today's Friday Flashback.  It's been a long time since the last one!  But anyway, today's featured stamp set is Morning Soft.

I love morning glories, they're some of my favorite flowers.  I also love hydrangeas and orchids, if you're curious :)  When we lived in North Carolina, I had some morning glories in our backyard.

Also features Floral and Warm Words

I had morning glories in all different colors, from a pretty cornflower blue to the striking dark purple Grandpa Ott variety, and I also planted some moonflowers and four o'clocks in there too so I had flowers all day.  Well, until the hubs put undiluted Miracle Grow on them...did you know that can kill plants?  The moonflowers were HUGE, too.

Also features one of the All-Year Cheer sets.  Honestly, who can keep all three of them straight?  Not I.

I think the sentiment on this one should be scooched over just a little down and left...I try hard at CAS cards but it's so difficult to get everything in just the right place!  Anyway, that's it for the flashback part of today's post, so here's the card that took me all afternoon to make:

I was going for a Grandpa Ott morning glory :)  I thought I'd try something a little different and embossed the image with clear EP on white cardstock, then colored it in with my (retired, but still missed) Watercolor Wonder Crayons.  Actually I think the shading looks a little bit better IRL than it does on the picture, and when I was halfway done with coloring it in I thought I'd made a mistake, but I ended up liking the finished image better than I thought I would.  I used this week's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I'm a little bothered by the white space to the left of the sentiment, but I couldn't think of anything to put there that wouldn't make the card too busy so I left it as is.  And I know who's getting this card too, so now I just need to pull out my postage stamps and get to writin' so I can send along some happy mail!  But not 'til after dinner.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Morning Soft, Elegant Cheer
Ink:  Versamark, Garden Green
Paper:  Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, retired Elegant Eggplant DSP
Accessories:  Circles & Windows Collection Framelits, clear EP, pearls, Dimensionals, retired Watercolor Wonder Crayons

Friday Flashback: Pretty Peony

Wow, it's time for a Friday Flashback again already!  Today's randomly-chosen stamp set is a good one, and one I've used a lot so this is a long post :)  Let's take a flashback to Pretty Peony!  Oh wow, no posts in that gallery since 2011?  We're about to change that.

So this is from before I learned how to tie knots where they don't stick out all akimbo like that, but I still like this card.  I also used Sanded and Sweet Serendipity (both retired).

Here's another super-simple layout with one of my favorite colors:  Elegant Eggplant.  The other color is Close to Cocoa, which I still miss.  I remember being kinda surprised how well those two colors worked together when I did this card. The sentiment is from longtime favorite Sincere Salutations (retired).

I made a set of these for a friend of mine as a farewell gift (her first initial is S).  Kind of in love with this stamp set. I also used French Script (retired) for the background and the initial is from Lovely Letters.

Here's the Mother's Day card I made a couple years ago, again with Lovely Letters.  I love these peonies in all kinds of colors!

Made this for my SIL's November birthday a couple years ago, so I went with fall colors on this one.  The sentiment is from Heard from the Heart.

Hey look, I've also used Pretty Peony on a scrapbook layout!  It's a bit of a pain to cut out the flowers and leaves, but I've done it a couple times.  So those were all the Flashback pics, here's a new one!

The color combo was a challenge on Still Addinktive recently but I didn't get a chance to play at the time, so I was excited to use these colors today--Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, and Rich Razzleberry.  I was flipping through my binder looking for a sentiment to put on this and came across Elegant Cheer and thought perfect!  The card came together pretty fast thanks to the Nacho sketch challenge:

Hope you enjoyed today's Friday Flashback!  I had fun revisiting this particular retired stamp set today.

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Pretty Peony, Elegant Cheer (both retired)
Ink:  Pretty in Pink, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Haiku DSP & Pretty in Pink DSP (both retired)
Accessories:  Dimensionals