Friday Flashback: Spring Garden

Happy Friday, y'all!  Ready for a Friday Flashback?  Today's retired stamp set is Spring Garden.  And today's Flashback is a short one.

Also features Sage Advice, Print Pattern

Uh, that's it?  Sometimes I wonder if maybe my archives are incomplete and I'm missing projects from somewhere, but I couldn't find anything else I'd made with Spring Garden in my Splitcoast gallery either so maybe this was really it.  So here is today's fresh new Spring Garden card:

I am LOVING Emerald Envy, y'all.  I used this week's Pals Paper Arts sketch:

And the inspiration pic from Retro Rubber:

Not only did I used the colors from the photo, I picked some tulip-y looking flower stamps too.  The colors I used are Emerald Envy, Daffodil Delight, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, and Elegant Eggplant.  I started out with the background strip being Daffodil Delight stamped with butterflies, but it was just too much so I switched it out for some Whisper White sponged with Daffodil ink.

So for Retro Rubber we have to say how old the stamps are...I've had Spring Garden for 9 years, Absolutely Fabulous for 8, and Work of Art for a year and a half or two years (Work of Art is the long skinny scribble that I used for the "ground" on my main image).  Retro all around!  Plus the new In Color because like I said, I love Emerald Envy.

Hope you have a great weekend, y'all!  It's wet outside, but I think it's not raining right this minute so I'm going to make Sadie happy and take her out.  And then we'll probably all have to wash mud off our feet when we get back.  Cheers!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Spring Garden, Absolutely Fabulous, Work of Art
Ink:  Emerald Envy, Elegant Eggplant, Daffodil Delight, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Emerald Envy, Elegant Eggplant, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Brights Candy Dots, hexagon punch, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Sage Advice

It's time for another Friday Flashback!  This week's set is Sage Advice, which is a stamp set that I really, really loved because it's got such neat quotes in it.  However, I haven't made tons and tons of cards with it...and this is why I do Friday Flashbacks, to reacquaint myself with my old favorites :)

So first up, let's see what I've got from the archives.

This card also uses Spring Garden and Print Pattern, which I think is my most-used background stamp ever.  I'm betting this was a combo SCS sketch/color challenge but I kinda like it.

This quote I think is why I like this stamp set so much--I'm a Beatles fan.  This card was for a VSN I think?  The quilt thing was tough to pull off, trying to keep all the squares evenly spaced and then cut off the partial pieces.  I have new respect for people that do tile floors on the diagonal.

I made this card not that long ago and to be honest, it doesn't do anything for me.  That is a wonderful quote from Anne Frank though...and Lee and I just booked a weekend trip to Amsterdam later this spring to see the tulips.

Here's my new card with the one remaining quote stamp that I hadn't used yet:

I do kinda like this one, what do you think?  And you can see that my willpower crumbled, I bought Hearts a Flutter and the matching dies.  Oops.  Better hurry up and use them this week since Valentine's Day is next Thursday!

This card is a combo challenge, the layout is based on Freshly Made Sketches #72:

And the color combo is from Pals Paper Arts (and the More Amore DSP):

I still don't care for Primrose Petals with Real Red, but I seem to be in the minority :)  I did use both those colors though and I did like how the card turned out, so maybe they don't clash as much as I think.

Thanks for joining me for this Friday Flashback!

Supplies (last card only, all SU!):
Stamps:  Sage Advice (retired), French Filigree (retired), Hearts a Flutter
Ink:  Basic Gray, Primrose Petals, Real Red
Paper:  Basic Gray, Primrose Petals, Very Vanilla, More Amore DSP, Champagne Glimmer Paper
Accessories:  Labels & Hearts a Flutter Framelits, Dimensionals