Friday Flashback: The Art of Life & Small Script

Well dang it, I was trying to schedule posts for the future and accidentally made this one for June instead of July.  Oh well....

Friday Flashback again!  Today it's The Art of Life and Small Script.  I have a parade of cards today!

All of the stamps in The Art of Life are tall, skinny stamps; I like the textured stamp behind the floral stem on this one.  Great way to make it look like layers even though this is a one-layer card.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  The Art of Life
Ink:  River Rock, Mellow Moss, Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Thick Very Vanilla
Accessories:  None

Same basic idea with the leaf stamp.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  The Art of Life
Ink:  Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Thick Very Vanilla
Accessories:  None

And then I made a few with the images from The Art of Life paired with Small Script sentiments.  Very simple but a few more layers than the first couple of cards.  All four of these have the same layout, but I changed out some of the colors for the floral cards.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  The Art of Life, Small Script
Ink:  River Rock, Mellow Moss, Early Espresso
Paper:  River Rock, Early Espresso, Thick Very Vanilla, Mellow Moss DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  The Art of Life, Small Script
Ink:  River Rock, Mellow Moss, Early Espresso
Paper:  River Rock, Early Espresso, Thick Very Vanilla, Mellow Moss DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  The Art of Life, Small Script
Ink:  River Rock, Mellow Moss, Ruby Red, Early Espresso
Paper:  River Rock, Early Espresso, Thick Very Vanilla, Ruby Red DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  The Art of Life, Small Script
Ink:  River Rock, Mellow Moss, Early Espresso
Paper:  River Rock, Early Espresso, Thick Very Vanilla, Mellow Moss DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

So there's six super simple cards that I made with The Art of Life and Small Script.  They've both been retired for ages, but I still really like them so it was fun to get them out to play with again.  Cheers!

Friday Flashback: Floral

Time for the Friday Flashback again already!  This week's randomly chosen retired stamp set is just one stamp, the background Floral.  Back in the day before I had tons of patterned paper and embossing folders and such to play with, I used background stamps a LOT so today's Flashback is longer than like the last three put together (no wait, four flashbacks, I looked), and I didn't even post all my previous cards with Floral : )  So let's flash back with a visit to the archives, shall we?

This one features an old favorite, Roses in Winter, plus It's Your Birthday for the sentiment.

One of my favorite color combinations ever!  Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, and neutrals.  Main images on this one are from Eastern Influences (another favorite of mine).

 Flower and definition stamp on this one are from Bloomin' Beautiful.

A nice springy card with the morning glories from Morning Soft and sentiment from Warm Words.

Main image from Perfect Petals, "wish" from Small Script.

Here's a more autumnal take with a hummingbird from Spring Song and a second background stamp, Sanded.  I like this card but I wish I could move that sentiment up onto the main image panel--it would have fit just fine underneath the bird!

And here's something a bit different, I stamped the floral pattern with a contrasting color on light cardstock instead of doing tone-on-tone like I did with everything else.  So that's it for the flashback part, here's my new card:

This time I wanted the Floral stamp to take center stage, so I stamped it with Versamark and embossed with Early Espresso powder, then colored with an Aquapainter.  You can't tell from the picture, but the white bit with the sentiment is popped up from the card base, and then the butterfly is popped up again from there so it's multidimensional.

I used the colors from Dynamic Duos' Triple Threat Week:

So there you have it!  I've done nothing but flowery cards (and even a floral scrapbook layout) for over a week now, so I promise that next week I'll have at least two non-floral projects to share.  In the meantime, have a great weekend!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Floral, Best of Butterflies, Fancy Flexible Phrases
Ink:  Versamark, Melon Mambo, Tangerine Tango, Wild Wasabi, Elegant Eggplant (because pansies have to be purple!)
Paper:  Melon Mambo, Whisper White, retired Wild Wasabi DSP
Accessories:  Early Espresso EP, Circles Framelits, Artisan Label punch, Dimensionals, random ribbon from my stash that's probably not SU

Friday Flashback: Blossoms Abound

Mornin', folks!  Welcome to this week's Friday Flashback.  Today's not-so-randomly chosen stamp set is Blossoms Abound, and when you get to the end of the post you'll see why I couldn't resist picking this stamp set today (usually I draw names at random).  Let's flash back!

So I first got this stamp set during the first year that SU! had In Colors, and this uses Cranberry Crisp which is a fantastic name for a color.

And here it is again in Vintage Violet.

Trying something different here with the lacing up the side.

And here's some kinda nonstandard colors...I think I like this better in blues, purples, and pinks.

Oh hey look, it's blues, purples, and pinks!  I quite like these two.

And now for today's card, let's make it a giant picture:

I'm mixing old and new here; this is the maiden voyage for Label Love.  I sponged the flower panel though it's hard to see in this picture.  The sketch is Freshly Made Sketches' 100th challenge, which is a repeat of their very first sketch:

And the color combo is from the Color Throwdown:

And now you can see why I so wanted to use Blossoms Abound today!  I love this color combo and that inspiration pic is gorgeous.

Happy Friday friends, and have a great weekend!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Blossoms Abound, Label Love, Teahouse
Ink:  Pale Plum, Rich Razzleberry, Pear Pizzazz
Paper:  Pale Plum, Rich Razzleberry, Pear Pizzazz, Very Vanilla, Cottage Wall DSP
Accessories:  Artisan Label punch, Dimensionals