Stampin with Shirley G

Good Morning all — stampers and non-stampers both.  Can you believe June is almost in the history books and a memory and the that means the end of the January-June catalog comes to an end, so if there is an item that you have been holding off buying, thinking I will get it next, your next is about over. 

 I’m beginning to think I am accident-prone.  Saturday, I was cleaning the bathroom and there was a grocery bag on the counter, wondering why an empty grocery bag was on the counter, I picked it up, crumbling it up as I picked it up, a surprise was in store for me.  My finger slide down used razors my husband had put in the bag,  I didn’t even realize I had cut myself until I started seeing the blood all over the counter and cabinet,  so I got a nice little cut and since I have to take blood thinner (I call it rat poison) guess what happened to me? It bled, and bled, and bled, thought I was going to visit the ER but finally got it stopped.  I have been working on this blog for 2 days because of the inconvenience the cut has caused me.  I will look in empty appearing bag this day forward.

The cards I am sharing today are from this month’s Paper Pumpkin – Expressions in Color.  This is a beautiful kit and enjoyable to create the cards.  It makes nine cards, three of each design.  You can see the three designs above along with the stamps that come with the kit.

My card for my challenge today is on down in the post.

The papers and elements to create the cards are quite awesome. Everything you need to make the card is in the kit. Kit elements below.

I forgot to take a picture of my kit before making the cards and realized it when it was too late, so this one is from Pinterest but I have no idea who it belongs to as I see no watermarks any place. So thanks to the person who posted it.

I’m usually one of those people who change the cards up a lot when I created them, but these were so beautiful I stuck pretty much to how the instructions said.  I did make the greeting on two lines instead of one and stamped a little flower in Fresh Freesia ink and the twigs in Evening Evergreen.

I used one of the cards to make the inside of my sentiment panel.

I used sentiments from Inspired Thoughts and Fabulous Flamingo, retiring soon.  I stamped these in Fresh Freesia ink. I cut the panel of the front of the card and adhered to the inside along with the sentiment.  The sentiment is stamped on the Basic White panel and then the two parts of the card front are adhered on the upper and lower sections.

My inspiration for this card is Word Art Wednesday.

There’s a pretty leafy vellum panel for this card that adds that elegant element to the card.  The different floral leaves and buds are arranged in the middle of the vellum panel, Evening Evergreen twine is wrapped around several times to create the bow you see under the greeting. The greeting is popped on using Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals after the greeting and the flowers are stamped on the label with the greeting.  Several sequins are placed around the card front.

The inside panel for the sentiment has sentiments from Inspired Thoughts and Elegantly Said Stamp Set stamped in Evening Evergreen ink.  A spray of flowers from the Paper Pumpkin Kit is stamped in BumbleBee ink.

This is the third of the cards in the kit. The vellum thanks is adhered across the middle of the monochrome panel that has flowers from the stamps that come with the kit stamped in Evening Evergreen in around the front panel of the card.  

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you will join me on my stamping journey as I share my cards with you each day.  My hope and wish are that you will be inspired to create amazing creations yourself.  Any questions you may have, you know you can always contact me.  Have a blessed day!

Good Morning! June is winding down and this means the end of the Jan-Jun Mini Catalog. The Jul-Dec Mini Catalog is not coming out until August, so Stampin’ Up! has announced a special Designer Series Paper sale for July! Yay!!

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