Sunday, April 17, 2011

All Things Grow with Love

I had today off and it's rainy and thunder-stormy (is that a word? LOL!) so I had allllll day to get my crafty on in my stamp room! I knew for one of my cards, I wanted to play with some of the newly released Verve sets! Did you get your order in? I'm serious when I say it's my favorite release to date. Lots of fun flowers and the Elegant Leaves die? *SWOON!*
The next thing I needed to figure out was what colors I wanted to play with. I went searching for a challenge and stumbled upon the new CR84FN color challenge!


Are those gorgeous colors, or what???

Here's my card using stamps from Bloom and Grow, plus the Floral Circles and Elegant Leaves dies...


I started out with a Rustic Cream card base. The Aqua and Blue colors I used are Aqua Mist and Spring Rain by PTI. I cut a bunch of flowers out with my Floral Circles dies and then stamped and embossed matching blooms in white ep. I cut some Elegant Leaves dies from Rustic Cream cardstock and then stamped the matching leaves from Bloom and Grow and embossed them in clear ep. The doily is cut out with the new doily die by MFT. The next step was just to arrange all the blooms and leaves in that lower left corner. I stamped the sentiment, from Bloom and Grow, in Rich Espresso ink.


I thought this card needed a butterfly. A garden just isn't complete without one! I cut the vellum butterfly using the Flutterby die, three times. I then stacked the butterflies and separated the layers for some dimension, cause I figured this card was lacking in that department:p Last thing I did was add a bunch of Kaiser pearls!

All these stamps and dies are now available! Click HERE to see all the new goodies:)
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Thanks so much for stopping by today:) Hope you have a relaxing Sunday:)

14 comments:

Mona Pendleton said...

Beautiful card Amber! What a gorgeous collection of blossoms and foliage! Thanks so much for playing along with CR84FN :)

Heather Rogers said...

This is stunning, Amber. I love that new set from Verve. I don't own any Verve stamps yet, but they sure do have some great stamps. I love how you stamped the flowers in white on colored CS. Your creation is so soft and serine.

Thanks so much for joining us this week at CR84FN! :)

Unknown said...

Gorgeous card, Amber! Love all those wonderful Cut Above Dies and the pearls are a perfect finishing touch! SO glad you joined us at CR84FN this week!

Pauline said...

This is beautiful, I love the little blooms and the layered butterfly is gorgeous.

Sue Lelli said...

Amber, I am so glad you found us! I hope you come back and play again! BEAUTIFUL card! LOVE the flowers and your vellum butterfly!

KimCreate said...

This is stunningly beautiful.
Kim

Dawn Easton said...

Stunning girl! Wow! Love aqua...a fave of mine lately! Your card is so soft and pretty and the addition of the vellum butterfly is perfect!!!

Andrea M said...

Amber, this is so GORGEOUS!!! Such beautiful accents and lovely details! WOW! Thanks so much for playing along with CR84FN!

Sparkplug17 said...

Such a lovely card!

Lea L. said...

So soft and pretty! I love the added pearls!

Charmaine (CharmWarm) said...

Just gorgeous, Amber!

Deborah Frings said...

Oh, this is so very, very pretty. I do like the dies for the leaves and flowers. And the pearl accents are perfect! Thanks for playing along with CR84FN this week!

Gitte said...

Beautiful and elegant card. Happy Easter

Jessie/knightrone said...

How stunning!!