The new Sketch Flower Spray is light, airy and great for any occasion.  Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a simple design that works for grads, birthdays, weddings, new jobs, a promotion.  Add a greeting - this is from the Rose Bouquet Clear Stamp Set - and you're all set!

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Use a soft rubber brayer to ink a quick background by repeatedly rolling  it over a Melon Melody Kaleidacolor inkpad. Spritz it lightly with water, then roll the inks onto watercolor paper.  Air-dry the inks for a few minutes, then spritz it lightly with water to add  some splotchy interest to the background.  Cut it with the 2" x 3-¼"Rectangle Basics die.

Cut Sketch Flower Spray from Lime Crush Cardstock.  Cut three sets of the flowers from white cardstock.  Ink the center of one flower set with Cheerful VersaFine Clair.  Cotton swabs are great for little jobs like this!

Attach two uninked flowers behind the inked flower - slightly offset.   Attach the diecuts to an A-6 (4-½" x 6") white card.  Add yellow gem stickers.

Stamp the greeting - from the Rose Bouquet Clear Stamps Set - on white cardstock with Shady Lane VersaFine Clair.  Dry the ink, then trim it with the smallest Rectangle Basics die.  Attach it with foam dots.

Thanks for visiting - hope you love flowers too!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94248 Sketch Flower Spray craft die

30086 Rectangle Basics Set

CL5241 Rose Bouquet clear stamp set

Hello there.  I’ve been at a crafting retreat this past week and sadly, today is the final day.  We had six jam packed days of playing with different products and techniques.  One of the techniques we tried, and one that I’ve wanted to try, was Jennifer McGuire’s  Cut Up Stamping.  I knew the gorgeous Rose Bouquet stamp set from the April release would be perfect to use for it and I was right.  I ended up with three cards!

The gist of the technique is to cut strips from stamped panels and then pop up sections with fun foam to add dimension and interest.  For my first card, I stamped the bouquet with Copic friendly black ink on X-press It cardstock then coloured it in with Copics.

Next, the sentiment from Big and Little Words stamp set was stamped in black on the card base using the MISTI.  Adhered the coloured panel with temporary adhesive to the card base, then stamped the sentiment on that.  

Trimmed the sentiment from the coloured panel and assembled with fun foam.  Added clear shimmer to the flowers to finish.

The same steps were repeated for my second card, but in contrast to the first, I kept it monochromatic.  

The bouquet was black heat embossed on Bristol paper and the sentiment was white heat embossed on a black card base.

And finally my third card was created slightly different than the first two.

The bouquet was stamped with Copic friendly black ink on X-press It cardstock in opposite corners and the area between them was coloured in with a B28 Copic Sketch marker.

Cut up the panel in a grid pattern then added the Happy Jotted diecut sentiment to finish.

 

This truly is a fun and easy technique and the possibilities are endless, especially with the Rose Bouquet stamp.  Thank you for stopping by.  Have a great day. 

 

Supplies

 

CL5241 Rose Bouquet clear stamp set

CL5242 Big and Little Words lear stamp set

94107 Happy Jotted Script craft die

Happy Tuesday! Today I have a sweet and simple thank you card to share with you that uses one of the new floral dies.

I die cut the cute Layered Rose die in white paper and then used my ink blending brushes to color the flower pink and the leaves green. On the base of my card I used some light teal ink that coordinated with my card and inked a small area on the right side using one of my bigger blending brushes.

Once I glued the flower down I was able to stamp my sentiment from the fabulous Big and Little words stamp set. This set is one I know I will reach for again and again, it has so many wonderful sentiments to choose from!

To finish off the card I had some clear gems that I glued down around the flower to add some sparkle.

Have a fabulous and crafty day!

 

Supplies

 

94252 Layered Rose craft die

CL5242 Big and Little Words lear stamp set

Here's a card made with leftovers!  Often when I'm die cutting I won't use all of what I cut for that current project.  I usually tuck the leftovers into the paper envelopes with the dies.  This card uses an extra Seashell Circle Frame and an extra bird from the set of  four Elegant Shorebirds, both already cut from white cardstock.

materials used:

• jack o'lantern notecard
• mango distressed dot paper
• white cardstock
• SEASHELL CIRCLE FRAME 94225
• ELEGANT SHOREBIRDS 99730
• Distress inks and waterbrush
• glue pen, foam dots, blue pearls
• Scor-Tape on the backs of the shells to keep the tiny pieces in place

Coloring the images was easy using a waterbrush and these Distress inks.

• Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, and Gathered Twigs on the shells
• Peeled Paint on the seaweed stalks
• Salty Ocean on the inner and outer circles
• Peeled Paint and Salty Ocean on the shorebird

By using the waterbrush directly onto the ink pads I was able to lift color, test it on scrap white cardstock, and lighten it out as I wanted without oversaturating the cardstock.  I started with the darkest color in the center of the shells and worked lighter colors to the outer edges of each one before painting the seaweed and the inner and outer circles.  I used Peeled Paint to outline the bird, filling it in with a wash of the Salty Ocean blue.

As the paints were drying I looked for a notecard color and some patterned paper that would go well with the painted images.  I chose an orangey jack o'lantern notecard and some mango distressed dots paper from my stash.  I rounded the corners of the patterned paper before sticking it to the notecard.  (I'll use more of this paper on the inside of the notecard with a white box for writing a message.)  I tested the painted circle against the mango paper and decided to add some Gathered Twigs on the outermost edge of each shell so they would show up better sitting against the colored dot paper.

Once the watercolors were dry I assembled the card, peeling the Scor-Tape backing behind the shells and using that to stick the Seashell Circle Frame to the patterned paper already adhered to the notecard.  I used a glue pen on the bird's leg and tucked it behind the inner circle.  I used two small foam dots on its body to give it some dimension in the center of the circle.  The finishing touch was adding light blue pearls in opposite corners.

Keeping extra die cuts on hand speeds up crafting time!  This can be especially helpful when you need a card in a hurry.  I keep thinking that I'll set aside a day and just cut images and file them away for future use, but I haven't gone that far yet.  :-)  So I am often surprised when I go to an envelope to pull out a die and find pre-cuts ready and waiting for me.

Happy Crafting!

Happy Sunday! Today I am sharing how to make a set of cards that would make a great gift for someone using two of the new stamp sets from the April Release. Let's get started!

I picked out 5 different colors of cardstock and used ink colors that coordinated to give the tone on tone look that I wanted. Then I stamped the beautiful Rose Bouquet stamp on each card. If you have a stamping tool like the Misti it makes this so fast.

Then on white strips of paper I stamped sentiments from the Big and Little Words clear stamp set. It had some perfect basic sentiments that everyone would love to have on hand in a set.

Don't forget the envelopes! What makes this gift set extra fun and special is the coordinating envelopes. I stamped a few of the smaller individual roses on one corner of each envelope to make it extra special.

This set would be fun done in white cards and envelopes and different colors of ink. Pick the favorite colors of the person you want to give the set to and make it extra special.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

 

Supplies

 

CL5241 Rose Bouquet clear stamp set

CL5242 Big and Little Words lear stamp set

 

Create a dimensional card with the new Picture Perfect Flower peeking through Butterfly Meadow grasses.  Brighten it with glittery butterflies, then add a thoughtful greeting.  Hi - happy weekend - Jean Okimoto here with another design featuring something "old" with something new.  The quick pace of the papercrafts industry makes it feel as though a product introduced a few months ago is already old - but it's perfect for the Garden Bouquet Collection.  

Diecut a top-folded Limeade A-2 card with the 3" Circle Basics die.  Cut Picture Perfect Flower and Butterfly Meadow from green cardstock.  Save the Picture Perfect Flower offcut and tape it back into the delicate blossom outline.

Cut peach cardstock with the blossom portion and the extra blossom from the Picture Perfect Flower.  Layer them - slightly offset for dimension - over the green blossom and outline. 

Cut the flower center from black cardstock.

Attach Butterfly Meadow to the card front.  Align and attach Picture Perfect Flower inside the card.

Cut white glitter cardstock butterflies with the die included in the Butterfly Meadow set.  

Stamp the greeting - from the new Big and Little Words Clear Stamp Set - on the smooth side of limeade cardstock with Green Oasis VersaFine Clair.

Attach the butterflies.  "Sandwich" a few strands of the meadow grass between two butterflies to add dimension and cover the adhesive behind the butterfly.

Hope you're enjoying our new collection as much as we love sharing our ideas with you!  The botanical designs are great for summer cards - and they'll continue to be favorites throughout the year.  Flowers and greenery are classic design elements -  think of all the ways you can combine them with items from your stash!

Thanks for visiting...enjoy your weekend!

Supplies

 

94254 Picture Perfect Flower craft die

94238 Butterfly Meadow craft die

30087 Circle Basics Set

CL5242 Big and Little Words lear stamp set

Congratulations to all of the Garden Bouquet Blog Blitz prizewinners - and thank you for your comments!  Hi, Jean Okimoto here with another design featuring the Scribble Rose Outline and Background - and the new Rose Bouquet Clear Stamp Set too.  Loving the cool,  contemporary Scribble designs!

Stamp the bouquet on the smoother side of watercolor paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair and quickly emboss it with detail clear powder.  Brush loose, outside-the-lines layers of diluted Kaleidacolor Dye Ink Refills onto the image.  Skip the large rose in the center - it'll be covered  by Scribble Rose diecuts.  Dry the inks.

Trim it with the 2" x 3-¼" Rectangle Basics die.  

Stamp the greeting - also from the Rose Bouquet set - onto the smoother side of Snapdragon cardstock with Nocturne. 

Cut the large Scribble Rose Background from periwinkle cardstock.  Cut the large Scribble Rose Outline from black cardstock.

Several of the new flower dies from the Garden Bouquet Collection have tiny arrows (which remain on the offcut after cutting) to help align the coordinating dies.  

Cut a 4-¾" x ¾" strip of Sour Apple cardstock.

Assemble the card and add pale aqua gemstickers.

Christmas will arrive sooner than you think...why not get the Scribble Roses Background set now and be ready to diecut a wonky snowman in a few months!  Use the background dies with the Scribble Roses Outline for floral and garden cards this summer - then build a snowman for the holidays.

Big thanks to everyone from last weekend's ASIA NOW class at Impress!  We keep discovering that so many products from Memory Box, Poppystamps and Birch Press Designs are perfect for Asian-themed cards.  Thanks too - Shari and LaVonne - for helping everyone shop and fill those baskets!  And thank you for the beautiful spring  flowers Elaine!

No classes for me this weekend - I'm prepping for the SEATTLE STYLE class on Monday, May 27th.  Join us if you have a holiday that day!

Thanks for visiting...

 

Supplies

 

94270 Scribble Roses Outline craft die

94271 Scribble Roses Background craft die

CL5241 Rose Bouquet clear stamp set

30086 Rectangle Basics Set

Hello Everyone! It’s Isha today sharing a Clean and Simple card using various embossing powders onto the die-cuts.

Clean and Simple doesn’t mean you can’t play with techniques you love. It’s simply lots of white space. Today, I decided to play with some special embossing powders.

I started by creating a white card base. I then cut a white mat layer and die-cut a circle. I adhered a piece of vellum behind the circle. I sponged some distress ink onto the cardbase where the circle will come.

Adhere the mat layer to the cardbase.

I die-cut the floral wreath, applied versamark ink and added white pearl WOW! embossing powder. I adhered the wreath around the circle. I die-cut the butterfly, applied the versamark ink and embossed using WOW! Black Magic embossing powder. This makes the butterfly look so pretty and unique.

To finish, I stamped and embossed the sentiment and adhered it to the butterfly.

Hope you enjoyed this CAS card using specialty embossing powders. Have a nice day!

 

 

Supplies

 

30087 Circle Basics Set

94234 Sofia Butterfly craft die

99952 Devonshire Wreath craft die

CL5237 Best Life Typewriter Sentiments

It's me again this week with another card that uses alcohol pearl inks to create a background, this time for the Seashell Circle Frame.

materials used:

• Key Lime  top-fold notecard
• blue-dotted lime paper
• white cardstock
• Ranger Alcohol Ink cardstock
• Ranger Alcohol Pearl Inks--Tranquil (blue) and Sublime (green)
• Ranger Alcohol Blending Solution
• SEASHELL CIRCLE FRAME 94225
• "sending oceans of love" from the OCEANSIDE TYPEWRITER SENTIMENTS Clear Stamps Set CL5240
• Hero Arts inks--Green Hills and Tide Pool
• a plain circle die, straw, waterbrush, glue pen, Scor-Tape, pop dots, blue and green gemstones

• On a piece of the Alcohol Ink Cardstock, add drops of the Alcohol Pearl inks and then drops of the Blending Solution. 
• Use the straw to blow the inks around.  Continue adding inks and blending solution, blowing the inks around, until you like what you've got.
• Spatter the paper with a paintbrush soaked in Blending Solution. 
• Use a circle die a bit larger than the center of the Seashell Circle Frame to cut this inky paper once it's dry.

• Die cut the SEASHELL CIRCLE FRAME 94225 from white cardstock.
• Using a water brush, add some of the Green Hills ink to the seaweed fronds and the outer circle of the die cut.  Add more of the Green Hills ink to the outer circle using the ink pad directly onto the paper.
• Edge the three shells with more of the Green Hills ink directly onto the paper.
• Use a glue pen to anchor the inner circle of the frame to the circular inky piece.
• Put Scor-Tape on the back of that inky circle and adhere the piece to the front of the notecard which has been covered with the dotted paper.
• Pop the three shells up in the center of the circle and add a few blue and green gemstones.

That finishes the front of the notecard.  Let's look at what I did on the inside.

• Die cut a smaller circle from the dotted paper.  Here I used a die from the WRAPPED CIRCLES set 30114.
• Die cut the center shells from the Seashell Circle Frame using a scrap of white cardstock.  
• Edge the shells with the Green Hills ink, direct to the paper images.
• Glue the two smallest shells onto the circle and add some blue gemstones. 
• Stamp "sending oceans of love" from the Oceanside Typewriter Sentiments stamps set using the Tide Pool ink.
• Add the third shell just above that.

Another all-occasion card finished!  

Happy Crafting!

 

 

Hello everyone!

I hope you enjoyed last week's blog blitz and are as inspired as we are by all the new products!

Here is my card for today using some of the fabulous stamps and dies!

To create this card I once again went to a alcohol inked background that I had in my stash.  

I die cut the Small Fringed Peony from my background paper and kept the outline of the flower to place back into my die cut.  I also die cut the Scribble Leafy Branch Background 3 times from another piece of alcohol inked paper.  Then I die cut the Scribble Leafy Branch Outline 3 times from white cardstock.

I adhered my background to a white card base and glued the peony outline back in place in the die cut. Then I glued my leaf background pieces in place and added the white die cut outlines on top of them.  I did trim some of the leaf die cuts to fit the card.

I stamped the sentiment on black cardstock and heat embossed it using white embossing powder.    

To finish the card I added some epoxy water drop embellishments.  

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today!

 

Supplies

 

94274 Scribble Leafy Branch Outline craft die

94275 Scribble Leafy Branch Background craft die

94276 Small Fringed Peony craft die

CL5242 Big and Little Words lear stamp set

Hi everyone,

Thanks to everyone who left comments during our blog blitz.  I hope you enjoyed the new samples.  Se selected comments at random to win some of the new dies.  Here are the winners:

Winner of the Antique Garden Label from Laura's post..Laurie Brown

Winner of the Antique Corner Rose Label from Donna's post... Birgit

Winner of the Antique Leaf Label from Jean's post...scrAPpamondo

Winner of the Rose Bouquet Stamp set from Donna's post...Diane Hover

Winner of the Daisy Flower Frame from Laura's post...Starqueen

Winner of the Scribble Posies Outline dies from Jean's post...Sandra W.

Winner of the Daisy Silhouette dies from Laura's post...Katia

Congratulations winners!  I have sent you all emails to collect your names and addresses to send you your prize.

If you are looking for more chances to win part of the new release, there will be more opportunities on our Instagram page this week.  Follow us @memoryboxco