PPA55 Awash with Flowers & Apple Blossoms

This post is for my entry to  the Pals Paper Arts  (PPA55) color challenge for this week. The colors are Melon Mambo, Delightful Daffodil, & Tempting Tourquoise. Don't these colors look HAPPY?

I thought this would be a snap to do with such cheery colors but I really struggled deciding what color card base to use. Nothing seemed 'right' when I assembled them, because I have limited supplies in these colors except for the CS, so I opted for Whisper White as the base. Can't go wrong with white, right? Then I added the colors with INK to the design elements on the front. In the first card I used the Awash with Flowers set (love that set) with a sentiment from Apple Blossoms hostess set. Two of my favorite sets.

The three colors are in the flowers with a turquoise mat to make it pop a little. I also added some bling with a few Basic Pearls on the small blue flower used to set off the sentiment,

and again in the butterfly body. I have a bunch of these butterflies in my stash that I stamped and punched a few years ago using my friends tools, so I'm not sure if it's a retired SU stamp & punch or not. But I love it.

Simple but nice I think... how about you? What do you think?

I made another card using the same idea with a Whisper White background but this time I embossed the front corner with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder. I stamped the design on W.W. using the Apple Blossoms hostess set in Melon Mambo and Delightful Daffodil;

and added a few small flowers from the Awash set and colored with a turquoise marker.  

 I double matted this on Delightful Daffodil and Melon Mambo CS; both edged with the Scallop Trim Border punch. Again a touch of Basic Pearl halfs in two sizes on the flowers, and finished with a simple bow using the polka dot ribbon (retired) attached with a glue dot.

Well that's my entry for the PPA55 color challenge.

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Square Lattice KISS

This post is going to feature two KISS (Keep It Simple Sweetie) cards. In other words... FAST!!
For both cards I featured the Square Lattice embossing folder.

A few weeks ago my sister-in-law, Kim and her mother, Adrian, stopped by to use a gift certificate in my store. As they looked in the catalog they asked me how the Awash with Flowers set worked. I just happed to have that set, so I grabbed a scrap piece of Whisper White CS and just stamped a few images on the piece. No stampa-ma-jig, nothing; just eye-balled it. I grabbed another stamp from Word Play (Great set) and added a sentiment. They seemed to LOVE it. After they left, I trimmed down the scrap and thought it didn't look half bad, so I matted it on another scrap of Pear Pizzazz CS and tied some organza ribbon from my stash.

Well now....  may as well keep going, right?  So I grabbed some Daffodil Delight CS, scored, folded and used the Square Lattice embossing folder and layered my front to the front! Finished off the inside with another scrap piece of W.W. added a small flower from the Awash set and also two sentiments from Messages for Mom from the Occassion Mini. Done! Turned out pretty cute.

Done!

The second card was even faster than the first...

Card base is Very Vanilla CS, scored, folded. Stamped all over with a flower from Friends Never Fade in Early Expresso.  Then I  used the Square Lattice embossing folder on my card front! Just love that lattice look!

I tied a piece of Peach Parfait ribbon around the front of the card with a simple knot. I stamped another image from the same Friends set in Early Expresso and colored in the flower with the Peach Parfait write marker. I matted that to a piece of Early Expresso CS and popped it up with dimensionals. 

The inside is a piece of Whisper White CS matted to Early Expresso CS. Stamped the flower in Early Expresso on the edge of the lower corner and colored lightly with the Peach Parfait write marker. The two inside sentiments are from Occasional Quotes a Level III hostess set.

  Done!

 Now go KISS something!

Card #1 Supplies:STAMPS: Awash with Flowers, Word Play, Messages for Mom, CS: Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzaz, Whisper White. INK: Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Rich Razzleberry, Poppy Parade, Early Expresso. Square Lattice embossing folder, stash ribbon.

Card #2 Supplies: STAMPS: Friends Never Fade, Occasional Quotes level III, CS: Very Vanilla, Early Expresso. INK: Early Expresso. Write Marker & Ribbon - Peach Parfait, Square Lattice embossing folder. 

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