Hi All, 

Today's card creations are made with a wonderful stampset & coordinating die "Hello Gorgeous".

For most of the cards I have used some left over project life cards as an added layer. 

Card 1 - Ombre card base with Stampin Up Blushing Bride Ink.

Each of the images have been heat embossed with white embossing powder on crumb cake cardstock. 

Card 2 - A tone on tone card by repeat stamping one of the small floral images on a crumb cake card base.  I have added some glitter washi tape over the project life card.  After I stamped the hello in crumb cake I have gone over it with clear wink of stella.

Card 3 - Heat embossed the "Hello" in gold embossing powder.

I have also repeats stamped one of the bigger images in the background with some light sponging.

Card 4 - This is card is my favourite. Same techniques as the previous cards but instead if the project life cards I have die cut a circle to stamp the "hello" sentiment in baked brown ink. I have gone over the hello with clear wink of stella. The crumb cake layer has been placed slightly off centre adding some interest to the card.

I have also entered Card 5 in the AAA Challenge .

Happy New Year all , Jo here and welcome to my first blog post for the year. 

Today I have made a sweet card set using two of my favourite Inspired By Stamping stampsets. The first stampset is the "Easter Lily" & second one is the "Hello", which I have cutup. I know for some of you this may be rather daunting. The OCD side of me really struggled with this concept however I wanted to tailor my gift set as I had a specific friend in mind to give this to. 

Ok,so I first cut up this stampset as you can see below. I set aside the sentiments that I wish to use on a separate cardstock. 

The sentiments has been heat embossed with white embossing powder on coloured strips of coloured cardstock. 

Hello

Hello

I tapped into my paper stash hoard vault and pulled this beautiful paper collection out.  I have used the paper to cover the full top folding  vanilla base for thecard front.  With very vanilla cardstock panels I have die cut with border strip framelits to create interest tot he panels and foam mounted this onto the floral paper. 

To add a feminine touch to accompany the type of paper chosen I have used paper doilies which I have placed on carefully with glue dots as I found this type of adhesive was less likely to be seen through the very paper thin doilies.

I have stamped the Lily image on die cut circles and hearts with light blue & strawberry inks. To embellish each card I have used two types of hemp twine natural and bleached.  I have also used some resin flowers and buttons to tie off the twine which I have adhered on with glue dots.

Easter Lily