Welcome to Barb Schram who has joined Flourishes as a guest designer! Barb is so talented and it will be such fun having her on the team! You can read her bio on the Flourishes Newsletter. AND even more happening at Flourishes… Today is the release of 3 new stamp sets! On this card I’ve used one of them. It is called “Summer on the Patio” . And it was SO MUCH FUN!!!
I first stamped the pitcher and the floral bouquet. Masking these I then stamped the table. Both glasses and the large pink flower were stamped on a separate piece of card stock, cutout and popped up on dimensionals. The designer paper is Memory Box’s “Sprout”. I cut out around part of the leaf design on the paper and then tucked the main image panel behind it.
These images are so fast and easy to color. I used SU! markers. A touch of sparkle was added to the flowers with a Spica pen. It gives such a pretty shimmer with indirect lighting.
The hardest part about this set was trying to decide which stamp to use first! Just look at all these wonderful images… 35 to be exact!!!
Now I have to tell you when I first saw the image of the pitcher I was so excited. I decided that that little sprig shown in the water is mint. That would make this a pitcher of Velvet Mint Water. (Some may say it is a pitcher of lemonade. I say it just shows the versatility of the image! lol)
I had never heard of Velvet Mint Water until just a few weeks ago when my friend Nan taught me all about it on her blog. Nan even grows her own mint and is a quilter and chef extraordinaire. Really she is. She has even published books.. on both subjects. (I think I’ve mentioned this before, but she was on the Emeril cooking show. I’m so impressed with myself that I know her and that she calls me her friend. lol)
You can see Nan’s recipe for Velvet Mint Water on her blog Pots And Pins. Nan enjoys her summers on the patio! And now you can, too, with Flourishes fabulous new “Summer on the Patio” stamp set! hehe Be sure to stop by the other Flourishes’ designers’ blogs Barb, Faith, Julie, Leslie and Linda and see what they have done with today’s new releases.
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Stamps: Flourishes “Summer on the Patio”
Papers: SU! Whisper White, Barely Banana, Basic Black; Memory Box “Sprout” DP
Inks: Versafine “Onyx Black”; SU! Classic Garden Green, Barely Banana and Markers Bordering Blue, Barely Banana, YoYo Yellow, Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Regal Rose, Rose Red, Pixie Pink, Only Orange; Spica Pen “Twinkling Like Stars!” 04 Orange
Accessories: May Arts Ribbon; Circle Punches
