Friends of SUBA March Blog Hop
‘Spring Time Cards’
Hello and welcome to our March Blog Hop, where we are bringing you ‘Spring Time Cards’, as it will soon be here!
If this is your first visit to my blog you may be wondering what SUBA is and stands for. SUBA – ‘Simply Unique Business Angels’, technology training for entrepreneurs. Friends of SUBA is a group of SU demonstrators who attending a training weekend, held by SUBA, and formed a blog hop group. We look to inspire you with our creations.
Whether you have hopped over from Ginny @celebratethejourney or joined straight with me, I am so glad you could join us. I am sure you will find plenty of inspiration as you hop along. With our ‘Spring Time Cards’ theme, we are given free range of all Stampin’ Up! current products. This gives us a wide scope and many possibilities. I have chosen to showcase the ‘Floral Romance Suite’. The soft colours and tiny flowers really say ‘Spring’ to me.
I have four cards to share with you, all using the ‘Floral Romance Suite’. The lovely soft colours with in this suite are ‘Fresh Fig’, ‘Mossy Meadow’, ‘Pear Pizzazz’, ‘Petal Pink’, ‘Sahara Sand’ and ‘Whisper White’. I have swapped the ‘Whisper White’ for ‘Very Vanilla’, I feel this gives a softer look.
You may have heard of ‘#loveitchopit’ started by Kylie Bertucci. This is where you take you DSP, (Designer Series Paper), and chop it into card front sized pieces ready to use. I have taken to this challenge as I would hoard my DSP, not wanting to cut into it. This way it is done and ready to go. The pieces can be chopped into smaller pieces as required. For more details check out Kylie Bertucci.
Watercolour Floral
My first card uses the ‘No Line’ watercolour technique. Stamp your image onto watercolour card using second generation stamping, in ‘Sahara Sand’. This will give you a very faint image. Using an ‘Aqua Painter’ colour your image with ‘Fresh Fig’, ‘Mossy Meadow’, ‘Pear Pizzazz’ and ‘Petal Pink’ inks. Cut this out using the coordinating ‘Wonderful Floral Framelits Dies’. Cut a strip of ‘Floral Romance Speciality Designer Series Paper’, 5cm x 14.4cm, and adhere this to a strip of ‘Very Vanilla’ card stock, 5.5cm x 14.9cm. I used a small amount of the ‘Fine Tip Glue Pen’ in each corner, this is not noticeable through the vellum. Take an A6, (10.5cm x 14.9cm), card base and adhere your layered strip to the left hand side, leaving a small border. Adhere your floral image to the card base, using ‘dimensionals’. Cut five vellum leaves using the multi leaf ‘Framelit Die’, from plain vellum. Adhere these under your floral image, you may need to trim to fit. Finish by adding a small pearl to each of the flower centres, I used the ‘Share What You Love Artisan Pearls’.
A full list of all products used is posted at the end of my blog. These can all be purchased from my online shop.
You are the best thing
This card is made in the same way as the Watercolour Floral card, swapping the floral image for a die-cut sentiment, the vellum leaves for ‘Petal Pink’ springs and stamping ‘Pear Pizzazz’ foliage onto the card base.
I hope you found some inspiration here and I am sure that as you hop along you will find much more! A list of all participants can be found below or click on the next button to join Sandra @stampnstudio
Blog Hop List
Ginny at Celebrate the Journey
Sandra at Sandra’s Stamp & Craft Studio
Happy Crafting
Leighsa xx
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Wow Leighsa – you were busy this month creating and I have to admit the first card with the no lines watercolouring is my favourite – it’s so pretty and delicate xx
Thank you Carrie I really enjoyed making these xxx
So many pretty cards from one stamp set! I adore pink and green.
Leighsa these cards are gorgeous. Inspired me to use the stamp set its so effective. xx