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Saturday, April 25, 2020

Playing with The Greetery stamps and dies


I stamped a lot of backgrounds and then just yesterday I die cut a lot of the actual flowers and stems, today I put together three cards:
I actually made this quite a while ago...one that I cut, then I had a second piece to make another card and today this is what I made:
hmmm I must have used a different filter, because I know this came from the same piece.!
I love this stencil and think it is so easy to mass produce a lot of these backgrounds using many different colors!  So Fun!  I wanted to add a little sentiment and since I am sending out a lot of stamps to friends that I can't see...like from church or bible study, I can still let them know I am thinking of them.
This one was stamped on a lighter gray paper with gray ink, it wasn't my favorite because it was darker that I really like, but then I saw one made up using vellum over the top and I thought that was  perfect solution to tone it down a little bit!
I don't think I had shared this one yet either, but the background was stamped with the Fresh Floral Background stamp in a softer gray...Hero Arts Soft Granite, and of course I have made many cards using those awesome tulips called Budding Beauties Spring from the Greetery.
Well, I will end with that for tonight.  Thanks for stopping and taking a look!
I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the weekend!!

All stamps and dies are from The Greetery
Fresh Floral Background
Budding Beauties Spring
Print Shop Fresh Floral Stamp & Stencil and Dies

Heart Hugs, friends!



9 comments:

Marcia Hill said...

Love them all Colleen, but that last one with the tulips is my favorite and I love the background stamp done on the soft gray cardstock...will have to try that! Thanks for such lovely inspiration! Hugs. :0)

Christine Alexander said...

Beautiful collection of cards Colleen. I also love the last card, red and light gray is one of my favourite colour combos :)

Bonnie said...

Even more gorgeous cards, Col! Your friends are going to love to get these!

Nancy said...

I was so taken by the first card in this post that I had to stop. Then I scrolled down and found some more amazing cards. Then I was star struck again with the last one. You have got some serious mojo happening right now. It was great chatting today. We need to do it more often! HUGS!

Greta said...

Hi Colleen--glad to hear you're all healthy. Thankfully, our isolation seems to be working as no Covid at our house! So many beautiful cards here--love them!

TaeEun said...

Wow, Colleen! All of your cards here are fantastic! Awesome backgrounds and the layouts are also perfect!

Trina P. said...

An amazing collection! All beautiful and great colour choices.

Loll said...

Beautiful grouping of flower cards Colleen!! Love this gorgeous stamp and die set. So versatile! xx

Kim Heggins said...

Absolutely gorgeous Colleen....just love each one of your beautiful cards. You totally rocked Betsy's amazing stamps!