Category Archives: By Stamp Set – Soft Seedlings

Freshly Made Sketches #571

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The newest sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches has been designed by the wonderfully talented Jen Mitchell. Make sure you head over to Jen’s blog and see her gorgeous creations.

The card I created features leaves from the Soft Seedling Stamp Set. I know, I’ve used this stamp set again, but I am loving it!

I stamped the leaves twice – once in Garden Green Ink and once in Pear Pizzazz Ink. I took my Water Painter and moved the ink around to the edges to create more light and shade. Once the leaves were dry, I fussy cut them and scrunched them in my hand for a more realistic look.

The background Basic White Cardstock was shaded with Crumb Cake Ink and a Blending Brush. As I always do, I took a Soft Suede Blend and flicked ink on to the shading.

I had a torn piece of Garden Green Cardstock on my desk so I layered this under a piece of Kraft Cardstock I had also discarded from another project. The ribbon I added was an off-cut that I stapled on one end and ruched on the other end. A sentiment was added and three Basic Pearl Rhinestones.

The Clean Team have created awesome cards that will no doubt inspire you. Head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

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Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project #378

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The challenge at Global Design Project is a sketch challenge. I love the simplicity of this clean sketch.

To fill up the space on the background, I stamped leaves from the Soft Seedlings Stamp Set. The leaves were stamped with Garden Green, Cajun Craze and Mango Melody Inks. Once I stamped them in the three colours, I took a Water Painter and moved the ink around on the leaf. I took a bit of Mango Melody Ink and added it to the centre of the Garden Green leaf. I then did the same with the Cajun Craze leaf. Once I had some Cajun Craze Ink on the Water Painter, I then added it to the centre of the Mango Melody leaf. All images were then fussy cut out.

I had a strip of Crumb Cake Cardstock that the edge had been diecut with the spiral book type edge. I added this to a strip of Pool Party Cardstock. The background Basic was shaded with Balmy Blue Ink and a Blending Brush. I then flicked the nib of the Light Black Blend on the lid of the blend on to the cardstock to add splatters. The ledger type stamp from the Ranunculus Romance Stamp Set was then stamped in Crumb Cake Ink over the top.

I layered all the images together and added a sentiment from the Ranunculus Romance Stamp Set and added a strip of torn ribbon that I had sitting on my desk.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #567

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We’re back! We have a new sketch for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the uber talented Amy O’Neill. Amy has designed this wonderful sketch for us. If only I had had the sketch in front of me rather than try it remember it off by heart, I may’ve created my card a 100% likeness to it….oops!

The card I created features the Soft Seedlings Stamp Set. I stamped up the leave image twice – once in Cajun Craze and the second time in Calypso Coral. The images were then watercoloured to change the colours to give them light and shade. I then added Cajun Craze Ink to the Calypso Coral one around the edges to create a two toned leaf. Once the images were dried, I fussy cut them out and scrunched them up in my hand. I took Dimensionals and adhered them to the circle punch with those scrunches on them. With this amount of height, I may not send this card in the post.

I added a strip of Cajun Craze Cardstock to the back and a piece of DSP from the Dandy Designs DSP pack (my new favourite DSP pack). The sentiment was stamped and trimmed around the font. I added strips of Linen Thread across the card and tied a bow. Over all of these layers, I added the sentiment and a couple of banners.

The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created awesome cards that will probs more resemble Amy’s sketch than mine…make sure you head over to the challenge and check them out.

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Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project #372

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Instead of Christmas present shopping, I played around in my craft room. Crafting is easier than thinking about what to buy people. I played along with a challenge today, the latest challenge at Global Design Project. This week is a CASE Challenge – a CASE of Kayla’s gorgeous card below:

I played around with the leaf image from the Soft Seedlings Stamp Set. The image was stamped with Cajun Craze Ink on Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. I then took my Aqua Painter and Ink and added Crushed Curry Ink around the centre of the leaves. Each leaf was then fussy cut out.

I had a leaf sitting on my desk from the Leaf Label and Amber Gem Combo. I took this leaf and squished it in my hand. I added Soft Suede Ink around the edges of this leaf and added it to my card.

The background was given some stamping and blending with Crumb Cake Ink. I then heat embossed a sentiment from the In The Moment Stamp Set on Black Cardstock.

Three Champagne Rhinestone Basic Jewels were added for the warm colouring in them.

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Narelle

Global Design Project #369

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Happy Sunday Everyone!

I have had a great day chatting to crafty friends as well as creating cards for challenges. The challenge I’ve created this card for is the colour challenge at Global Design Project. Their challenge this week is a colour challenge. I really love this combo they have chosen.

I had yet to ink up the Soft Seedlings Stamp Set, so this was rectified for todays card.

I inked up the leaf image with Pumpkin Pie Ink on Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper. I then took an Aqua Painter and moved the Pumpkin Pie Ink to create a weather leaf. I then took some Night of Navy Ink and very lightly added shading to the leaf. Once I was happy with the amount of ink I had applied, I stamped up a second one. Both images were fussy cut out.

I then stamped up the single small leaf in this set and applied the same technique of moving the ink around and adding shading. These were fussy cut out also.

The Basic White Cardstock in the background was shaded with a Blending Brush, an Artistic Mix Decorative Mask and Balmy Blue Ink. To add a little more detail to the background, I took the Dark Night of Navy Blend and flicked splatters to the shaded area.

I like a realistic look to my leaves, so I have crushed the cardstock in places and bunched up parts of the leaves and adhered them to keep their crushed look.

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Cheers

Narelle