Popping Roses

Can you tell yet which is my favourite set at the moment???? This was another DCM Challenge and I have seen it somewhere - I think called paper toile - and personally I think she did a better job than me - more elaborate but I wanted to have a go at doing it with this stamp set so off I went. I went to try and find the sample again and just can't so if anyone does see it on their travels I would love a link again.

Card stock and ribbon is regal rose and it is mounted on Always Artichoke card matt. All stamping is on whisper white and I used Regal Rose and Always Artichoke inks, plus a small amount of Brocade blue and a mustard brush pens to highlight the centres of the forget-me-nots.


In terms of the rest of the card it is very simple and it just goes to show how you can make an elaborate crd from a simple base. I stamped and cut out several roses at different points of colour stamping and curled or shaped the card with some scissor blades. THe background was stamped on the flat sheet then the flowers built up some with pop mounting and some just glued but still shaped with scissors.

Not one for a standard envelope!!

Rachel

Roses in Winter - can you get enough

I certainly can't - i love their fragrance and they just make me think of the heady days of high summer and cricket and bees and trees in the wind and Wood Pigeons cooing!!!

This stamp set is my all time favourite - and is in fact a surprise to me as I thought I would hate it! Just shows you what a difference getting your hands on things and having a play can make to what you do and don't like.

I did this as a demo card at one of my parties and so had two in the end - handy for mother's day really!!!

The base card is Brocade Blue and the layering Perfect Plum. The stamping is of course on whisper white in Perfect Plum, Always Artichoke and Brocade Blue with a touch of Summer Sun for the flower centres.

The patterned paper is the Designer Series in Always Artichoke.

Rachel

Sample Time, Roses in Winter

Well I have had a gorgeous time playing with this stamp set and if I had had a choice I would not have bought it! I swapped it out in the starter kit and because I didn't want to lose any value I had to choose a set of the same price as the one I was swapping out. I have to say it is so versatile.

Images are all Copyright Stampin' Up! and Card Design is all my own.


Sample 1 uses:
Rose Red Cardstock for the card base
Always Artichoke for the layers/mats.
Whisper White for stamping onto
Cutie Pie patterned papers for the trim
Three brads in the Rose Red Colourway
and white grossgrain narrow ribbon

Stamps are all from the Roses in Winter set.

The technique used I call "Stamping Off" because this only uses two ink pads - Rose Red and Always Artichoke and the different depths of colour are achieved by using a piece of scrap paper to stamp off some of the ink - so the lightest red is the third stamp of an inked stamp, the second lightest the second stamp and so on. I have used the technique on all of these samples.



The second sample adds a different cardstock for the base card - Regal Rose - but uses the same ingredients and technique otherwise.

Sample 3 again the same ingredients and techniques with the addition of the Basic Black ink pad for the central image of the rose.

Sample 4 is slightly different. I used Rose Red Cardstock and Cutie Pie papers to create the central plaque. The Rose Red cardstock I stamped with the tiny flower from the set in Versamark to create a watermark effect. I then stamped the roses and punched them out with the Scallop punch. I only used two of the rose stamps and changed the ink to Regal Rose which is only slightly lighter than the Rose Red but a little more difficult to get the shading for the stamping off technique. The Greeting is in Barely Black and from Cheers and Wishes set which is really useful all purpose greeting set to have around. All of this was then mounted on the So Saffron Cardstock base which tied in nicely with the patterned paper colourway.

Hope you like this set - I will save another one for tomorrow to keep you interested :-)

Rachel