Love You FMS#127

This card has meandered off in its own direction! I find it funny how they do that sometimes - just take over! I had been looking through the Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack for colour inspiration, never expecting that this piece of patterned Crumb Cake would 'be the one.' I had even had my Real Red Ink Pad at the ready as I was sure the paper would include red somewhere. Well, Raspberry Ripple is a lovely, luscious red and there's a length of the lovely silky ribbon on the card as well. I have three layers of banners in Crumb Cake, White and Raspberry Ripple. The white has been dry embossed with a retired Embossing Folder (can't remember its name but a pretty script).

There is a small rectangle of DSP taken from the current Fresh Prints Designer Series Paper Stack and mounted on white card. I stamped the Crumb Cake base card with the flower from Happy Watercolor that looks like an orchid and the word 'love' from Fabulous Phrases.

No button for this card, it doesn't really need one, and I will finish the inside later with white card, and a partial stamped flower. Just beginning to run short of time (and light).
Don't forget to pop over to the gallery at Freshly Made Sketches, for lots of inspiration. There are more than a hundred submissions, plus the teams very fine designs too.

Happy stamping
Rachel

Sneak a peek at Holiday stamps

I'm so excited now that I have my holiday pre-order in my hands!!!

On page 28-29 of our Holiday catalogue is a stamp set Perfectly Preserved, designer series paper Orchard Harvest and framelits dies to cut 7 of the stamps out on the Big Shot. If I hadn't seen this set of stamps demonstrated at the Canberra Convention, back in May, I probably wouldn't have given them a second look BUT after seeing the cute ways to use these stamps they went on to my "Must Have" list. (it gets pretty long, lol!!)

Now I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, before I've made anyof those ideas up, 'cos you need a surprise too, but when I saw the cute sketch by Jen Mitchell over at Freshly Made sketches this idea popped into my head. I've used a new In-colour, Raspberry Ripple and embossed it with a new embossing folder Lacy Brocade from the Holiday Catty, and cut a shape from some Orchard Harvest paper, then decided just to use a sliver of the shape and a strip of the new stitched satin ribbon in Gumball Green. This ribbon is so soft and silky, gorgeous and comes in all five new In-Colours, so as well as the two I've mentioned already, there is Midnight Muse, Primrose Petals and Summer Starfruit.

I inked the cherries stamp with Stampin write markers, Gumball Green, Raspberry Ripple and Soft Suede, huffed on them and stamped. Then, just for a touch of cuteness, I used the tiny heart shaped stamp which says "love" (too hard to see in pic) out of  I (Heart) Hearts, retiring in a week, but still available and "sweet" from Fabulous Phrases (page 133). The tiny red heart is a leftover from the Owl builder punch, I'm always gathering them up and saving them for other projects, they're so tiny and cute.Punched everything out with the one inch circle punch, then some Gumball Green circles with the one & a quarter punch and mounted them along the bottom of the card, with dimensionals.

Now that you've finished here, why not pop on over to get lots more wonderful inspiration at Freshly Made Sketches and have a lovely weekend,

Rachel