Boho Square

Another quickie for you today. We made this card at one of my previous Stamp Camps. It's hip to be square! (I crack myself up :)

The card base is a 4-1/4 square piece of Old Olive stamped with the same color ink with the Stitched background stamp. The colored squares (Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, and Regal Rose) are stamped with 2 of the Boho Background stamps and then punched out with a 1 inch square punch. They are layered together on a piece of textured Old Olive cardstock. The flower is punched from the 5-petal flower punch. So easy! The color combination came from the 'trendy' color combos SU! highlights in the beginning of the catalog. It could be changed up with pretty much anything! So many possibilities!

I'm excited tonight to be starting another Stamp Club. I have so many other stamps and products that I would love to share with my stamping buddies, and they seem to be just as excited to be shared with! Have a great night!



Supplies:

Stamps: Boho Backgrounds, Stitched (SU!)
Paper: Old Olive, Old Olive textured, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink (SU)
Ink: Old Olive, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Regal Rose
Accessories: copper brad

Charming - For WSC37

I made this card for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #37. I am a regular reader of Beate's blog but have never participated in a challenge before. Her sketches are great resources! I love to collect card sketches.. they come in handy when you're feeling a little short on ideas (seems to be pretty often for me).

The card base is PTI's Spring Moss again (love it). The patterned paper is SU!'s retired Petals & Paisleys, which is mounted on a strip of Wild Wasabi. I loved these colors together. The greens were so vibrant and happy. I finally decided on a stamp from Sidekick Sayings for my focal image. I really went back and forth on this one. I was hoping to incorporate the technique from PTI's Friday Tutorial (featured on Heather Nichols' blog) but it just wasn't working for this one. The image is stamped in Palette Burnt Umber on PTI SS White and the flower is watercolored in with Wild Wasabi and Purely Pomegranate. I added a touch of Twinkling H2O's since they were out on my desk. I sponged a little Spring Moss around the edges, added some paper piercing, and mounted onto a piece of Wild Wasabi. I added the three brads to finish the sketch, and that was it. Simple, clean and easy. I am really in a monochromatic mood recently... enjoying using different shades of the same color. I always feel like these cards need more, but I'm getting better at stopping before I turn them from classy to obnoxious. I always think of my role model Nichole Heady when making cards like these, hers are always so simple yet perfectly perfect.

I will be back later with some more stuff from this weekend, but wanted to get the details of this card up first. Its beautiful, sunny, and going to be 60 degrees here today, so that certainly puts a nice spin on a Monday morning. I hope you have a beautiful day!

Supplies:
Stamps: Sidekick Sayings (SU)
Paper: Spring Moss, Stampers Select White (PTI), Wild Wasabi, Petals & Paisleys (SU)
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate (SU), Burnt Umber, Spring Moss (Palette)
Accessories: Twinkling H2Os, brads, paper piercer