Bucket full of Tulips

Good afternoon - thank you for stopping by - I do love having visitors to my blog and reading all the comments that people leave make my day!

I'm back again with my 3rd guest design team spot for 2 Paper Divas I am really enjoying using their stamps, they stamp a really good crisp image and are so nice to color.

Today's card is using a recently released stamp Tulip Bucket Bouquet and Bloom Wildly Sentiments:

I challenged myself with the flowers making them variegated instead of one color, blending from pink to yellow. Once colored I used a corner punch on the top left of the image and matted this onto pink and white card having used the corner rounder on both of these. I made a 5x5 inch card base and matted this with pick card from my stash I then cut a piece of patterned card into diagonal strips removing every other strip I arranged them over the pick card to give a striped background effect.  

After adhering my image to the card I matted the sentiment with the same colors and rounded the bottom right corner on this - I was then fixed into position using dimensional foam squares

Ingredients used:

2 Paper Divas - Tulip Bucket Bouquet

2 Paper Divas - Bloom Wildly Sentiments

Spectrum Noir - Ultra Smooth White Cardstock 

Spectrum Noir Markers

Collal All Purpose Glue

Papermania - Lemon Sorbet Capsule Collection - Retired

Corner rounder

2 Paper Divas hold monthly challenges - the details are here.

They also have regular features and competitions on their blog 

and for more inspiration using their gorgeous stamps checkout their Facebook page 

Thank you for stopping by and if you like what you see please leave me a comment

So Suzy Stamps Blog Hop

 

Good morning and welcome to the So Suzy Stamp's April release blog hop

 

 

Yes the store has some gorgeous goodies that are being released today and we the design team are doing a blog hop to celebrate. If you follow the hop and comment on each blog the you could be in with a chance of winning a $15 gift certificate.

 

You will have until 5th April at 11.59pm to comment and winners will be chosen at random and will be announced on the So Suzy blog and Facebook page on April 6th.

 

You should be arriving here from the lovely Jennifer's blog, if you stumbled in from elsewhere then just head on over to the So Suzy Stamps blog for the full hop list

 

So on to the release and the start of April's challenge. This month the theme is birthdays you can enter as many times as you want the only rules being use a So Suzy Stamp and follow the theme Simple!!!

 

I have used one of the fab new stamps girl on a swing:

 

 

Isn't she just adorable!!! I have colored her with my Spectrum Noir pens and added Polychromo pencil to her hair for more texture. The backing paper is from a Papermania capsule collection. I have used a spellbinder die to cut the tree twice, once on brown card and the second on the green. These have been placed on top of each other and the tree trunk in the green has been cut away to show the brown underneath. The flowers were made using a small flower punch, shaped and glued to the tree.

 I placed a water-colored background behind the tree and then used pop stickers to fix the little girl in place. This was then matted onto the background paper.

The sentiment was printed from my pc onto the same paper used in the background. I then matted this onto some of the brown card. I die cut some vines and added some of the flowers around the sentiment to tie in with the image.

I think you would agree the little darling is so sweet.

 

Thanks for stopping by and if you are following the blog hop you need to hop on over to Kim's blog to see what fab makes she has designed. Oh and don't forget to stop by either the So Suzy Facebook group or the blog and enter our challenge!

 

Before I go, did you know that So Suzy Stamps can be found on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. She also has a showcase Facebook Group - So Suzy Stamps Flaunt it if you made it - where you can show your own designs (and enter our challenge) made with these fab stamps.