Violets

Don't you love violets!  They are so little and cute.  JustRite has a new stamp set called "Violette Vintage Labels" that has two beautiful stamps with violets plus a lot of sentiments.  

For the background, I used one of the Marianne Design cut and emboss folders.  I used the design across the top of my card rather than vertical.  My card is 6" x 5.5" so it left a blank space at the bottom.  I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder to emboss a strip to fit that area.  The Cheery Lynn "Queen Anne's Lace" border was glued across the top of the added piece.  It is hard to see in the picture because it ended up under most of the flowers.  

The smaller JustRite "Violette Vintage Label" was stamped and colored with Distress Markers, then cut out and attached with dimensional dots.  As you know, I love to create flowers that match stamped images so I used my Punch Bunch Small "Ovoid" punch to create seven violets to ago along the bottom of the card.

A lot of the small "ovoid" petals were punch then I used a dark purple marker to draw lines up from the bottom of each petal.  I used the small end of the Distress Marker.  The petals were shaped with the tools from the Flower Tool Kit.  The base and smallest stamens are from the Cheery Lynn "Build A Flower #1" die set.  Since I wanted pretty small flowers, I made sure the tip of each petal was glued right to the very center of the base.  If you glue them out away from the very center, you will end up with a larger flower.  After all the petals were glued to the base, they were pressed down in the black shaping mat then the tiny stamen centers were added.  A dot of yellow Stickles was added to the very center.

I was trying to duplicate the foliage behind the flowers in the JustRite stamped image and used the Cheery Lynn "Flourish Leaf Strip" for the smaller light colored leaves, and used the Memory Box "Tender Leaves" for the larger dark leaves.  Two Cheery Lynn corners were added to the top of the card to finish it.

This is the JustRite "Violette Vintage Labels" stamp set

  (CL 03735)

Marianne Design (DS0908) embossing folder

Cheery Lynn Deco Corner (B162)

Cheery Lynn Queen Anne's Lace Border (B160)

Cheery Lynn Build A Flower #1 (B181)

Memory Box Tender Leaves (98313)

Distress Markers

Yellow Stickles

Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge

Time for a new challenge at Joan's Gardens this week and I have a fun, very easy project for you to complete.  This is a Post-It Note cover.  It is made with a piece of card stock cut 7 1/2" x 3 1/2" and scored at 3 1/2" and 4".  We want you to use this measurement for your cover and decorate it and insert a 3" square pad of Post-It notes. You can check the rest of the challenge rules out over at Joan's Gardens.  

Here is how I decorated my cover.  To create the pretty little pansies (or are they violets) on my cover, I used the following punches:  Small Ovoid Petal; Large Ginkgo; Small Snowflake, Small stamen.  In this picture you can see the punches pieces right under the punches and below that how I sponged the lower end of the petals and drew in lines.  In this photo, I forgot to include the dark purple petals I used for the top portion of the flower, but they are also the Small Ovoid Petal.  All the petals were shaped with the tools from the Flower Tool Kit on the Black Shaping Mat, then glued to the green snowflake.  Very easy to complete these cute little flowers.  

The background on my cover is an embossed piece using the new Spellbinders E-Bossabilities "Splendid" embossing folder (EL-005).  You are going to love these new Spellbinders embossing folders because they are 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" and can emboss a larger piece of card stock but the best thing is that they are two different embossing folders in one folder - they are two sided.  They emboss very deeply.  I have to tell you they are my new favorite embossing folders.  You can check out all the different designs at Joan's Gardens.  

The pretty little doily behind the flowers is from the Cheery Lynn "Dainty Dutch Deco Frame" (DL141).  You get a square doily frame plus this pretty little round doily all on one die.  The pretty border along the bottom edge was created by using one of the new Cheery Lynn Reflections Boutique Mega Dies.  The one I used is the "Horizon Coved Rectangle Mega Doily" (DL193).  You can cut many different size lace edged doilies with these new Reflections Boutique Dies but I chose to cut one edge off and use it as a border.  Isn't is pretty!   The green flourish is the Marianne Design "Forest Branch" (LR0150).  The butterflies is one of the Cheery Lynn "Mini Butterflies" (DL112).

I attached the Post-It Note pad to the inside by just pulling off the back cover and placing it next to the score line.  You could also attach it by using a piece of ScorTape along that edge.  Because I want to give this little pad to a friend, I stamped on the top sheet of the Post-It Note pad.  The "Just A Note" sentiment is from the JustRite "Always & Forever Medallion Labels" and the pretty little border under it is from the JustRite "Vintage Oval Labels" stamp set.  I love all these new JustRite stamp sets because they are now "cling" stamps and all the sets have such a variety of sentiments, labels, borders and other pretty things in each set. If you haven't seen the great variety in these new JustRite sets, you should be sure and check them out at Joan's Gardens.

Well I hope you will enjoy completing this fun little project for our challenge this week.  I am so anxious to see what you come up with.  Be sure to go over to Joan's Gardens to check out all the challenge rules and see what the prize is this week. 

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Thinking of You Violets

I thought Spring was on the way but now I'm not sure.  It has been snowing on and off all day long!   Even though it is cold outside, it must be warm enough to melt the snow shortly after it hits the ground.  I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of all the Spring flowers and one that I love are the violets.  I don't have them in my yard yet, so I decided to create violets with punches.  Below are the punches I used:

Name of punches used:  small ovoid petal;  medium ichyou leaf, small snowflake; medium birch leaf; small sparkle or sun

 This is a 5.5" card.  The background is a deep violet card stock.  The  yellow layer was created using the Martha Stewart "Pansy" border punches.  The white layer was embossed with the Cuttlebug "Victoria" embossing folder.  Five violets were created and attached the the card front. The Flower Book from Joan's Gardens has the directions for creating this pretty little flower. The sentiment is from an older JustRite set called "Thinking of You".  I wanted to use this sentiment because  it matched my punched violets so well.  It was cut out with a  large scalloped Nestability die.  A pretty violet silk bow was added to complete the card.

You can purchase the punches and all the other products in "bold" from Joan's Gardens.

Tomorrow I will be working on a tag for the Joan's Gardens Tag Challenge.  I think you will want to create a tag for this week's challenge.  I'm going to tell you a little secret -- Joan is going to have a wonderful surprise for someone who enters a tag in the challenge this week.  I am sure you won't want to miss out.  Remember you can create any type of tag you want using any stamps or embellishments you want.  It is so easy to enter this challenge.  Hope to see your tag this week.  Tomorrow you can go to Joan's blog and vote for your favorite tag.  The new challenge will begin on Tuesday.