Divine Diva's Flowers Challenge

Howdy everyone,
This is a quick post for this weeks Divine Diva's challenge.  The Divine Divas are a special group of ladies I craft with. We host a challenge each week among ourselves to help get us through this rough time, as we cannot craft together in person for now.   This weeks challenge theme was flowers.  It could be anything from a live flower arrangement to cards.  Lately, I've been into Altenew and Rubber Stamp Tapestry (aka as Peg Stamps) and both companies specialize in flower images (love, love)!  Altenew does high quality photo polymer stamps, most with matching dies.  Rubber Stamp Tapestry (RTS) does the awesome and faithful red rubber.   Both companies manufacture right here in the good ole' US of A!  To find out more and to order from these amazing companies, click their name links above.

My card was inspired by several things, (1) the challenge, (2) Mother's Day, and (3) the video on how to make this card (which can be found here).  I started with a card front of 4 ins. x 5 1/4" ins. cut from 80# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock.  I used RST's  Delicate Rose and Secret Garden Peg Stamp Sets to create the clusters and green stems.  The ink is from Altenew's Tea Party Mini Cube Set and Green Fields Mini Cube Set.  I also used, some painter's tape,  1/8 in. Score Tape, a Versa Mark Ink Pad, and gold embossing powder.  The sentiment is from Altenew's Wild Hibiscus Stamp Set.  The matting is some very old gold specialty card stock from Paper Pizazz (2002)-Metallic Gold.  The gold mat is cut to 4 1/4 ins. x 5 1/2 ins. and adhere to a 4 1/2 ins. x 5 3/4 ins. card base.  It is a little larger than a standard A2 card.  I will make the envelope on my WRMK envelope punch board.  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all!

JOYCE

Hello Friend

Hello All,
Just popping in to say hi and share a card I did for a crafting group I belong to.  I hope everyone is well and keeping the faith.  It's like a delayed Spring thaw in Texas.  This past Friday, stores and other businesses began to open.  We are still following the health and law enforcement guidelines related to COVID-19 but people are getting out.  I am hoping that the spirits of the people will continue to rise.   Hear our prayers LORD...

The challenge theme for this card was Red, White, and Blue!  The best flag colours I do believe!     However much I love those colours, it is was a little tough for me to come up with a card idea at first.  I didn't want to do a military card because I want to save those ideas for later in the year.  It just so happened that I found a stamp company that has been around for sometime, but I just did not jump on board.  I've had a couple of their stamps sets from when I first started stamping but again, I was busy with something else and forgot all about them.   I happened to be looking for something on YouTube and came across one of their videos....and she was hooked again.   The company is called Rubber Stamp Tapestry.  You can either Google Rubber Stamp Tapestry or go to pegstamps.com.   You can also check out their YouTube channel here.  Their stamps make some really beautiful cards.  I really love stamps that do the work for you. 

I did a single layer (stamped directly on the card base), 4x4 inch Friend card.  The card base is 110# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White card stock.  The images are from Rubber Stamp Tapestry stamp set-Little Posy Basket.  I used Tim Holtz Distress ink colours Gathered Twigs, Fired Brick, Faded Jean, and Bundled Sage.  To achieve the lighter green for the sprigs I used second generation stamping.  To ground the basket I used Copic markers W3, W1, and W00.   The sentiment is from the Altenew stamp set Mini Atlas.  This is a 2 x 3 inch photo-polymer stamp with 3 total stamps, an image of the continents and 2 sentiments.  The sentiments were just perfect for this little card.  The sentiment was stamped with Altenew's Obsidian Black pigment ink.   To get the heart shape, I stamped the basket first, then I used a Spellbinder's Classic Heart Etched Die and lightly traced the outline of the heart around the basket.  After I was done stamping I used my electric eraser (purchased on Amazon) to remove the pencil trace.  I love, love, love these stamps!

Til next time...

Joyce