Flower Soft and Impression Obsession Blog Hop

Impression Obsession/Flower Soft

June 22nd through June 29^th. Winners will be announced June 30th

We’re having fun being Patriotic today with Impression Obsession stamps and Flower Soft. You’ll be inspired by creative projects as you hop along the Designer’s blogs.

PRIZES

One random comment author will be chosen by Impression Obsession to receive a $25.00 Impression Obsession Gift Certificate.

One random comment author will be chosen by Flower Soft to receive a $25.00 Flower Soft Gift Certificate.

Leave a comment on of the blog hop posts to be eligible to win. The more you comment the more chances you have to win!

WINNERS

Winners will be announced on June 30^th at the Impression Obsession and Flower Soft Blogs.

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Please link to Impression Obsession  and Flower Soft

 

You should have come to my blog from Vickie's blog.

 

My choice of stamps to use from Impression Obsession for this blog hop is this adorable little boat and a set of stamps that include some great patriotic themed sentiments.

I just colored my little boat in patriotic colors with my Copic markers.  The set of stars and the sentiment "Three Cheers" is from the sentiment set.  I was thinking this would also fit pretty cute for a little boy or new baby boy card.

And, my finishing touches were some wonderful, white Flower Soft that I added to one of the sails.  The white is one of my favorite Flower Soft colors to use.  I also added some Glossy Accents to the boat bottom and the words.
From my blog hop on over to Daniela's blog to see what she has created.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Red, White and Blue

The Flower Soft team is featuring the wonderful Patriot mix of Flower Soft this week.

 This is one of my favorites that Flower Soft has to offer, it is a red/white and blue mix. 

I took a  couple Heidi Swapp stars, colored them with a stamp pad and some spray color and then filled in the open star center with the Patriot Flower Soft.  The dots on the star are the resist part of the star, love the look. The red background is the Tweed stamp from  Hero Arts. The sentiment is a Paper Smooches stamp.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

It's for Dad

The Flower Soft team had a challenge for this week to create a card fitting for Dad. 

 I went straight to one of my most favorite products offered by Flower Soft, the silhouette stickers. What is even neater is that there are silhouette stickers and matching stamps!!! I love the silhouette look and the stickers could not be any easier to use. 

 I applied all three stickers to cardstock, the trees to a green cardstock, the deer to white cardstock and then cut around the shape. To finish off the simple look, I added a wonderful Ultra Fine Flower Soft to portions of the trees. For my inspiration, I used a Freshly Made sketch however I am posting this to late to link it there.

Here is the Freshly Made sketch.

Be sure to check out the Flower Soft blog and the facebook page for all of the great inspiration from the team.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

It's Girly Girl time

Flower Soft has recently released some extremely fun new products, Fabulous Fashions downloads and matching stamps.  There are so many wonderful, girly girl images in these sets it is hard to choose a favorite. Each download has several great options and then in each dress style, there is a set of stamps. I love the downloads because they come all colored already making them so fast and easy to use on a project.

 For this card, I picked the 3-D decoupage option from the Fabulous Fashion Daisy collection.  This 3-D option comes with several layers of the dress, I only used one layer to place on top of the printed dress.

 Here you can see the way this looks with that additional layer.  I used some great Liquid Pearls to accent the top of the dress. That striped paper is one of the options in this set too.

 There is also a special collection for the 4th of July.  I decided to pair this cute hat with a star embossed card base done with the Cuttlebug. 

After I printed out the hat (remember it comes all colored in already), I cut out the hat with this super cute Paper Smooches notebook paper die.  The sentiment stamp is also by Paper Smooches.  Again, I used some Liquid Pearls for additional accents.

Be sure to check out Flower Softs Facebook page for other great ideas and the way some of the team used the other downloads.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Butterflies and Hummingbirds

I already loved using butterflies on a card and so the challenge at Simon Says Stamp to created something with "wings" was pretty easy.

 Not to mention a new-to-me set of stamps from Paper Smooches.  I started off with a cool stencil and some wonderful Stephanie Barnard Clearsnap spray inks.  I so love these things, I love the vivid colors and they are the perfect match to stencils.

 I actually used three separate butterfly stamps from the same set for my card. The larger butterfly was created by stamping a solid image with a vibrant color and then stamping over that with the outline image.  I filled the outline image with Glossy Accents and sprinkled on some great Stephanie Barnard glitter, this is only a glimpse of how sparkly it is.  The little yellow pearl-like dots are from Liquid Pearl dots.

 Flower Soft is featuring their card toppers on their blog and Facebook page this week. The toppers are so fun because they come all colored and each package has more then one design in it. 

I add some Flower Soft to the little flowers on the branch.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Playing with fun products

Because of the generosity of Kool Tak, I was able to use some Flower Soft products along with some pretty cool Kool Tak products to create a card.

 I used their double sided tape to attach a row of their foil, their micro beads and a row of Ocean Ultra Fine Flower Soft to my card.  I picked the white cardstock for a background so these items would show off well.  It is pretty neat how easily all of these items stuck to the tape making for a fun and fast card.

Here is a close up of the items used with the tape and the little butterflies are punch out pieces from the Spring Flowers kit by Flower Soft. That wonderful sentiment is from Avery Elle.

All this week Flower Soft has been featuring the use of the Kool Tak products on their Facebook page, take a peek.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

New Flower Soft release

Flower Soft has had an adorable new release, Simpler Times by Elizabeth Bell. This release contains several downloadable images and some matching stamp sets.

 I picked the "card shape" download from the "Playtime with Lucky" collection.  This shaped card was really as easy as 1, 2, 3.  I picked the print out, printed it, folded it on the fold line and then cut around the shape. The hat and parts of the little doggie extend off of the folded edge, so I made sure I cut around them before creasing the fold.  It is so cute to have these extended details. Plus, can you see the colors! It prints just like that.

I also used some pieces from the matching 3-D Decoupage set so that I could add layers to her hat and her arm. That really helps to bring her to life. 

Be sure to check out how many different sets there are and also to check out the Flower Soft facebook page for other ideas.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

That's what little girls are made of

When I see these three little cuties sitting and talking, I think of that phrase, "That's what little girls are made of"!

 This week, the Flower Soft blog and the Flower Soft Facebook page are featuring all of the Mabel Lucie Attwell products on sale.  There are stamps and card toppers, I picked this cute topper to work with. The toppers are so neat because they come already colored plus you get a few different layers so you can put your project together, 3D.

 I took this close-up from the side view so you could see the layers, I used two on top of the original print. The Kool Tak foam tapes really helped me with the layers since they come in more then one size.  I used the 1/8" and the 1/16" so my layers were different depths.

I added a tiny drop of Glossy Accents to each of their cheeks where there was a little white dot for a cute little accent and added color to all of the outside, cut edges with some Chestnut Roan Fluid chalk ink.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SnowGlobe day

I love snowglobes and thought that would be a fun accent for some cards.

 I went to my Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge. Since you can pick the size you want to cut an image, I could make my snowglobe in more then one size.  I wanted a shaped card so after I had my snowglobe assembled I glued it to a folded piece of red cardstock and cut the shape.

 The little snowman is also a part of this cartridge.

 I had to add some snow to the bottom of my little creation. I tore a piece of white cardstock and used Glossy Accents to add some chunky glitter - it is from Impress Rubber Stamps.

 I used the same image again and just cut it smaller. The card shape is also cut with the Cricut. 

That wonderful, silhouetter couple are stickers from Flower Soft. I also added some snow with some white Flower Soft.

See that card on the cover, the one with the Hero Arts heart? That is mine!!! Always a nice surprise.

 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

A "deer" here and a "deer" there

I get to share a couple cards with some fun deer images on them, fitting for Christmas or Winter.

 

 My first card uses some really neat stamps from Flower Soft.  They released a few different silhouette style stamp sets this year and this deer and the trees are from the Winter Wonderland set. I love that they come in different sizes.

 Along with these great stamps, I added some White Flower Soft to my trees and to the ground below the deer to make it look like a wonderful winter scene.  These stamps are silhouette in style so they could be stamped in just black but it was fun to stamp them with some color.

 I added a snowflake punch to my scene. Some white Flower Soft was added to that too along with some brown ink rubbed on the edges and a pearl for the center.

 This card was so fun and so fast.  I pulled out two rolls of paper tape from Recollections along with some new BasicGrey papers. 

 The label shape was cut with the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  I cut the label shape down the center and added in the two rolls of tape along with the stamped sentiment, a Hero Arts stamp.

And for a couple photos...

 Guess where we went this last weekend??? This is the huge ferris wheel at California Adventures. It is lighted up at night and what is cool is the colors keep changing.

And, this photo is from the special lighting ceremony at the castle.  It is so gorgeous to watch the snowy looking lights come on all over the castle.

 

This is Small World, all decorated for Christmas. If you have never seen what this place looks like during the holidays, put a trip on your "must do" list!!! Extremely stunning.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CardMaker Magazine - Flower Soft blog hop

Hope you are having fun on this great blog hop. You should have arrived here from Krista's blog.

If you are just starting at my blog, you can catch up by starting at the CardMaker blog or the Flower Soft blog.

 The theme is cards with animals so I went straight to my Cricut machine and pulled out my Create a Critter cartridge. 

 I wanted to make sure I used some Flower Soft on my card too, so I added some Ultra Fine green Flower Soft to the leaves on my little vine.  The flowers here are punched.

I also added some of the same Flower Soft to my cut grass pieces.

From here, hop on over to Kimberly's blog for more inspiration and the next step in the hop.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Flowers and Wise Men

No, those two don't go together except in this post!

 I wish you could see this card in real life! It turned out way more exciting then I expected.  I embossed the Hero Arts background stamp with clear ink and clear embossing powder on white cardstock. Next, I took a brownish color of paint and painted over the entire piece.  Before this was completely dry, I carefully wiped off the paint and revealed this great look.

 It looks like porcelain or china since it turned out shiny with the clear embossing powder.

 I used this CAS(E) this sketch for my inspiration.

 Next up, I used some really neat new Flower Soft stamps for this card.  I used a EK Success border punch on this too.

 I love the look of silhouette stamps and this entire set is just that.  For the blue background, I took some Distress Stain and applied it directly to an acrylic stamping block and then touched that inked block to my paper and slightly turned the block which gave me that swirl pattern.

 This card fits in with the Cas-ual Fridays Winter Blues challenge.

And for a fun photo...

We came across this cutie in the parking garage of our Target!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

The Flower Soft Lampost stamp

The Flower Soft team is showing off their Lampost stamp all this week.

 One thing neat about this particular stamp is that it can fit for about any theme.  I wanted mine to look like winter or Christmas so I paired it with some of the poinsettia die cut dimension pieces. 

 The lampost was stamped with white ink and embossed with white on kraft colored cardstock and then very lightly colored with Copic markers. 

The poinsettia pieces just punch out of the card toppers set and some of the petals are lazer cut so that they can be bent forward for a 3-D look.  The sentiment is from one of Flower Soft's new stamp set.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Nativity stamps from Flower Soft

Flower Soft has been releasing a whole bunch of stamp sets recently and the ones the team is featuring this week just might be my favorites.

 The set I used are silhouette in style, the Nativity Set.  I love the look of silhouette stamps and they work perfectly with this theme.  That blue border piece is cut with a My Favorite Things die.

I found a free piece of Christmas sheet music to download and then I printed it out. I distressed it with stamp pads, etc. and then stamped the mother and child stamp and the JOY sentiment stamp directly on the sheet music. 

From here, go on over to Jeanne's blog for more inspiration.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)