Today I will showing some fun ways to use our new Everything's Rosy stamps & dies, Everyday Greetings stamps and two new mix and match Frilly Frames Dies. :)
Card No. 1: Up first is a card featuring all three products in a soft and pretty Sympathy card. The sentiments in this new scripty set come with four phrases to compliment the beautiful roses in our newest layering set. Our Everything's Rosy stamps creates two Roses, one trio of leaves and a small baby's breath type flower.
To frame my roses, I turned to our new Frilly Frames Polka Dot Dies. These dies have two separate pieces so you can cut a scalloped mat, a polka-dot background or both at the same time. For this background, I actually took my X-acto knife and cut a window around the stitching so that I could add my polka-dot background behind it as a separate piece for extra dimension. I then adhered them to a piece of pink gingham paper from our new Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Pack.
Card No. 2: For my next card I paired the roses with a new leafy frame that will be featured more on Thursday. ;) I inked up my background with a little tumbled glass distress ink and sprinkled some Crystal Clear sequins by Studio Katia. They are such a pretty iridescent color that pick up both the blues and pinks in person. I finished off my card with the birthday sentiment from our new Everyday Greetings stamps.
Card No. 3: Up next I switched up my colors for the Roses and put a Valentine's Day spin on them, pairing them with the Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder shared yesterday. For my sentiment I heat embossed it with opaque white powder using a sentiment from our Happy Thoughts stamps. I completed my card with a couple of small drops from Studio Katia's Clear Drop Mix 2--I love how they look like beautiful dew drops which feels so perfect for roses!
Card No. 4: For this card I took the inner background from our new Frilly Frames Lattice Dies and positioned it vertically on my horizontal card panel, first running it through my die-cuttting machine aligned on the left side. I then aligned it on the right side feeling the grooves of my first cut before running it through my machine a second time for a full coverage background. I then framed the lattice using our Comic Strip Everyday dies (cutting out the inside frames to leave just the outside stitched border).
I cut apart the words "thank you" from our new Everyday Greetings stamps so that I could stack them to fit in the space I had and then framed them with a stitched scalloped circle from our Fancy Frames Circle dies. This card design looks fabulous with any rose color so I had a hard time deciding which one to use, but in the end I went with yellow roses which I think are a beautiful compliment.
Card No. 5: Up next is another soft and sweet card mixing a couple different colored roses with the jar from our Vintage Jars Stamps and dies and the stems from our Daffodil Dreams stamps. To create the look of water in my jar, I used the little oval ring that comes with the jar stamps and then created a mask from a post-it note to ink in the "water" with tumbled glass distress ink.
For my background, I used both dies from the Frilly Frames Lattice dies at the same time to create a single layer mat with both the scalloped edge and lattice cutouts. I then tucked in a piece of white cardstock below which I had inked up with some more tumbled glass distress ink. I completed my card by mounting them onto a piece of patterned paper from our new Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Pack and sprinkled on some of my favorite Studio Katia Crystal Clear Mini Sequins. My sentiment from the Everything's Rose set was stamped onto a piece of coordinating striped paper from our new Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper and popped up with a piece of foam tape.
Card No. 6: For my last card of the day, I used a similar color scheme as I did for my Valentine's Day card, this time making a wedding card using another sentiment from the Everyday Greetings stamps. This time I inked up the water in my jar using Colorbox Sky Ink and used our new Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder to add some extra texture to my background and continue the love theme.
For the black and white striped pattern I used our Background Basics stamps together with my favorite VersaMark Black Onyx ink. To get really full coverage, I stamped it repeatedly using a stamp positioning tool and then made sure to zap it pretty good with my heat gun so my fingers wouldn't smudge it.
Here's a closer look at the two new Frilly Frames dies mix and match sets. The inner patterns of each are separate making it possible to either use just the outer frame as a scalloped mat sized 4" x 5.25", use just the inner portion as a background or mix the two like shown here. These look awesome when paired with our Fancy Frames Rectangle dies and have so many possibilities! I found myself turning to them over and over for my cards this week. ;)
To help you line up our Everything's Rosy stamps like a pro I've created a special layering guide (you can click on the photo below to view it larger). For all the Roses I started by stamping them with the darkest ink color, working towards the lightest. The black outline indicates where that layer touches the previously stamped layer. :)
I will note that this particular set requires 4 to 5 ink colors for each rose and 3 inks for the leaves so the only downside is it requires a decent stash of inks for best results (in addition to a stamp positioning tool).
I frequently am asked which ink colors I used for my layered images. While I think there are so many great options out there, these are the colors I used today for my stamped images (in the ordered shared from darkest to lightest)...
Darkest Pink Roses
Colorbox Gooseberry
Colorbox Dark Cherry
Colorbox Very Berry
Versafine Charming Pink
Colorbox Candy
Medium Pink Roses
Colorbox Dark Cherry
Simon Says Stamps Doll Pink
Hero Arts Ultra Pink
MFT Cotton Candy
Hero Arts Soft Pink
Light Pink Roses
Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz
Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Flower
Ranger Pink Gumball
MFT Cotton Candy
Hero Arts Soft Pink
Red Roses
Colorbox Cranberry
Colorbox Candy Red
Stampin' Up Watermelon Wonder
Simon Says Stamps Hot Lips
Lawn Fawn Bubblegum
Yellow Roses
Stampin' Up Crushed Curry
Colorbox Dandelion
Colorbox Banana
Versafine Cheerful
Colorbox Lemonade
Light Green Leaves
Colorbox Artichoke
Colorbox Tree Frog
Colorbox Kiwi
Dark Green Leaves
Colorbox Golf Course
Colorbox Green Apple
Colorbox Grasshopper
Mason Jar
Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass
Simon Says Stamp Maliblue
2021 UPDATE: While many of the colors used for this post have now retired after Colorbox went out of business, you can find my newest ink color recommendations for red flowers HERE, pink flowers HERE and for yellows I adore the set of PinkFresh Studio inks HERE.
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Here's a closer look at the new Everything's Rosy stamps & coordinating dies, Everyday Greetings 3x4 Stamps and the two new mix and match Frilly Frames used today (available for purchase on Friday, January 4th).
 Daffodil Dreams Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Vintage Jar Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Vintage Jar Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Fancy Frames-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Background Basics Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Clear Drops Mix 2 Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Crystal Clear Mini Sequins Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Crystal Clear Confetti Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Quilted Hearts Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Botanical Backdrop Die Shop at: Sunny Studio |
