Stamp Off Blended Beauty of Friendship

 Happy Stamp Off challenge day!  Today, Susan, Buffy

and me will be doing a project that uses the Stampin' Up!

Blending Brushes, found on page 129 of the catalog.

I have to say that I am in love with these Blending Brushes.

They make it so easy to create shading, without lines.  

In the above project, I used some torn paper, to

blend in the Pear Pizzazz "grass".  Then I used a piece of paper, 

that I ran through a cloud die, to blend in the sky.  I added the

"sun", by placing a post-it in position before I started blending

 the sky.

For the images, I used the Beauty of Friendship set on

page 11 (it also has coordinating dies).  After completing the 

background with the blending brushes, I stamped the tree,

then the leaves and finally some Night of Navy splatter 

in the branches.  I left space for the sentiment, which was also

inked with Night of Navy.

I hope that my card has inspired you to use your Blending Brushes.

Now it's time to click on over to Buffy and Susan's blogs

to see their wonderful projects!! 

Way to Goat on Pattern Party

 Again with some happy paper from the hostess Pattern Party

DSP pack on page 171.  I find myself constantly grabbing this beautiful paper.  It pairs wonderfully well with the 

Way to Goat set on page 64.  When you have such well

coordinating paper, you can create quickly, by just adding

the focal image.  In this example, I cut out the goat and

sentiment with a die from the Hippo and Friends collection

on page 163.  The goat was colored with Stampin' Blends.

Hand-Penned Petals Bundle

 Today, I grabbed my Hand-Penned Petals stamp set (page 105),

with the coordinating Penned Flowers dies (page 159).

You can stamp the flower images, or color them with chalks

or Stampin' Blends.  There are so many possible combinations.

I used the beautiful coordinating Hand-Penned DSP

on page 131, adding two strips to layer the images on top of.

Finally, I added a couple of coordinating Genial Gems.