Stamp Off Forever Fern

Hello and welcome to our Stamp Off Challenge for today.

Susan, Buffy and I are doing a Forever Fern challenge.

Forever Fern is located on page 110, with the coordinating

Forever Flourishing Dies on page 175.

For this card, I used the Brushed Metallic card stock

on page 45 of the 2020 Sept-Dec Holiday Catalog, placing the

foliage on a background layer of the In Good Taste DSP

on page 148.  It's really shiny in person, but hard to

capture with a camera. 

Thank you for stopping and please enjoy the 

Forever Fern projects created by Buffy and Susan!

 

Way to Goat Birthday

 I call this a confetti card, with strands of material

suspended to add texture and movement.  I love 

Way to Goat on page 105, in part because the eyes or

legs can be engaged with other aspects of the card.

I stamped the goat and sentiment and ran the card stock

layer through the Subtles 3D Embossing Folder.  I colored

the goat with Stampin' Blends.

Then I took a piece of Linen Thread about twice the length

of this panel.  I punched circles from the Plaid Tidings

DSP (on page 57 of the 2020 August-December Mini Catalog),

and Brushed Metallic 12x12 yardstick (page 45).  The 

confetti bobbles definitely make this card more interesting.

Hippo Happiness and Hippo and Friends.

 Floating cards are still the rage.  I like them, but a

floating card can be time consuming to make.  I decided

to try an easy route.  I die cut a number of unicorns

with the Hippo and Friends dies on page 176.  I added one

inked Unicorn and sentiment from the coordinating

Hippo Happiness set on page 49.  

I cut the frame with the Stitched Rectangles Dies (page 183)

and then layered them on to a piece of Plaid Tidings DSP

(page 57) from the Aug-Dec 2020 Mini Catalog.

I love this DSP because the color patterns are delightful.

Flight of Fancy with Word Wishes Dies

 I really enjoy the Flight of Fancy set on page 59 of the

August - December 2020 Holiday catalog because it covers 3

holidays.  That lets me get a lot of milage out of one set.

The sweet images are also delightful to color with 

Stampin' Blends!

I paired Flight of Fancy with the Word Wishes dies on page 183.

This is another very versatile product because the dies

cover most of the major holidays.  These dies work really

well in conjunction with Flight of Fancy.

I used some specialty papers from the Holiday catalog for this card, including Plaid Tidings (page 57) and Balmy Blue Glimmer

paper (page 37).  The Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper

pretty much works with everything!

Magnolia Memory

The Magnolia Memory dies on page 182 allow you to

make multi layer flowers and leaves.  That always comes

in handy, whether or not you use the coordinating 

Morning Magnolia set on page 34.

I often need to remind myself of the In Colors, because my 

cardstock and inks are divided up.  I love putting 

the Pretty Peacock and Rococo Rose together.

 

Forever Fern with Butterfly Wishes

Happy Labor Day!  I hope it is restful for you and your family.

 Forever Ferns (page 110) is one of my favorite new catalog sets.

The foliage is so lovely.    The coordinating Forever Flourishing

Dies (page 175) work extremely well with the set, or can

be used as separate (unstamped) elements.

I ran the background layer through the Brick and Mortar 3D

Embossing Folder on page 184.    The sentiment comes from

Butterfly Wishes on page 16.  It was cut out with a die from

the Stitched So Sweetly Dies on page 179.