I've been featued in the Bitter Sweet Zine Winter issue!!!

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Mom's Flowers

Hello there...today is preview day one for YNS...Your Next Stamp...and my very first post with them as guest designer! I know...I'm pretty excited myself!





First off, they are having a bog sale so be sure to check out their website HERE!



April 5 - 15 2010 sale info...
20% off all stamps - fill your cart with stamps only and enter the code YNSAPRIL during the checkout process
OR
10% off your entire order - want more than just stamps today??? Fill your cart with anything from the store and enter the code APRIL2010 during the checkout process

Now for my first card!!!


...the stamp sets I used is Garden Greetings and I think the flowers in this set are absolutely stunning! I used some Lemonde DP by Basic Grey and a very simple layout to showcase the sheer beauty of this stamp! I paper pieced it...and did some watercoloring using colored pencils and my blender pens.

Here is a close-up so you can see the dimention...I love love love how this card came out and my Mom is goignt o absolutely LOVE it...her birthday is coming up at the end of the month and I think she will thuroughly enjoy this card...she a major flower person and tulips just happen to be one of her FAV flowers...YEAHHH!!! So can you see it? Do you see the dimention? I stamped thr tupil on DP and then I stamped it again and only cut out certain sections and then proped them up on dimentions...for the stem I actually colored the stem and one leaf...then paper pieced one flat and one on dimentionals as well...I loveeeee it!

Supplies:

Stamps: Garden Greetings from Your Next Stamp

Ink: Stazon Black

Paper: Baja Breeze, white by PTI, lemonde designer paper by Basic Grey

Accessories:Top note die, big shot, designer scallop edge, pearls



Don't forget to stop on over to the "Your Next Stamp" blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and leave a comment for the next 3 days to be entered for a chance to win a YUMMY prize pack!!


Happy Stampin'

Silvia

7 comments:

Angelwood said...

Beautiful card! Love how you paper pieced the tulip. Lovely layering! hugs, Angela

Karen (Your Next Stamp) said...

I love this Silvia! Wonderful idea to paper piece the tulip! Your Mom will love it!
So happy to have you joining us this month! YAY
Hugs
Karen

Chrisd said...

Just loved the pieced Tulip,it is one of my favorite flowers1

cabio's craft corner said...

Lovely paper piecing Silvia and your card looks so delightful.
BTW, welcome to YNS :o)
Hugs,
Cabio

Kerri said...

This is just beautiful, Silvia! I love the paper piecing and dimension! Gorgeous :)

scrapsnsuch@gmail.com said...

So nice - I love the paper piecing, great PP and you created such dimension, not to mention that tulips are my fave.

Anonymous said...

I really like the paper piecing you did with this tullip!