Lots of Lavender-Sale a Bration week

  Lots of Lavender appealed to me right away when I first looked at the Sale a Bration catalog.  But I really have only used it a couple of times.  So many stamps, so little time..... you know how that feels I am sure.  So, I had a lot of fun creating the samples for today.  I made sure to use all the different stamps in the set.  Once I did that I found the set to be quite amazing.

I love to make cards using just one color.  I found a similar sample on Pinterest and decided to try to duplicate it.  

Do you notice the green leaves?  When I first saw the card I thought I would use my Blends to color in the leaves.  Not necessary because there are two stamps in the set to help you fill in the leaves easily.  One stamp is for the leaves on the left side, one for the leaves on the right.

The saying is from a hostess set from the Occasions catalog called Yay You.

Next card is a rerun of a card I featured on my blog for Blends week.  Same stamp but colored with blends.  Such a different look.

If you follow my blog you might recognize this card from Brusho week.  That's what I used on the background, and then colored the stamp in with Blends again.

 Did you know that this cute little garland is part of the Lots of Lavender stamp set?  There are 4 additional stamps that help fill in the large flower, 2 for the leaves since they are directional and one for the two little buds.  

1. When you stamp a stamp that has multiple layers like this one.  First, stamp the darkest layer.

2. Then you can look through the photopolymer stamp to see where to place the next stamp in a lighter color.

Both of the tiny buds are on the same stamp and placed apart so they match up exactly with the larger stamped garland.

This last card was so pretty, I copied it exactly just changed up some of the colors and the saying. I watched a well done video by Nigezza.  Her blog is www.nigezza.blogspot.com.

The open lacy accent piece and the leaves in the background are from the Petal Palette bundle.

Tomorrow, I will share some cards made with the Springtime Foils specialty paper.  It was a part of the second set of Sale a Bration items. Product List

Lots Of Lavender Photopolymer Stamp Set

[147194]

$0.00

Petal Palette Clear-Mount Bundle

[145974]

$62.00

Simple Stripes Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[145648]

$8.50

Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies

[138281]

$27.00

Brusho Crystal Colour

[144101]

$30.00

Stampin' Blends Markers Collection

[147475]

$121.50

Template Thursday-Brusho with Lots of Lavender

  Can you guess which technique I used to create the background of this card?  If you guessed dry to wet, you are correct. 

Stampin'Up! sells 5 Brusho colors.....
   Prussian Blue
   Yellow
   Moss Green
   Brilliant Red
   Gamboge (Looks orange to me)

Some of the colors have flecks of additional colors in them.  Check out the background of this card I posted a couple of weeks ago.

If you look closely at this color, it is green with some flecks of darker green or brown in it.

For the background of today's card I used Prussian Blue and Yellow and  when they mixed together in spots I got a deeper green.  It is great fun to see what happens when you mix colors together.

The stamp set on today's card is another set that is free to you with a $50 purchase.  I stamped the image in Black ink, and then colored it in with our Stampin' Blends. 

So, if you purchase blends, water color paper, and  Brusho, you too would have enough $ to earn the Lots of Lavender stamp set for free. Sound like a great idea, then shop in my store.  Order the supplies that you will pay for first, then add the Sale a Bration stamp set.

Tomorrow, is the last day for my Brusho week.  Stop by and learn how you can actually water color paint with Brusho and create a wonderful background for the Waterfront stamp set.

Product List

Lots Of Lavender Photopolymer Stamp Set

[147194]

$0.00

Brusho Crystal Colour

[144101]

$30.00

Rich Razzleberry Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

[144583]

$4.50

Rich Razzleberry Light Stampin' Blends Marker

[144584]

$4.50

Old Olive Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

[144573]

$4.50

Old Olive Light Stampin' Blends Marker

[144574]

$4.50

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

$5.00

Stampin' Blend techniques-Lots of Lavender

  Do you see two colors on the tiny petals of this flower?  The blends were used to color the flower and there are two shades for each color.

The technique I used for coloring this flower I call light to dark.

1. Color the entire flower using the lighter shade of marker.
2. Use the darker color to add some shading to each petal of the flower.

I used this same technique to color the ribbon and the leaves.

Did you know you can have this stamp set and not pay a penny for it?  This is one of the Sale a Bration items you can get free with a $50 order.

Tomorrow I will share another technique you can use with the Stampin' Blends.