Stampin Up Rose Wonder - just right for a Ring of Roses

Stampin' Up! Rose Wonder
It's time for a challenge at Moving Along with the Times.  Our theme this month is Ring 'o Roses and I've used the Stampin Set Rose Wonder with co-ordinating Rose Garden thin lets to make my card.

I've cut flowers from the smallest die in the set and added half inch circles to the reverse in pink pirouette.  Each flower is then attached to a ring of silver thread to make my ring o' roses!

To create the simple background I made a stencil by punching different sized circles in a piece of thin window sheet and then added whisper white craft ink through the stencil using a Stampin' Up! sponge across the diagonal of a piece of pink pirouette card stock.  I also used one of the retired stencils from the Christmas catalogue to add some blushing brides dots.  A handful of rhinestones to give that bit of bling I so love and my layers are mounted onto a blushing bride card base.  I used the Project Life corner rounder to just soften the right hand bottom corners.   The white dots are done in a Bokeh style way with no other colour beneath just the card stock.  It's quite effective, but very simple to do.

Please do pop over to MAWTT to join our challenge and see all the DT cards and projects for more inspiration.

Hugs Zx

Christmas Card Club - Stampin Up Holly Berry Festive Foliage

Another fortnight another Christmas Card Club challenge, but I've been really organised this week and have 3 to share with you.  Rachel set the challenge of Festive Foliage, all my cards use the Stampin' Up! retired set Holly Berry Happiness, but if you like Holly the punch is still available.  Above I've used the fabulous Stitched Shape dies and the Layering Circles which includes some scallop edged circles to create a focal point.  I used the 3 step stamping set to create the image and added a separately stamped bow which you can punch out easily.  Love the metallic enamel shapes for my bit of bling.  Do you ever stamp your envelopes too?

This card uses the same holly set with another sentiment from Tin of Tags set.  I've heat embossed the image with copper embossing powder and added night of navy holly berries.  A simple matting layer onto a base card also in night of navy card stock. 

A vintage version of card number 2 with the outline of the holly again embossed before I stamped in the leaf colour and berries.  A little smudging with a sponge around the edge of my base and matting layer of crumb cake with the same ink to soften the edges.  

A veritable trio of wreaths sharing plenty of festive foliage.

Have a great week.  Zx