Blooming Lovely Sunny Days

The sun is shining and Summer is here!!! This is my favourite time of year!  I am sure the over-zealous use of the '!'s is a clue. There is nothing that seems so bad when the sun is shining. Maybe I am excited as it is soon the summer holidays from school and as I am so lucky to have a job that is term-time only I will soon be free to enjoy the sunshine (and crafting??) again soon!

Some of you may know already, but I am no longer a demonstrator for Stampin' Up! as I have taken a break from it for a while. Whilst I am sad to give up regular crafting meet ups with all of you, my lovely Crafty Ink Buds, I need to take some time away to find what I enjoy most again.  That said, here I am, and I hope to be able to continue to blog to share my creations.

I have finally managed to get some time in the craft room and revive my passion.  Well, needs must as July is a big birthday month in the family with myself, my sister and my mum all with birthdays this month, not to mention several friends. I have needed a production line of cards and have had to put together cards in multiples just to keep up with demand. What better stamp set to use than the Flower Patch set and it's matching Flower Fair dies - perfect summery blooms.  I love it!!! 

I have been stamping and cutting multiple blooms and then playing around with ideas on how to place them in various designs. One plus of not being a demo is I can use retired product without excuse so you may see retired items here more than before, but that said I still have plenty of current product and I am sure I am going to be a loyal customer for some time longer.

The base card for these two cards are a mix of the Kraft cardstock and also I have snuck in some use of leftover Christmas cardstock which has the Kraft background and then an oval flower ring design on it. 

I just stocked up on the Kraft paper rolls from Christmas in the same design which are on the Clearance rack - yes, I am already stocking up on Christmas wrap!! They are such a bargain, I couldn't resist and they are going to look great with coloured ribbon under the tree this year. Now, let's not get too carried away with this talk of Christmas, this is supposed to be all about a celebration of Summer.

I love how this card turned out, The flowers sit perfectly round the circles and a few glitzy diamonds....I mean rhinestones (well a girl can dream). There is the old Newspaper print DSP on this card, but there is still a Typeset paper in the current catalogue. The other colours are Pink Pirouette and Strawberry Slush (the old In Colours 2013-2015 still a firm favourite).  I think the leaf design looks great in Pear Pizazz and Old Olive too.

For the second card I used the Love Hearts emboss folder (also retired).  Actually there is a lot more retired product on these than I remembered! I am sure you all have retired paper and product you are hoarding too so it is good practise for me to start using some of it now that I can.

This one was a very Pink display, not usually my favoured colours, but I was inspired by some samples I had seen online.  I have some more examples of my own to show you as this crafting session and a few sessions enjoying the garden inspired me to try the flowers in other colours too. Do come back and take another look next time for some more colourful blooms!

Suzanne

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I would love to hear your comments or if you prefer you can drop me an email at craftyinkbuds@sky.com.

Festive Designer Kraft Paper Rolls	Kraft 12" X 12" Cardstock	Pink Pirouette A4 Cardstock	Pink Pirouette Classic Stampin' Pad	Flower Patch Photopolymer Bundle
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad	Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper	Linen Thread	Rhinestone Basic Jewels