Quiet Meadow meets Countryside Inn

For my next card using the Countryside Inn papers (aren't they just beautiful?) I made a fancy fold card, folding back the top layer of the cardstock and adding strips from the designer papers.  

Using thick cardstock, I cut three different flowers from the Meadow cut outs.  I sponged them using Boho Blue, Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy inks to give them some different shades of color.  I got the idea for this from Gail Ellis.  

For two of the cards, I used the little tag from the Meadow dies and stamped the Love saying from the Quiet Meadow stamp set.  For the third card, I used a With Sympathy saying from an older set that fit perfectly into the saying frame from the Meadow dies.  

I made some Post-It-Note holders with the left-over paper from the Countryside Inn and used the Courage & Faith stamp set for the sayings and Petal Park flowers and punch set for the flowers.  

I put them on a small tray and let my stampers each choose one for their desk.  Cute, right?  

If you'd like to order this beautiful paper for your crafting projects, click on the link here to get to Stampin' Up to purchase.  

 

Quiet Meadow Cards

I like to buy stamp sets that come with dies that can be used for all sorts of things.  This stamp set, Quiet Meadow and its coordinating dies, Meadow Dies, comes with so many different shaped cut outs.  You can use the dies in this set for backgrounds on a variety of cards, especially flower cards.  There are large dies, fern dies, tall dies, flower dies, butterfly dies and more.  It's really one of the best sets to use.

I love the simplicity and soft colors in this card.  I got the idea from Gina Connor.  It's hard to see, but I embossed the white piece with the Subtle folder.  The butterflies are cut in both cardstock and vellum on the first card to give it a fluttery look.  

On the first card, I put gold ribbons and champagne rhinestones and on the second card, I used silver twine and silver rhinestones.  The first card has dimensionals under the leaf cut out and the second card has them under the gray flower.

For this next card, I wanted to do something simple.  You can see that I cut out the design and used that as the focal point.  I used paper from the Fine Art Floral designer package for the background.  The vertical stamp is from the Create With Flowers set in last year's catalog.  

This is the same card, only using a softer color from the designer pack.  I like the darker one better; it gives the card more contrast and really highlights the cut out.  The idea came from Viv's Visuals on Pinterest.  

For this card, I demonstrated a new embossing technique.  Run your cardstock through an embossing folder and rub it every so gently with the Versamark pad.  Pour on your powders and heat it until they melt.  I used gold embossing powders on my card and I love the vintage look that it gives the card!  This card was a big hit in my stamping class.

I got the idea from Kayla McCreadie.  I can't wait to try this idea on other cards, too.  The cut out flowers are cut from white and gold vellum, giving the card a soft look.  

After I made the card, I thought that it needed vanilla cardstock instead of the white. I softened the edges of the scalloped piece using a blending brush and some gold metallic Encore ink that I had from years ago.

And lastly, I made this sparkly card using copper foil paper for the accent layer and for the small flower cut outs.  The large flower cut out is sparkly rose-colored foil paper that I had from a few years ago.  I stamped the background of the rectangle with the script stamp from Very Versailles.  Then I added some of the script from Quiet Meadow to fill it in.  I embossed the flowers using copper embossing powders.

After I made the card, I thought this one would also look nicer in the vanilla cardstock.  Then I found some shiny papers from Love You Always designer paper pack.  The cards are much prettier in person.  The heat embossing and the foil papers give the cards a wonderful look.  I got this idea from Claire Daly.  

I loved using this set of wonderful dies.  I will be making more things with them, for sure.  Which card did you like the best?  They are all different techniques using the same stamp set and dies.