Urban Chic White Rose

I have really been enjoying working with the Urban Oasis Designer Series Paper and the Fifth Avenue Floral set is the perfect companion for creations with a contemporary flair. This is a super simple card that you can create in no time.

First emboss the rose from Fifth Avenue Floral using Basic Black Craft Ink and clear embossing powder and cut it out. Then emboss the verse on a 3.25" x 4.25" piece of the floral DSP using the same method and attach it to the right side of the card. Emboss the large dots on a 2.25" x 4.25" piece of Whisper White with the Stampin' Up! Texturz plate and attach to the left side of the card. Attach a 1/2" wide strip of Kiwi Kiss DSP as shown and mount the rose over top using dimensionals. All done!

Happy Stamping!

Brycia

Christmas with Nursery Necessities

This is the last card from my class featuring Nursery Necessities. It is a super simple card to create since Stampin' Up! carries a star punch that is the perfect size for the large star!

I used Riding Hood Red and Kiwi Kiss as my red and green for this one, both ink and card stock. The ribbon is the striped Riding Hood Red ribbon, and the "Happy Holidays" verse is from Many Merry Messages.

Happy Stamping!
Brycia

Embrace Life in Kraft

Here's a super simple card I did months ago after seeing some cool cards at Target. The Target cards were all square kraft cards with a line image (some flowers, one martini glass, I forget what else), with some bright glitter in just a small area. I'd never think of putting glitter with kraft - two different looks to me... but I liked the cards. Okay, so my version didn't end up with bright glitter, but there is a little. I just love the simplicity of black line art on the Kraft card stock.

My card is 4 1/2" square, using Embrace Life and Fundamental Phrases stamp set. I used the word window punch to punch out the phrase and pop it up on Dimensionals after I stamped one "Hi There" upside down! OOPS!!! I added the brads to the verse to fill up the space and liked it better than the original non-punched and popped version, so I did it to all the cards that I made that day. Mistakes often turn out for the better, just go with it! Oh, the images are stamped in black craft and embossed with clear powder, and there is a little Dazzling Diamonds glitter on the stamens.

Happy Stamping!

Brycia

Inspired by Nature from the Convention

This was one of the cards we did at this year's convention.

The card is a 3"x6" card of Chocolate Chip with Kiwi Kiss as the front panel and a Large Oval punched from Very Vanilla. The grass from Inspired by Nature was stamped with Versamark and then the flowers stamped in Chocolate Chip over that. The verse is also stamped in Chocolate Chip. Chocolate Chip Taffeta ribbon is attached through a hole punched in the oval.

Happy Stamping!
Brycia

Embrace Life with Ruby Red

While doing some "housecleaning" on my computer this afternoon I found this card I did awhile ago and never posted. It is a super simple card, but I thought I'd post it anyway since sometimes you need that... In fact, I think I'll start a "Super Simple" label, so when you are looking for an idea that is really quick you can click on that link on the right.

Anyway, this is a top fold 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" card made with textured Ruby Red card stock. I think textured card stock is a great option when you are trying to make a decent looking card quickly. I cut a 1" wide strip of Basic Black and "embossed" dots on it using the Crop-a-dile. The image was stamped on watercolor paper (another great option for the simple but classy card) with black Staz-On and colored using the Watercolor Wonder Crayons. The watercolor paper is mounted on the card using Dimensionals. A bit of Always Artichoke ribbon cinches the stem.

Happy Stamping!

Brycia

Wow Flowers with Circle Punches

Okay, I don't know what came over me there with that last post... Those who know me probably think that I was abducted by aliens from Planet Laura Ashley. I mean, I like the elegant look, but I usually don't do things that feminine lately. So, on the way to the Post Office I came up with another idea for Kristina's Color Inspiration. I thought it would be fun to do another card that had a totally different look. Here it is:

Okay, this is a very simple card, but simple is good sometimes, right? I used Chocolate Chip Textured card stock for the card, Chocolate Chip Classic ink, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery, and Very Vanilla card stock, a circle Fire Brad, and Chocolate Chip Double-Stitched Grograin Ribbon. I used both the 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches for the circles.

Let me know which you like better of these two in the comments: Wow Flowers or Dreams Du Jour if you'd like.