Watercolour flowers in turquoise and pink

I can't believe we have passed midsummer. The longest day of the year has gone and now it's inevitably getting darker again. But hopefully not colder! This must have been the coldest start of the summer in ages, makes you wish for a bit of that global warming you keep hearing so much about. I am currently typing up this post in my Sis' living room, under not one but two blankets! It's something about these old townhouses, they never seem to warm up. But tomorrow we are jetting off to a somewhat different climate as it seems to be 28 degrees in Cyprus at the moment! I can't wait to be able to walk around wearing nothing but a summer dress. And of course bathe in SPF50 and probably still get sunburn... I have a few posts scheduled for when I'm away but it will be quite quiet overe here for the next week or so. I hope my stamps don't feel horribly abandoned and depressed in the meantime.

Today's card is yet another chance to play with my awesome new STAMPlorations goodies. The card is inspired by the colour challenge over at Color Throwdown as well as the new sketch over at CAS(E) This Sketch. I'm also linking up over at the STAMPlorations Anything Goes challenge.

 

Card: white 300 gsm card, scraps of Stampin' Up Basic Grey, Melon Mambo and Tempting Turquoise card

Stamps: STAMPlorations Bloom Sketches, Stampin' Up Gorgeous Grunge

Ink: Tsukineko Staz-on Jet Black, Stampin' Up Basic Grey, Melon Mambo and Tempting Turquoise

Other: Lawn Fawn Scripty Congrats die

 

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Thank you cards with Mixed Bunch

Browsing through some old card photos I realised I never blogged about these wee little ones. In fact, I found quite a lot of cards I didn't even remember making! So I will try to get around to blogging about them at some point. This whole card thing is getting out of hand, I love making them but I hardly send any cards. So I have dozens and dozens... I keep thinking I should try to sell them, not so much to make money but mostly just to cover my expenses and most of all, just get rid of them!

These little colourful monochrome cards were created because my Mum needed a bunch of thank you cards (hence Kiitos - thank you in Finnish). I didn't want to make anything too complicated as I needed to make ten of them. I thought something bright and colourful is always appreciated. Stamping and punching the flowers was a quick job, as was stamping and fussy cutting the Chalk talk tags (this was back in the day before I had bought the dies). The most time consuming part was stamping the sentence using alphabet stamps as I don't have a Finnish thank you stamp. I bling-ed it up with a bit of ice stickles around the edges of the sentiments as well as in the middle of the flowers and finished off with a small adhesive gem.

Cardstock: Stampin' Up Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry and Tempting Turquoise, Hobbycraft white 160 gsm cardstock
Inks: Stampin' Up Melon Mambo, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry and Tempting Turquoise
Stamps: Stampin' Up Chalk Talk and Mixed Bunch, Hobbycraft Clear Stamps Typewriter Alphabet
Other: Stampin' Up Blossom Punch, Rangers Ice Stickles glitter glue, Stampin' Up adhesive gems