My Inky Friends All Occasions Hop

Welcome to a new edition of the Inky Friends blog hop. This week we are featuring items from the recently released 2019 Occasions catalog. The sign ups for this hop were a couple months ago, and I immediately called dibs on the Climbing Roses bundle!

First of all, because I love roses, and the images and sentiments are so sweet. But the other HUGE draw was the Rose Trellis Thinlits. I mean look at them! The trellis is beautiful (and can be used with other stamp sets), the pierced label is gorgeous, and there's even a die for the tiny single rose. What's not to love?!

The larger group of roses was heat embossed on Shimmery White cardstock and then water colored with an Aqua Painter using Calypso Coral and Mossy Meadow.

After cutting the Basic Gray background with a Rectangle Stitched die, the greeting was heat embossed.  The trellis and colored roses were cut with their respective dies, and the whole thing was assembled, saving the roses to be popped up on dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by! Up next is Shelley over at Miss Mad Stamper, who is featuring Humming Along, another fave of mine.

Or, if you're traveling the opposite direction, the previous stop was Sara's blog, Lily's Ink Pad, where she is featuring the awesome masculine set, Geared Up Garage!

Climbing Roses T.O.Y. (Thinking of You)

Ahhhhh, roses! I sure do love them, especially the really fragrant old roses. Unfortunately, I have found them to be more trouble than they are worth, as far as growing them. Since I'm a somewhat lazy relaxed gardener, pests, diseases, and pruning made me cross them off my easy-to-grow plant list. And it's not like they can be preserved and put in the pantry, either, making them worth the effort. Guess I'll put my energy into less finicky flowers (Zinnias! Cosmos! Sunflowers!) and admire the stamped images instead.

Naturally, Climbing Roses is one of my favorite new bundles, not only because the image is beautiful and fun to color, but the coordinating dies are to die for! (Heh, see what I did there?) The trellis is awesome all by itself, and I made it even awesomer by painting it with Frost White Shimmer Paint, so it really stands out on the white card base.

And the dotted label is gorgeous, as well. I didn't know what to call it....holey, holey dots, dotted, pierced? Whatever it's called, it's so pretty! It measures 1-1/2" x 2-1/4" between the holes, so there is plenty of room for greetings or images.

This is a Cling Mount stamp set so it's red rubber, which means it's good for the marker to stamp technique. I used Basic Black and Lovely Lipstick Stampin' Write Markers on the greeting, and the image was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento so I could color with Stampin' Blends. The dies include cutouts for the flowers, but I did fussy cut an extra rose to pop up on dimensionals.

Now, I have to admit, the sentiment inside is not from Stampin' Up! but it was so funny, and so appropriate for me and my stamping friends that I HAD to get it. Lookie:

Isn't that just hilarious?! Funny how that happens ALL. THE. TIME.

 

Product List

Climbing Roses Cling Bundle

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Lovely Lipstick Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

Cherry Cobbler Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker

2017-2019 In Color Stampin' Write Markers

Frost White Shimmer Paint

Big Shot

Stampin' Dimensionals