Hi everyone! Today I’m starting a new Wednesday feature called May I Suggest… I’ll be showing you a card and then giving you a better view of the things I’ve used to make the card, with some additional suggestions as to things that would work well with the selection of product used. I needed a feminine sympathy card for today, so here it is:
The paper I am showcasing on this card is one of my very favorite Basic Grey 6 x 6 pads, called Lily Kate. It has such lovely prints and colors so suitable for spring. I’ve also used one of Flourishes latest releases, Lilac, and my sentiment is from Flourished Words. I used Nestability Dies by Spellbinders to cut and emboss my main image as well as sentiment. My lilacs were colored with Copics, and here are the colors:
As I said above, Lily Kate has been one of my very favorite of the Basic Grey pads, and that’s what I’d like to give you a better look at today. I spread the sheets out so you can see them better and I’ve paired them up with some of the fabulous May Arts ribbons that Flourishes carries. Here’s the 1st photo:
Aren’t these just the most gorgeous prints and colors!!! The ribbons I’ve selected that work well with the Lily Kate colors are the Olive Green Scalloped Edge Satin hanging on top, the White and Ivory Wide Satin, and the Dotted Sheers in Light Blue, Apple Green, Maize and Lavender. Just looking at these makes me want to go and do something with them!!!
And these gorgeous prints and colors finish off the pad. There are 2 sheets of each in the pad, for a total of 36 sheets per pad. Hanging from the top are again, the Olive Green Scalloped Edge Satin, Chocolate Velvet and the Pink Scalloped Edge Satin. The Wide Satins are shown in Pink, Chocolate, Ivory and White. The 1″ wide Sheers are shown in Pink and Chocolate, and the Dotted Sheers are shown again in Light Blue and Maize.
And I can not, in all clear conscience, make ribbon recommendations without showing you my all time favorite ribbons. Yes, black ribbons are a staple in my stamp room — I just could NOT design without them. My theory is simple — when all else fails — add black!!! Or if you’re in a hurry, just add black!!! You can never go wrong with black accents and black ribbon — a fool proof winner, every time!!! The ribbons shown here are the Wide Sheer, Dotted Sheer, Scalloped Edge Satin and Velvet.
I also wanted to recommend these soft and pretty colors in the LuminArte Twinkling H20’s, which are beautiful, shimmery little pots of watercolors. They are sold in 12 packs, and this pack is number 1256. Although I have not used the H20’s on the project shown in this post, this magnolia card shows how just a bit of H20’s added on as an accent after coloring can spruce up an image. Fun little pots of color and they are so easy to use — just like watercoloring with a wet brush when you were a child, only our paints are so much prettier, plus they shimmer!!! The H20’s are hard cakes in these little jars. You need to wet them to paint. You can take a waterbrush (which is a brush filled with water) and dip it into your pot of H20’s, or you can take a little spray bottle and spritz some water into your pot and use a regular paint brush if your prefer. Whatever works for you — just get the hard cake dampened and paint. And you can control the intensity of the color by how much water you have on your brush. Once you load your brush with color, just dab it on a scrap paper first to get off that first “blob” of water so it doesn’t mess up your project, and then paint away. They are SO FUN to play with — GUARANTEED FUN — no matter what your age!!! You can use them to entirely paint your image or you can color it first and then just use the H20’s as a shimmery accent — pretty much anything goes!!! They are new to me and I am still experimenting. The instructions say you can also apply this paint directly to your rubber stamp — which I will be trying later this week — so stayed tuned to see how that turns out - LOL!!! Can’t wait to try!!! Oh, also, it was recommended to me by the manufacturer that once you get your cakes of color wet, that you DO NOT recap the jars, just keep them open so the cake can dry up again.
Now, there is just one more item I’d like to recommend today, and that is the sentiment set called Flourished Words. This is a set of 27 individual words that can be used alone or together to form phrases, all done in a small, elegantly scripted font. It is what I used on the card above. As an example of how versatile this set is, by combining the words, here are some of the options you have for a sympathy sentiment: Sympathy, Our Sympathy, All Our Sympathy, With All Our Sympathy, My Sympathy, All My Sympathy, With All My Sympathy — so you get the idea. And realize, these are only sympathy options — there are TONS of other words in the set so you can create endless sentiments. This is just one of those timeless and classic sets you will use forever and ever once you have it!!!
And this wraps up today’s May I Suggest…
Thank you so much for stopping in and I hope you are all having a wondeful week and are enjoying some warm spring temps — something we are still waiting for!!!
