Bloom by Bloom - Stamp By Stamp Creations

During 2018 I participated in a swap. Every month we had to design a card and mail 13 of them to the organizer of the swap. It was a great way to get new ideas. Unfortunately it was quite time-consuming. I did love to get the cards though. There were some great ideas!

In December most of the swap cards I received used items that were coming in the new 2019 Occasions Catalog. Today’s card is one of those swaps. This card was designed by Brenda Cardinal, the organizer of the swap.

I love Brenda’s card because it is so clean and bright. From the picture it looks like Brenda stamped the flowers on the large piece of cardstock and then stamped the sentiment on a small piece of white cardstock, layered it on the red and adhered it over the flowers. This is NOT what she did. She used the Masking Technique. (It’s Technique Tuesday….of course I wanted to share a technique!)

Brenda actually masked the large piece of Whisper White cardstock before stamping the flowers. She probably took a strip of computer paper (about 1″) and using removable adhesive adhered it to the Whisper White cardstock. She then stamped the flowers making sure to overlap onto the Whisper White carstock. Once she was done stamping the flowers she removed the computer paper and stamped here sentiment in the open white space. To finish off the card she then cut two 1/8″ strips of the red cardstock and adhered them to the edges of the masked area.

Simply beautiful! I can’t wait to recreate this card sometime! Besides the bright, fun colors Brenda used I think I like the way she finished off the masked area with the skinny strips of cardstock.

Here are the products that Brenda used on the card (to the best of my knowledge…)

Stamp Sets: Boom by Bloom (#148820 $17) Incredible Like You (#148708 $17)

Ink Pads: Lovely Lipstick (#147140 $7.50), Daffodil Delight (#147094 $7.50), Balmy Blue (#147105 $7.50) and Night of Navy (#147110 $7.50)

Cardstock: Whisper White (#100730 $9.75) and Lovely Lipstick (#146970 $8.50)

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!

Happy Monday! Are you a person who looks forward to the beginning of a new week or do you dread it? After seeing this bright and cheerful card how can you not at least smile?

Here is another card from my group’s Winter Stamp Camp. Laura K. designed this one. Aren’t these bright flowers fun? Laura made this card with the Bloom by Bloom stamp set. You can make all sorts of different types of flowers with this stamp set.

You can purchase the Bloom by Bloom stamp set by itself or in a bundle. The interesting thing about this bundle is that punches in the bundle don’t actually punch out any of the images in the stamp set. The punch set is called the Bitty Blooms Punch Pack and there are four small punches in the pack. You can see from the image to the left how the punches coordinate with the stamp set but don’t actually fit any of the stamp images.

It’s fun to see how different people see things differently. On Laura’s card she used the large flower image upside down with the small flower image to make her flower. In the Berry Burst card that I made I only used the large flower for my floral image. It’s also fun to see the different colors people choose. I almost always gravitate towards PINK while Laura chose yellow for her flowers.

The Bloom by Bloom stamp set is very versatile since you can basically create any type of flower you’d like! It also coordinates with the Happiness Blooms Memories & More Card Pack and the Happiness Blooms Memories & More Cards & Envelopes. So much COORDINATION! I love it!

Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!