Suzy Plantamura's Creations

The card I’m sharing today uses the Charming Flower Stem Die from way back to the DieCember release. I also used the Dancing Starlets Embossing Folder from the Beautiful Moments release. Here is an image of the die:

Here is my card:

I painted this purple background using Nuvo Shimmer Powders including Cherry Bomb, Lilac Waterfall, and Violet Brocade. I painted a bunch of card backgrounds with my grandson this week using the powders as children LOVE them! I embossed the Dancing Starlights Embossing Folder, cut it down slightly and attached it to the painted background. I stamped a sentiment using the CZ Good Greetings 1 stamp set with Violet PsInk and die-cut it out with the matching dies.

I die-cut two sets of the Charming Flower Stem Dies. I colored them with my new Acrylic Markers. I love how opaque the color. I arranged them on the embossed image and bent the petals upward. I added the sentiment to the bottom with foam tape behind it. I used some sparkling clear sequins around the sentiment and used Rainbow Splash Gem stickers in the center of the flowers.

I hope you are all having a good weekend! I used the Charming Flower Stem Dies from the DieCember release for this card. Thanks so much for visiting! Suzy

Today I made a card with the Fresh Crocus Duo Wafer Dies from the SSS In My Heart release. I also used several products from the Beautiful Moments release. Here is an image of this product:

Here is my card:

I die-cut three sets of the Fresh Crocus Duo dies (includes two flowers) from white cardstock. I applied Pawsitively Saturated Inks to them. I used Trio 33 which includes Clematis, Crocus, and Periwinkle for the flowers. I did the back portion of the flower with the darkest ink and then the bottom of the fronts of the flowers with the middle and the tops of the fronts with the lightest. I used foam applicators as they work best for me. I used Sprout and Fairway from Trio 8 for the leaves with the lighter on the top and the darker on the bottom.

I used the Flower Frame Embossing Folder from the Beautiful Moments release for the background. It has flowers along the edges with a plain oval in the center which was perfect for adhering my crocus to. I use foam dots behind some of the flowers so they were more layered and I only glued the bottoms of my leaves down so they would be on the outside of the flowers. I die-cut two A2 Thin Frame dies and rubbed Trio 33 inks over them. I stamped a sentiment with Crocus PSInk (so applicable since these are crocus flowers!) using the CZ Good Greetings 1 stamp and die set from the Beautiful Moments release. I attached that over the bottom of the flower stems and leaves. I added some sparkling clear sequins around the background.

I hope you like this card made with the Fresh Crocus Duo Dies from the In My Heart release. Have a great day friends! Suzy

I used SO many different products on this card, some from the most recent In my Heart release and some from past releases. I’ll call the main product on it the Sweet Songbird Wafer Die as shown here:

Here is my card:

For the background of this card, I used the Scalloped Arches and Scalloped Arches Frames Dies. I die-cut the Arches from orchid cardstock and then embossed it with the Tiny Flora Embossing Folder (same one I used on yesterday’s card). I then rubbed a white ink pad over it to lighten the flowers. Next, I die-cut the frame from a dark blue cardstock and glued that over it. I had a piece of leftover Gerbera Daisy stamp that I had embossed with white embossing powder and then watercolored. I used the rest of it on a card I posted a couple posts back. I didn’t want to waste this strip, so I attached it to the bottom of this card.

I die-cut the CZ With Love Die from white cardstock and colored the letters with my acrylic paint markers I just bought. I glued the letters over the white background and attached it to the top of the floral strip. I die-cut the Sweet Songbird Die from white cardstock and rubbed PSInks over it in Cookie for the body and then I used a combo of Marine and Cadette for the body and wings. I glued it together and attached it to the top tucked under the sentiment. I added some pink/white twine tied in a bow over the floral piece and some sparkling clear sequins around the sentiment.

I love using leftover tidbits from cards I make so I was really happy to use this painted floral strip. I love this cute little Sweet Songbird Die from the DieCember release. I took me a while to use it! Thanks so much for stopping by! Suzy

Well now that Easter is officially over I’m going to have to switch my cards to general spring! I’m not moving on to summer until I have to. I used a product from the SSS Beautiful Moments release for my card today called the Wildflower Bucket Dies. Here is an image:

Here is my card:

I die-cut all of the images in the Wildflower Bucket Die set using white cardstock. I colored all of the flowers and bucket with Copic Markers. I glued all of the images together. I also die-cut the Hello Sunshine Wafer Die from last year (I think) and colored it with yellow Copic Markers.

I used the Tiny Flora Embossing Folder for the background. I applied Lemonade PSInk around the edges. I glued the bucket over the center and then all of the flowers and laves onto of it. I attached the hello sunshine sentiment over the bottom of the card. I saved one large flower to add over the sentiment. I used some sparkling clear sequins around the sentiment.

I’m enjoying making cards with die sets, especially if I still get to color. I think ink blending is so gorgeous but it just doesn’t give me the same joy! I love this Wildflower Bucket Die set especially for spring cards! Thanks for visiting! Suzy

I made a slimline card today and I love it. I used a lot of products from the In My Heart release including the Honeybell Floral wafer dies and the Garden Fence and Garden Gate Dies. Here are images of both of these products (click on image to take you to the SSS store):

I also used the Whirl Butterfly Dies and the CZ Thanks Mom stamp and die bundle. Here is my card:

I die-cut four sets of the Honeybell Floral Dies. I die-cut the Garden Gate and Garden Fence. And I die-cut the smallest Whirl Butterfly Die. Then I got busy coloring. I used an N2 gray Copic for shadows on the fence. I used some new paint pens I just purchased that I absolutely love. They are Grabie acrylic paint pens – I think a set of 60 with 120 colors were around $49 on Amazon. They have the same brush tips as Copics. I have the Karin Decobrush Markers which are also paint markers, but they dried up so quickly. I’m hoping these last longer. I loved the way they blended on the flowers. And the colors are so bright and pretty! They give you a very opaque matte finish that is a fun alternative to only using Copics when I color! Here is the exact name in case you are interested:
Grabie 120 Colors Dual Tone Brush Tip Acrylic Markers.

I cut a piece of 3.5×8.5″ white cardstock. I rubbed Sprout PSInk to the bottom and Marine PSInk to the top not taking it all the way out to the edges. I stamped a sentiment from the CZ Thanks Mom stamp with Versafine Ink and die-cut it out with the matching dies. I glued the fence and gate on first. Then I arranged the four sets of flower vines over the fence. I cut one of them apart and used the pieces separately to fill in spaces. I glued the sentiment and butterfly to the top. I added some sparkling clear sequins around the fence.

I think the reason I love this card so much is the Honeybell Floral Die has the prettiest flowers and I just love them colored with this bright paint markers! So many good products in the In My Heart release I still haven’t used – especially dies. So be ready for lots of colored die-cuts in the near future. I have one to share tomorrow and then I will take Easter off. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend! Lots of love! xoxo

The card I’m sharing today uses two products from the In My Heart release, the Flourish Butterfly Duo and the Nature In Bloom stamp. I also used the Beautiful Friend die from the Beautiful Moments release and the Classic Leaf Ring Die from the DieCember release. Lots of different products both new and not new in this one! Here is my card:

I stamped the background with the Nature In Bloom stamp using black ink. I love this stamp for card backgrounds. I die-cut the Beautiful Friend Die and attached white letters to a fuchsia background. I think I picked a color that was toooooo bright and dark so I would change that after seeing the photograph of this card. I attached that to the bottom of the background.

I die-cut the three Flourish Butterfly Dies and the Classic Leaf Ring Die using white cardstock. I die-cut the additional leaf that comes with the Leaf Ring Die six times so I could bulk up my wreath. I rubbed Seafoam and Surf PSInk over these six pieces and the bottom of my butterfly. I rubbed Carnation PSInk to the top of my butterfly and the wreath ring. I glued the wreath down first and then the 6 individual pieces over it. I added the butterfly to the top. I used some 3mm sparkling clear sequins around the wreath. Last, I rubbed some of the Carnation Ink around the outside edges of the card as an after thought!

This card is such a mix of products that I had in my “to use” basket. I kind of like it, but that bright paper behind the greeting is really bugging me haha. Sometimes I love my cards and sometimes I don’t so I’m ok with that. I hope you have a great day today and thanks so much for visiting. And Lori, I love you. The comments you leave me make me so happy. See you at Create soon ahahahaha!!!! suzy

My card today uses the Friend Like You stamp set from the Beautiful Moments release. This set is 3×4″ and comes with a set of dies as a bundle as shown here:

Here is my card:

I stamped the images in the Friend Like You stamp set, stamping 5 of the flowers and one of the sentiments with black ink. I used the matching dies to cut them out. I colored them in with Copic Markers. For sentiments I always use Versafine Ink because it is so stark black.

I die-cut one of the A2 Crimped Rectangle Dies to use for my little scene. I rubbed some Lemonade Ink in the center of it and glued all of my colored images down. I made the background using the new Petal Lattice Stencil rubbing Guava and Lemonade PSInk over it. I glued the rectangle over it to finish the card.

This was such an easy card to make and the little Friend Like You bundle is so very cute. See you back tomorrow! Thanks for visiting, Suzy

I did some watercoloring today using the Gerbera Daisy Background Stamp from the SSS In My Heart release. Here is an image of the stamp:

Here is my card which ended up being a bit bigger than A2. The stamped portion is 4.25×5.5″ so the entire card is more like 4.5×5.75″.

I embossed the Gerbera Daisy stamp using white embossing paper on Tim Holtz watercolor paper. This is the same paper my Suzy’s watercolor cards were always printed on. BTW I’ll be painting them with anyone that is at Create again this year which I’m looking forward to! They are going to sell 4 sets at the show that had been expired that we will be painting! Back to this card! I used my Karin Brush Markers for this card as they give me such vibrant colors! I like using them with embossed images because they are impossible to keep in the lines otherwise (at least for me!). I used a water brush for this piece and added water to the image first. Then I touched the tip of the marker with the water brush to drop in color on the image. And then I added the pen directly to the paper while it was still damp to darker some areas. If it was too dark I just used the paintbrush to soften it a bit.

I painted the 6×6″ stamp in full so I didn’t want to cut it down. I tried making a card with it full size and wasn’t feeling it. So i cut it down, but not enough to matte it twice. My cut piece is 4.25×5.5″ and then matted on white cardstock and then a bigger piece of pink cardstock. I created a white card base for this weird size haha. But same concept works if you make the full thing A2 size (if envelopes matter to you!). I used a XL Basics EZ Cut Sentiment Label and an XL EZ Cut Rounded Rectangles Dies for the sentiment. I added two colors of twine to the left side and some sparkling clear sequins around the sentiment.

There you have it – another watercolored card using Karin Brushmarkers over an embossed 6×6″ stamp. This Gerbera Daisy BG stamp looks so pretty embossed in white. I hope you liked it! Thanks for visiting, Suzy

My card I’m shaking today uses the SSS Everlasting Flowers Embossing Folder from the In My Heart release. Here is an image of it (click on it to link to the SSS store):

I wanted to color it, but I felt like it might be too repetitive with this design, so I did something different… Here is my card:

I embossed the Everlasting Flowers Embossing Folder using white cardstock. I turned it over and colored the inside of the flowers and leaves with Copics. I used 3 colors of pink and two colors of green but I didn’t do any shading. I kept it very basic. I then butted a Versafine black ipad over it (scary) until most of the flat part was black. I left a few open white areas just for contrast.

I absolutely loved the way this turned out (black out effect I think it’s called). I splattered white paint over it. I stamped a sentiment from the CZ Thanks Mom stamp and die bundle using black ik and attached that to the bottom of the card. I added some black/white twine to the side wrapped twice and tied into a bow and some sparkling clear sequins around the sentiment.

I’m going to have to use this technique more often as I made this card in under an hour! You can color as messy as you want because you are rubbing ink all over all your mistakes! How many times have I colored the background black with a Copic to cover my coloring mistakes – so many haha. And that takes A LOT longer to do. I love this Everlasting Flowers EF from the In My Heart release – it is so pretty. Thanks for visiting today! Suzy

I finally got a chance to color the beautiful Blooming Wreath Embossing Folder that was part of the SSS In My Heart release. Here is an image of it:

And here is my card:

I embossed the Blooming Wreath EF using white cardstock. I then colored all of the flowers with bright Copic markers. I used a white Uniball gel pen in the center of the flowers after I colored them yellow so they would pop more. This folder was really fun to color!

I didn’t want to cut down my A2 sized white cardstock, so I mounted it on a purple card base which makes it 4.5″ x 5.75″. I guess I’ll give it to someone without an envelope this time! I used the CZ Thank You Dies for the sentiment. I colored them with the same purple I had used to color some of the flowers using two colors blending in the center. I glued them on the bottom of my card. I added some Dusk blue sequins around the sentiment.

Thank you for visiting today! I can’t believe I am blogging all 7 days this week and it’s not STAMPtember yet! Suzy