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New digi stamps plus a new digi freebie

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Happy Friday everyone!

Oh my what a long post – I’m apologizing in advance :)

A few months ago, I began offering free digital stamps in the Paper Garden Projects store.  I like to draw and thought maybe I’d offer a few of the drawings as digi’s in case they might be useful to someone.  Since then I learned that offering the digis is costing the store a bit and if I want to keep offering freebies I will have to upgrade my server space in order to improve the download process.  So….. I decided to try a mix of free and “for sale” digis to try to offset the cost. 

This peony image is part of my first “for sale” set.  Peonies are my favorite flowers.  I just love them – all kinds.  I decided to try my hand at drawing both a herbaceous and a woody tree peony (from my yard).  In the end I came up with this set of images:

 

For my sample card, I printed the full peony on Neenah Classic Crest cardstock using my HP printer.  I colored the image with Copics.   (with this cardstock, I’ve also been successful Copic coloring with Epson and Brother printers using the cheapo generic ink).   The original flower was white – but I decided I wanted a pink peony.  Here are the colors I used.

 

My card layout is this week’s sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers.  For the pink background, I stamped the Quilt Cover-a-card background stamp in Cloud White. ( I used the new Mega Mount stamp block- I LOVE that thing).  The kraft layer is Cuttlebugged in Herringbone.

You can get the Peony digital set here.   The digital downloads contain the images in transparent background PNG files and as high resolution JPG files.  I’ve also included a colored sample or two for each set.   

If you would like a little more information on downloading and using the digi stamps, you can download a PDF here.  There are quite a few freebies in the store to try out.  If you have any trouble downloading – just let us know and we’ll make sure you get your images (we’re working on it!!).

Speaking of freebies, I did add another freebie.   ;)

 It is a group of tulips that I took a picture of at Longwood Gardens.  Here is the picture: 

The Tulip stamp set has one image and a sentiment.  Here is a sample of the image colored.  I changed them to purple :)

The tulip image is printed and colored with Copics.  Here are the colors I used:

The background paper is from the Basic Grey Koshi paper pad.  The sentiment is from the Peony digital set.  I used the card sketch from The Pink Elephant challenge blog – or at least I tried to.  By the time I got done moving everything around, it came out a bit different than the sketch!

So that is the latest from Paper Garden Projects digi land.  Hopefully someone can use some of the drawings.  

I have an exciting Friday night planned – 24 Brownie girl scouts for a Pajama Jam (a sleep over without the sleeping over part).   I can just imagine the noise level!  LOL! 

 I’ll leave you with a few peony pictures from my garden.  I’m not the world’s best photographer – but honestly whats not to love?

 

  (Tree Peony – that is why it is yellow)

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Flower Fairy picks….

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I admit – I’m a total pushover for flowers.  I buy them everywhere, even the fruit market (they have great deals!).  And of course I love to get them as gifts.

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I got these two potted begonias at the fruit market and thought I might give them as a little gift to friends for Mother’s day.  I added a few little flower fairies to make them a little more personal.

To make the faries, I chose 3 images from the Flower Fairies cling set, stamped them in Memento ink and colored them with Copic markers.  (Here are the marker colors I used in case inquiring minds want to know).

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To hold my little fairies in place, I used floral picks.  You can get them anywhere they have flower arranging stuff – they are green wooden picks with a wire attached at the top.  I wanted my fairies to be able to move and bounce around – so I converted the wire at the top into little “springs”.  You simply wrap the wire tightly around something pretty thin to create a coil.  I used the thick end of my stylus – but you could also use the end of another of the picks.  Make sure you leave some straight wire at the end to adhere the fairy to.  When you are done coiling, just slide the wire off.

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I cut out my fairies and then created a matte for them out of dark green cardstock.  The easiest way I’ve found to do this is just temporarily adhere the image to the cardstock and then freehand cut around it.  Here are all my fairy parts.

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To assemble the fairies, just adhere the wire to the front of the cardstock matte and adhere the fairy image over the top.  Easy!  Here are close-ups of my fairy friends…

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fairy2

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I also wanted a card to go with my gift – so I used a different fairy from the same Flower Fairies cling set.  I also used the mushroom from the Fairy Fauna cling set  (the sentiment is computer generated).  These images are also colored with copics. 

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I cut out my sentiment and image with a Spellbinders oval die.  The image is matted on the new Spellbinders Labels 11(I think I’m going to use this one a lot!).  The patterned paper is Basic Grey Green at Heart. I created the sky and grass background using this technique (only I didn’t bother masking…shhh, don’t tell…).

It still needed something – so I decided to add flowers.  I don’t have flowers in a lot of colors.  I usually just buy white flowers and color them to match my project with ink, paint, or in this case Copics.  I tried to color each a little differently, and left it a little streaky (on purpose – honest).

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If you have flowers – you might need some leaves.  So I colored one flower green and cut it up to make leaves.

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So that was today’s project.  Great new stuff coming into the store – I REALLY want to play more.  But my garden is calling me too!

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Spring Flowers Digital stamp freebie

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Its getting springy here – my absolute favorite time of the year! 

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So I thought I’d sketch out another little digi stamp set freebie.  Think of it as another Birthday party prize (yes – we are still partying!).

This set contains 2 spring flower images and 5 sentiments.  Both JPG files and transparent background PNG files are included in the download.   You can download the file in the Paper Garden Projects store here.

While you are there – take a look at all our Birthday sales and all the new merchandise we’ve added.   So much fun stuff!!

 

So what else is going on with the Birthday Party?

You still have until Monday (3/22) to enter our sketch challenge for the chance to win the Miss Anya stamp set. 

Check out our Design Team call – we’d love to see your work.

Come back on Friday to check out our next Birthday challenge.

1003marflwrs_LRGCard Details – here is what I used:

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