A Little Bottled Happiness

Hello friend!  Happy Wednesday to you.  Hope you're enjoying some beautiful summer weather wherever you are.  It's been lovely here with temps in the mid 80's and sunny with a little breeze to cool you off.  Just perfect as far as I'm concerned.  Hubby thinks it's a little too warm, but I'm lovin' it!   I told you I'd move on from my beloved geraniums, and so I have.  Thought I'd play with the Bottled Happiness set next to see what I could create.  For my first attempt with a new set, I usually go with a very straight-forward project just to get a feel for the stamp set.  This time is no different.  It's a very simple card, but I love how it all works together so nicely.

To make this card, start out with a card base of Fresh Freesia cardstock cut at 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored and folded in half.  I'd just gotten the new Host Reward huge Designer Paper pack called Design a Daydream.  Oh, my, goodness!  It's fabulous, and there's so much of it to play with!  Woo Hoo!  Sorry, I seem to have gotten a little carried away there.  The soft Old Olive diagonal checked paper is from this paper pack and lends a nice background interest without getting too overpowering.  It's cut to 5 1/4" x 4" and attached to the card front with adhesive.

The next step is stamping the images onto Basic White cardstock which is cut at 4 1/2" x 3".  The bottle was stamped first with Garden Green ink for the more solid image. This gave me such a nice green glass color! Next was stamping the outline image with Mossy Meadow ink.  Let me insert a note of caution here.  After mine was all stamped, I noticed it lists a bit to the right.  Maybe you didn't notice it, but it's so obvious to me now.  Make sure your bottle is straight when stamping!!  The Stamparatus would be a great help here, which I didn't think to use, silly me.

Next the flowers in the bouquet were stamped using Fresh Freesia ink.  It was pretty simple to line up the greenery to fit around the flowers since you can see through the stamp.  Love those photopolymer stamps!  The greenery was stamped with Old Olive ink as I wanted it to be a little different than the bottle color.

I used a Water Brush and a touch of Old Olive ink to lightly wash in a background base for the bottle.  It's very faint, but I like the look.  

This was layered onto a 4 3/4" x 3 1/4" piece of Old Olive cardstock using adhesive.  It was then centered on the card front and attached with Dimensionals for lift.

The sentiment is part of the same Bottled Happiness stamp set.  It was stamped with Old Olive ink onto Basic White.  Then was die-cut using the small tag from the Teacup Dies set.  To help it stand out a little from the white background, the edges were lightly touched to the Fresh Freesia ink pad.  This was attached to the card front with Dimensionals also.  A tiny bow was made from Linen Thread.  It was attached with a Mini Glue Dot that I rolled in my fingers to make it tiny enough to hide behind the center of the bow.

To fancy up the bottle, a bow was made from the 3/8" Open Weave Ribbon in the Fresh Freesia color.  I love how sheer this is and makes such a pretty accent bow.  It was attached to the neck of the bottle using a Mini Glue Dot.

I dug out an oldie that I'd used recently for cards I made for the boy's teachers - Shimmery Crystal Effects.  I sure wish we still carried this.  It's a wonderful way to add a drop of shine where needed.  And it also sets up and feels like a pearl or rhinestone when dry.  For this card, I added drops to the flower centers.  After doing this, it was set aside to dry so my fingers didn't accidentally smear it around.  Oh yeah, been there and done that more than once.  Isn't that the best way to learn a lesson?

So that's it for the first card using the Bottled Happiness set.  I really like how it turned out with the softer colors and that lovely piece of Design a Daydream DSP.  Honestly, when it's your turn to be hostess, check into getting this DSP with your Host Rewards.  It's well worth it.

That's it for today's installment of the new series of posts featuring the Bottled Happiness Bundle.  Now I've got to get creating so I've got something new to share with you!  If you're ordering anytime soon, please check to see what the current Host Code is at the top of the blog post, and please use it!  It's very appreciated!  Thank you for stopping by today.  Please feel free to share your comments, good or bad, about my creations. I do appreciate your feedback.  It helps to know that you're out there, and even what you might like me to share with you!  Now get stamping!! 

Happy stamping and creating,

Sharon