Mar 27, 2016 | Cards, Challenges, Color Palette, CYCI, Occasions |
This week CYCI has a color challenge:
Here’s my card:
As soon as I saw this color palette, I knew I had to make a masculine birthday card. It came together really fast. The card base is Night of Navy card stock. The next layer up is Kraft Corrugated Paper – on the back I attached lots of Smoky Slate and Basic Gray pieces I cut with the Banner Punch. All the pieces are the same size, but I staggered them on the back to make them look longer or shorter.
I stamped the sentiment from the Perfect pairings stamp set in Night of Navy on Smoky Slate CS. I notched the end with the Banner Triple Punch.
I added some Candy Dots in Night of Navy, Basic Gray, and Smoky Slate. Done!
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Here’s what I used:
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Happy Easter!
I hope your baskets are full of goodies today. I just had to share this photo that I found on Pinterest of eggs decorated as gumball machines. They’re very similar to my logo! Malissa & Machelle from A Joyful Riot did such a great job. Click here to see how they made them.
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Mar 13, 2016 | Cards, Challenges, Color Palette, CYCI, Sale-A-Bration |
It’s time for another color challenge from canyoucaseit.com. This week we get to choose our own three colors.
Here’s my card:
I chose Lost Lagoon, Old Olive, and Calypso Coral, which were inspired by the Wildflower Fields Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-bration brochure. You can get this DSP free with any $50 order, but only until March 31!
I used these two sheets out of the DSP pack. The patterns on the Calypso Coral floral and the Whisper White floral line up perfectly. Say “Calypso Coral floral” three time fast!
I turned the sheets so the patterns were going in the same direction, then cut the pieces together. I then trimmed 1/2″ from all four sides of the Whisper White piece. I glued it on to the Calypso Coral piece, lining up the images. I glued this onto the Old Olive card base.
I stamped the sentiment from the Perfect Pairings stamp set (another Sale-a-bration item available only until March 31) in Old Olive onto Whisper White CS. I matted it with a piece of Lost Lagoon CS, stuck on a Calypso Coral Candy Dot, and attached it to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Check back to see what I made with the scraps from this card!
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Here’s what I used today:
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Mar 10, 2016 | Cards, Challenges, Color Palette, Sale-A-Bration, Techniques |
Today I’m sharing a card I made for the latest Fab Friday color challenge:
What lovely Spring colors these are! They remind me of Easter, but I decided to do something different. I love the effect I’ve seen by inking a stamp with multiple colors. Here is my attempt at that technique.
The Just For You stamp from the Botanicals For You stamp set is the perfect image for this technique. It’s nice a large, so you can really see the gradation of the colors.
I used the ink pads to ink the stamp in the top and bottom colors, and a Sponge Dauber to apply the center color. After inking up the stamp in (top to bottom) Soft Sky, Blushing Bride, and Mint Macaron, I stamped it onto a piece of Whisper White card stock. I cut it with the largest die in the Lots Of Labels Framelits, then used Sponge Daubers to ink the edges in the same three colors.
I attached that to another piece of Whisper White CS whose corners I cut with the Curvy Corner Trio Punch. I glued that onto a piece of Blushing Bride CS whose corners I rounded with the Project Life Corner Punch.
For the next layer, I glued 1/2″ strips of Soft Sky and Mint Macaron CS to a piece of Whisper White CS, then trimmed around the edges. I got this idea from yesterday’s card I made using scraps. You can see that post here.
I glued the top layers to the striped layer, just to the left of center, to make room fo the Whisper White Bakers Twine that I tied around the striped layer. Then I glued it all to the Thick Whisper White CS card base.
The Botanicals For You stamp set is just one of the many Sale-a-bration products you can get FREE with any $50 product order until March 31. Click here to learn more!
Here are all the Sale-a-bration products:
And here’s what I used today:
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Mar 9, 2016 | Cards, Color Palette, Occasions |
I’m a scrap saver. I save almost every scrap of paper – card stock and Designer Series Paper – if I think I might be able to use it for anything. My scrap drawers are getting pretty full, so I thought maybe I should use some of them.
Today I’m sharing a card I made with strips of card stock from some of the blue drawers: Soft Sky, Pool Party, Mint Macaron, Lost Lagoon, Marina Mist, Tempting Turquoise, Island Indigo, and Night of Navy. I glued the strips onto a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Whisper White card stock, then trimmed along the sides.
I glued it onto a 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″ piece of Whisper White CS, then glued that onto the Tempting Turquoise card base.
I stamped the top sentiment in Night of Navy directly onto the card front. I stamped the bottom sentiment in Versamark directly onto the card front, then heat embossed it in White.
I stamped the numbers in Night of Navy onto a piece of Whisper White CS, cut them with the Large Numbers Framelits Dies, then glued them onto the card front.
What can you make with your scraps? I’d love to see.
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Here’s what I used:
Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Mar 6, 2016 | Cards, Challenges, Color Palette, CYCI, Sketches |
Today I’m sharing a card designed for two challenges: this week’s canyoucaseit.com sketch challenge…
… and this week’s Global Design Project color challenge at www.global-design-project.com.
This card was a dual effort. My assistant, Jackie Bak, and I worked together on this design. The colors reminded us of sun and clouds, and the sketch reminded us of the sun and its rays. The cloudy sky also reminded us of the weather we’d had here in Atlanta the day before. It was one of those dark, gloomy, rainy days; at noon it felt like evening because it was so dark. Bright side: great napping weather!
We turned the design clockwise to a vertical orientation. The card base is Smoky Slate card stock. We stamped clouds from the Sprinkles of Life stamp set in Basic Gray directly on the card base, then we cut some clouds from Basic Gray CS with the Tree Builder punch and covered some of the stamped ones.
We cut the sun from Daffodil Delight CS with the Circles Collection Framelits, then sponged the edges with Daffodil Delight ink. We cut strips of the same CS and notched the ends with the Banner Triple Punch. These made the sun’s rays.
We stamped the sentiment from the Ray of Sunshine stamp set on two of the rays and left them longer. Both parts of the sentiment are parts of two different stamps. We used “You are my” from the stamp that says “You are my sunshine” and we used “Sunshine” from the stamp that says “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” We used the Basic Gray Stampin’ Write Marker to ink up only the part of the stamps we needed.
Here’s what we used:
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Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!
Feb 28, 2016 | Cards, Challenges, Color Palette, CYCI, Deals, Sale-A-Bration |
It’s time for another color challenge from canyoucaseit.com! Here is this week’s color palette…
…and here is my card.
The official beginning of Spring is just three weeks away, and I am so ready for it! Here in Atlanta, we get lots of rain in the winter instead of snow, so we have lots of gloomy grey days. I’m looking forward to sunny days with the sound of bees buzzing and the smell of flowers and newly mown grass.
This week’s color challenge palette is very bright and Springy. I’m in a better mood just looking at it. So I wanted to make a bright and happy card.
The card base is Heavy Whisper White card stock, with a Tempting Turquoise CS layer and a layer of Daffodil Delight patterned paper from the Brights Designer Series Paper Stack on top. What’s more Springy than these adorable little flowers?
I stamped the sentiment from the brand new Party Pants stamp set (available as a free Sale-a-bration item until March 31!) in Whisper White Craft ink on Tempting Turquoise CS, then heat embossed it in white. I cut it, and two more plain balloons, with the Balloon Bouquet Punch.
I put Snail adhesive on the back of each balloon, then wrapped Whisper White Baker’s Twine around the bottom of each one, securing the twine to the adhesive on the back, then letting the long tail hang. I glued the balloons together in the arrangement I wanted, then adhered them to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I tied a small bow around the strings with another piece of the twine, then attached the back of the bow to the card front with a Glue Dot, pulling the strings taut and straight. I trimmed all the ends, and I was done!
Here’s what I used:
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