It was easy to select the colours for the month of July in the Stampin’ Up! Perpetual birthday calendar. The July image was stars and there are some real red star stickers in the kit. So I selected night of navy to go with the real red.
I stamped the stars in the two colours at the lower right hand side of the month as usual. Then I stamped the month in night of navy before stamping the star image in both night of navy and real red. I kept placing the big red star included in the kit over the page to see what effect I was creating. Once I was happy, I glued the star onto the sheet. I then stuck the three sizes of red star stickers from the kit around the images to create a layered look.
Obviously to a card maker, Valentine’s Day is a fairly important event. In the Holiday catalogue there is the Stampin’ Up! Seasonally Scattered set which had three stamps with season images around them. I’ve used both of Merry and Thanks. Now it’s the turn of the Love stamp.
Sadly it’s rather hard to photograph this beauty – the metallics do not work well with the camera. It definitely looks better in person. After using the embossing buddy, I stamped in versamark on real red and then sprinkled on the gold embossing powder. It’s magic seeing any embossing come to life, but a large stamp is even more exciting. I matted this with the gold foil (the brushed gold cardstock doesn’t stand up to the gold embossing in my opinion) at a quarter inch larger than the real red and then had a larger border of real red around the gold. The base is half an inch larger in all dimensions than the gold mat.
The envelope is lined with Maritime DSP which contains real red, coastal cabana, whisper white and night of navy.
The Stampin’ Up! Hello You thinlit dies are one of my favourite things, (okay, there are many favourites) from the new occasions catalogue. I wanted to make a card for Gail, the third member of the Walk Club who achieved the annual challenge (details of the challenge are on the first of these posts about Karen’s card) and out came the Hello You thinlit dies.
It was definitely a day to be playing with new things because this card also uses both the Painted Petals and the Crazy about you stamp sets. They look good together don’t they?! I started with the leaves in garden green – it looks a trifle intimidating with the leaves and stems broken up so much but it’s all one stamp and then the flowers are all on another stamp and fit the gaps easily. I like to focus on the single flower on the left to help with the placement. The flowers were stamped in rose red.
Then I cut out the word happy with the thinlit dies, also in rose red. The tip on the thinlit packaging, to run the die through the big shot multiple times really seems to work well. I’ve also found that I can leave the wax paper on the die itself after it’s cut out and that works multiple times. So far I’ve cut out a word three times using the same wax paper. I figured out where I wanted the “For You” from the Crazy About You stamp set and stamped it in garden green before sticking the word happy – I didn’t want to be using my stamp-a-ma-jig on an angle. I used the tombow glue to adhere the word to the card – if you leave the glue to set a little before sticking it down, it doesn’t ooze. I finished off the envelope with the backgrounds DSP in rose red from the regals collection. I am now incapable of leaving an envelope untouched and either line it, put the paper on the outside flap, dry emboss the flap or stamp on the envelope to coordinate with the card. It really finishes the card off in my opinion.
I’m up to June in my Stampin’ Up! Perpetual birthday calendar and June’s image is some big happy flowers. I therefore chose happy summery colours, taking inspiration from the color coach – crushed curry, melon mambo and pumpkin pie. I started by stamping in the three colours in the lower right hand corner of the month’s sheet as usual, stamping some of the images twice without re-inking to give a more layered effect.
Then I stamped June in melon mambo and did the same layering with the June flower image in the three colours. I cut out a star in crushed curry using the second smallest star framelit and glued that above the month. I roughly cut around the sticky J and then tapped it onto the melon mambo ink pad. After letting the ink dry, I peeled off the letter and adhered it to the centre of the star.
Gary is another of the walk clubbies who has achieved the year long challenge that I started last January. You can read about the clubbies and more details about the challenge here. As I mentioned in Karen’s post, I decided to send a card to each of the members who had succeeded in the challenge. Here’s what I made for Gary
I started with some island indigo card and stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Bravo set in versamark before sprinkling over the silver embossing powder. I then used my confetti stars punch to create a mass of little stars in the silver glimmer paper. I stuck the largest ones on with glue dots and used the two way glue pen to fix on the smaller ones. I finished off the card by lining the envelope in the backgrounds DSP in island indigo (from the regals collection).
