Monthly Archives: March 2015

A dozen thoughts with painted petals

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My sister recently pointed me towards a new for us challenge site, CAS colours and sketches, which is all about clean and simple, my favourite type of cards. This week is a colour challenge (also my favourite) and the hostess has selected an awesome combination from Stampin’ Up!’s newest in colours. I don’t know why I haven’t been using them more often lately, they are gorgeous colours.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and A Dozen Thoughts

The challenge banner is These colours are totally luxurious and even better in person.

The flowers are from the Painted Petals set which I seem to be over using currently. I stamped the stems in mossy meadow and then the flowers in lost lagoon and blackberry bliss stamping off before some of the blackberry bliss flowers and doing a fair amount of masking since the flower stamp is three flowers together. The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts and is stamped in mossy meadow.

This is a deceptively simply looking card and this was actually my fourth attempt! I mixed up my ink pads on one occasion and stamped a mossy meadow flower. I ignored where I’d planned to stamp my lost lagoon flowers and I had blackberry bliss flowers half way across the card on another attempt. I was beginning to think that the card was doomed when finally it came out better than I had expected.

The envelope was lined with the backgrounds DSP in mossy meadow using the envelope framelits to cut out the liner. Since my stamps were inked up, I also stamped a trio of flowers on the front of the envelope.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and A Dozen Thoughts envelope

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Get your Santa on in March

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A Christmas card in March. No, I haven’t completely lost it, nor have I become unbelievably (to my friends and family) well prepared. I’m the person who tends to be just finishing the packing when it’s time to leave for the airport. The explanation is that I decided to enter this week’s Merry Monday Christmas challenge which was to create a red and green Christmas card.

Stampin' Up! Get your santa on

This little chap actually normally has a banner above him, but I masked that and stamped him in memento black on whisper white. I then used the eraser on the end of a pencil to add the juggling balls in garden green – approximately where the banner used to be. Then I got out my cherry cobbler blendabilities and coloured him in. I debated whether to add a sentiment and keep the card horizontal but in the end, decided to go with a vertical card. So after cropping the image, I added a skinny mat in black and then glued it to a base of garden green.

Since I had already mounted my sentiment – and curved the “very merry” to mimic the juggling balls – I decided to stamp it on the inside of the card:

Stampin' Up! Get your santa on and Endless Wishes

The sentiment is from the Endless Wishes stamp set and is stamped in garden green. The envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP in garden green.

Here’s the banner for the challenge

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Spring for the Paper Players

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I saw that the The Paper Players’ challenge this week is Spring. What a great idea – as I sit here listening to the icy rain pelting on the windows. I really love the little flowers in the Painted Petals set and decided to feature them on my spring-like card.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

The clip isn’t part of the card, it was just needed to keep the card closed.  I actually had a completely different design in mind, featuring a large piece of the pear pizzazz and that will likely happen later on. I had cut out the circle in the very vanilla using the Circles framelits and also cut another out of a piece of pear pizzazz as I was working on two cards at once. For the second, which will be featured later, I decided that I needed to have a larger circle but didn’t want to move the circular opening higher up the card and cut out this unusual shape in pear pizzazz that is now featured on this card. I like the interesting frame that it gives to the flowers. The flowers are stamped in blushing bride and pear pizzazz.

I decided to add another circle of pear pizzazz to the inside of my card.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals in pear pizzazz

This serves two purposes – firstly it gives a good frame to the flowers but it also indicates where not to write on the inside! The envelope is lined using the envelope liner framelits and the Backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz.

Love is Kindness with Endless Wishes

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I have previously created a very simple, monochromatic card with the Stampin’ Up! Love is Kindness stamp set and now I wanted to step it up a bit. This uses supplies from the current annual catalogue, the new occasions 2015 and the Sale-a-bration one.

Stampin' Up! Love is Kindness

I stamped the image in the memento tuxedo ink so that I could colour using the blendabilities. I used two tones of the wild wasabi to colour the stalks and leaves and then used all three of the rich razzleberry and pink pirouette for the tulips. I also used the colour lifter to add additional dimension. The sentiment is from the Endless Birthday Wishes set and is stamped in wild wasabi. I glued the whisper white card to a piece of rich razzleberry just 1/8 inch larger in both dimensions to create a tiny border.

Do you recognise the DSP? It’s the new(ish) irresistably yours specialty DSP in the Sale-a-bration catalog, yours free with an order of $50 until March 31st. Can you believe that we’re two thirds of the way through the Sale-a-bration promotion?! With four new SAB items being launched on March 1st, I’m already planning my next order.

I took the white and embossed piece of DSP and sponged pink pirouette ink onto it, rubbing the excess off with a paper towel to create the background. The ribbon is the rich razzleberry 1/4 inch cotton ribbon which comes in about a dozen colours. It’s very easy going. I taped the ribbon to the back of the DSP before  attaching the image to it with stampin’ dimensionals. Not only did it give the card some added dimension (hence the name!), it meant that the ribbon didn’t cause the whisper white piece to be lumpy. I then mounted this all on a rich razzleberry base.

The envelope flap is lined with the Backgrounds DSP and I also stamped the same sentiment on the front of the envelope seeing as it was still inky.

Stampin' Up! Love is Kindness envelope

 

Fabulous You for Bilma’s birthday

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This is the last card that I made at the weekend crop last month; I was saving it to show on Bilma’s birthday rather than before. It’s using the retired Stampin’ Up! Fabulous You set which I borrowed from Mitzi whilst at the crop. Bilma is very much into shoes so it seems appropriate for her birthday.

Stampin' Up! Fabulous You with Sassy Salutations and a scored border

As usual where metallics are concerned, it’s not a great photograph; the card looks better in person – the blackberry bliss is a much richer colour than it appears here. I really struggle to get a good shot of metallic embossing.

Details of the card

After using the embossing buddy, I stamped the shoe in versamark and then used the heat tool after sprinkling on the gold embossing powder. I reapplied the embossing buddy and then followed the same process with the sentiment from the Sassy Salutations set. I finished off the card by using the envelope liner thinlits dies with the backgrounds DSP in blackberry bliss to line the envelope.

As I was typing this, I decided that the card needed something extra. A border. So I got out my Simply Scored and added a score line 3/8 inch from the edge. I think that the frame really enhances the card. Here’s how it looked previously.

Stampin' Up! Fabulous You with gold embossing

Let me know which you prefer!

Until tomorrow,

Liz