Category Archives: Thank you

Sheltering Tree for the Paper Players

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I’ve been participating in a lot of challenges this week; it really is a lot of fun to take a specific set of colours and see what you can make with them. Today I’m using the colour challenge from the Paper Players. This week there are four colours which can make things a little more tricky, but with my current, let’s call it, attachment to the Stampin’ Up! Sheltering Tree set, I knew what I wanted to do.

Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

And here’s the challenge banner

I started by stamping the tree in crumb cake on a crumb cake piece of card stock and then added the leaves in so saffron. I then used the little flower head stamp and crisp cantaloupe to add more of an autumnal look. I stamped the grass bank in wild wasabi and stayed with the muted look for the sentiment by stamping it in crumb cake. Since the inks look a bit different on crumb cake than on white, the only mat that worked was the so saffron; the others seemed to be totally different colours! So there’s a skinny mat of 1/16 inch of so saffron. I mounted this on a crumb cake card base. For a change, rather than lining the envelope I decided to dry emboss the flap. It was really easy with my newly acquired texture boutique. It’s less bulky than the big shot and you don’t have to change plates. I don’t know about you, but every time I want to use my big shot, I seem to have to change between cutting and embossing! I used the retired pretty print embossing folder.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

A Spanish watercolour thank you

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Firstly I’d like to thank Genny and the team at Hand Stamped Sentiments for selecting a card of mine as one of the Artist Picks for the colour challenge 205. You can see my card here.

I made a card for Gloria, my hostess in Barcelona, recently but just as I was about to write in it, I realised that I had Thanks on it in English. One of the sets that I’d added to my order with my Bingo winnings at the crop was the Stampin’ Up! Gracias en Acuarelas, the spanish version of Watercolor Thank you. I decided that it made sense to wait and use that one on a card for Gloria. I also challenged myself to look at my card stock and pull out a colour that I haven’t used lately. This turned out to be perfect plum. So I pulled out a piece of very vanilla and actually used my aqua painter. I think it’s the first time that I’ve ever used it with ink and then made a card with the result! Previously I’ve only used it to do the bokeh technique. I do have watercolour paper but I wanted very vanilla rather than whisper white so I tried not to get the paper too wet and it worked fairly successfully – presumably because there isn’t too much water colouring. I just squeezed the ink pad so as to get some ink onto the lid and quickly made the background. The colour coach suggested whisper white and early espresso to go with perfect plum so I adopted the early espresso part of it.

Stampin' Up! Gracias en Acuarelas

After allowing a little time to dry, I stamped the sentiment in early espresso. I added a tiny mat of early espresso, it’s just 1/8 inch larger than the very vanilla and left a large border of the perfect plum to pull it all together. I used snail to attach the very vanilla to the early espresso and a lot of it since the the very vanilla was no longer completely flat. I lined the envelope in the backgrounds DSP in perfect plum.

Irresistibly Yours DSP and a colour wheel

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On Sunday I sat down to have some fun with my crafting supplies and had one of those days where nothing looked right. But I did use a sponge dauber and rose red ink on a piece of the Irresistibly Yours specialty designer series paper. I don’t know why I haven’t used this before, it’s really fun and I have several packs of it! It’s one of the items you can get for free during Sale-a-bration – you select a free item for every $50 you spend (not including tax and shipping). So on Monday, the piece of coloured DSP was screaming to be used. And this card slowly evolved.

Stampin' Up! Because You Care

I originally was going for a monochromatic look and had stamped the sentiment in rose red on whisper white – the sentiment is from a new hostess set, the Stampin’ Up! Because You Care set. I then matted the whisper white with more rose red card stock. The issue was that my sponging didn’t precisely match the card stock, I’d got a deeper depth of colour. Whilst I thought about that, I realised that the card needed something more and introduced the spring flowers DSP to the party. I then glued the DSP and the dry embossed piece of whisper white onto my card front. As soon as I’d done this, I decided that I didn’t like where the DSP joined the dry embossed piece of whisper white and started looking at ribbon to improve the look. No rose red ribbon. Naturally.

I recalled that Jen had emailed me a colour wheel and I’d been intending to play with it. According to the wheel, the complimentary colour was a yellow green. Sounds like pear pizzazz. And lo and behold, I have ribbon in pear pizzazz. So I stamped the sentiment again in rose red and cut it out with the circles framelits and also a circle of pear pizzazz for matting. I don’t like the ribbon to show in the inside so I cut my DSP and embossed piece down to 5.25″ by 4″ which had the advantage of trimming the edges where they weren’t quite matched up. Then I wrapped the ribbon over the join and secured it with tape. I then glued this panel to a pear pizzazz card base. Finally I used stampin’ dimensionals to pop up the sentiment.

Since I still had the rose red ink out and a dirty stamp, I decorated the envelope as well. I also lined the outside flap with pear pizzazz.

Stampin' Up! Because You Care

Stepped up boho blossom

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On Wednesday I shared a card that I made for a CAS and orange challenge. Whilst making it, I lost sight of the goal and wandered off into the realm of pink, aka melon mambo. But I liked where the pink card was going so I decided to step it up a bit as a contrast to the pumpkin pie version. Here’s what I finally came up with.

Stampin' Up! Boho Blossom Lotus Blossom

It’s a bit of a mirror image of the orange one with the punch being used on the melon mambo. I stepped up the sentiment a bit and embossed it in white instead of just stamping it. It’s from the Sale-a-bration set, Lotus Blossom. I then popped up the whole piece of melon mambo with stampin’ dimensionals and added one of the flowers that I’d cut out and this time, three rhinestones.

I originally had two of the rhinestones coloured in melon mambo and one left alone.

boho blossom pink and white

Then I tried old olive

boho blossom old olive

But I wanted something a bit more emerald green. After a chat with Jen this morning, I tried colouring a rhinestone in the lightest night of navy blendability and, after it dried, using the darkest wild wasabi. That is exactly what I was looking for. Here’s a side view showing the colour better as well as the dimension.

Stampin' Up! Boho blossom side view

This definitely demonstrates, to me at least, that it’s worth tweaking a card until you’re happy. And as a bonus, I have some already coloured rhinestones ready to use on another project!

AAA cards orange CAS challenge

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I happened to check the AAA cards blogspot yesterday and saw that they have a new challenge out there – very CAS and some orange. Sounds like some fun after all the pink and red lately. My new boho blossoms punch was sitting on the table and just begging to be used. One tip – don’t get your little finger in the way when you’re punching. Ouch!

I got a bit off track and started making a really funky background piece in orange with clear embossing. It was definitely orange, but not exactly CAS. So that will be used later on in the week!

Stampin' Up! Boho blossom punch and Painted Petals

This is a very straight forward card – as pretty much demanded by a very CAS style card – but here are the details just in case. I used the boho blossoms punch, which cuts out all three flower shapes at once, on a piece of very vanilla card stock. After I forgot what the goal was and started playing with melon mambo card stock and coloured rhinestones, I got back on track again and grabbed a piece of pumpkin pie. I chose this orange of the three available because it’s the only one with coordinating blendabilities and I wanted to colour the jewel. I used the thank you from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals stamp set and stamped it in pumpkin pie. I really like the typeface. After gluing the very vanilla card to a base of pumpkin pie, I stuck one of the flowers onto the base and then a pumpkin pie coloured rhinestone on top. Use the brush tip of the pen but be gentle – the rhinestones can really abuse the tip.

I also used my new embossing folder – the spring flowers – on the envelope flap. I thought it coordinated with the boho blossoms.

Stampin' Up! Spring Flowers TIEF

Here’s the banner for the challenge.

Stop back and see the stepped up a notch melon mambo version of this card in the next day or so.