Today I’m sharing with you one of the new colours which will be available on June 1 – Call Me Clover. I used my brayer and the Call Me Clover much improved ink pad and added colour to the Petal Passion DSP. With a mat of basic black and a Call Me Clover card base, I think it’s a rather luxurious card. This is going to be one of my new favourite greens, I think. Actually so many of the new colours are calling to me that I suspect I’m going to have a lot of favourites. It’s actually more of an emerald green but my computer and camera and the morning light do not appear to agree!
I decided that I didn’t want a big sentiment covering up much of the DSP, so I used the retiring cupcake cutouts framelits dies to add a gold glimmer word, wish. I hope that you like it – don’t forget framelits are on an “as supplies last” basis so click on the Shop Now button below and check out the Last Chance List offerings. Add the hostcode (over there on the left) and you’ll be able to earn free product.
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I was playing with the glimmer paper at the weekend and figured it would work really well as a cupcake paper. So I had a go with the Sweet Cupcake set and the matching Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies.
I used just sweet sugarplum for the cupcake which is made up of three separate stamps. The least detailed was stamped off twice, the next one was stamped off once and the most detailed was full strength sweet sugarplum. I cut that out with the Cupcake Cutouts framelits dies and also cropped a piece of the glimmer paper for the base and the sweet sentiment.
For the construction, I used a sponge dauber on the silicone craft mat to get glue on the back of the sentiment without getting too much. The top of the cupcake is glued to the whisper white layer with the gorgeous glimmer paper liner popped up with dimensionals. I added all of this to a sweet sugarplum base and that was it. Easy peasy.
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Today’s project is another massive card – our recruiter at work has taken a job elsewhere and we’re going to miss her and I knew that a regular sized card would not be enough to hold all the good wishes from the IT department. So it’s a complete sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 inches folded in half.
Tara is quite a fan of my baking; she can frequently be found in my cube checking to see if the red box that contains my baking is there and complaining if it is missing for too long. So the sweet cupcake bundle seemed the perfect set for her card.
For the top of the cakes I used blushing bride stamped off once for the first image – the one that covers pretty much the entire cake. Then I used blushing bride for the next detailed image and sweet sugarplum stamped off once for the most detailed. I made all three cake tops the same and then cut them out with the cupcake cutouts framelits. The bases are from the 2015-2017 in colour DSP stack in tip top taupe again cut out with the framelits. The sweet word is also part of the framelits and of course I cut it out in both sweet sugarplum and blushing bride before deciding on the latter for the card. Then it was simply a matter of sticking everything down and raising a couple of the cakes up with dimensionals. I also added a very skinny tip top taupe mat to the card.
I saw a tip on Facebook yesterday from Simply Simple Stamping (although it didn’t originate there) about how to glue intricate die cuts, including words. The key is the silicone craft sheet. You place your die cut onto the craft sheet and also squirt some tombow onto the sheet. You pick up the glue with a sponge dauber (Connie used a sponge but I didn’t have a clean one handy) and, holding the die cut still, dab the glue onto the it. Actually you could do this on paper because you don’t want the diecut to move (or you’ll likely get glue on the front) but this is more forgiving – and easier to clean up. I marked my sponge dauber as “glue” so it’s always ready for service. This gives a much better result – there’s no oozing or issue with it not sticking really firmly. It’s a fabulous tip – this is the first time I’ve tried it and it’s a keeper.
I finished the card with enamel shapes in blushing bride and sweet sugarplum. And I made an envelope using the envelope punchboard using almost a sheet of the Subtles DSP stack in blushing bride.
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Welcome to October and the first challenge of the month at CAS Colours & Sketches. I’m especially excited about the challenges this month because it’s my first time hosting the entire month. We’re starting off as usual with a colour challenge.
And here’s the banner for the challenge:
Very bright and cheerful, yes? When I decided that I wanted to use emerald envy and tempting turquoise, it occurred to me that these colours are in the Festive Birthday DSP along with one of my favourite colours, melon mambo. So I set about making a CAS card with the DSP and I wanted to do something other than a strip of DSP. It took until the weekend when I realised that I wanted to cut out a word. Luckily the three colours I’d chosen are next to each other in this piece of the paper, they could easily had had one or two of the other colours in the way. I cut out a number of words before deciding on the wish from the cupcake cutouts framelits dies. Next I added the stamped sentiment from the coordinating Sweet Cupcake sentiment in emerald envy and a matching melon mambo enamel shape which I confess is over the dot. It wasn’t until after I’d added it that I decided an enamel shape would look better. But nobody knows it’s under there. Apart from you and me anyway!
I then played with combinations of mats until I saw that white on white was much the best. Too much colour was going to detract from the image.
I hope that you try out these colours – they are bright and cheerful, and to start with, a trifle intimidating. But the richness of them is really fun to play with.
Well it was the House IT Desk (aka my brother) to the rescue. He got me a new card reader and I’m back in business. I decided to celebrate by finally entering another Pootles’ Colour Challenge; recently I’ve been leaving it too late in the week because I know that there’s more time and then suddenly I’ve missed the deadline! Also I wanted to make a card using the cupcake cutouts framelits dies to show why you need them if you don’t already have them. So I banned myself from using the stamp set and just used the dies. Sam’s colours for this week were rich razzleberry, sweet sugarplum, blushing bride and crumb cake. I usually forget about crumb cake so this was a great challenge for me.
I first cut out a number of the squiggles using the three pinks and decided that they looked very celebratory and should be bursting out joyfully. So then it was a matter of finding the right sentiment that wouldn’t take up too much space so that the squiggles could shine. I found my greeting in the Cottage Greetings set – a really happy one and stamped it in rich razzleberry on crumb cake. I cut it and the rich razzleberry mat using the layering squares framelits dies and then glued on my squiggles ensuring that they continued off the crumb cake cardbase and came together close enough so that my square would cover the ends. To continue the feeling of celebration, I added some enamel shapes in sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry. The square is popped up on dimensionals so that the ends of the squiggles don’t create a lumpy look. I’ve now got lots of little pieces of cardstock that came out from the loops of the squiggles – I’m contemplating a shaker card with them! The cupcake cutouts framelits dies are a must have in my opinion – very versatile.
