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Fabulous Four for AAA Cards challenge

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I’m using the partial thanks sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Fabulous Four stamp set again today for another challenge – this time run by AAA cards.

I say partial – I cut off the second line of the sentiment so that I can add it when I like but I don’t have to mask it when I don’t want it. The two pieces obviously fit together perfectly so it’s simple to stamp with them both when I wish. Yesterday’s card required some fairly major ruler use, today’s not at all. In fact, I tried doing a rather random placement of the flower centres/ starbursts but I’ve come to the conclusion that random doesn’t really work in stamping. You either end up with an awkward space not big enough for another image or two of the images are too close together. Or, as I found yesterday, you’ve managed to make them almost in straight lines which looks sloppy because they aren’t quite lined up.

This is about my fourth version and I’m happy with it  – although now that I look at the photo, not ecstatic. I think I can further improve the placement. I like having three of each colour and them being arranged in triangles.

Stampin' Up Flower Patch in 3 bright colours

The colours that I chose, using the color coach are melon mambo, pumpkin pie and crushed curry and I stamped them on very vanilla. I adore these three colours together which really surprises me because they are so bold and not something I’d have tried on my own. But I think that they make for an incredibly joyful card. As I mentioned above, the sentiment is my doctored stamp from the Fabulous Four stamp set. The other image is from the Stampin’ Up! Flower Patch set and is intended to be one of the centres of the flowers but it stands well on its own. I glued the card to a pumpkin pie base and lined the envelope with the backgrounds DSP in pumpkin pie.

Thankful for the paper players

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I found a challenge at the Paper Players this week which really appeals – a clean and simple card giving thanks.

I decided to use the Stampin’ Up! Fabulous Four stamp set and to do some teal coloured ombre technique. I snipped off the bottom part of the sentiment figuring that I can add it if I like but that this saves masking it! I saw recently, on Brian King’s blog, a card where there were 6 or so colours of blue used. I decided to give this a try in teal. I first tried using soft sky, costal cabana, pool party, bermuda bay, lost lagoon and island indigo but the last two seemed too blue to play with the others. So I was down to four. I switched to a horizontal card instead of vertical and decided to step the sentiment across the card. This required serious use of a ruler and pencil and after stamping. an eraser. I figured out the gap necessary at the top and bottom and also to the right of the bottom sentiment and to the left of the top one. Once I had that done, I drew horizontal lines across the card to show me where to stamp each sentiment. I then drew a line diagonally to show me where each sentiment should begin. It was a bit ruler intensive but it was worth it to have everything in the right place.

Stampin' Up! Fabulous Four in 4 teal colours

I had originally planned to glue my very vanilla stamped card onto a base and played around with various options. I was having difficulty deciding between bermuda bay and coastal cabana when I realised that I didn’t have to choose. So I added a mat of coastal cabana showing only 1/8 inch all the way around and then glued this to the base of bermuda bay. I think this is the first time that I’ve had two mats both of 1/8 inch deep and I rather like the effect. I finished the card off by lining the envelope in bermuda bay from the backgrounds DSP.

Fabulous Four Flower Patch

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As I’ve already mentioned, I’m attending a crop weekend soon. In fact it’s this coming weekend and my sister has flown over from the UK in order to attend. We’re working on our gifts for the secret pal swap including trying to figure out packaging – I’m getting quite fond of making little boxes. One of the suggestions regarding the secret pal is to send a card beforehand. I know that my recipient likes bright colours and green. So here’s what I came up with:

celebrate pear pizzazz, rich razzle, tempting turq

I figured that a weekend set aside for crafting really needs celebrating! My base is pear pizzazz with very vanilla on top. When I got my Fabulous Four set, I first stamped it with just the word “celebrate” and I was having to mask off the rest of the sentiment. It occurred to me that I’m likely to want just the “celebrate” more than with the rest of the words and decided to cut off the rest of it. The upside is that the two pieces fit perfectly together so that I can put them on a clear block any time I want the complete sentiment as Stampin’ Up! originally intended. The sentiment was also stamped in pear pizzazz.

I used one of the small flower innards from Flower Patch to decorate the rest of the card in pear pizzazz, tempting turquoise and rich razzleberry. The colour coach suggested this combination and I like how the colours work together. I added a rhinestone to the centre of each rich razzleberry stamp – for some reason two of them don’t look perfectly sparkly in the photo, but I can assure you that they are!

I used the backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz to line my envelope.

 

Fall wreath for a swap

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Susan Itell hosted a card swap recently where readers sent in a Halloween or Fall themed card and she would send everyone back another card. It seemed like an interesting challenge especially as I had no Fall or Halloween themed stamp sets or DSP. It took me some time to create my card therefore and I mailed it off on the Wednesday hoping it would make it from NJ to Maryland by the deadline of Saturday. Actually, it took 2 weeks! But Susan kindly featured my card on her blog anyway. And she said that I’d get something from her as I’d missed the swap – I wonder if it will take 2 weeks in the reverse direction! I hope my card enjoyed its scenic adventure.

celebrate swap card

To make this card I used the Wondrous Wreath stamp set along with the coordinating Wonderful Wreath framelits. I also used Fabulous Four – the sentiment actually has two lines – AMAZING.SPECTACULAR.FANTASTIC.YOU is underneath the celebrate. I decided that I’d use the celebrate more often on its own and so cut off the second line. It is easy to put them back together whilst putting them on a clear block so I think this is more versatile. I stamped the sentiment in versamark and then used the crushed curry embossing powder.

Since I did this card, I’ve read in Stampin’ Start about cutting out the middle of the wreath before stamping. This makes it much easier to line up – I am looking forward to trying this tip because it really is hard to line up after cutting. I coloured the stamp using the Stampin’ Write markers in crushed curry, cajun craze, pumpkin pie, pear pizzazz and wild wasabi. After huffing on the stamp to moisten the ink I stamped it and then cut it out with the framelit.

I adhered my wreath using stampin’ up! dimensionals.