Here’s a CAS card using a couple of the new in colours, delightful dijon and watermelon wonder.
I used one of the small flower “insides” from the Flower Patch set, stamped in the two colours. The sentiment, stamped in watermelon wonder, is from a just retired hostess set, Because You Care although it’s only half of the sentiment. The Hello that’s the top portion of the sentiment was just too big for this card. I stamped on a piece of very vanilla and mounted that on a watermelon wonder card base. And that’s it. Easy to reproduce this one.
When I was trying to create a card with 5 colours for the last Fab Friday challenge, I pulled out the Stampin’ Up! Flower Patch set and played around with clear embossing powder and sponges. That card didn’t work out for the challenge (too many colours!), but I liked the effect and put it on my list of cards to make. Here’s the result with just two colours!
Using a piece of crumb cake, I embossed the flowers in the clear embossing powder. After that I used a sponge and some cherry cobbler ink and, starting in the centre of each flower carefully sponged towards the edges letting the colour fade as I got further away from the centres. As I was heat embossing, I also decided to heat emboss the happy birthday sentiment (from Sassy Salutations) in cherry cobbler. I mounted this on a base of cherry cobbler.
I pulled out a crumb cake envelope and pondered how to enhance it. I’ve just received the Fresh Prints paper stack (it’s on the clearance rack) and it had some handy prints so I lined the outside of the envelope’s flap.
Today marks my one hundredth post which I find to be quite amazing. I little thought that I’d ever write a blog, let alone post daily! Today’s card is for the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge which is my favourite sort – a colour challenge. They are my favourite because I find the sketch ones to be very difficult, however looking at this colour combination, it’s not easy at all! Definitely a good challenge and a colour combination that I would never ever have tried.
I wasn’t thrilled with the colours together and when I started playing with whisper white and very vanilla, I saw why. The tempting turquoise and smoky slate looked best with white and the pool party with vanilla. So what do I do with 2 cool colours and one warm? I got out my embossing powders, happy to see that I had the powders for all three colours. I haven’t played much with the Stampin’ Up! Flower Patch set and decided to try to incorporate it. I had tried stamping the pool party over the smoky slate and it disappeared, but I thought that the embossing powders would work. And they did, rather well, I felt.
I stamped the sentiment first in tempting turquoise on whisper white and then started filling in the space (but not too much of it) with the grey flowers. Then, after using the embossing buddy, I stamped the centre of two of the flowers in versamark and embossed them in pool party. I was happy with this so I continued and embossed the other three centres in tempting turquoise. I tried the whisper white piece on all three base colours and tempting turquoise won.
As I said earlier, I really wasn’t thrilled with this colour combination at first, but I am thrilled with this card. I’m very grateful to the challenge for pushing me to make this.
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.
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.
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:
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.
