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Picture Perfect leaving

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Picture Perfect is leaving us in just THREE days – if it lasts that long. It’s currently been marked as being “low inventory” so you’ll need to move swiftly to grab it. It’s a really fun set with multiple layers of stamping and a diverse selection of images – starfish, hummingbird and flowers! For some reason, I didn’t manage to create a card with the starfish and the hummingbird together.

Here are a selection of the cards that I’ve made with it – just click on the pictures to go to the original post.

Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect

This card is rather unusual – all the elements (apart from the sentiment) were fussy cut. I wasn’t sure of the placement to start with and I started fussy cutting a few pieces and ended up with them all!

Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect

This card also uses Gorgeous Grunge (also retiring and in short supply) which everyone seemed to love. I, however, didn’t believe I’d used it much at all. It’s interesting that it’s on two of the five cards here.

Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect and Gorgeous Grunge and Welcome Words

This is one of my favourites. Simple and the hummingbird just takes centre stage. As it should.

Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect and Watercolor Wishes

I love how realistic the images are in this set.

Stampin' Up! Gorgeous Grunge and Picture Perfect and All About Everything

If you’ve been inspired, don’t forget that both Picture Perfect and Gorgeous Grunge are as supplies last until Wednesday. After that, they aren’t available.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Gorgeous Grunge with Picture Perfect

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As you know, my cards are clean and simple almost exclusively so Gorgeous Grunge is not a set that I use much. But for my first card for the colour challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week, I decided that I needed it to add in the third colour and to add a little something to the background. In the end, it was not the card that I chose for the Design Team, but it’s still a fun card. And still clean and simple!

Stampin' Up! Gorgeous Grunge and Picture Perfect and All About Everything

I stamped the starfish in blushing bride and rose red – it looks so three dimensional it’s incredible! I snipped it out and then the matter of how to add the so saffron loomed. Some sort of sand made sense and I first tried the lines from Gorgeous Grunge which I’ve never used before but it looked as if the starfish was trying to run which didn’t really make sense! So I used the dots, stamped a couple of times as my background. The sentiment comes from the bonus set in April’s Paper Pumpkin, All About Everything. I love the Paper Pumpkin kits – even if I don’t love the project, there’s always a stamp set and other items to play with. It’s definitely worth the money. I popped the starfish up with dimensionals to give it even more 3D effect. I even added tiny little snippets of dimensionals at the end of the arms. I like the white on white look, it’s very clean but slightly more interesting than a one layer card.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Picture Perfect using CC&S colours and sketch

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We had another new hire this week and I wanted to make a card to welcome him. And I wanted to reuse the colours from the new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. Two blues sounded like sea and sky and the coral made me think of the Picture Perfect set and the starfish. I am also continuing to play with last week’s sketch challenge which apparently really grabbed me – thanks to Jane for these.

Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect and Gorgeous Grunge and Welcome Words

The banner for this challenge is:

It’s quite a tricky combination in my opinion and I played with it for a while before deciding on this design. Martin asked why a starfish on a welcome card; I decided it’s because work is hard, we’re trying to do a lot with not enough people (hence the hiring) so Rod will need extra arms and hands to get everything done. A stretch perhaps…

The starfish is stamped in watermelon wonder on watercolour paper – it’s a 2 step stamp and one was stamped off first once and the other is full strength. I then fussy cut this. Why watercolour paper? Well I intended to use watercolour paper for the background and I played with it a little but in the end, after also trying white shimmer paper, I ended up with ordinary whisper white. So the background has marina mist and night of navy washed on with an aquapainter and, once that dried, I actually used Gorgeous Grunge to add the night of navy spots. I must remember to warn my sister Caro about the use of Gorgeous Grunge. It’s not something I use much at all whereas she loves it. Next I cut a square of night of navy slightly larger for the mat. I kept the squares slightly smaller than the starfish – I like the overhanging look. Before adding anything to my base of thick whisper white, I stamped the sentiment from Welcome Words in night of navy. There’s not much worse than gluing elements to a card and then messing up the stamping. Once the stamping was done, I started construction.

Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect and Gorgeous Grunge and Welcome Words

I popped the starfish up with dimensionals and then coloured it in with some clear Wink of Stella. I know that this pen is on backorder and I can see why – I need to get a back up one because I’m using it a lot. I used some of the retired backgrounds DSP in night of navy to line the outside of the envelope flap.

I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge site to see what the rest of the Design Team have created with these colours and have a go yourself.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Perfect Blend

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Here’s another stamp set which is retiring – Perfect Blend; I thought I should ink it up before it became obsolete. I have used the images before but had borrowed the set from my sister. And so it seems apposite that I’m caseing the coffee splodges from her also. See her recent post here.

Stampin' Up! Perfect Blend

I also made this card to fulfill a challenge from Susan Itell’s site – to use one colour of card and one colour of ink and I further decided that it ought to be one of the five retiring colours. With that decision and the memory of Caro’s card from a couple of days ago still fresh, I got out the Perfect Blend and Gorgeous Grunge stamp sets, very vanilla card stock and baked brown sugar ink. Since this is a very simple card, I didn’t want to make it a single layer – I like the effect of having a layer of the same colour as the base. After stamping the cup and the sentiment, I added the coffee splodges from Gorgeous Grunge. Since the stamp was inked up, I also added some splodges to the front of the envelope.

See you tomorrow,

Liz