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Lighthearted Leaves

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I can’t believe that I hesitated for a minute over buying this set – I think it’s the one that I’ve used the most from this year’s annual catalogue so far. I was inspired by this week’s challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches where there’s an interesting trio of colours – and some amazing inspirational cards from the Design Team. I was also inspired by the challenge at the Paper Players where they are doing Clean and Simple with leaves. Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves and Painted Petals

Here are the banners which inspired my card:

I removed some of my photopolymer stamp from their backings and stuck them to the insides of the stamp set box using the printed window sheet for positioning. This left me with a number of sheets of the plastic spare and I made a few templates with them. I punched out some squares to make a rectangle template which I used for this sponging. I started with the pumpkin pie, then tangerine tango finishing off with the real red. I then used the archival black to stamp the image from the Lighthearted Leaves set but I didn’t get a great stamp. So I inked it up again – and remembered to use my pierce mat this time – and stamped again. I wasn’t spot on but I continued with the card so that I could get it completely designed. It took quite a while to find the right sentiment for the feeling of the card and the space available – it’s from Painted Petals, a much loved set from the now retired Occasions catalogue. I interrupted the cooking going on and showed the idea to my father and brother; they liked it and looked at me as if I had 47 heads when I said I needed to redo it because the stamping wasn’t perfect. I looked again and decided that they were right and the imperfections were actually a good thing. I then mounted the piece of whisper white onto a base of the thick whisper white. I’d considered a coloured mat but it detracted from the clean lines. I added an envelope liner in a retired real red backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Lighthearted Leaves for a challenge

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I seem to be entering a lot of challenges this week and today it’s TGIF Challenges where it’s a colour challenge.

Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves and Greetings Thinlits

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

Definitely fall colours. I used a leaf stamp from Lighthearted Leaves which I seem to be using a lot at the moment – I’m working my way around the set! I stamped it in the three colours onto a very vanilla background. I wasn’t sure which colour to use for the sentiment and so cut out a thanks with the Greetings Thinlits dies in all three colours and tried them all! In the end, I decided to go 3-D and layers the old olive on top of the rich razzleberry – I’m really happy that I have the fine tip glue pen to help me with adhering the thinlits. I then mimicked the shadowing effect of the rich razzleberry by having a very thin mat of rich razzleberry behind the very vanilla and putting this onto an old olive card base.

I had visitors over the weekend and they looked at all my stuff, especially the ribbon and they commented that surely I have more ribbon. I don’t. Because I hardly ever use it, I much prefer the clean and simple style card. But maybe I should use some ribbon soon. I’ll take it as a challenge.

Last, but definitely not least, a welcome to my new blog follower. I’m glad to have you join the fun!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Lighthearted Leaves and Holly Jolly Greetings

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I didn’t intend to make a Christmas card, but when looking for a sentiment to fill a corner, the JOY is what worked. So it became a joyful card and probably a Christmas one in very untraditional colours.

Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves and Holly Jolly Greeting

I stamped the leaves from the Lighthearted Leaves set (one of my favourites currently) in the archival basic black ink – this great ink has meant that my previous favourite, memento ink, is gathering dust. I coloured in the leaves using Stampin’ Write markers in pear pizzazz and rich razzleberry. I didn’t colour perfectly, thinking that a little flash of white here and there made sense with the roughly drawn image. Something else was needed so I looked at a few sets for a small sentiment, Holly Jolly Greetings was on the table and JOY fit. I’ve stamped that in rich razzleberry.

A skinny mat of yet more rich razzleberry before mounting that on to a base of pear pizzazz and my clean and simple and, in my opinion, effective card is complete.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Lighthearted Leaves

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I’ve finally managed to make a card and submit it in time for a challenge (I’m still using Martin’s laptop!). This time it’s one of my favourite sites – CAS colours and sketches where it’s a colour challenge this week. Here’s my entry:

Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves

And here’s the banner that inspired my card:

I think that this may be the first time I’ve used chocolate chip, or at least close to it. I’ve had the colour for over a year too! I’m just not fond of brown. This image is from one of the new sets in the annual catalogue, Lighthearted Leaves. It’s a really great set and lends itself to colouring; I’m going to have to do some watercolouring with this soon. There are also framelits that allow you to cut out the leaves – I have a card to share soon using these. But here I stamped the image in chocolate chip on very vanilla (what a great name – I just made some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies using a recipe from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe which are HIGHLY recommended – her chocolate chip cookies are amazing too)  and then used my Stampin’ Write markers in lost lagoon and wild wasabi to colour in the image. The sentiment also comes from the same set and is stamped in chocolate chip. I glued the very vanilla piece onto a mat of chocolate chip (I was obsessed with chocolate chip by this time in my baking) and then onto a base of lost lagoon.  I’m really pleased with how this card came out. I’m also pleased with the cookies, let’s see how much my work colleagues like them tomorrow.

See you tomorrow,

Liz