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Sheltering Tree

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This is a card which started off as a design team card for CAS Colours & Sketches this week – a colour challenge of blushing bride, chocolate chip and tempting turquoise. I changed my mind midway through, but didn’t want to abandon the tree. So this morning I completed the card which can be used for several occasions.

Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

As you can see from the retiring list, Sheltering Tree is here to stay for the upcoming year so this is my mini celebration of that fact! I stamped the trunk in chocolate chip and then, after using the embossing buddy, stamped the leaves in versamark and heat embossed with blushing bride embossing powder. To continue the cherry blossom theme that the blushing bride embossing started, I added a piece of blushing bride cotton ribbon (on the retiring list) and also a bow. I decided to leave the white space that remained rather than squashing in a sentiment. I think this draws attention to the beautiful tree as it should. I realised, as I was halfway through this post, that the blushing bride embossing powder has retired. In fact – the cherry cobbler powder is on the retiring list and the crushed curry is on the clearance list so if you want either of those, you’d better move quickly. The iridescent ice powder has already sold out. I’m a little disappointed about this – I’d like to have the embossing powder in almost all the colours. But at least we’re keeping Sheltering Tree!

I must say that being on the Design Team and therefore having to enter each challenge is very good for me. I’m pretty sure that I would have walked away from the chocolate chip, blushing bride and tempting turquoise challenge at the beginning. But now, I’ve got three cards (admittedly today’s doesn’t have the turquoise and yesterday’s added pool party) that were inspired by that challenge. And I’m really thrilled with my design team card – I loved how it came out plus it used up retiring DSP. Win-win. So I’d encourage you to try challenges and not be easily intimidated. Even better if you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Perpetual Birthday Calendar – May

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I’ve been meaning to use the May image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set this month since I have a bit of a streak going. And then the CAS Colour and Sketches showed up with the double challenge. Normally colour challenges and sketch challenges alternate but since there were five Thursdays in April, this week it’s a sketch AND colour challenge. I thought I’d give it a go despite my usual reluctance to try sketch challenges.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar and Sheltering Tree

The challenge banner is:

I took the May image from the set and coloured the various flowers using my Stampin’ Write markers in calypso coral, wisteria wonder and island indigo. After breathing on the stamp to re-moisten it, I stamped it onto my whisper white cardstock and then repeated it another four times across the diagonal. I then found that I had one little island indigo star sticking out too far so added another on the other side to balance it. As Staples says, that was easy! The sentiment is from Sheltering Tree and is stamped in Island indigo. I mounted this piece onto a layer of island indigo to give a skinny mat and then put this onto a wisteria wonder card base. I really love the wisteria wonder but I don’t use it as much as I thought – I’ll have to work on that!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Painted Petals Watercoloured

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I can definitely see that there’s going to be a lot of watercolouring going on at my house for a while. And the Painted Petals set already gives the watercolour look, so I had to put them together!

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

I used the same technique as last week but the circle is smaller. I cut out a circle using the big shot and the circles collection and then held that over my watercolour paper. I used so saffron and wild wasabi to create the background. Once it was dry, I stamped the stems from the Painted Petals set in wild wasabi and the flowers in rose red. The sentiment, also stamped in rose red, comes from the Sheltering Tree stamp set.

I tried various mats with this but nothing actually added to the card and most detracted from it. So, after applying the sticky strip (I have fast fuse on order which I think will be perfect for this) I mounted the card onto a rose red base. I lined the envelope using the Envelope Liners framelits and the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

More thoughts than prayers

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Here’s another card that I made whilst I was experimenting with the tree from Thought and Prayers; this time a thinking of you card. I am really enjoying going back to the Work of Art swoosh that everyone played with so much when the catalogue came out and finding new (for me) ways to use it. I’m also having a lot of fun playing with the effect of changing colours.

Stampin' Up! Thinking of You, Work of Art, Sheltering Tree

I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the swooshes (of course) otherwise it’s impossible to get them snuggled up against each other and in line. The first is, surprise surprise, pear pizzazz and then old olive and mossy meadow. I hadn’t been using mossy meadow much until I did the CAS Colour and Sketches challenge earlier this month and then I was reminded what a gorgeously warm colour it is, so thanks for reminding me, Jane! I then used the Thoughts and Prayers tree and stamped that in early espresso as I did with the sentiment which is from Sheltering Tree. I then mounted my piece of very vanilla on a mossy meadow base. The matching very vanilla envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP from the in colours 2014 family in mossy meadow. I may need to challenge myself to use these papers for something other than lining envelopes, but that’s for another day!

Hand Stamped Sheltering Tree

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The Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge blog has an interesting colour challenge this week and I decided to try to use the colours without adding anything other than very vanilla.

Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

Here’s the banner which inspired this card

Now I adore blackberry bliss, it’s such a deep, lush colour, but I haven’t tried pairing it with the other two before. But the Stampin’ Up! Sheltering Tree was calling, heck, I haven’t used it in a few days. So the tree itself was stamped in blackberry bliss. I then tried an idea that I saw on a recording of a presentation from Leadership. I inked up the stamp with the leaves backwards! Yes – I mounted the stamp on the block backwards, inked it up with wild wasabi and after stamping it off once, stamped it over my tree. After cleaning the stamp and mounting it the normal way, I inked it in wild wasabi and stamped it over my tree image. What a brilliant idea!

I then left the card (whilst I prepped dinner) to dry before rubbing the embossing buddy over the card and stamping the little flowerhead stamp in versamark. I then used the blushing bride embossing powder and heated it up for a spring like effect. Because I truly hope that spring isn’t too far away!! Here in New Jersey, at 1200 feet, we still have more than a foot of snow on the lawn – and that’s in the parts where it hasn’t been piled up clearing the driveway. So spring seems a long way away. But, I digress!

I made a little hillock out of wild wasabi using the appropriate stamp and then also stamped the flower stems. I stamped the flowers themselves in blackberry bliss after stamping off once to give some variation from the tree itself. The sentiment, also from Sheltering Tree, is stamped in blackberry bliss as well. I mounted the very vanilla onto a base of wild wasabi and lined the envelope with the wild wasabi shade from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz