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Petals and Paisleys Specialty DSP

Flourish CAS Colours & Sketches

It’s Thursday which means it’s time for another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and yes, the challenges there should flourish! How about this week you have a go at the challenge yourself? It would be great to see you in the gallery. This week it’s a sketch challenge where Karen wants to see some layering. I chose to go pretty minimalistic so that I could follow the layering of the sketch plus add some embellishments but remain ultra clean and simple.

Here’s the sketch which inspired my card:

The flower was cut out with the Flourish thinlits in sweet sugarplum card stock; next I stamped the sentiment in the same ink onto a scrap of very vanilla which I cropped with one of the layering squares framelits dies. Yes, I could just cut the square myself using the trimmer but it’s so much simpler with the dies! That done, I held the square over the flowers and got them where I wanted them before using the two way glue pen to glue them permanently. The hello square is popped up on dimensionals hiding the stalks. For a final touch, I got out the enamel shapes in the in colours and added four to the buds. It’s probably the first time that I’ve added an even number of them!

Floral Boutique DSP

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I started my card for today by deciding that I really should use some DSP and there was a scrap of the Floral Boutique DSP in my folder. I have a plastic hanging box which takes 12 by 12″ hanging files and I use those to hold my DSP – scraps of a stack are put at the front of the file. Actually this piece was wider and it wasn’t until I was almost done with my card that I realised why it was bothering me and trimmed down my DSP to be an accent rather than trying to take over the card! And that was a good thing, because after I’d stacked my DSP on my piece of whisper white and ensured that the edges were perfect, I was removing an extra spot of glue and managed to push the DSP so that it was wonky. And I didn’t notice until the wiggle room time was up. I usually love that the multipurpose glue gives you adjustment time, but very occasionally, I’ll mess something up because I was done but the glue wasn’t. So I just trimmed off the wonky edge and that’s a second, very easy way, to get your edges lined up perfectly!

I love the navy and white together but I decided that I wanted another pop of colour – and that it wouldn’t be melon mambo, just for a change. I had the watercolour wishes happy birthday sentiment still mounted on a block from yesterday’s card which explains the choice of sentiment. I stamped in sweet sugarplum on a piece of scrap and cropped it out with the layering ovals framelits dies, I also used them to crop out my sweet sugarplum mat. Incidentally, if you don’t have these layering dies, they are on special this week until the 21st, for only $26.25. That’s a great bargain. Just click on the Shop Now button and they can easily be yours – don’t forget to use the hostess code to start amassing your loyalty points. For more details on my loyalty program, click the button on the left.

Then it was just a matter of construction – I put the DSP right up to the edge of the whisper white (and adjusted as previously mentioned!), added a little layer of sweet sugarplum and put that onto a night of navy base. I popped the sentiment and it’s mat up on dimensionals.

Every time I use the Floral Boutique DSP, I wonder why I haven’t used it more recently. So I hope you like this stack, I have a feeling I’ll be playing with it at the weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Totally Trees for the Paper Players

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Leanne at the Paper Players has put together a very fall inspired colour choice this week – I think she’s hoping it will fix the hot weather! It’s done so in New Jersey, so thanks for that Leanne. It inspired me to pull out my Totally Trees set – not that it was put away. I can’t see it being put completely away for a very long time.

And here’s the banner which inspired my card

I made this card right after my Merry Medley one and so wanted to make a very CAS card to balance what felt like the busy-ness of that one! I started by stamping the green ground in pear pizzazz and the tree itself. For the leaves, I did the baby wipe technique. You grab a baby wipe, put it on your stamp-a-ma-jig mat or some other plastic (to prevent getting your grid paper wet) and add drops of ink from your re-inkers – I used crushed curry and cajun craze. Then when you ink up your stamp, you get an interesting blend of colours, just perfect for turning leaves. You can keep inking up your stamp and making more cards for a while so it’s not as wasteful in ink as it first looks. I then stamped the sentiment from Watercolor Wishes.

I matted this in pear pizzazz and put it onto a cajun craze card base to finish my very CAS Totally Trees card. Love all the white (well, very vanilla) space.