June 5, 2020

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

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This challenge was so hard!! I know what movies I like and I can make a card, but trying to combine the two was a completely different thing!

The challenge is a fill in the blank.

There are 12 steps to making a card for this challenge:

Choose a movie from your long list of favourites
Think about how you can represent that movie on a card
Find a stamp set that will work with your idea
Find a stamp set that will work with your idea
Find a stamp set that will work with your idea
. . . . . . . . .
Choose a different movie
Find a stamp set that will work with your idea
. . . . . . . . .
Just find a stamp set that will work with any of your many favourite movies
. . . . . . . . . nevermind
Make a card without any stamps and hope for the best.

Okay, so it turned out different than my first idea and even my second idea, but I actually stuck with the same movie. I just could NOT find any stamps that worked for me. I was probably trying too hard.

I won’t make you guess which movie. I wanted so badly to piece a bunch of different sentiments together to have it say “the sun’ll come out tomorrow”, but after extensive searching, I had to give up and use the word “smile” from the Daisy Lane stamp set. So, my card design goes along with “the sun’ll come out tomorrow” but the sentiment represents “you’re never fully dressed without a smile”. This is one of my all time favourite movies.

ANNIE (1982)

There have been a few attemps to remake this movie, but none of them even hold a candle to this one. Carol Burnett was perfectly crazy and amazing!

I ended up doing a whole bunch of crazy sponging on my card to create the clouds on Balmy Blue cardstock. I used torn pieces of paper as a mask and sponged Whisper White Craft ink, then sponged on some Balmy Blue where I wanted some colour variations in the sky and to soften my harsh lines. I also used a craft knife to cut along the top of a “cloud” so I could tuck my sun in behind it. (because it isn’t coming out until tomorrow, you know!)

I used the Stitched Rectangle Dies, the Parisian Embossing Folder (it’s hard to see on the white cardstock in these photos), and the Layering Circle Dies. Whisper White cardstock, Pacific Point cardstock for a thin matte, and So Saffron for the sun (which I sponged the edges of using Daffodil Delight ink). The sentiment was stamped with Versamark on the Basic Black cardstock and was heat set with White Embossing powder.

Do you see that sheet music? I expressed how I love sheet music patterned paper, so she gave me some actual sheet music! How fun is that!

As always, if you are in Canada and you like some of the products you see in my blog, you can purchase from me by clicking on the shop button on my page.

This challenge was really hard. Are you up for it? I bet you can do it! Give it a go and show it off at the As You See It Challenge Blog. We’d love to see how you worked one of your favourite movies into a card.

May 22, 2020

Social Undistancing

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Imagine that you’re really excited to get into a hot tub. You’re foot is hovering in the steam above the surface, but you don’t dare dip it into the water yet, because you have a feeling that the water is way too hot! It might even be hot enough to burn!

That’s pretty much how I plan to ease into normalcy as our government moves us through each phase of our restart plan. Here in BC, Canada, certain businesses are allowed to re-open with strict protective measures in place. I could make an appointment to have my hair trimmed, if I want to, but is my vanity worth the risk? Nah, I’m okay with my locks being a bit more disheveled than usual for a little while yet. I’m even okay without my dental checkup for another couple months. I’m pretty nervous about getting out there again and I’m expecting some peer pressure as the government starts releasing us from the current limitations. Friends are going to want to get together, but I’m not keen to open my bubble too soon. I’m eager to get back to normalcy and I can’t wait to social un-distance, but I’m not ready to jump in quite yet. I think I’m going to wait this out and see how it looks a month from now.

In the meantime, I need to get myself a face mask for when I go to the grocery store. It’s getting far too peopley out there, making it harder to keep that 2 metre distance. I know it won’t protect me as much, but it will protect those around me if I’m sick and don’t know it yet. Plus, if I make a mask, I can make it out of some of Stampin’ Up!’s retired fabric! Or I can use some iron-on vinyl and die-cut some letters to iron onto my mask and make it fun. Something like, “If you can read this, then you’re too close!” or, “It’s so peopley out today”.

The As You See It Challenge that inspires my card design today is this crazy colour combination! I was a little worried, as these are not colours that I usually put together.

However, once I got started, I realized that these colours are quite cheerful together! Here’s the card design that I landed on, using the Share Sunshine digital stamp set from Stampin’ Up! with the Artfully Aware stamp set (which is retiring AND at a discounted price as I’m writing this!).

I chose to watercolour the image using the colours in the challenge. The watercolour paper is die cut using one of the Rectangle Stitched Dies from Stampin’ Up! I layered that on some Soft Suede Cardstock and attached that to the Lovely Lipstick layers, the top of which was embossed using the Tin Tile embossing folder and my die cutting and embossing machine. This is all on the clean Whisper White card base.

The sentiment is from the Share Sunshine digital stamp set, which is a COVID-19 giveback global fundraising initiative as part of Stampin’ Up!’s Making a Difference program. 100% of the proceeds of the sale of this 15 page PDF stamp set will to to the COVID-19 efforts of The World Health Organization’s COVID-Solidarity Response Fund and/or the United Way Worldwide’s COVID-19 Community Response and Recovery Fund. You can find out more about this set by clicking HERE. I have been finding this set to be so much fun to use!

I printed the PDF on Whisper White cardstock and cut out the sentiment from the page. I sponged the cardstock with Daffodil Delight ink and trimmed it down to size, flagging the end using the Banner Triple Punch. This was applied to the front of my card with more Stampin’ Dimensionals, but I also added a swirl of the Silver Metallic Thread (retiring), which I actually took the time to “tarnish” by colouring it with the Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends Marker. It’s a subtle difference, but it works!

Now, there is an embellishment on here that I haven’t mentioned yet. Those three little metal photo corners are not available to customers until the new catalogue goes live in June. I attached these antiqued corners from the Antiqued Corners and Slides embellishment pack using Multipurpose Liquid Glue. I love them!

The final touch on my card was to add some Soft Suede spatter. I used the Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends Marker and flicked the brush tip on the lid to cause the ink to spatter across my paper. This might not be a look that everyone loves, but it’s a look that I definitely love!

Did you know that two of these colours are retiring? Lovely Lipstick and Call Me Clover will be leaving us forever to make room for new colours. It’s a bitter sweet time, but I have to say that my excitement for the new products always overshadows the disappointment of what will be left behind!

Head on over to my online store to find all of these products and take advantage of some of the discounted prices on the Last-Chance Products and the Clearance Rack.

Stay safe and craft on!

May 8, 2020

Robin Hello

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I don’t know why this particular sketch was so difficult for me, but I just couldn’t get started and was struggling for ideas. Nothing seemed to be working and all I wanted to do was eat ice cream and binge watch The Office (again). However, I did finally find my stride and am happy with how my card turned out.

Here’s the sketch from the As You See It Challenge Blog that I followed to design my card.

My final design brought me to using a Basic Black cardbase with a Stitched Rectangle die cut center on the front. I stamped the leaves from the Bird Ballad stamp set on the card base with Whisper White Craft Ink.

I layered some strips of the Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper (retiring) and Basic Black cardstock and attached it over the cut out. On this, I tied a piece of Linen thread with a trinket from the Bird Ballad Trinkets (retiring) and added the leaf that was punched out of Mossy Meadow cardstock with the Leaf Punch (sold out, sorry!)

I stamped the bird from the Bird Ballad stamp set with Momento Tuxedo Black on Whisper White cardstock and coloured the image with Stampin’ Blends Markers. Then I cut the image out with one of the smaller dies from the Stitched Rectangle dies. This was layered on a piece of Basic Black cardstock with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The sentiment is also from the Bird Ballad stamp set, and was stamped with Coastal Cabana ink through the opening in the front of the card, onto the Whisper White cardstock that lined the inside of the card.

I’m really sad that the Leaf Punch is no longer available for you to purchase. It was on the retiring list, but appears to have sold out and is no longer available. I would suggest trying the Sprig Punch as an alternate to the Leaf Punch. It would be my second choice for this purpose.

Some of the products I’ve featured on this card are discounted on the Last Chance Products List. Head on over to my ONLINE STORE and have a look at what else Stampin’ Up! has for you.