May 18, 2018

In Color Blocks

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Are you excited for the new catalogue?! I am! There are so many new colours and fun things that I wish I could get them all at once! But, alas, I must be wise with my spending and pace myself. So far, I have two of the new inks, a sampling of all the new colours, all of the In Color inks and most of the In Color cardstock. I also decided to get the early release products in the Share What You Love Suite (of course, I had to choose the “Gotta Have It All” bundle so I could get all the free gifts with it!) You can check out the bundles by clicking on my SHOP button here on my website.

The card design today features four of the five 2018-2020 In Colors. These colours are bright and playful and full of cheer!

Here’s the challenge sketch that I started with:When I saw this sketch, I immediately thought of using the acrylic blocks to stamp the rectangle and square shapes and that is exactly what I did!

I used Clear Block C and Clear Block A from Stampin’ Up! to create this playful, colour blocked background. I simply pressed the block onto the ink pad, spritzed the ink on the block with 70% rubbing alcohol using my Stampin’ Spritzer, then pressed the block on my paper where I wanted it. I used Lovely Lipstick, Blueberry Bushel, Pineapple Punch, and Call Me Clover.The Pineapple Punch yellow die cut star is cut using the Wood Crate Framelits Dies and attached with a piece of Foam Adhesive Strips (no reason, it was just closer to me than my Stampin’ Dimensionals!). I looped some Gold Metallic Thread to stick behind the star for some extra flourish. The sentiment, “smile”, is from the Tabs for Everything stamp set and was stamped with Momento Tuxedo Black ink. The stars from the Tabs for Everything stamp set and the stars from the the Wood Words stamp set were stamped with the coordinating colours of the blocked area on which they are placed.Once I was happy with my stamping and the star elements, I used the Envelope Punch Board to punch the upper left and lower right corners with the corner rounder part of the punch board. I did the same on the Lovely Lipstick matte layer and the same again with the Crumb Cake card base. Dimensionals were used to adhere the Lovely Lipstick layer and give the card some pop.The final touch was to add the gold sequin from the Metallics Sequin Assortment pack. I used the Fine-tipped Glue Pen to adhere these to the card front.

If you want to order these ink colours and you are in Canada, you can order them from me through my online store. Just find the SHOP button on my website and it will take you to my online store. These cheerful ink colours are available on the Share What You Love link on the left side of the online store page. The coordinating cardstock and sooo many other amazing new products will be available June 1st! Whoohoo!!

March 10, 2017

It’s Your Party!

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It’s time for another challenge! For this happy card, I used the Large Letters Framelits and the Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper from Stampin’ Up!

Here’s the As You See It Challenge sketch that is responsible for my creative mojo:

So fun and simple, don’t you think!? At first glance, I liked how the dots on the sketch went light to dark across the page and tried to think of how I could use that in my own design. But my final result rarely goes as planned and I found myself inspired by a deep desire for bright colours to pull me out of the winter blues.

Here’s what I came up with:

I used the Large Letters Framelits from Stampin’ Up! to cut the letters ‘P’, ‘R’, and ‘Y’ from a piece of Whisper White cardstock and stamped the sentiment from the Endless Birthday Wishes stamp set above the ‘Y’ with Melon Mambo ink. I then adhered a piece of the Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper (DSP) to my Thick Whisper White cardstock base before adhering the stamped and die cut Whisper White layer over the DSP with Stampin’ Up Dimensionals.

I added the inside of the letter ‘P’ and ‘R’ using Dimensionals cut in half because those pieces are so narrow. The letter ‘A’ is die cut from Emerald Envy cardstock, while the letter ‘T’ is cut from Tempting Turquoise cardstock. These letters were added to the front of the card using Stampin’ Up! Dimensionals.

For a festive confetti-like flare, I added some Brights Candy Dots. Sadly, these are no longer available, but the current Brights Enamel Dots would be perfect for this card. In fact, if I had them, I would have used the star shapes to make this card even more fun!

I like how this card is appropriate for anyone, male or female and of any age. This one will be for my son, who’s turning 13 this month!

I’m going to have a TEENAGER!!! ACK!!

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January 27, 2017

Blue and White Wishes

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I have a sweet and simple card for you today AND I have another sweet and simple card (but a little less so) for you tomorrow! WHAAAAA!!?? Two blog post in a row!? I KNOW!! I can hardly believe it myself!

My card today was inspired by the As You See It Challenge #142 – a sketch. AND it was also inspired by NOT pink, lol! When all of the As You See It designers unveiled our designs for this challenge, we discovered that the majority of us used PINK! I guess we all have Valentine’s cards on the brain.

So, friends, tomorrow, you will see my pink card, but today you will see my blue and white wishes card that I threw together at the last minute and loved how it turned out – so fresh and clean.

Here’s the As You See It Challenge sketch:

When I was thinking of “not pink”, my thoughts turned to the unopened pack of Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper that has been sitting in my stamp room (I keep trying to make myself call it a “studio”, but it always sounds too pretentious). It has some pretty images that I thought could work for this sketch.

I like the simplicity of this card AND it only took a few minutes to put together. BONUS!

I used a Thick Whisper White card base, on which I used my Project Life Corner Rounder Punch on the top right corners for added interest. The supplemental layers also have the top right corner rounded.

The 3-1/4″ x 3-1/4″ square piece of Floral Boutique Designer Series paper was applied to the bottom portion of the 3-1/4″ x 4-1/2″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. The sentiment from the Window Shopping stamp set was stamped with Night of Navy ink and embossed with Clear Emboss powder and my Heat Tool. To have the powder stick properly to the ink, I first inked my stamp with Versamark ink, then inked it with Night of Navy, resulting in a perfectly embossable (it’s a word, right?) sentiment!

The Night of Navy Solid Baker’s Twine was the perfect match with the Floral Boutique paper and the Night of Navy Cardstock. This I wrapped around the Whisper White cardstock and designer paper combo and attached it with Stampin’ Up Dimensionals to the 3-3/8″ x 4-5/8″ Night of Navy layer (which was adhered directly to the Thick Whisper White card base). The little rows of three Basic Pearls were the perfect finishing touch for this simple, yet elegant, card.

Now you try! Use the sketch from the As You See It Challenge blog and see what wonderful things you can create!!