weather together

May 5, 2017

Stormy Weather

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Hi all. It was pretty hot here today. It almost felt like summer! We have an amazing thunder and lightening storm this evening. Crazy!

It’s that time again for a card designed for the As You See It Challenge blog. Here’s the sketch:

My card has an umbrella and two clouds in place of the balloon images in the sketch. I used the Weather Together Stamp set and the Umbrella Weather framelits from Stampin’ Up!

I’m actually not going to go into detail about this card, but will just share a couple elements with you. I started with a piece of the not yet available Wood Texture Designer Series Paper stack. It is a very light, almost white wood pattern that I sponged with Soft Sky ink using the Sponge Brayer, just to make it a little less stark.

The rounded corners framing the wood texture patterned paper was created by using my Layering Circles and Layering Squares framelits with my Big Shot. I simply chose one circle framelit and one square framelit that were close to the same size. Then I cut out first, the square from a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock. Then I lay the circle framelit over the newly cut square piece of cardstock, dead center. Then I ran it through the Big Shot again, so that the circle cut off the corners of the square, giving me four corners to adhere in the corners of the woodgrain patterned paper.

The card base is Pumpkin Pie cardstock. I used a thin matte layer of Soft Sky cardstock and another layer of Crumb Cake cardstock.

I am IN LOVE with the Wood Texture Designer Series Paper stack! I can’t wait until all my customers can buy it when the new catalogue comes out in June!!

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July 1, 2016

Weather Together Ladybugs

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It felt so good to get in my craft room again!

This card was inspired by the As You See It Challenge blog for which I am a designer. I have been MIA for a bit as I wrestle the Busy Beast called Life, but I hope to keep up with the new two week schedule for the AYSI challenges.

Here’s the challenge:

Whoohoo! Canada Day celebrations with the colours of our flag: red and white! The first red thing I thought of was our maple leaf. The second was … ladybugs.

I love ladybugs.

The “fly” in Inking on the Fly is actually a reference to … ladybugs. Not airplanes, not birds or butterflies – just sweet little aphid-killers, lol!

So, here’s my take on the red and white challenge:

I used a combination of the “Love You Lots” hostess set and the “Weather Together” stamp set and framelits from Stampin’ Up! Aren’t those ladybugs cute, snuggling under that umbrella!! I stamped the umbrella parts and the ladybugs on the Whisper White cardstock. Then I stamped the same umbrella image on a piece of Real Red cardstock before die cutting it with the coordinating umbrella framelit. It was attached over top of the first umbrella image with Stampin’ Up Dimensionals. The ladybugs were stamped a second time on Watermelon Wonder cardstock, coloured with Real Red ink and a Blender Pen, then cut out by hand so they could be adhered with Tombo Multipurpose Liquid Glue over the prestamped image.

I added some shading to the umbrella with Smoky Slate ink and a Blender Pen. I also added shading under the ladybugs so that they weren’t all floating in the air.

The rest is pretty straight forward with die cutting the rain drops, stamping the sentiment, layering the cardstock and tying on the beautiful Real Red Ribbon.

Glad you stopped by! Be sure to participate in this challenge at the As You See It Challenge Blog.

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