Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Thinking Of You, Global Design Project #127


I've never been an orange person.  Pastels are more to my liking.  But I find myself using Calypso Coral quite a bit. It's in a lot of our DSP right now, but also, it's got a good bit of pink in it with I find pleasing.
I'm playing along with GDP this week.  They are focasing on the SAB catalog for this challenge. 

So, I'm using my favorite image in that little salebration catalog. I know you have probably seen this plenty, everyone seems to like it and it's been done all kinds of ways, including by me.  
Doing it up like this makes for a very pretty and very quick card.    I picked this color because of the DSP I used  behind the main image, it's from the Petal Garden 6" DSP Stack. If you want something softer, you could use the Sweet Sugarplum piece that has the same design or you could use the darker Rich Razzleberry ink for a darker image in the same color.  Either would work well, it also come in other colors in the DSP.

I used a 4 1/4"x 5 1/2 " card base then cut my image piece square at 4 1/4"x4 1/4".  I cut the DSP at 4 1/4"x4 5/8" so it comes out just a bit beyond the images on the sides. I wrapped the 1/4" Organza ribbon and made my bow.     The sentiment is copper embossing.

BTW, Stampin Up is having a little Paper Pumpkin celebration.  If you sign up for PP by the 10th of March, you will get a special kit with a special surprise.   I'd love to tell you want that is, but they don't tell us either. LOL.



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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Counting my Blessings, Festive Friday challenge #ff0002



When I bought this set, it was because I thought it really was cute, but I wasn't sure just how much I could do with it. Ends up being quite a lot.   I just used one of the small images, a swirly leaf one, and the large sentiment from the set for this.

I made this for the new Festive Friday Challenge, this is just number 2 or #ff0002.

So, hmmmm, Employee appreciation or Ribbon or both, hmmmm.  I thought it would be fun to do both, but being as the only employees I have are my kitties and don't do a lick of work.  (I made a pun).  That didn't seem to be an answer, but I did consider doing that.

So, ribbon it is.  And I LOVE this Crinkled Night of Navy ribbon. It's very soft and easy to work with.

My card base is Pink Pirouette, then a layer of Night of Navy, then Watercolor paper with my background design.  I used my White ink, I like using white often if I'm embossing in white as I feel like I get a better white and I can see it while I'm stamping a bit.   I embossed the white images on the background using white embossing powder, then watercolored over the top.
To accomplish that I just used my ink pad and Aqua Painter.   First, I sprayed my piece of watercolor paper back and front lightly, the opened my ink pad just a bit, squeezing it against the top and pad to get some ink on the top.  Using my Aqua painter, I picked up ink blending it where I wanted it on the paper over top of the embossing.

Then I stamped my sentiment, and it helps a lot to use your stamp positioner for this when using watercolor paper. It has a texture so that often it will need 2 or 3 stampings.  I cut that out using my Layering Squares framelits and then cut a piece of the Pink a bit larger from the Stitched Shapes Framelits.     I colored the rhinestones using my Night of Navy (dk) Blends alcohol marker.  And added those to the bottom of my sentiment.

If you are new to embossing, remember to use a light source so you can see when the embossing starts to shine so you know when to stop heating. Otherwise you will just loose the embossing as it will sink into the paper.


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Friday, February 23, 2018

Happy for you, Just add Ink # 397


The Just Add Ink Challenge for this week is Just Add H.  I had a good time looking for things that had an H in it or started with.  I almost did a die cut HELLO, but decided on these 2 sets.

I used the big basket from Basket of Wishes and put the flowers in it from Grown With Love, so my H is Happy for you.  That's pretty generic, I can use it for lots of occasions so that works well.  Go HERE to check out the challenge.

I thought all the leaves on this piece of DSP from Painted Autumn would work well with all the flowers in my basket.    I also cut 2 pieces of Garden Green the same size as my stamped die cut and layer it so the whole card was seen. The next size up with the largest of the dies and way too big.


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Stampin Up, Best Wishes, GDP126


I think this embossing folder is my new best friend.  I was thrilled to see that it will be showing up in the new Annual catalog, it won't be bundled so if you love it you might want to get the bundle free for placing an order of $100 from the annual or occasions catalogs.

I'm playing with the GDP challenge today.  I'm afraid I'm really late too.  The Challenge starts on monday and here it is friday and I'm just getting it posted, although it's been done for a few days, my computer had to spend some time in the hosp.  I hate when that happens, but my baby is getting old. Almost 8 yrs old, and her battery was going dead.

Anyway, here it is finally.  My first time using this stamp set, it's so pretty. I also used one of my favorite colors, Perfect plum along with it's darker shade Elegant Eggplant, and Lemon Lime Twist for pop with the leaves done in Tranquil Tide.

Be sure to check out the awesome cards done by the team, and maybe even try out one of the challenges, they are so wonderful for pushing one to do better.



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Friday, February 16, 2018

Stampin Up, Occasions set, Flying Home


I thought that today I'd just post one of the cards my class did yesterday.  It's from the new 2018 Occasions catalog. The set is called Flying Home.  There are 3 larage images in this set, all just as cute as they can be, plus some butterflies, birds and a bee.

The embossing folder seen is one of a set of 2 from the Petal Palette set. I simply sponged over it after I embossed at the bottom of the card.

I colored the image in mainly with the new Blends.  Added a piece of Lemon Lime Twist ribbon and a little sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes.   The circles are from Layering circles Framelits.



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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Beautiful Birthday card and Just Add Ink #395


Now this was fun! I have had this marble background stamp for a long time, it was one of the first things I bought when the new Annual catalog came out, but I just never grabbed for it. Today was the day.  I'd also like to try using 3 colors on it and see how that comes out, looks a lot like the shaving cream technique, right?

So, I have 2 daughters who's birthdays are on the same day 4 years apart, and they are coming up, so this is one card down.  One to go.

The only colors I used are Pink Pirouette and Old Olive, I colored using the new blends markers, after embossing the Petal Palette set of flowers in white. Very hard to see to color in, but a very different look as well.  I used my multipurpose adhisive sheets for the corner designs and the large leaf set.  I also colored the pearls on the sentiment piece using the Blends marker.

I just could not resist using the little bird from Birds and Blooms dies.  I hope you all love this as much as I do.

To see all the other contributions at Just Add Ink, go here.
And here is this week challenge, it's an inspiration challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

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