I wanted to showcase the stitched shapes framelits dies again and decided to add the Moroccan Designer Series Paper to the card.
I started by stamping the image from the Endless Birthday Wishes stamp set in versamark and then bringing it to life with the silver embossing powder and the heat gun. I used the largest but one oval stitched framelit and that created my focal point. I cut a piece of the Moroccan Designer Series Paper to add more emerald envy. I used the same colour for the sentiment also from Endless Birthday Wishes. I put this all together on a piece of whisper white and then onto an emerald envy card base. Easy but very effective.
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Mike ran around the office and gathered birthday wishes from people onto the 8 1/2 inch by 5 1/2 inch card that I made yesterday. And at the end of the afternoon, he told me he was out of space and could he please have another! So, when I got home, I made another large card out of a single piece of card stock.
I wanted this one to be completely different and so I checked out my stash of DSP. I love the Festive Birthday DSP, it’s so loud and so fun. I first cut out the happy using the Hello You thinlits dies and figured out how much DSP I needed. Then it was a matter of positioning things and finally stamping the “birthday” from Crazy About You in melon mambo. Then a bit of a trim on the DSP to get the look that I wanted (I didn’t want the “happy” to sit over any emerald envy) and I stuck everything down. The card looked best with a coloured card base (emerald envy) with a whisper white top layer and so to ensure that Mike has (hopefully) room for enough messages, I stuck a piece of whisper white on both sides of the inside the card.
I used another 12 by 12 piece of retired DSP for the envelope – this was It’s My Party from last year – and made it at 11 1/2 square. Not that the card is any bigger than yesterday’s but yesterday’s card was a tight fit. This works a little better. Hopefully it’s large enough for all of the well wishes!
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I think I mentioned that I’ve been making birthday cards for people at work. Of course, working in a big IT department means that eventually I’ll be giving out 250 per year but I think I can manage that. If I plan! Wednesday is Fred’s birthday – he’s on one of my three teams and his buddy asked for a large card. Or two of them. He’s been working at our company for a decade or so and therefore has a lot of friends. So I took a piece of card stock and folded it in half for the card. And realised that it’s hard making a large card – our stamps are not made expecting there to be such an expanse of card. It was a toss up between cup cakes and trees. And as you can probably guess, taking in mind the title, Totally Trees won out.
I started with the ground which I bent a little on the block and then stamped in the middle in old olive. I added more to get to the edges of the card and then used the grass stamp to add a little texture. I then stamped a selection of trees in soft suede and added their splodges in various fall colours. The trees are turning here in New Jersey so it made sense to me to use cherry cobbler, pumpkin pie and crushed curry. My card is “not a patch on New England”, to quote my sister Caro, who coincidentally also used fall colours on her blog today but definitely fall based.
Having stamped my trees the really tough part of the project was looking for the right sized and shaped sentiment. Everything looked too small in the expanse of white space or as if it were trying to take over the card. Hence I’ve used a paper pumpkin stamp from April and nestled it in amongst the trees. The crushed curry enamel dots came about by accident but they improve the card. I had a smudge of ink there and they saved my card!
As I was slightly intimidated by the size of the card, I made my top layer and inch smaller and added a cherry cobbler layer. It makes the card more special, really frames the main part of the card and reduces the available stamping space! A win-win.
This card really started with the envelope size. I checked how large an envelope I could make and realised that by folding a piece of 8 1/2″ by 11″ card stock in half I would need 11″ by 11″ for the envelope. Obviously the DSP is 12 by 12 so I could have gone slightly larger, but that would have meant cutting up a 12 by 12 piece of cardstock for a not much larger card. This is perfect – and uses up a piece of retired designer series paper (Confetti Celebration from 2 years ago if you want the specifics) which happened to be in the right colours.
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As you may have suspected after yesterday’s post, this one features the Paisley Framelits Dies again! But my pile of copper foil cut outs is still waiting for use, today I used mint macaron. I expect to play some more later today…
I cut my piece of the beautiful Petals & Paisleys Specialty DSP to the same height as my delightful dijon card base – 4 1/4 inches and just 4″ wide to give me a wide border. The mat of mint macaron is just 1/8 inch wider – I love how it pulls the mint macaron out of the DSP. To make the banner, I first stamped the sentiment from the Suite Sayings set in delightful dijon on very vanilla. This is one of the great things about this DSP, it’s based on very vanilla. I like the warmer feel that this gives. Then I cut down my banner to a smidge under an inch so that it fit nicely in the triple banner punch. I was determined to get the decoration in that I’d cut with the Paisley Framelits Dies out of mint macaron, I started with a square sentiment and played around until the banner made more sense. So I’m happy to say that the banner was appropriately sized the first time (unusual!) to allow for the embellishment which I glued on using little dots of tombow glue. I then popped up the banner on dimensionals.
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When I made my card for CAS Colours & Sketches last week and decided that I was going to use a piece of Festive Birthday DSP to cut out a word, I of course, cut out numerous words. This card is using one of the spares.
The word is from the Mini Treat bag thinlits dies and after starting with that, I decided to add the birthday cake in melon mambo from the Endless Birthday Wishes set. I was planning another very CAS card with loads of white space but it just didn’t “fit” so I cut down the panel and picked emerald green as a feature colour and made a little mat. I was still going to stay very CAS with a nice wide white border but after adding the enamel star in emerald envy for the dot over the J, I went star crazy and looked through my stamp sets for an appropriate one. I found a cluster of three stars in Stars of Light appropriately enough and made a border with it and more melon mambo. I think it makes a very celebratory card.
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