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Lighthearted Leaves

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I can’t believe that I hesitated for a minute over buying this set – I think it’s the one that I’ve used the most from this year’s annual catalogue so far. I was inspired by this week’s challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches where there’s an interesting trio of colours – and some amazing inspirational cards from the Design Team. I was also inspired by the challenge at the Paper Players where they are doing Clean and Simple with leaves. Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves and Painted Petals

Here are the banners which inspired my card:

I removed some of my photopolymer stamp from their backings and stuck them to the insides of the stamp set box using the printed window sheet for positioning. This left me with a number of sheets of the plastic spare and I made a few templates with them. I punched out some squares to make a rectangle template which I used for this sponging. I started with the pumpkin pie, then tangerine tango finishing off with the real red. I then used the archival black to stamp the image from the Lighthearted Leaves set but I didn’t get a great stamp. So I inked it up again – and remembered to use my pierce mat this time – and stamped again. I wasn’t spot on but I continued with the card so that I could get it completely designed. It took quite a while to find the right sentiment for the feeling of the card and the space available – it’s from Painted Petals, a much loved set from the now retired Occasions catalogue. I interrupted the cooking going on and showed the idea to my father and brother; they liked it and looked at me as if I had 47 heads when I said I needed to redo it because the stamping wasn’t perfect. I looked again and decided that they were right and the imperfections were actually a good thing. I then mounted the piece of whisper white onto a base of the thick whisper white. I’d considered a coloured mat but it detracted from the clean lines. I added an envelope liner in a retired real red backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Painted Petals Sketch CAS(Eing)

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Amazingly, today I’ve made a card (two actually) for a sketch challenge. I find sketches very difficult because usually there is just too much stuff on them. But I’ve found a CAS sketch challenge blog, CAS(E) this sketch. I think I’ll be returning to this site frequently. I made my card and then, just as I was about to photograph it, decided it wasn’t right and so I had to redo it. Here’s my second card:

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

and here’s the sketch that it’s based on:

All of the images are from the soon to be retiring Painted Petals set. I’ve stamped the lines and dots in hello honey on very vanilla and the sentiment is in mossy meadow. The sentiment is actually a single stamp. I mounted the very vanilla onto a mossy meadow card base.

My original card was more focused on the sketch and the thank and you are further apart. Here are the two cards together. Since I’m entering the second card in the challenge, I clearly like that better. What do you think?

painted petals mossy meadow h honey twoStampin' Up! Painted Petals

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

May Perpetual Birthday Calendar

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A quick and easy CAS thank you for today’s card.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar

I used the May image from the Perpetual Birthday calendar set and the retiring colour Strawberry Slush and stamped it multiple times across the diagonal. The sentiment comes from the retiring set Painted Petals – I’m very sad to see this one go. I won’t be retiring it from my personal stash! The piece of very vanilla is mounted onto a base of strawberry slush. And that’s it!

This would be very easily mass produced if you happened to need a stack of thank you cards. And of course changing the colours would make the stamping more interesting after the first five or so!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Flowering Flourishes for the Paper Players

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Firstly I’d like to thank the Design Team 2 at the Pals Paper Arts for selecting my card as a winner this week. It’s an honour to be recognised. I’ve happily added the badge to my awards page.

I’d also like to thank the City Crafter Challenge blog team for selecting my card for their Spotlight Artists award. Two badges in one day is pretty awesome!

The Paper Players‘ challenge this week is for a Clean and Simple “Girly thanks” card. I can definitely do the clean and simple, that’s what my cards tend to be, the girly thanks part needed a little effort.

Stampin' Up! Flowering Flourishes and Painted Petals

This is a deceptively simple card but it took a number of attempts. I started off making a vertical card but it wasn’t going the way I wanted. Then I wanted a large very vanilla border and managed to mess up the cutting and the image portion was too small. But finally, I got it right. The image is from Flowering Flourishes and I stamped it in rose red on the very vanilla (which, in case you’re wondering is 5/8 inch smaller than the card base). The sentiment comes from the soon to be retiring set Painted Petals which is one of my favourite sets at the moment. I then matted this with a piece of rose red which is just 1/8 inch larger than the very vanilla. I like the effect given by a skinny mat. This was then mounted on a very vanilla card base.

I lined the envelope with a piece of the backgrounds DSP in rose red (also retiring but new patterns are coming out in the new catalogue) cut to size using the envelope liner framelits. When I need a liner, I tend to cut out 8 at a time so that they are ready to go. I don’t line the entire envelope since it’s not visible, instead I cut a piece of 12 by 12 into 8 piece 3 by 6 inches and then cut them out with the framelits two at a time. I figure that the DSP is much thinner than the cardstock so two shouldn’t be a problem. I even score them (also two at a time) using my stampin’ trimmer so it’s easy to grab one and line an envelope.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Painted Petals continued

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I found a new (to me) challenge site today, the City Crafter Challenge Blog and the challenge this week is to focus on flowers. That appears to give me a good reason to pull out Painted Petals again. Okay, it didn’t actually get put away from the other day. The kitchen table is starting to disappear under stamping supplies again. Maybe I’ll tidy it up tomorrow. Or maybe I’ll stamp.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

The challenge wanted lots of flowers so I started by embossing a piece of so saffron using the Spring Flowers embossing folder. I then stamped the flowers in wild wasabi and so saffron on very vanilla and cut that out with the smallest circle in the framelits circle collection. I used the next largest size to cut out a piece of wild wasabi for my mat. I mounted the embossed piece onto a card base of so saffron and then attached the flower image with dimensionals to give some height.

See you tomorrow,

Liz