Today I’m sharing another of the cards that I made at my weekend away with the Moroccan DSP to fit into a box that I made which I’ll be sharing soon. Did you also love the patterns in the Moroccan DSP but when it actually came to use it, feel that it’s rather busy? Yes, me too. So here’s another example of how to showcase the pattern without feeling overwhelmed.
I took a strip of the DSP and added it to the left hand side of my very vanilla card base – I love that Stampin’ Up! has a couple of sets of DSP that include very vanilla this year. I decided to play up the emerald envy in the pattern and stamped my sentiment from the Designer Tin of Cards in that colour. I was obviously in need of a getaway since my brain wasn’t completely on top of things – I forgot my black ink, my stampin’ mist, my whole box of dies and a few other things. I was able to borrow a lot of items, but not all of the dies that I have were available. It’s actually a good in that it shows how essential that box of dies is!
So I borrowed the ovals dies and cut out my sentiment, cutting out a second oval in emerald envy and gluing that to my card front. I popped up the sentiment using dimensionals. For the envelope, I cut a strip at 6 inches by 2 1/8 (it reduces snipping), added the multipurpose glue to the flap and then carefully lined up the strip to the edge of the envelope. If you get it right you only have to trim around the curved edges of the flap.
See you tomorrow for another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches (and therefore just before 8am),
I was having fun at the recent crop and made a few boxes to fit some cards. Which meant that I needed to make sets of cards! For one of them I turned to the Moroccan DSP which is gorgeous and reminds me so much of some of my trips to Spain, in particular the Alhambra which is beyond words stunning. Having mentioned the Alhambra, I feel a bit odd introducing just a card, but the patterns really do fit.
I cut a strip, a fairly random width and then a piece of early espresso 1/8 inch larger so that I got a really thin mat. After I had that glued together I put it onto a very vanilla card base for positioning and then stamped my sentiment in early espresso. It’s from Endless Birthday Wishes and it’s always sensible to stamp the sentiment early in case of issues. This way you can recover. At it happens, it was perfect and I could glue the paneled piece onto the card base.
I cut another piece of the DSP 2 1/8 by 6 inches so that I could glue it to the envelope flap and snip off the excess. And there we have it – a masculine birthday card and one, moreover, that isn’t just navy and brown! The Moroccan DSP is going to be very useful for birthday cards for the IT department. 🙂
I was away at a crop retreat this past weekend with my best friend Julia and we had loads of fun. Julia ran a production line and made 20 anniversary and birthday cards and had another dozen almost completed in between talking, laughing, meeting new and old friends, and just relaxing (the margaritas may have helped). I had a list of current card challenges to help in case I was feeling creativity free and I did struggle on Saturday. It took a while for things to gel – which was when I really appreciated having people to talk and laugh with. I finally started playing with Tuscan Vineyards and in between, my subconscious figured where I was really going with Penned and Painted which I was trying to use for Pootles’ fourth colour challenge.
The challenge this week is to use any or all of sweet sugarplum, so saffron and soft sky. All double S names – fun! I used sweet sugarplum for the sentiment, from the Watercolor Wishes kit and also for the outlines of the flowers from Penned and Painted. Next I filled in the flower with the second stamp from the set using sweet sugarplum stamped off once. The centre is the third part of the flower and is stamped in so saffron. I adjusted the orientation of the flowers but did one at a time. I once did some triple stamping where I thought it would be a great idea to stamp all of the outlines first, then all the next layers and finally all the centres and it did not go well. It was hard to figure out the orientation. So now I do one at a time!
I glued this piece of whisper white to a sweet sugarplum base to complete the card. I’ll start sharing what I did with Tuscan Vineyards as well as boxes I made for the cards starting later this week.
Yesterday I made a card with the set Sweet Cupcake and the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies. Today I decided to do it again, but focus more on the framelits. I also wanted to make a card with the Fruit Stand DSP and have my favourite paper, really shine. So here’s the result of that combination!
Isn’t the lemon paper lucious? It’s a bit watercolorey and so the daffodil delight card stock doesn’t match perfectly hence the old olive as the card base. Or rather, it matches, but the daffodil delight card makes the DSP less intense. I wanted to really highlight the paper so this seemed like the perfect time to cut out the “wish” from the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits dies – it’s cut in old olive, the same as the card base. The “Make A” comes from the Sweet Cupcake set and I positioned it so that it was stamped over one of the paler lemons, also in old olive.
I cut my paper to 6 inches wide and 4 inches deep. Then I cut it back to 5 1/4 but that meant that I could cut a 6 by 2 1/8 strip from the remainder to decorate the envelope flap. It’s as easy as a bit of multipurpose glue on the flap, putting the DSP onto the flap and trimming around the edge. I love the coordination.
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Happy Thursday and as you know by now, this means a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.  But first I’d like to give a big THANK YOU so Sam, aka Pootles, for selecting my card as this week’s winner. It’s such fun playing with challenges and winning the challenge is just the icing on the cake. Which brings me to today’s challenge. It’s a colour challenge this week and I took the opportunity to use my bundle, the Sweet Cupcake stamp set and matching Cupcake Cutouts framelits dies. Okay, if the truth be told, I was determined to make a card using them! They are so incredibly lifelike aren’t they? That’s apparently because the artist who was designing them actually baked cupcakes to be sure that she got them just perfect. Now that’s dedication!
Here’s the challenge banner which inspired my card
Both the cupcake liner and the frosting have three stamps to make the image this realistic. On each I used a single colour, crushed curry for the frosting and tip top taupe for the liner. I stamped off the solid image twice onto scrap paper before stamping it on the card, then stamped off the middle image once and in both cases did the most detailed image full strength. It’s amazing how much variation in colour you can get by stamping off. I then used the matching Cupcake Cutouts framelits dies to cut all three pieces out. The liner is glued to a piece of whisper white and both pieces of the frosting are popped up with stampin’ dimensionals. To add in the island indigo, I used it for my sentiment. I added a skinny tip top taupe mat and then went back and fore between a whisper white or an island indigo card base. Both worked equally but the whisper white made the card more CAS. So that’s the way I went.
I liked the ultra CAS look, but eventually the day after I made it, decided that it was a bit too CAS. So the sprinkles were added to the top layer – the Sweet Cupcake includes the sprinkles and I stamped them in tip top taupe and then added some clear wink of Stella to make them glisten. The following day, I added some extra sprinkles next to the sentiment. Sometimes a card takes a few days to complete!
For some fun, I stamped the envelope, adding a candle (stamped and cut out with the same sets) all in island indigo. I can see Sweet Cupcake producing a lot of fun cards although they are so realistic, it may induce perusal of baking books!
I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge this week and check out the rest of the Design Team’s creations. And then have a go yourself, it’s really fun. I’d love to see you in the gallery. You don’t need a blog to enter, you can link your entry from an online gallery such as at Splitcoaststampers.com or Flickr.
I’d also like to give a big welcome to my new email subscribers – thanks so much for inviting me into your inbox. Feel free to introduce yourselves or ask any questions that you may have. I should add that I’m a member of the Design Team at CAS Colours & Sketches and therefore on Thursdays my post is later than usual. It’s scheduled to coincide with the challenge blog post and therefore goes live at 7:58am EST.
