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A dozen thoughts for the Pals challenge

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This week the challenge at the Pals Paper Arts is a colour one, my favourite kind of challenge.

Stampin' Up! Bright and Beautiful and A Dozen Thoughts

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired this card

http://stampinpretty.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f95df92883401bb07fc4b27970d-pi

I had the A Dozen Thoughts set out for the previous card that I was creating and noticed the Wish Big sentiment. I really love the typeface and decided to use it on this card. And then the whole Disney “wish upon a star” idea occurred to me and the card developed from there.

I stamped the middle sized star from the Bright and Beautiful set in versamark onto the garden green card stock before sprinkling over the gold embossing powder and heating it. I then did the same for the sentiment. I mounted this card onto a piece of basic black which is 3/16 inch larger in both dimensions thus giving a border of 3/32 inch around the green. I mounted this onto the garden green card base; there’s a border of half an inch of garden green around the basic black. I finished by lining the envelope using the Backgrounds DSP from the Regals family in garden green.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

My first brad!

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One of the things that my secret pal (now revealed to be Jill – thanks, Jill) gave me over the crop weekend was some antique brads. Brads, for those of you who don’t know (like me a few months ago) are embellishments that are attached to the card by making a hole and pushing the two prongs through and opening them out behind the card to hold them in place. The Stampin’ Up! antique brads are really pretty and I’ve admired them on my sister’s cards but haven’t quite mustered up the courage to use them. Once I had received them I set myself a challenge to make a card with them. I figured that the Stampin’ Up! Bright and Beautiful stamp set would be the perfect setting.

I may possibly have mentioned previously that I love heat embossing! I decided to emboss the second largest star from the Bright and Beautiful stamp set in silver on night of navy and then I cut it out with the matching star framelit. I then cut out the next biggest size star in the brushed silver cardstock. Adhering these together looked really good. Next I heat embossed the sentiment (also from Bright and Beautiful) in silver on the night of navy base. After I attached the star to the base I punched a hole in the stars using my piercing tool and attached a brad. Caro gave me advice here, I think I was going to add one that was a bit too big. I really liked how this came together and Jen My Upline was so happy to see that I’d progressed! I think there’s even a picture on facebook of me proudly holding my First Brad Card!

Stampin' Up! Bright and Beautiful star on night of navy

Since I had stars on this card, it made sense to decorate the envelope with stars also. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the Lucky Stars embossing folder.

Stampin' Up! Bright and Beautiful with Envelope dry embossed with Lucky Stars TIEF

The advice is to get a Stampin’ Up! piercing mat for paper piercing and attaching brads. I haven’t tried paper piercing but I’ve found another method for making the hole to attach the brads. Admittedly the piercing mat is only $4.95 so it’s not a big deal, but I bought the clear block caddy a while ago so that I could transport my blocks to the crop. The caddy came with the spaces for the blocks filled with foam which appeared very much like the piercing mat. So I used the insert for the largest block as my piercing mat. It worked very well.

 

How are your Christmas cards coming along?

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I am discovering that I love to make Christmas cards. Who knew? For some reason, I find them easier to design too. My brother suggests that possibly having some boundaries helps. I never expected to actually design the cards – I was planning to CASE all of mine. But I’ve found that it’s fun, relaxing and definitely addicting to play around with stamps and ink and card and watch something emerge.

How about another non-traditional coloured card? This, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that until my order arrives on Wednesday, I’m out of garden green and cherry cobbler. 🙂

bright and beautiful calypso

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ Very Vanilla

Top layer: 3.75″ by 5″ Very vanilla

Stamp sets: Bright and Beautiful, Good Greetings

Ink: Calypso Coral

Other: Framelits stars die, stampin’ dimensionals

This is a very simple card, as usual. It’s definitely easier to cut out the star first from the top layer (as I did not on this card!) – I used the third largest die. Then positioning it over the base layer, mark the centre of the star with a pencil. Now you can see where to stamp your image on the base layer. I used the largest star stamp which meant that it was slightly larger than the opening and thus no bare card would peek through. It’s important to now add your greeting before popping the top layer up on the dimensionals. I used some of the edge pieces leftover after you’ve used the hexagon dimensionals – there’s no need to waste the edges. Just snip them to a handy size.