Welcome to another Cardz 4 Guyz challenge! Dawn chose “shades of blue” for the theme for #276. I hope you will pop over to the C4G blog to see what the rest of the design team created as well!
Here’s my card:
This card falls into the easy-peasy category when using the Stamparatus. I can’t imagine trying to do this card without that tool.
Measurements:
- The Night of Navy base of the card started out measuring 5-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
- Next, I trimmed off 1-1/4 inches from the top, outside part of the card.
- The white cardstock on the front measures 5-3/8 inches by 2-7/8 inches.
- The white cardstock on the inside panel measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3//8 inches.
- The DSP panel for the inside of the card measures 4-1/8 inches by 1-1/2 inches.
- I also trimmed a piece of the DSP to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap. Since I have a tendency to put the envelope DSP pieces away, I adhered it to the envelope flap as soon as I trimmed it down.
- At the same time, I punched a 1 inch circle of coordinating DSP and ran it through my XYRON create-a-sticker machine for the envelope seal.
Stamparatus for the Win!
- I used the Biggest Wish photopolymer stamp set from the annual catalog for the sentiment words.
- First, I used a piece of printer paper trimmed to the same size as the white cardstock on the front. That way I could make sure that I wouldn’t wind up with half a sentiment. I could also make sure that I had almost the same white space at the top and bottom of the front of the card.
- Using the second plate of the Stamparatus, I placed “happy” where I wanted it to be stamped, and tried it out on the copy paper. Success! On to the white cardstock!
- I first stamped all the Balmy Blue “BIRTHDAY” sentiments going down the front of the white cardstock. To accomplish this, I simply moved the Stamparatus plate down one notch and restamped four more times.
- Then, I stamped the Night of Navy “happy” using the same process of moving the plate down one notch after each stamping.
- That’s it! The result looks so cool!
Finishing Up:
- Next, I adhered the DSP panel to the right side of the white cardstock for the inside. At first, I thought I would have the stripes line up vertically. However, the vertical stripes with the horizontal lines of the sentiments did not look good at all together. Once I changed the stripes to horizontal. everything on the front of the card flowed nicely.
- Since I adhered the DSP first, I was able to pick out a birthday sentiment that would fit on the remaining white panel. I chose “wishing you your BEST year yet” from the Best Year stamp set, also in the annual catalog. I used the Night of Navy ink pad for the inside sentiment.
- That’s it. This card came together very quickly. It just might become my go-to card layout when I need something fast!
Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
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| 155841 | 130 | BEAUTY OF THE EARTH 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
| 155696 | 131 | BLOOM WHERE YOU’RE PLANTED 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
| 155499 | 131 | HAND-PENNED 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
| 152494 | 132 | IN GOOD TASTE 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $17.85 USD | 24.65 $ CAD |
| 155817 | 132 | IN THE WILD 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
| 155807 | 132 | PANSY PETALS 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
| 155605 | 133 | SWEET SYMMETRY 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
| 155718 | 133 | TIDINGS OF CHRISTMAS 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
| 155686 | 134 | YOU’RE A PEACH 12″ X 12″ (30.5 X 30.5 CM) DESIGNER SERIES PAPER | $9.78 USD | 13.39 $ CAD |
It’s Almost Time for the Mini-Catalog and Sale-a-Bration launch!
I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was to see the new Mini-Catalog and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Both catalogs go live on Tuesday, August 3rd! While I can’t show you the inside pages YET, I can share a card I made for a future blog post!
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Awesome take on our “shades of blue” challenge over at Cardz for Guyz!! I love the big sentiment!
What great inspiration for those who decide to play along with our current challenge!! Hopefully we will get participation that our last “keys” challenge!!
Thanks, Deb! The keys one was difficult for me and I had to go to Michael’s to get a pack of little beading keys. I feel petty confident that people will respond to this one.