Cardz 4 Guyz #275 = Keys

Welcome to another Cardz 4 Guyz challenge! Deb chose “keys” for the theme for #275. 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:

I’ll admit, this theme had me stumped for a bit. I do not have anything with a key as a stamp or embellishment. Therefore, I did what any good crafter does when stumped: go to Pinterest! I saw a number of nautical themed cards with keys as embellishments and thought I could do something with that. Thankfully, Michaels had small keys in the jewelry section, so I grabbed them. I used products from the Sailing Home line of Stampin’ Up! products.

Measurements:

After I bought the keys, the rest of the card fell into place quite rapidly.

  • The Night of Navy base measures 8-1/2 inches by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
  • I used a Crumb Cake mat trimmed to 5-3/8 inches by 4-1/8 inches.
  • The Sailing Home DSP (designer series paper) measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches. While I was trimming that, I also trimmed a piece to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap. I adhered it to the flap immediately so I wouldn’t misplace it while I was working on the card.
  • Next, I used scraps of white cardstock to stamp both the anchor and the sentiment.
  • I already had the nautical steering wheel cropped using the Smooth Sailing dies, from which I also cropped the anchor. Once again, I used the stitched rectangle dies to crop out the sentiment.
  • The white cardstock for the inside of the card measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches, as always.

Thoughts and Assembly:

  • The DSP appears to almost be distressed, but I thought I could add to it to make it stand out against the Crumb Cake mat. Therefore, I used the brush end of my Early Espresso marker and outlined the piece of DSP. As you can see, I wasn’t too careful and the corners have a bit more distressing than the rest of the DSP. However, since the print on the DSP uses Early Espresso, everything blends in for one cohesive look.
  • While I had my marker out, I also used it to distress the white cardstock for the inside panel.
  • That’s just one of the great things about using Stampin’ Up! products: all the color products match perfectly creating a seamless end product.
  • I really wanted the embellishments to be clean and un-distressed since the keys are shiny. So, I didn’t distress anything else on the front of the card.
  • After dry-fitting all the pieces on the DSP, I used multipurpose glue to adhere the steering wheel. Then, I used dimensionals under the anchor and sentiment.
  • The bakers’ twine also comes from the Sailing Home products. I wrapped it around the DSP three times and tied it in a knot on the front. While the keys may look like they are attached to the twine, I actually used glue dots to keep them in place.
  • In order to compensate for the bulk of the twine, I popped the DSP up on dimensionals before adhering it to the Crumb Cake cardstock.

I Thought I was Done, but I was Wrong.

  • After I adhered the front of the card to the Night of Navy base, I thought I had finished the card. However, something just kept bugging me. After a few hours, it dawned on me – I’d used an even number of items on the front of the card. The steering wheel, anchor, twine, two keys, and the sentiment. I grabbed my last steering wheel sailing trinket and used a glue dot to attach it.
  • I didn’t stamp anything on the inside of the card because I wanted to be able to use it as an all occasion thank you card.
  • With the addition of the steering wheel trinket, I could call this card/envelope/seal coordinated set complete.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!

I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.


Have a Peachy Day!
Sue

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Cardz 4 Guyz # 273 = Dogs or Puppies

Welcome to another Cardz 4 Guyz challenge! The theme for this challenge is to use dogs or puppies in your project. I chose dogs, and used the Pampered Pets dies along with some leftover items from the retired suite of products. In addition to the old, I used the new Bark 3D embossing folder for the background of my card.

Here’s my card:

I just love schnauzers! We had one, Brandy, when I was growing up on Long Island. Brandy did not like the snow and would kind of hop/jump instead of walking through it. Happy memories!

A Four Square Background

I really wanted to keep the color scheme simple with just Real Red, Basic Black, and Basic White. It’s such a classic color combination.

  • I used Read Red for the card base. It measures 4-1/4 inches by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches to create a tent fold card.
  • I started with a piece of white measuring 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches. Then, I ran it through the Big Shot using the Bark 3D embossing folder. With the 3D embossing folders, you will find it much easier to emboss before trimming. After I embossed the white cardstock, I trimmed it to 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
  • I used white cardstock on the inside of the card. It also measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
  • Each of the four DSP (designer series paper) squares measures 1-5/8 inches square.
  • While I had the DSP out, I trimmed a piece for the envelope flap. It measures 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches.
  • The Real Red mat under the DSP squares measures 3-1/2 inches square.

Assembly

  • Before adhering the embossed white cardstock to the base, I attached 3 pieces of ribbon to the white cardstock. The ribbon doesn’t reach all the way around since I just needed it to fold under. I placed a piece of tear-and-tape vertically on the back to hold each piece in place.
  • I dry-fit the DSP squares in place before adhering them down on the red square of cardstock with multipurpose glue.
  • Then, I adhered the red cardstock to the embossed white cardstock with multipurpose glue.
  • I did have a schnauzer left on the remaining Pets DSP, so I cropped it with the Pets die. The schnauzer is attached using dimensionals.
  • The front and inside sentiments are stamped using the Momento Tuxedo Black ink pad. Then, I cropped the front sentiment using one of the stitched rectangle dies. In order to have the sentiment straddle the ribbon, I used dimensionals along just the top and the bottom of the sentiment block.
  • Finally, I used a glue dot to attach one of my remaining pets trinkets to the schnauzer’s collar.

Finishing Up

Here’s a picture of the inside of the card:

  • The sentiment also comes from the Pampered Pets stamp set.
  • I’ve never really figured out what to do with the paw die. However, I really think it works as a border on the bottom.
  • Finally, I trimmed the DSP on the envelope flap, punched a circle seal from DSP and ran it through my XYRON create a sticker. The seal lives inside the envelope until I am ready to use it.
  • With that, I’d finished this card/envelope/seal coordinated set.

I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.


Have a Peachy Day!
Sue

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Two Cards, Two Design Teams, Two Challenges, One Time Slot

Normally, I would be welcoming you to the next Cardz 4 Guyz challenge, # 272. The new theme, Father’s Day, includes endless possibilities. However, on this Tuesday, the 1st of June, also coincides with the Sparkles Christmas Challenge #125going live, of which I am now a design team member starting with this challenge. This month’s theme, a Krafty Christmas, brings a plethora of ideas to my mind. Just check all the other cards by the design team, and you will see what I mean.

I really tried to figure out a way to try to better incorporate both challenges into one blog post, but it just didn’t happen. My other choice, two blog posts going live at the same time, didn’t seem feasible either. So, here we have it. Two Cards for Two Design Teams, Two Challenges and One Time Slot to go live.

Forgive me, please. I am having a complete brain fart and can’t remember how to link the picture to the URLs. Hopefully, I will figure it out before this has to go live.


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Father’s Day

Everything I used for the Father’s Day card actually came from May’s Paper Pumpkin kit! Sweet! I’ve been making special order cards for a work colleague for about two years. His father is a huge baseball fan, so this Paper Pumpkin arrived at the perfect time!

Here’s the card:

I used two of the included card bases to create this fun fold. The inside fold did get trimmed about a quarter of an inch so it would fold nicely. Literally everything else was contained in the kit, including the stamps, Night of Navy inkspot, dimensionals, enamel dots. Everything for under $25.00!

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Here’s my Krafty Christmas card:

I used the now retired Curvy Christmas stamp and coordinating die set for this card. Some of you may have kept your set, just as I did. If you didn’t the layout could be copied with another set in the same color combination.

  • The Cherry Cobbler base measures 4-1/4 inches by 11 inches, and scored at 5-1/2 inches to create a tent card.
  • The DSP under the front of the card measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
  • The top Cherry Cobbler layer measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
  • The Crumb Cake layer started out 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches. Then I cropped it using the Curvy dies. It was much easier to get the trees stamp to line up with this half of the cropped Crumb Cake, so that’s what I used. Then, I ran the cropped piece of cardstock through the Big Shot using the Subtles 3D embossing folder. (Will any of you ever get rid of this retired embossing folder? I can’t see myself doing that!)
  • The embossing buddy is the absolute most important tool for the embossing of the sentiment, trees, and star flourishes. I used the embossing buddy to clean off all pieces of cardstock. Remember, do not touch your fingers to the areas being embossed once you clean them! The oils from your fingers will pick up little tiny pieces of the embossing powder. It’s difficult, but not impossible, to get those stray pieces of powder off once they are on the cardstock.

The Stamp-aratus

  • The next most important tool? The Stamp-aratus, of course, and that’s especially true in this case. After arranging the stamp and paper just where I wanted the stamp to live, I stamped it twice using VersaMark.
  • Next, I sprinkled the embossing powder onto the VersaMark trees, flicked off the extra (from behind), then heat set it.
  • As I watched the magic happen, I realized I had inadvertently used CLEAR powder when I meant to use WHITE powder. Never fear, the Stamp-aratus was still set with the trees stamp. So, I lined up the cardstock and stamped directly over the clear set powder twice using VersaMark. Then, I made sure I used the WHITE powder, and repeated the process.
  • I repeated the process twice for the star flourishes in the sky. I just moved the cardstock very slightly to the left so the flourishes don’t exactly line up.
  • Then, I set up the Stamp-aratus for the Crumb Cake cardstock and sentiment. First, I stamped the sentiment using Cherry Cobbler ink. I cleaned off the stamped and stamped twice using VersaMark. I completely intended to use clear embossing powder for the sentiment, and, thankfully, that’s what I did.

Finishing Up

  • After I adhered the Crumb Cake cardstock to the Cherry Cobbler cardstock, I wrapped a length of the ribbon around and simply tied it in a square knot. I addded dimensionals under the Cherry Cobbler cardstock and then adhered all the pieces together.
  • There’s a piece of white cardstock for the inside panel, measuring 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches. I didn’t need to use the Stamp-aratus to stamp the sentiment and trees on the inside. I like the contrast between the Cherry Cobbler sentiment and Crumb Cake trees on the inside.
  • Finally, I stamped Crumb Cake trees along the bottom of the front side of the envelope. Then, I adhered and trimmed a piece of Cherry Cobbler DSP for the envelope, adhered and trimmed it down.
  • My Krafty Christmas card/envelope set was done! This card would be very easy to mass produce, and I think I may just have to do that for my family members up north.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.


I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.


Have a Peachy Day!
Sue

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Create Your Own Background for CFG # 271

Welcome to another Cardz 4 Guyz challenge! The theme for #271, create your own background, offers so much potential and an incredible number of options. For this challenge, I chose to create my own background using the shaving cream and reinker technique.

Here’s my card:

Yes, Shaving Cream, Reinkers, and Watercolor Paper

  • I’ve tried doing this technique using regular cardstock before, but it doesn’t hold up well to the shaving cream. Therefore, I have since used strictly watercolor paper. I trimmed a piece to 4-1/4 inches by 5-1/2 inches to start.
  • Next, I used the least expensive shaving cream in the store, and I think it came to 85 cents including tax. I grabbed half sheet of the thin cardboard used in the DSP packages and then spread out shaving cream on it.
  • Next, I dropped some Night of Navy ink drops and then some Crumb Cake ink drops on the shaving cream. I used my bone folder to kind of swirl around the ink. Here’s the way it looked before covering it with my watercolor paper:
  • Now all I had to do was lightly press the watercolor paper onto the “mess” and carefully lift it off.
  • HINT: one of the biggest reasons I started with 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches was so I had some room on the very ends to lift the paper off.
  • Then, I used the same bone folder to lightly skim the shaving cream off the watercolor paper.
  • Even though I didn’t do anything to change the swirls on the shaving cream, the second press is just a bit different than the first. Here’s a look at the second piece of watercolor paper:

Measurements and Assembly:

  • When the watercolor paper dried thoroughly, I trimmed it to 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
  • Then I stamped the vintage airplane from the Soar Confidently stamp set using Early Espresso on white cardstock. The plane was cropped using the nested label dies. I used the Night of Navy marker to outline the cropped sentiment panel.
  • I stamped the sentiment, from the Beautiful World stamp set in Night of Navy on white cardstock. Then, I cropped it using the stitched rectangle dies and outlined it using the Crumb Cake marker.
  • The Crumb Cake mat measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
  • I used Night of Navy for the base of the card. It measures 4-1/4 inches by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches, creating a landscape side-opening card.
  • I adhered the Crumb Cake mat to the front of the card using my fav, multipurpose glue.
  • Next, I used a length of the burlap ribbon to go across the front and very slightly wrap around to the back of the card. Sometimes that can be difficult to do and have it stay in place. Therefore, I used a piece of tear and tape from end to end on the burlap ribbon. When I removed the cover piece, I was easily able to wrap it around and feel confident that the ribbon will stay in place.
  • I popped both the plane and sentiment pieces up off the front using dimensionals, making sure I didn’t have dimensionals sitting on the ribbon.
  • Finally, I used a piece of white cardstock trimmed to my usual 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches for the inside panel. I used “Thank you for being part of mine” from Beautiful World and Happy Father’s Day from Soar Confidently sentiments. Both of these are stamped in Night of Navy ink.

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  • With that, I had finished this card. Don’t be surprised if you see more shaving cream backgrounds in the next few weeks. It’s really a fun technique!
  • I can’t wait to see what you create and upload to the challenge! Have fun!

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Thank you so much for stopping by today.


I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.


Have a Peachy Day!
Sue

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Monochromatic for C4G # 270

Welcome to the Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge # 270! I hope you play along with the theme I picked for this two weeks, a monochromatic card or project.

Before I get into the card and the rest of the post, I need to thank each and every one of you reading my posts! Last Wednesday, I received this notification from WordPress:

Truly, thank you very much to each of you reading my blog! I was, and still am, extremely honored.

On to the challenge! Here’s my card:

When I decided on the elements for the card, I just went for it. Tonight I realized that the DSP, stamp set, and die set, as well as the Stitched Shapes dies are all retiring at midnight MDT. Actually, I don’t think I’ve used the map bundle before this.

Measurements:

  • I used Mossy Meadow for the card base. It’s trimmed to 5-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches, and scored it at 4-1/4 inches.
  • The DSP for the front of the card measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches. The striped DSP at the bottom measures 3-3/8 inches by 4-1/8 inches. Since I wanted to have some definition from the base, I used a nail file to distress all four sides. I think the distressing really works with this nautical DSP.
  • While I had the DSP out, I trimmed a piece of the striped DSP to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap. I’ve learned that I need to adhere the envelope flap piece to the envelope flap as soon as I cut it. If I don’t, I tend to use the strip for something else on the card.
  • I stamped the sentiment in Mossy Meadow and cropped it with one of the square dies from the Stitched Shapes die.
  • Then, I stamped the globe and the compass rose in Mossy Meadow. I used the 1-inch circle punch for the compass rose. I cropped the globe using the map die set.
  • This card is very monochromatic, so I cropped the globe stamp from Early Espresso 6 x 6 inch DSP. Thankfully, I had a piece of the woodgrain pattern, so that’s what I used.
  • Staying with the monochromatic theme, I used a piece of the Mossy Meadow braided trim. I wrapped it around the base of the card and tied it in a simple square knot.

Putting It Together

  • Since I wrapped the braided twine around the base, I popped it up using dimensionals.
  • I also used dimensionals under the compass rose, the globe and stand (mini-dimensionals), and the sentiment block.
  • This white panel on the inside of the card measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.
  • I stamped the inside sentiment, “Thank you for being part of mine”, using Mossy Meadow ink.
  • Since I didn’t want the sentiment to just float in the middle of the inside, I stamped the opposite side of the globe over the sentiment. I used Early Espresso ink that I had stamped off twice so the sentiment is still the focal part.
  • That’s it. Easy Peasy. I hope you can use the layout of the card if you don’t already have these products. The layout is pretty classic.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.


I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.


Have a Peachy Day!
Sue

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Again, thank you for stopping by my blog today!  I appreciate your comments and your time.

Wheels for C4G # 269

Welcome to the Cardz 4 Guyz # 269 challenge! The theme for this week is wheels. To my complete surprise, I don’t have any current SU! stamp sets with wheels on a motor vehicle. Thankfully, I do have the Sailing Home stamp set and coordinating dies. Therefore, I chose to use the steering wheel die to meet this challenge.

Here’s my card:

I chose a very monochromatic look for this card and used Just Jade, Pretty Peacock, and white. I had one more sheet of this Whale Done DSP, so everything I did with it had to be carefully measured out.

Somewhere along the line, I’d already used Just Jade ink with a blending brush to create the seaweed. I also stamped some bubbles on the seaweed using Pretty Peacock ink.

In just a couple of weeks, the 2019 – 2021 In Colors will retire, and that means two of my favorite colors will be leaving: Pretty Peacock and Seaside Spray. While the new 2021 – 2023 In Colors are gorgeous, I am really going to miss these two colors!

Measurements:

  • The Pretty Peacock card base measures 4-1/4 inches by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches to create a tent card.
  • I used the Pretty Peacock wave DSP pattern from Whale Done, trimming it to 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
  • Luckily, I had one strip of the DSP from which I was able to crop three steering wheels to approximately match up with the front of the car.
  • Trying to get dimensionals on the steering wheels seemed like a daunting process. Therefore, I cropped three steering wheels from the foam adhesive sheets.
  • Before very carefully lining up the foam adhesive with the steering wheels, I used the Pretty Peacock and Just Jade markers to outline the adhesive so there wouldn’t be a glaring white foam sides showing.
  • I did the same mounting process for seaweed.
  • There was just enough DSP left to have a 6 inch by 2-1/2 inch strip for the envelope flap.
  • I used a piece of white cardstock for the sentiment on the front and the lighthouse. the white cardstock for the inside measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches.

Putting It Together:

  • Both the sentiment and lighthouse for the inside and outside were stamped using Pretty Peacock ink.
  • I cropped the lighthouse using the Sail Away lighthouse die. Then, I wrapped white baker’s twine around the lighthouse and tied on the steering wheel trinket. The lighthouse is attached to the front of the card using multipurpose glue for the steering wheels and dimensionals on the right side.
  • Once again, I used the stitched rectangle die to crop the sentiment on the front and popped it up on dimensionals.
  • I attached all the other elements using multipurpose glue.
  • Finally, I trimmed down the envelope flap and stamped a lighthouse on the front of the envelope. With that, I had completed the coordinated card/envelope set.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.


I’d love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.


Have a Peachy Day!
Sue

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Pre-Order Has Begun!

So far, I’ve only gotten the new In-Color basic supplies. However, I will be putting in another pre-order this week! I’ve already started filling it out.

There are two suites at the top of my wish list, and as soon as I can order them, I will. There’s a sneak peak of the first suite on the cover of the 2021 – 2022 Annual Catalog:

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That DSP is absolutely, stunningly gorgeous! I can not wait to order this on May 4th!

If you want to be able to take advantage of the pre-order period, let me know! You can join with an order of just $125 of supplies for $99. As always, there’s no obligation.

Do you live in the U.S. and need a demonstrator? If so, I’d love to talk to you!

Do You Want to Place an Order?

Of course you do!

If you are ordering less than $150.00, please use the host code shown. If you are ordering more than $150.00, please contact me first so you can get your stamping rewards!  Any order over $50 will earn a little surprise from me.

The HOST CODE for April is 6QMKRYXG.

Again, thank you for stopping by my blog today!  I appreciate your comments and your time.