Welcome to my post for the cutest little monkey just swinging by to say hi. i must admit, while not difficult, this card did evolve. Connie Stewart’s video showed me how to create the card and how to mask off the Countryside Corners stamp. You can find her video here. I’ve already created a card using this fun fold for my husband, and you can find the link here. When my husband got this card in the mail, he thought it was an easel card and it looks create standing that way. Therefore, I decided to purposely do that for this monkey card.
I used Berry Burst, Granny Apple Green, and Flirty Flamingo to meet the generic colors of this challenge. In addition, I added Early Espresso and Crumb Cake for the neutrals.
Measurements:
Connie’s video has all the necessary measurements for the flap part of the card.
I needed some Flirty Flamingo on the front of the card, so I trimmed a piece of the 6 x 6 DSP to 3/4 by 5-3/8 inches.
After I finished the Gone Fishing card for my husband, I found that the card would lay flatter if I trimmed less than 1/8 of an inch off the front flap. It’s not even noticeable, but it does help with the bulk of the card.
The plain Berry Burst cardstock on the front looked too blah. So, I ran a piece of Berry Burst cardstock through my Cut & Emboss machine using one of the Basics embossing folders. Then, I trimmed the embossed piece to 4-1/4 by 5-3/8 inches.
These folders are online exclusives, and the link will be below with the rest of the products used on this project.
I trimmed another piece of 6 x 6 Flirty Flamingo DSP to 4-1/4 by 5-3/8 inches for the top of the inside flap.
I cropped three pieces of Basic White cardstock using the largest Countryside die. Since I used blends combos to color the front flap, I needed to add another piece of cardstock to the back to cover the ugly back. To cut down on bulk, I trimmed the back die cut to a length of 4 inches.
Stamping, Coloring, and Gluing:
This adorable monkey can be fussy cut, but I decided to try cutting it out using my Scan & Cut. I wasn’t sure how much I would actually use it so I got it for a steal on Facebook Marketplace. I am still a novice and learning as I go. There are a couple of things I found out with this monkey:
After stamping the monkey using Early Espresso ink, I needed to outline it with an Early Espresso Stamping Write Marker. There are parts that just don’t get recognized at all for some strange and unknown (to me) reason.
Stamp, outline, and cut twice as many as you think you will need, at least if you are a novice.
Don’t be surprised if you have to go back and outline the monkey again.
Thankfully, the curly tail cuts fairly well if it’s outlined enough.
I used Early Espresso to stamp all the leaves, branches, sentiments, and the Countryside borders.
Then, I colored the leaves with the Granny Apple Green blends combos.
The monkey is a combination of the dark and light Crumb Cake blends.
Finally, I added pink to the cheeks and ears using SU1000 pink-ish blend.
I didn’t add any dimensions because there was already so many layers. This card will definitely need extra postage. In the U.S., two Forever stamps will cover it.
I used the multipurpose liquid glue to adhere everything together.
Finally, I added a small Velcro dot to the flap to help hold it down. When the card is open to it’s easel form, the Velcro dot won’t even show.
It sounds much more complicated than it actually was to create this card. Connie Stewart’s video explains how to do everything. I love her videos because they are meant for quickly created cards.
Welcome to Just Peachy Stamping! I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve participated in a challenge for which I am not on the design team. I just got this truly funny stamp and die bundle the other day and HAD to start playing with it right away! I am so stinking thrilled that I was able to combine these two challenges and come up with one card.
Here’s my Hey Chuck card:
Here are the two challenge banners:
Measurements:
Trim a piece of Lost Lagoon cardstock to 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. Score it at 4-1/4 inches.
The background DSP comes from the Inked Botanicals 6 x 6″ DSP pack. Trim it to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches.
Trim another piece to 1/2 by 4 inches for the inside of the card.
Punch a 1-inch circle for the envelope seal and run it through your XYRON createasticker.
Trim a piece of Very Vanilla to 4 by 5-1/4 inches for the inside of the card.
I cropped the two sentiment banners from Very Vanilla and Lost Lagoon leftovers (read: scraps).
Crop a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock using one of the Deckled Rectangle dies. Mine measures 3-7/8 by 2-1/2 inches.
Stamping and Assembly:
Stamp Chuck onto Very Vanilla cardstock using Momento Tuxedo Black ink. This ink will allow you to color using the blends marker combos.
Stamp the fence piece 6 times onto Crumb Cake cardstock using Sort Suede ink.
Outline the background DSP using a Soft Suede marker.
Stamp the sentiment onto a piece of leftover Very Vanilla cardstock using Soft Suede ink.
Using the same ink, stamp the inside sentiment on the inside piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.
The ink for Chuck should be completely dry by now, so he can be colored. I used the Crumb Cake and Lost Lagoon blends combo sets.
Chuck needed his eyelids to stand out, so I used a Soft Suede marker to color them.
Next, I used a gold Wink of Stella pen to color Chuck’s beak and feet.
I cropped all the pieces at the same time, including the gold foil weather vane.
Outline both banners for the sentiment using the Soft Suede marker.
For the Lost Lagoon lines, I used the long edge of the “H” acrylic block. I stamped the edge in the Lost Lagoon ink and then stamped the double lines in rows on the cropped Very Vanilla. Jackie Beers of Blue Line Stamping first posted a card using this technique and I just fell in love with the idea. Thank you, Jackie! Please visit her site because she is an amazingly inspiring artist!
I added dimensionals under Chuck and the Lost Lagoon piece of the sentiment banner. Everything else was adhered using multipurpose liquid glue.
Add the 1/2 by 4-1/8 inch strip of DSP to the bottom of the inside card panel.
Adhere the inside panel using liquid glue.
Instead of using DSP on the envelope flap, I repeated the double lines using the “H” acrylic block.
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
Hello, and welcome to my card for the Color Throwdown Challenge # 698. I missed the deadline for the layout, CASe’d from the Try Stampin on Tuesday #560 challenge while I was at our annual family beach week.
Here’s my all-occasion card:
Here are the challenge banners from which I drew my inspiration:
I used Poppy Parade, Petal Pink, Crushed Curry, and Old Olive to play along with the #ctd698 challenge.
What I Did:
For this short and sweet blog post, here’s how I put it together:
The Poppy Parade base measures 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
I already had an embossed piece of white cardstock. All I had to do was trim it down to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches.
All three DSP patterns come from the Flowering Fields DSP, which retires on June 30,2022 at midnight. It’s a gorgeous DSP pack and well worth looking at it in the January – June mini-catalog on page 15. It’s actually on sale for $8.05. Here’s a look at this gorgeous paper:
The background DSP measures 4 by 5-1/4 inches. In order to have this DSP pop off the white embossed background, I used the Poppy Parade Stamping Write Marker to outline it.
The Old Olive checked DSP strip measures 5-1/4 by 1-3/4 inches.
The tulip banner measures 1-5/8 inches wide.
The sentiment comes from the Special Moments stamp set. I stamped it in black and quickly added clear embossing powder to the wet ink. Then, I heat embossed it using my heat tool. I didn’t want to cover any of the DSP and I thought the heat embossing would help the sentiment stand out.
I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere the layers, except for the banner. That’s popped up on dimensionals.
Finally, I added five Crushed Curry dots to the front surrounding the sentiment.
That’s it. Actually, working out the measurements took longer than putting the card together.
Without further ado, I need to get this post closed out and published so I make the ctd#698 deadline. Come back tomorrow morning to check out my four-fer card using the Sale-a-Bration Hippest Hippos stamps and dies!
This is the first of two posts going live on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The second post goes live at 5 am ET for the InKing Royalty Blog Hop! I hope you will join along with the blog hop fun! In the meantime, I am very thankful for the opportunity to be the Featured Stamper for the Color Throwdown challenge # 697! I’ll be adding that badge to my blog as soon as I remember how to do that. 🙂
Here’s my card:
Here’s the Color Throwdown #697 banner:
https://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/ Generic colors are teal, pink, and orange
This adorable song bird easel card comes from the Sweet Songbird bundle, which consists of an adorable stamp set and the larger bird builder punch. Here’s the bundle, and if you click on the image you can zoom in on it:
Measurements:
The Bermuda Bay base measures 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 and 2-3/4 inches to create the easel.
Both pieces of white cardstock measure 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches.
I used a piece of the Polished Pink 6 x 6 DSP (designer series paper) cut down to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
I wanted to cover the back of the easel parts that show when the easel stands up. Therefore, I trimmed two pieces of Coastal Cabana DSP to 4-1/8 by 2-5/8 inches and adhered them to the back of the easel.
Then, I punched a 1 inch circle from a piece of Coastal Cabana DSP for the envelope seal and ran it through my XYRON create-a-sticker.
HINT: When you remove the sticky layer from the envelope sea layer, that piece of sticky goodness comes in very handy. I have tile floors, and I use that stickiness to pick up stray dimensional hexagon covers. Those things have a mind of their own! They very much enjoy floating away instead of going in the garbage can as intended.
That’s it for the measurements!
Creating the Clouds:
Recently, I saw a beautiful card and when I read the directions, I had an “AH-HA” moment. Sadly, I can not even begin to remember the name of the genius who posted this brilliant move. I don’t know where to begin to search for it either, so my apologies if it’s you!
I used a piece of window sheet film and cropped it with the cloud looking die from the basic borders die set. Then, I used the window sheet clouds as a stencil. Here are photos of this process using the stencil, a blender brush, and Bermuda Bay ink:
I did move the “clouds” as I worked my way up the white cardstock. I also blended very light areas using the dry blender brush. This way, only the bottom layer of clouds appear stark white.
For the inside/bottom of the easel, I only added one layer of clouds. Then, I dry brushed ink working up the white cardstock.
Sweet Songbirds:
I stamped the larger bird using Polished Pink ink on white cardstock. Then I punched out the pieces using the bird builder punch. I used scraps to punch out the wing from Polished Pink DSP, and the beak from Pale Papaya cardstock.
Then, I used Momento tuxedo black ink for the eyes, sentiments, music notes, and the Pumpkin Pie bird’s feet.
Next, I stamped the next using Soft Suede ink on Crumb Cake cardstock. The nest needed texture, so I ran it through my cut and emboss machine using the bark 3D embossing folder. This nest needed to be fussy cut, as did the smaller Pumpkin Pie bird.
The branches are also stamped using Soft Suede ink. I used Bermuda Bay ink for the leaves, and Polished Pink for the flowers.
The pink bird and nest have dimensionals added for height.
I cropped the top sentiment using a banner die from the new Stylish Shapes die set. If you don’t have this die set yet, I highly recommend it! I’ve used it so much since I got it!
Finally, I added four Coastal Cabana resin dots to hold the easel in place.
With that, I’d completed this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today! I hope you’ll come back to check out the InKing Royalty Blog Hop going live at 05:00 am ET.
Here are just a few of my favorite new things, and about half of which arrived Monday! I’ve already been playing with my new goodies. I’m also working on a pre-order from the upcoming July – December mini-catalog. Fun times!! My card for Thursday’s Cardz 4 Galz design team post uses a bundle from the upcoming Sale-a-Bration catalog!
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Again, thank you for stopping by my blog today! I appreciate your comments and your time.
It took me a couple of days, and a couple of trials and errors, but I figured out how to combine Try Stampin’ on Tuesday #559, Double Trouble #113, and Color Throwdown #696.
Without further ado, here’s my card:
Here are the three challenge banners:
Measurements:
The Mossy Meadow base measures 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches.
AFTER I embossed the Very Vanilla cardstock with the Fern 3D embossing folder, I trimmed it to 4-1/4 by 5-3/8 inches.
The Very Vanilla for the inside of the card measures 4 by 5-1/4 inches.
The In Good Taste wood striped DSP (designer series paper) measures 4-1/4 by 2 inches. I also trimmed a piece to 2-1/2 by 6 inches for the envelope flap.
Finally, the Mossy Meadow DSP strip measures 5-3/8 by 1/2 inches. I used this DSP to punch a 1 inch circle for the envelope seal. Then I ran it through my XYRON create-a-sticker.
That’s it for the measurements, and all of these pieces were adhered with multipurpose liquid glue..
Leftovers:
One of the great things about saving leftover cardstock is that I have plenty of pieces to use on other projects. In this case, I used leftovers for all the stamped and cropped elements on the front of the card. I took me a while to find a system that works for me, and one day I should share how I store my papers.
Stamping and Such:
All the stamped elements come from the Nature’s Prints bundle. If you haven’t gotten it yet, I highly recommend adding it to your wish list.
I stamped the two different sprays in Mossy Meadow on either Crumb Cake or Very Vanilla.
Next, I stamped the sentiment on Very Vanilla using Soft Suede ink.
After cropping all four pieces, I used markers to outline the Very Vanilla pieces so they would stand out from the Very Vanilla embossed background. I used my Mossy Meadow marker for the sentiment banner, and Crumb Cake for the spray of leaves.
The Crumb Cake/Mossy Meadow sprays are adhered using multipurpose liquid glue.
I added dimensionals under the Very Vanilla/Mossy Meadow leave spray. Once I had that adhered where I wanted it, I carefully placed dimensionals on the back of the sentiment. Basically, those dimensionals adhere the left side and the top right corner. I added multipurpose liquid adhesive for the middle of the sentiment banner where it lays on the Very Vanilla spray.
Finally, in keeping with the sketch, I added two matte dots on the top left next to the Mossy Meadow DSP. Since odd numbers of elements please the eye, I added a tiny one to the bottom right of the sentiment banner.
I didn’t do anything yet to the inside because of the versatility of the outside sentiment. When I’m ready to use this card, I’ll add a sentiment.
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
Here are just a few of my favorite new things, and about half of which arrived Monday! I’ve already been playing with my new goodies. I’m also working on a pre-order from the upcoming July – December mini-catalog. Fun times!!
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 through June 30, 2022 is 6YTD44QQ.
Again, thank you for stopping by my blog today! I appreciate your comments and your time.
When I saw the current Color Throwdown #695 challenge, the Seas the Day stamp die set seemed like the perfect fit, at least in my humble opinion..
Here’s my card:
Here’s the challenge banner:
Thankfully, the Color Throwdown Challenge calls for generic colors and shades of those colors. In this case, the colors are green, blue, lavender, and gold or silver. I used Granny Apple Green, Pacific Point, Highland Heather, and silver. I’ve created a similar card and you can see that card and directions here.
Measurements:
The Granny Apple Green base measures 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
The Waves of Inspiration DSP background measures 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches. I trimmed another piece to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap. Then, I punched a 1 inch circle from coordinating DSP for the envelope seal.
I also trimmed the Pacific Point cardstock top to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches. After stamping the cardstock using the Gentle Waves stamp with Pacific Point ink, I cropped it using the frame from the Seas Dies. This layer is popped up with dimensionals.
Next, I cropped another frame from Granny Apple Green cardstock. I also cropped the coral from a piece of Highland Heather DSP. Then, I trimmed both the green seaweed and coral and adhered them with multipurpose glue.
I stamped the starfish and sentiment using VersaMark then added silver embossing powder, which I set with my heat tool.
I outlined the scallops of the banner with my silver Wink of Stella pen. I used dimensionals and multipurpose glue to allow for the dimension of the frame.
Part of what I love about this stamp set includes the two mirror image fish stamps. I stamped these in Highland Heather and cropped them with the dies from the Seas Die set. Then, I added a dimensional under each fish and adhered them.
Finishing Up:
I stamped the front, left-hand side of the envelope the same as the inside of the card.
Then, the only thing left was to run the envelope seal through my XYRON 1.5 inch create-a-sticker.
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set
Here are just a few of my favorite new things, all of which arrive on Monday!
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 through June 30, 2022 is 6YTD44QQ.
Again, thank you for stopping by my blog today! I appreciate your comments and your time.
Welcome to Just Peachy Stamping by Sue Jackson: an independent Stampin' Up demonstrator.
Through Stampin' Up!, I happily share my love of papercrafting through sales, classes, small stamping group meet-ups and workshops. I think that being a teacher in my "real life", I have a unique approach to sharing my fantastic hobby. I look forward to connecting with you!
