Jan 15, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes a card comes out exactly the way I saw it in my head. This one is not one of those cards. I knew I wanted to use the Picture Perfect Party DSP stack. This DSP is fabulous, it’s actual pictures. LOVE it! I also knew I was going to use the coordinating Picture Perfect Birthday photopolymer stamp set. The rest of the card just kind of evolved, and while I kept the sketch in mind, I did stray, but the spirit of the sketch is still there.
Here’s the card:
Here’s the sketch for a comparison:
I used the 2 inch scalloped circle punch for the large circle, the Bermuda Bay ribbon is for the strip going across the card, the sentiment is for the small circle shape, and the 2 candles for the 2 vertical strips. It’s all in the interpretation, right? The shapes are all represented, so it kind of matches.
Some of the SU products used:
Have a Peachy day!
Jan 10, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Fab Friday #128 is a color challenge: Lemon Lime Twist, Berry Burst, and Emerald Green. I love Fab Friday challenges for a few reasons, one of which is that it’s a 2 week challenge. For this one, I need to think about what to do, and how to incorporate the 3 colors.
I kind of knew right away that the Emerald Green was going to be the base, then decided I’d go back to one of my previous checkerboard (inspired by Mary Fish @ Stampin’Pretty.com). DSP makes this card easier, and I decided on the In Color Fresh Florals DSP. Have to say, I wasn’t originally a fan of this paper but it’s growing on me. I used the Lemon Lime Twist and Berry Burst for the 1.25 inch squares, lined everything up in a dry run on the layers Whisper White and Emerald Envy, then used my liquid Tombow and craft tweezers to get the squares placed. That’s when I decided I really needed some black to calm the colors down, so enter the Basic Black cropped scalloped circle, the sentiment from All Things Thanks stamped in black (with the other part of the sentiment masked off), added a bow, and I was done.
Originally, the OCD part of me wasn’t a fan of the color variations in the patterns of a single sheet of the DSP, but I’m getting better about it. It really seems to just work with this layout.
Here’s the Fab Friday color challenge:
You’ve still got a week to play around with this challenge, so what will you do with it?
Have a Peachy Day!
Jan 8, 2018 | Uncategorized |
I love sketch challenges because they provide the basic layout and I just need to figure out what I want to do with it. Same is true for CTS#107. The newest design team member for CTS is my upline, Brian King, and the sketch is a retro one.
Brian’s clean and simple sketch rolled around in my head and all at once I decided to use Wood Textures and True Gentlemen DSP packs. I chose a distressed light wood for the bottom part of the base and topped it with the tie True Gentlemen paper. Punched out 3 1/2 inch circles for the elements on the sketch, stamped my sentiment using Watercolor Words, and… I was done. The only part that took a few minutes to figure out was the size of the border and the transition between DSP papers. I decided to just have a very thin Night of Navy border, and let a very thin line of Night of Navy showing between the DSP.
This clean card came together quickly ~ about 15 minutes start to finish. Have to love that!
Here’s my card:
Here’s the CTS#107 sketch:
Have a Peachy day!
Jan 7, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Happy New Year!
FMS318 starts a new year of challenges. This sketch is clean and simple, just like all their challenges. Sale-a-Bration and the Occassions catalogs are in full swing, and the Party Pandas set is free with a $50 order. I am in love with this adorable set, and paired it with 3 patterns of some of my favorite DSP, Pick a Pattern. The colors are Crushed Curry, Basic Black, and Whisper White. This card came together very quickly with just a small bit of fussy cutting.
Here’s my card:
Isn’t that Panda adorable? The Happy Birthday sentiment is part of this stamp set as well. I added 3 of the black jewels in the corners, cut out the balloon and popped it up with mini-dimensionals, and I was done.
Here’s the whole Party Panda stamp set (item 147221):
and the Pick-a-Pattern DSP:
Here’s the sketch for FMS318:
My goal this year is to post a blog entry 3 times a week. By writing it down, and publishing it, I hope that helps me keep meet my goal.
Have a Peachy day!
Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Welcome to InKing Royalty’s December Blog Hop! We have a fun Blog Hop theme today – Wrap it Up! The hop is filled with projects that are perfect for this time of year – everything from gift-packaging ideas to bundling up to stay warm. We are excited to share our creations with you today. After you read my post, I hope you’ll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.
All wrapped up is not how I feel about all the holidays right now, I don’t even have a tree up yet, but it will be later this evening. My cards are all made, written, addressed, and will be mailed tomorrow. I also have the gift boxes for my nieces and nephews (age range from 33 to 14), who would rather money than anything else, so they are my Wrap it up! for this blog.
Here are my boxes:
I used the Stampin’Up pizza boxes and decorated them with the Merry Little Christmas DSP, which I love for it’s non-traditional colors of Whisper White, Old Olive, and Basic Black. The pizza boxes will be filled with a variety of baked goods (because I am the dessert baking aunt), and I added a little pocket for the cash portion of the gift. These may look more involved and complicated then they were to put together. It’s all about the layers: 3 layers of paper for the top of the box, and 3 layers for the tags. They also didn’t take as much paper as it appears because the white and green shapes were punched out of the layers. Ugly on the underside, perfect paper on the top.
In addition to the Merry Little Christmas DSP and the pizza boxes, I also used the Merry Little Labels clear mount stamp set, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock, the Everyday Label Punch, 2 inch Circle Punch, the retired scallop circle punch and the Layered Circle Framelits for the white and green parts of the labels.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, The Paper Pixie with Julie DiMatteo at https://thepaperpixie.com/. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!
Happy Holidays!
Sue Jackson
Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:
Nov 24, 2017 | Uncategorized |
It’s been a while since I have posted anything. I was working on an order of 40 baby shower invitations and they turned out adorable! Of course, I didn’t take a picture before I delivered them. I’ve made cards for challenges and then didn’t get them posted in time. I have a bunch of cards of which I didn’t take pictures. So, here’s a bunch of cards I’ve done this Thanksgiving week. Sometime soon, before Sunday, I have a pile of papers to grade and plans to write. Choices: relax in my blue room (AKA my room of random stuff) or do schoolwork…………….
My daughter saw some of the Christmas cards I made and decided she wanted a dozen. I was gifted the Quilted Christmas DSP stack at #WCMDAtlanta2017 and so I used a bunch of it for these cards. I used some gold metallic enamel shapes and some silver rhinestones for the accents on the cards.
Last night, Wednesday, I saw a beautiful Lovely as a Tree eclipse card from www.stampingcreationswithmarilyn.com on one of the demo pages on FB. I commented how the card is CASE worthy, and then stayed up way too late CASE’ing this card. Here are my CASEs. The very back layer is done in Always Artichoke, the middle layer is a stamped off Mossy Meadow, and the large trees in the front is Mossy Meadow. LOVE these cards! (Note to self: it’s much, much easier to use a roll of foam tape instead of dimensionals!)
I sent these pictures to my daughter and, of course, she now wants some of the NOEL card as well. They are beautiful, don’t you think?
Tonight, I went back to the blue room to create a couple more of the eclipse cards and used the Season of Cheer DSP. I was experimenting with background colors and did the first one with Dapper Denim, which I liked. Then I made the second card with the Cherry Cobbler, and I LOVED it! Here are those cards:
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Have a Peachy weekend.
