Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorized |
“>InKing Royalty Blog Hop
Welcome to InKing Royalty’s August Blog Hop! Today’s Blog Hop is filled with projects inspired by some of our favorite Fall-themed products. What fun! Stampin’ Up!’s catalogs (both the Annual Catalog and soon-to-be-released Holiday Catalog) are filled with so many fun products for the Autumn holidays – and 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.
Here’s my card:
I initially made this card for last week’s Global Design Project 100th card challenge but decided to save it for this blog hop. I CAS(E)d my fearless upline, Brian King, using some fabulous new products available in the soon-to-be-released holiday catalog. I chose this colorful DSP for the background of the card because the colors just match what I remember from FALL when I was growing up on Long Island (I live in Florida now and completely miss experiencing seasons actually change). The Painted Autumn DSP has some fabulous paper designs and colors, and I highly recommend adding it to your holiday catalog wishlist! The base is Lemon Lime Twist, with another layer of Early Espresso under the DSP, which allows the DSP to pop right off the card!
The Leaf Punch coordinates beautifully (as all SU punches do!) with the Painted Harvest stamp set. The leaf stamp is a two-step set, and I stamped the base in Cajun Craze and the details in Early Espresso on a Very Vanilla base, then punched it out. I used mini-dimensionals to pop the leaf, but allow it to lay under the label. CUTE!
I also used the new Every Day Label Punch for the Lemon Lime Twist top piece and 2 Early Espresso pieces used to create the mat. The layered label is popped up with dimensionals. When I was doing a “dry run” of the card, I realized that I needed something under the labels, so I grabbed my Lemon Lime Twist ribbon, stamped my greeting from the Painted Harvest stamp set, and then attached everything together. I’m happy with the result. The DSP really is the star of the card, and keeping the rest of it simple, but it’s definitely not plain.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Jennifer Spiller @ Westside Paper Creations. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!
Have a Peachy day!
Sue
Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:
- Brian King at Stamp with Brian
- Candy Ford at Stamp Candy
- Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping
- Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
- Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
- Robbye Hamilton at Miss Hammie’s Crafts
- Lisa Pretto at Ink Big Academy Stamps
- Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
- Robin Myren at Songbird Designs by Robin
- Racheal Shedeed at Bluebonnet Stampin’
- Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps
- Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping
- Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized |
This week I decided to use the diagonal from bottom left to upper right consisting on green, fun fold, and bug or insect. I don’t know why I didn’t think of the dragonflies first, but I’ve wanted to use this cute lady bug stamp since I got it and finally pulled it out (and it’s now retired; SIGH). I wanted to have a Real Red, Basic Black, and Whisper White card but that wouldn’t include the green I needed. I also had to find a fun fold and this Dutch door fold card is so perfectly easy to create! (Thank you Lovenstamps.com!)
I found grass in the Thoughtful Branches photopolymer stamp set, including the matching mounded lines. I carefully stamped the ladybugs just at the edge of the grass and colored them using Real Red. The Basic Black DSP is from Pick-a-Pattern. Love that paper and am going to have to order another stack of it at this rate! I used Real Red in the scallop oval to crop out two ovals. I was able to line up the scallops on both the inside and the outside, and then it was just a matter of using my Tombow to put all the pieces together.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the #tttc010 board:
Have a Peachy day!
Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Colors this week for #ctd455 were pink, lavender, teal, and white. I need a baby shower card for my soon-to-be great niece, and thought this would be a good color combination. I have to admit though, the end result is not at all what I started making.
As this card evolved, i decided that I wanted to have both sides of the baby elephant showing on the card, so I used a Dutch fold card I found on Pinterest, as posted by Lovenstamps.com. It is such an easy card to make and it took me much longer to do the card than it should have. However, it’s relaxing and fun to watch a pile of paper, some ink, punches, stamps, and markers come together in a card I can use.
Here’s my card:
I love this fun fold! So many possibilities!
Here’s the #ctd sketch:
Have a Peachy day!
Aug 12, 2017 | Uncategorized |
#GDP099 is a themed challenge for wedding/anniversary/love. I need a wedding card, so this was perfect timing for me. I used the retired Floral Boutique DSP for this card, along with Night of Navy and Whisper White cardstock. The ribbon is also SU ribbon. The die cuts are from the Sunshine Wishes thinlits. I did use some non-SU silver glitter paper, and that created a couple of challenges. Take my advice, don’t use anything other than the SU glitter paper for thinlits, you have to trust me on that. Even using the dryer sheet technique and the SU brush, I couldn’t get the little pieces out of the hearts, which led to cropping two additional hearts out of Night of Navy and layering them on top of the silver. I like the effect of the two layers, but wish my pre-order had arrived before I made this card. I layered the silver “love” cutout over Night of Navy and am pleased with the way the reversed colors on the hearts and the sentiment play off each other. The sentiment is popped up on some mini-dimensionals that I still had to cut in half. When they are that tiny, the SU paper piercer makes it much, much easier to position those little sticky things.
I really love the way it turned out, problems and all. I couldn’t just leave the background a plain Whisper White, so I embossed it with the Softly Falling TIEF and even my DH likes the results.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the #GDP099 sketch:
Have a Peachy day!
Aug 12, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Freshly Made skteches is celebrating their 300th challenge! WOW! That’s a lot of card inspiration!
As always, the sketch is clean, as should be the cards. Sometimes too much white space bothers me, so this time I used the Swirly embossing folder for the card background and used the debossed side. I smeared something very faintly on the embossed side, turned the mat over and found that the debossed side was cleaner and worked much better for this card.
I used the floral DSP from A Whole Lot of Lovely, dies from Swirly Scribbles, Crushed Curry cardstock, Soft Suede paper and ink, Whisper White bakers twine, and finished with 3 enamel dots. The dots came in to play because the card felt so unbalanced and heavy to the right side, and they really finish the card.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the FMS300 challenge sketch:
Have a Peachy day!
Aug 9, 2017 | Uncategorized |
CTS#233 is clean and simple this week. There are times I think clean and simple still needs something extra. Other times, I really enjoy the clean lines and ample white space. This challenge is one of those times.
My color pallet was CAS(E)’d from a card (origin is forgotten ~ Pinterest, Facebook groups, and I am going to try to find it and then update this post, but time is of the essence for this challenge post). Pastel colors of Flirty Flamingo, PeekaBoo Peach, So Saffron, and Sweet Sugarplum with touches of Emerald Envy for the grass and flower stem. For the bottom, I used the centers of the daisy from the Daisy Delight stamp set. When I created the arch, I also cut a mat out of Sweet SugarPlum.
I love these piggies and this one was perfect with the sentiment on the side of the piggie. She’s colored in Flirty Flamingo and PeekaBoo Peach with a Sweet SugarPlum sentiment, all of which had to be masked to get the black pig outline with the sentiment stamped at the same time. I barely overlapped the mound on the bottom on purpose.
I wanted something with more of a presence than the flower on this stamp, so I used the small two-step daisy stamp, fussy cut it, and mounted it with mini-dimensionals. I added Whisper White bakers twine which added an accent without making too big of a statement. Mounted everything on PeekaBoo Peach and called it a day.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the challenge sketch:
Have a Peachy day!
