Jul 22, 2017 | Uncategorized |
TGIF Challenge #117’s theme this week is Summertime Blues, which was pretty open to interpretation as long as at least a touch of blue was included. It’s my first time playing along with this challenge, and I enjoyed the openness of the concept.
Tic Tac Toe Challenge #007 had a bunch of options, but I went with the right-hand column of diecut, floral, and yellow.
Here’s my card:
I had a general idea of what I wanted to do, and I knew that I wanted to use the Daisy Delight bundle. I have a retired SU small die to cut out leaves in Old Olive and Pear Pizazz, and I used the Stitched Shapes to cut the tiny yellow tag. Die cuts – check.
When I figured out what piece of DSP I wanted to use, I noticed that the daisies weren’t a true white, instead they all had pale blue shadows. I have a Bashful Blue SU marker and used that to color on the daisy stamp twice to get both layers. I wanted to shade using Night of Navy, but didn’t want my coloring to be that dark so I used my blender pen with the ink from the inkpad to shade. I am tickled pink with the result! I used the center stamp in Daffodil Delight on Whisper White, punched it out and layered with mini-dimensionals. I also used mini-dimensionals to pop up the center of the top layer of daisies and each top petal. I’ve found that sniping the bones (outsides) of the dimensionals I can get just the size I want for each petal. I mounted that on a Night of Navy circle. The DSP is mounted using a thin mat of Calypso Coral and the base is Night of Navy. The sentiment is from Eastern Palaces stamp set in Night of Navy on Daffodil Delight, which is mounted on Night of Navy. Floral – check. Touches of blue – check.
I also used the Daffodil ribbon and can I tell you that I must be ribbon-challenged. I have been having a terrible time lately trying to tie bows. Terrible time. I’ve been going with simple square knots and I keep repeating Connie Stewart’s directions in my head (check out her channel on youtube!) to go right over left, then left over right and pull with just what is in my left hand. That is completely backwards from what this lefty wants to do, but I’m trying. I used a tiny brad to attach the little tag onto the ribbon so that I could get the casual effect of this hanging tag. Yellow – check and check.
It took a while to create this card, but I find coloring so relaxing, and just figuring out the ribbon, getting it tied, and then trying to figure out how to attach the tag so I didn’t have to untie it took as long, or longer than, the stamping and coloring. But, I am pretty darn pleased with the daisy, and the card.
Here are the challenge sketches:
Have a Peachy day!
Jul 20, 2017 | Uncategorized |
The challenge this week at Paper Players was to create a clean and simple beach card. Here’s what I did:
My vision was to have just a light impression of the sandpipers (retired set) on the bottom front with the sentiment over it. It just about worked. I asked my DH for his opinion and his first comment was “Didn’t you already do a card like this?” He’d recognized the Beautiful You stamp set and the Serence Scenery DSP. I did use the same girl, but the layout is slightly different and the sentiment is different and for this card I added 3 enamel shapes up at the top. I had to break out my Stamp-a-ma-jig again for this card, and I wasn’t afraid to use it at all this time. Goes to show you what a little bit of practice can do!
Here’s the challenge badge:
Have a Peachy day!
Jul 16, 2017 | Uncategorized |
This challenge was a color one with 5 colors, Berry Burst, Tangerine Tango (I had to substitute Tangelo Twist), Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, and Bermuda Bay. I’d seen cards made with the now retired Work of Art stamp set when it first was released, so I thought I would try it as well. This was only the second or third time I’d used the zig zag stamp, and i broke out my Stamp-a-ma-jig to line everything up. I’d only tried to use that tool once before and let’s just say it didn’t go well. It went much better this time, and the resulting card is the proof of that. I love the (retired) Petite Petals and coordinating punch and knew I needed something for the zig zags. I popped each with a dimensional and followed the same pattern of colors moving each one down so it would stand out. I added the sentiment from All Things Thanks, some black bakers twine, matted it all on Basic Black to make the colors pop, and I was done.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the challenge sketch:
Have a Peachy day!!
Jul 15, 2017 | Uncategorized |
For this week’s challenge, I picked the right-hand column of square, wrap, and woodgrain. I used a number of retired products including Tip Top Taupe and Mint Macaron cardstock and DSP, along with Mint Macaron ribbon. The woodgrain background stamp is retired, but I’m glad I kept it. The sentiment is also retired, but I was pleased as punch that the font on the stamp set just about matched the font on the DSP. The Stitched Shapes framelits for the two squares are current, and much loved!
Here’s my card:
Here’s the #tttc006 board:
Have a Peachy day!
Jul 15, 2017 | Uncategorized |
This week’s sketch is definitely clean and simple. I used retired SU! products of Tip Top Taupe and Mint Macaron. The woodgrain background stamp is also retired, as is the DSP strip on the bottom. The sentiment is from the current All Things Thanks stamp set. This is actually the second card I made for this challenge. The first card matched the picture I had in my head, but wasn’t clean and simple. This second version fit the challenge.
Here’s my card:
Here’s the FMS sketch:
Just because I wanted to share, here’s the first card I made:
Have a Peachy day!
Jul 15, 2017 | Uncategorized |
I needed a birthday card for a 4 yo boy who is now being raised by a family member because both his parents died a few months ago. A fellow SU! demo had asked our group if we would send him a card for his first birthday without his parents. I started pulling things together from the Cupcakes and Carousels DSP stack, then grabbed the Tasty Treats SAB stamp set, Stampin Up! Write Markers, some mini-dimensionals, and this is what evolved. As I was creating this I realized that this one card hits 2 challenges for this week: #PCC251 (new to you) and #GDP095 (kids).
Here’s my card:
I started this process with a portrait orientation, but when I decided on the truck, I switched it around. I originally thought the pancake stack was a piece of cake when I stamped it and the cupcake in the truck window~ oops. I used colors taken from the DSP to color in the truck, and added Basic Grey for the metal parts. I wanted the greeting to kind of look like a swinging sign, but needed something to balance out the weight of the card, so I wrapped brown bakers twine around the card.
When I thought I was finished, I just kept staring at the card because I knew something was off and realized my truck looked like it was just floating. So, I cut a small strip of Early Espresso, which is also in the DSP, and made myself a road of sorts. Now I was happy and done.
Here’s the challenge sketches:
Have a Peachy day!
