Welcome to the newest Make My Monday challenge, #169. Claudia picked the theme of food and drinks for this challenge. When you finish here, I hope you visit the challenge page to see all the other projects from the design team members. There’s always a wide variety of projects, and inspiration can be found in each one.
Here’s my food and drinks card:
What I Did:
The Early Espresso base measures 5-1/2 inches by 8-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
The Pool Party cardstock layer measures 4-1/8 inches by 5-3/8 inches.
Each of the DSP slanted pieces measures 5 inches by 3-3/4 inches. I outlined the Pool Party DSP with Early Espresso ink so it didn’t blend into the cardstock.
While I had the DSP out, I trimmed a piece of the Early Espresso DSP to 6 inches by 2 inches for the envelope flap.
After stamping the sentiment in Early Espresso, I cropped it using a die from the scalloped contours die set. Then, I cut an Early Espresso mat for it.
I used some of the foam adhesive sheets on Early Espresso and cropped both words using the Love You More dies.
The coffee cup and the cookies were also stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock and cropped using the Love You More dies. I stamped the coffee cup steam and cookies directly on the DSP.
I adhered everything using multipurpose glue, except for the coffee cup and one of the cookies. For those, I used dimensionals.
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Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
As I was setting the publishing time for this post, I realized that today is Thursday. We had Monday off from work, so I’ve been running a day behind all week. Here I thought I was on time. I was wrong. My apologies.
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Welcome to the Cardz 4 Galz challenge #152.Helen chose using dies &/or punches theme for the challenge starting today, July 29, 2021. I hope you will pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team created as well. We all look forward to seeing what you create in our gallery! I used both dies and punches for my card.
Here’s my card:
Measurements:
The Crumb Cake base measures 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
I used Calypso Coral as an accent color. The mat measures 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches.
I dry embossed the white cardstock layer before trimming it down to 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches. There’s a white panel for the inside that’s the same size as the outside white panel.
The Crumb Cake and Early Espresso cardstock elements are all from my scraps.
The faux suede ribbon wraps around the Calypso Coral mat and I tied it in a square knot.
Putting It Together:
I used multipurpose glue to attached the embossed white panel to the Calypso Coral mat.
All three sentiments are from the Nothing’s Better Than stamp set. I just love this set with the coordinating dies and haven’t used it nearly as often as I should. The sentiments and cookies are stamped in Early Espresso on Crumb Cake cardstock.
After stamping the cookies, I cropped them using the cookie die.
I’ve been using the foam adhesive sheets very frugally. However, I used it the way the directions describe. Therefore, I cut a piece of Early Espresso just a tad larger than the die. I placed the Early Espresso cardstock on top of one side of the adhesive sheet. Then, I cropped “cookies” with the coordinating die set.
The Classic Label punch retired when the 2021 – 2022 annual catalog went live. However, I thought it would be perfect over and under “cookies”.
Next, I trimmed the bottom sentiment to 2-7/8 inches by 1-1/8 inches.
Then I outlined all three sentiments using the Calypso Coral Stampin’ Right marker.
Finally, I randomly stamped cookies on the envelope flap and put one on the bottom left-hand corner on the front.
The sentiment on the inside of the card says “because adulting is hard”. I stamped three more cookies along the bottom of the inside white cardstock panel.
That’s it. While the card might look complicated, the coordinating stamp set and dies make it less complicated.
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It’s Almost Time for the Mini-Catalog and Sale-a-Bration launch!
I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was to see the new Mini-Catalog and Sale-a-Bration catalogs! Both catalogs go live on Tuesday, August 3rd! While I can’t show you the inside pages YET, I can share a card I made for a future blog post!
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Welcome to InKing Royalty’s June Blog Hop! During this year’s blog hops, we are having fun with our stamping favorites – our favorite themes for seasonal cards and projects. This month’s projects feature stars. 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 can already hear you wondering if I didn’t understand the theme of the hop. I did, I just didn’t have stars on any other product except for the Nothing’s Better Than photopolymer stamp set. This is the first time I’ve used the stamp set and dies, and it was so much fun to do so! Since I don’t have any other stars, you know what that means – – time to place an order!
The Pool Party card base measures 8-1/2 inches by 5-1/2 inches. Then I scored it at 4-1/4 inches and 2-1/8 inches (2 tick marks after 2 inches on the SU! paper trimmer).
Pool Party Z strip measures 8-1/2 inches by 1-1/2 inches. I also scored it at 2-1/8 inches and 4-1/4 inches.
Next, I usedIn Good Taste DSP for each of the three panels. You need two measuring 5-3/8 inches by 2 inches. The third piece (under the white) measures 5-3/8 inches by 4 inches.
I also punched an envelope seal from the In Good Taste DSP. Then I ran the seal through my XYRON create a sticker and placed the resulting seal in the envelope.
You need three Early Espresso pieces for the Z-fold piece. Two pieces measure 1-3/8 inches by 2 inches. The third piece measures 1-3/8 inches by 4-1/8 inches (2 tick marks after the 4 inches on the SU! paper trimmer).
I also used some 6 x 6 inch Pool Party DSP for the Z-fold piece. You need 3 pieces, two of which get trimmed to 1-1/4 inches by 1-7/8 inches. The third piece measures 1-1/4 inches by 4 inches.
Next I trimmed the piece of Pool Party DSP for the envelope flap measures 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches. Since I tend to put the envelope flap cuts away, I have started adhering them to the envelope right after I trim them.
I used a very thin piece of the same DSP to fill the white space on the back panel below the Z-fold piece. However, it is completely optional.
I used white scraps for all the stamping. The back panel piece of white measures 5-1/4 by 4 inches.
Creating the Fun Fold
Quite possibly one of the easier fun folds, creating a Z-fold card doesn’t really have any complicated directions.
The most important part to remember is the actual Z-fold piece. The short end gets attached on the inside panel. The longer piece gets attached across the front of the card. However, it is very important to remember that only the place the long piece is attached is on the very front panel.
I’ve zoomed in the two places where the Z-piece needs to be attached on the following photos:
Using the Foam Adhesive Sheet
Trying to use dimensionals under “coffee” would have been next to impossible. Therefore, I used a piece of a foam adhesive sheet to pop the whole word up.
Steps to using the adhesive sheets:
Cut a piece of the adhesive sheet down to just a bit bigger than the die.
Take off the backing paper on one side of the adhesive sheet.
Attach a piece of cardstock to the adhesive sheet.
Run the adhesive sheet and attached cardstock through the cut and emboss machine. Make sure that you have the cardstock side facing UP. If you don’t, the word “coffee”, in this case, will come out backwards. Not saying I’ve done that, but just take my word for it. I learned my lesson.
Stamping
The sentiment strip for “A day without” was easy-peasy to stamp in Early Espresso on white. However, the “is like, ummm…..” and “just kidding, I have no idea.” are both on one stamp. I simply used a post-it note to mask off the parts I wanted to separate and stamped them individually. Just remember to take the mask off before stamping. You will have a mess if you don’t.
I stamped eight of the coffee cups and cropped them using the coffee cup die. Since I used Early Espresso ink, I needed to make sure I really let the ink dry before using the blends on them.
Actually, the colors of the coffee cups dictated the color scheme for the card. In the very beginning, i thought I’d use Early Espresso and Soft Succulent on Very Vanilla. When I started coloring the coffee cups using the Soft Succulent blends, I thought eww, I wouldn’t drink out of that color coffee cup. So, I changed to Early Espresso, Pool Party, and white.
I did have to use the Soft Suede blends for the brown part of the coffee cups, which worked out. I colored the inside of the cup using the dark Pool Party blend.
Finishing Up
I wanted the card to have a fun feeling to match the sentiment. Therefore, only two coffee cups are straight up and down. The others slant to create a playful, less formal feel to the card.
Finally, I thought the coffee cup on the full, back panel needed to have some steam rising out of it. I used a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker and very lightly drew five squiggly lines for steam.
After trimming the DSP on the envelope flap, I’d finished this card/envelope/seal coordinated set.
Back to the InKing Royalty Blog Hop
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you’ll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Renae Novak at Blessed by Cards. There’s lots of inspiration to be found in this group – and you don’t want to miss it!
Thank you for hopping along with us. If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:
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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!
