A Tropical Two-fer for PPC385 and CTS#381
I always enjoy creating a two-fer card, and this one is no different. As a matter of fact, once I saw the tic-tac-toe banner for this week’s Paper Craft Crew 385 challenge, everything fell into place for Case This Sketch #381. When I sat down to start creating, the card just about created itself. I chose the left vertical column using the birthday theme, tropical feel, and distressed element.
Here’s my card:
Here are the challenge banners:
Timeless Tropical
Honestly, this DSP wasn’t a top favorite when it came out for the mini-catalog from January – June. Then I started seeing cards using the DSP and it really grew on me very quickly. I combined this retired DSP with the current Timeless Tropical cling stamp set for these challenges.
Even picking the combination of the DSP patterns went fairly quickly. Once I had those, the rest just fell into place, as I said before.
Measurements
- The Soft Suede card base measures 4-1/4″ by 11″, scored at 5-1/2″.
- I chose the Pear Pizzazz grass cloth pattern for the largest mat of the card. I cut the mat to 4-1/8″ by 5-3/8″. In order to achieve a distressed look, I used the large nail file I keep specifically for crafts to sand all four sides.
- Next, I cut the tropical flower DSP to 3-3/4″ by 4-7/8″. There really wasn’t a special reason for this size, I just liked the way it looked.
- Using the Soft Suede brush tip marker, I outlined and distressed the floral DSP piece. While I’ve used the markers to outline DSP before, I needed to achieve a distressed look so I wasn’t careful about just coloring the edges.
- Cutting the Pool Party stripes took a little bit of trial and error to find what I wanted. Each stripe is just about 1/2″ wide and 4-7/8″ long. HINT: I’ve found it is much easier to trim thin stripes on the paper trimmer by using a Post-It note. I put the sticky side of the Post-It on one of the long sides in order to be able to trim it so thin.
Directions
- Using the brush end of the Pool Party marker, I outlined and distressed both thin stripes.
- I love the script font in the Timeless Tropical stamp set and happily used the birthday stamp for the sentiment. I didn’t want a bold palm tree on the left side of the scrap piece of white cardstock I used for the sentiment. Therefore, I second generation stamped the palm tree using Pear Pizzazz. Next, I used Soft Suede to stamp the sentiment. After cropping the sentiment using a rectangle stitched die, I added dimensionals to the back.
- As long as I had the Soft Suede stamp pad out, I stamped the Rest and Relax, You deserve it stamp for the inside sentiment. I also used the Pear Pizzazz to second generation palm trees on the bottom, right-hand corner. The inside white cardstock panel is 4″ by 5-1/4″ and adhered onto the card base.
- I also stamped the palm trees on the bottom, left-hand corner on the front of the envelope. Then I made sure to close the stamp pad and moved it to the side. I may or may not have had some issues with open stamp pads.
- Then, I went back to the front sentiment panel and cropped it using the rectangle stitched dies. I put dimensionals on the back of the sentiment and adhered it to the front of the card. Since I wanted the sentiment to stand out, I only used dimenstionals for that for the sentiment. I used the multipurpose liquid glue to adhere all the other elements to the card.
- After adhering a piece of the Pear Pizzazz grass cloth DSP to the envelope flap, this card/envelope set was finished. A very quick card!
As always, thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. I’d also love to hear what you think, and greatly appreciate every comment.
Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
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