Friday, May 16, 2014

Be Happy colour suite card


Hi everyone! Welcome to my second post playing along in the May Scrapbook and Cards Today Colour Suite challenge!  For those of you not familiar, this is a color challenge that my friend Summer Fullerton puts together each month for the magazine!
This month the colors are: 2 shades of grey, aqua, yellow and orange/red.  Her color choices were spot on.  I love how on trend the greys are and aqua is one of my go to colors and pairing it with yellow and orange/red just makes me happy!!
Yesterday's card was a simple design and today's is more layered and detailed.
I had lots of fun with this one.  Below you can see how I made the orange frame using Classic Squares nested inside the Classic Scalloped Square.  You can make the frame with 2 steps but to save time, I layered them and did both cuts at once.  Even though the scalloped die lays on top of the square, the cutting edge is tall enough to cut through the cardstock.
Once I adhered the pattern paper to my cardstock, I placed the square die where I wanted my "window" to be.  To make sure everything was straight I used my ruler.  You may notice in the photo I originally had blue paper at the bottom.  It didn't work out and I ended up using the negative pieces of the lattice die adhered in the space.
This is the back side after the square was cut.  I adhered my Fancy Lattice die cut to the back using some washi tape and adhered it to my card base.
 
To read more about this challenge or check out past challenges head on over to the Scrapbook and Cards Today website and Blog.
Thanks for stopping by here is a close up the die cut details.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies:
S4-371 Les Papillions and S5-152 Fancy Lattice Shapeabilities®, S4-128 Classic Squares SM S4-129 Classic Scalloped Squares SM Nestabilities® 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow, Candy Corn, and Robin's Egg Card Shoppe cardstock; Basic Grey, RSVP 6x6 paper pad
Ink: Tsukineko, Versamark 
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: May Arts - white wrinkled ribbon and silver cord; Fancy Pants - Alpha stickers; Cartwright Sequins - 5 and 6mm sequins; Wild Orchid Crafts - 15mm yellow rose 
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares   
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

SCT Colour Suite challenge

Hi everyone! I am excited to be playing along in the May Scrapbook and Cards Today Colour Suite challenge!  For those of you not familiar, this is a color challenge that my friend Summer Fullerton puts together each month for the magazine!

This month the colors are: 2 shades of grey, aqua, yellow and orange/red.  I love how on trend the greys are and aqua is one of my go to colors, and pairing it with yellow and orange/red just makes me happy!!
Here's my card, I used the new Feathers dies and added the colors to the tips!  I saw something similar to this on Pintrest done with ink and I thought pattern paper would be a quick and easy way to showcase the colors.
This shows how I die cut the feather tips.
To read more about this challenge or check out past challenges head on over to the Scrapbook and Cards Today website and Blog.
And be sure to check out Summer's blog and see what lovely project she created with these fun colors!
Thanks for stopping by here is a close up feather details.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies:
S4-428 Feathers Shapeabilities®, S5-171 A2 Curved Matting Basics A and S5-172 A2 Curved Matting Basics B Nestabilities®
Stamps:  JustRite Papercrafts, Premium Labels stamp set for sentiment
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow Card Shoppe cardstock; Basic Grey, RSVP 6x6 paper pad 

Ink: Tsukineko, Brilliance Starlite Black
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Kaisercraft
yellow and aqua rhinestones, Prima Life Time collection and Fairytale roses in coral
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 

NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.
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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Vellum leaves

Hi everyone!  My son's baseball game was cancelled for rain, so I had a chance to make a fun card die cutting vellum.  First, using the Labels Eighteen and and nesting Oval dies, I made a frame that I placed slightly off center.
I love this technique because by layering your dies, you can make custom frames using any pattern papers or cardstock you have on hand.  In this case, I used some pattern paper scraps I had laying around.
For the vellum branch, I die cut vellum using the branch die from the Sprigs set.  Before I took the vellum out of the die, I stenciled in the leaves with some Versamark ink.  Then I carefully removed it, sprinkled it with some white embossing powder and viola!  A cool side effect is when you heat emboss vellum it gives it a slight curling, so the leaves are slightly raised and curled!  I adhered them down using a glue dot which I hid behind the white embossed parts of the leaves.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!  Here is a close up picture of the embossed detail.
Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S4-430 Sprigs Shapeabilities®, S4-310 Labels Eighteen, S4-110 Classic Ovals LG and S4-112 Classic Ovals SM Nestabilities®
 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow Card Shoppe cardstock; Vellum cardstock; American Crafts, Dear Lizzy 6x6 pattern paper
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates and vellum cardstock at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Spring thank you card

Hi everyone!  I have a happy spring thank you card to share today.  This one is loaded with dies and I even snuck in some light stenciling!  Stenciling is a fun way to dress up your label shapes.  I used my Faded Dot stencil and stenciled in light green ink coming from the left side, fading toward the right.  Then to finish it off, I inked the edges and added stickles for some sparkle.
My flower blossom is a combination of 3 die sets, Jewel Flowers and Flourishes, Foliage Flourish and Rose Creations. The base sunflower is 2 layers of different green shades.  I just love the light blue flourish and leaves, an unexpected pop of color.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture of the blossom and stencil detail.
Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S4-430 Foliage flourish,  IN-012 Celebration, S5-050 Rose Creations and S5-143 Jewel Flowers and Flourishes Shapeabilities®, S4-310 Labels Eighteen Nestabilities®
 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Butter Mints, Fresh Mints, Spearmint Stick, Robin's Egg and Sour Grape Card Shoppe cardstock; Misc retired pattern paper and Baked Brown Sugar cardstock from SU 
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: May Arts, Burlap String, Kaisercraft pearls; similar ribbon can be found in the Dotted Ribbon category; Stardust Stickles 
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. 
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