After seeing this card, I don’t think a Valentine’s Day card has to have a heart on it. Lee, one of my Team members, shared this card with me. It’s simple and stunning! She certainly showcased the Love For You Bundle beautifully. Adding the watercolor art from the Fancy Flora Designer Series Paper truly makes this card special.
I don’t have a “Pieces And Parts” photo for you, but I can show you how easy this card is to put together.
Let’s Make A Card
Cut an Evening Evergreen card base 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and score at 4 1/4″.
Lee used the beautiful Distressed Gold Specialty Paper to create her base layer. It measures 3 1/4″ x 5 1/4″.
The Fancy Flora Designer Series Paper layer measures 3″ x 5″.
There is a Basic White writing layer on the inside of the card.
The large, shadowed sentiment is cut from the dies included in the Love For You Bundle.
Evening Evergreen cardstock hosts the shadow die and “love you” is die cut using the two word dies and the Distressed Gold DSP.
Lee used one of the Foam Adhesive Sheets to die cut the words.
This is a great idea, since the Adhesive Sheet would make it very easy to adhere the Distressed Gold patterned paper on the top, and to the shadow die on the bottom. No Glue! This little technique also gives texture and dimension. Brilliant!
The two-(or three)step stamping on the little flowers is perfectly done using Soft Succulent for the flower base, Evening Evergreen for the flower shading stamp, and Crushed Curry for the center of the flower.
The flowers are all die cut using the matching die from the Bunbdle.
The Fancy Flora Designer Series Paper has so many beautiful patterns. Imagine this card done in Starry Sky, Pool Party, Petal Pink, and Fresh Freesia? I think I’ll try it with the Two Tone Flora Bundle. Stay tuned! My version of this card might turn up here this week. Thank you for your inspiration, Lee.
So, find that amazing piece of patterned paper, add a little Diestresed Gold, a few flowers and a beautiful shadowed sentiment, and create something to send love.
From now through February 28th, with a product purchase of $50.00 (before shipping and tax), you will receive a FREE Mini Card Kit along with a Video Tutorial link and Project Sheet to help you assemble the cards. The card bases, layers and elements are all included. You add your sentiments and assemble.
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I’m still unpacking from this past weekend. Having much of my stamps, ink, and paper with me, I now have to put it all back in its place. The silver lining to this is that my craft room will be organized and ready to go. I’ll have lots of fresh inspiration for you. Stay tuned!
Lisa’s Watercolor Art
I think we have a watercolor artist in our Group! Lisa brought life to thhese beautiful, stamped country scenes using Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen. If you can keep a secret (and I know you can), this is my favorite way to add color to a stamped image. I also enjoy using ink and a Blender Pen. It’s not that I don’t absolutely love Stampin’ Blends (these are Stampin’ Up!’s alcohol markers). If you have a larger, linear stamped image, the Stampin’ Blends are the perfect answer. They provide smooth, even, blendable color to the image.
The “In The Country” stamp set is the perfect choice for watercolor pensils or ink, and a Blender Pen. This is one of the FREE stamp sets you can earn with a qualifying purchase during Sale-A-Bration. The stamped image without color would be beautiful, as well. Add a few mat layers to a white layer samped with black ink and you have a stunning card for a note card set, or add a frame and hang a small grouping on your wall.
Lisa definitely captured the essence of “country” with her warm toned, nature inspired layers and color choices. Both of these cards are beautiful. My favorite is the country hilltop scene. Which is your favorite?
Today’s Card Pieces and Parts
Lisa stamped each image onto Basic White cardstock using Memento Black ink.
The Deckled Rectangle Dies created her mat layers.
These dies are sized to cut a few perfectly spaced layers.
She added color with the Watercolor Pencils and shaded using a Blender Pen.
The Blender Pen contains a special solution that helps move the color (pencil or ink) to add darker or lighter shading, precisely where you want it, on a stamped image.
So, grab your watercolor pencils, a Blender Pen, some white cardstock and a fabulous “country” stamp. Attach a few layers, and create amazing personal art!
From now through January 31st, for a minimum product purchase of $50.00 (before shipping and tas), you will receive a FREE Mini Card Kit along with a Video Tutorial link and Project Sheet to help you assemble the cards. The card bases, layers and elements are all included. You add your sentiments and assemble.
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Today’s card is a super quick and easy design created using the He’s The Man Suite. The Suite includes the He’s All That Bundle and He’s The Man Specialty Designer Series Paper.
Th Designer Series Paper has classic patterns and includes two 12″ x 12″ sheets of labels and fun images you can layer onto card fronts, a tag, create a collage design, and decorate the inside of your card. There are many possibilities for these pop-out images. The color palette is what I would call artistically masculine – Browns with pops of color.
Today’s Card Pieces And Parts
The Early Espresso card base is a standard A-2 cut at 4 1/4″ x 11″ and scored at 5 1/2″.
The Basic White Layer is 4″ x 5 1/4″.
The patterned paper layer is 3 3/4″ x 5″.
All the elements on the front of the card are pop outs from the “spacial” pages in the DSP pack. They’re so much fun to use.
So, cut the specialty DSP, add coordinating pop-outs, a layer or two and create something masculine and classic!
This card is quick and easy. The New Horizons Designer Series Paper does all the work. Each pattern design is a watercolor work of art! There were a few horizon designs I could have used for the sailboats. I wanted to keep the colors simple and chose this one.
A Tip And A Trick
I cut a Blackberry Bliss card base at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″.
Score the card base at 4 1/4″.
There’s a Basic White mat layer that measures 3″ 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ which will frame the patterned paper layer.
The patterned paper layer is 3 3/4″ x 5″.
There are four sailboats stamped with Night of Navy ink on the blue horizon.
I wanted to give the illusion of the sailboats sailing away toward a new adventure.
It stamped the sailboat on the left first.
I stamped the second sailboat from the left, slightly lower than the first.
The third sailboat is even lower… it’s further out to sea!
The fourth is leading the pack!
I used a scrap of paper to cover the patterned paper, then stamped the image.
Below is a photo I snapped so you would have a visual.
I love the sentiments for this card. “Congrats” on the front and “Set sail in the direction of your dreams” inside.
Perfect for a graduation, promotion or any new endeavor.
So, find or create a great horizon, add a few sailboats and create something adventurous!
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Today’s card is a simple and colorful way to send a “big” birthday wish. I’m showcasing the Biggest Wish stamp set. The larges, bold sentiments in the set are so much fun to use. There are nine sentiments and a small image stamp. The sentiments are mixed fonts that make it easy to create your own messages… “happy birthday”, birthday hello”, “hello friend” and on and on. This card can be used as a masculine birthday wish or a birthday wish for a child.
I kept the design simple, adding a few quick and easy details – an embossed layer, a little ink splatter and punched circles as embellishments.
Today’s Card Pieces and Parts
So Saffron, Bermuda Bay and Poppy Parade is today’s color palette. Love these colors together.
The sentiment is stamped with Night of Navy ink. (It looks black, but I just re-inked my Night of Navy and it was pretty juicy so the image stamped darker than usual).
The card base is a Basic White A-2 tent fold that measures 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″.
The So Saffron card front layer is 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and embossed with the Hive 3-D Embossing Folder.
The So Saffron card front is attached to the card base with Multipurpose Glue.
I fine that glue is a better adhesive when working with layers. You have some time to slide your layers exactly where you want them.
The Basic White sentiment layer is die cut with one of the Rectangle Stitched Dies and attached to the card front with Dimensionals.
I cut two strips for the banners. One is Bermuda Bay and the other is Poppy Parade. They’re each 3/4″ wide.
The hand cut flagged banners are attached to the back of the sentiment layer.
My sentiment layer needed a little something more… I found an ink splatter stamp in the Color & Contour stamp set and “splattered” a little Bermuds Bay ink around the sentiment.
The ink splatter is stamped off once.
I used my Cupcake Builder Punch to punch a few small circles from Bermuda Bay, Poppy Parade and So saffron cardstock.
They work well as embellishments.
So, find that fun “big” stamp, emboss a card layer, add a little ink splatter and create a “big” birthday wish.
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