Happy New Year Stampers!
It’s time for the new SUO87 SU-Only Challenge- the theme is “Colors of January” and I decided to add The Friday Mashup! FM140 Challenge.
When I think of January colors, I think of the New Year along
with the elegant colors of Gold, Silver, Black and White and in the
Mid-Atlantic states, January generally means snow.
I decided to use My Digital Studio (MDS) to create this card
but the stamp set would work just as well….
Open a blank 8.5 x 11
project in MDS insert the Lovely As A Tree image (the trees in a row), copy and
insert a second image. Change the color
on the second image to Smoky Slate and position behind and to the left of the
first image.
Insert the large pine
image and enlarge a bit, copy and add a second image directly on top of the
first image (to darken and thicken the pine needles).
Insert the sentiment from
Word Play – re-size and position in the lower right hand corner. Go to the Arrange tab and “group” the entire
arrangement and re-size to fit your card. Print onto Whisper White cardstock
and hand trim around the large pine (gently fold the top of the tree down) and use
the trimmer to cut around the scene.
Create a mask from a
sticky note and use a Sponge Dauber to apply Smoky Slate Classic Ink for snow
banks and in the sky area.
Adhere to a trimmed piece
of Basic Black cardstock and again onto a trimmed piece of Silver Foil paper.
Use the Big Shot™ with the
Stylish Stripes Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder to emboss a piece of
Whisper White cardstock. Trim and mount
onto a Basic Black card front.
Use the Big Shot™ with the
Typeset Alphabet Bigz™ Original Die to cut the “2014” out of Gold Foil
paper. Emboss the numbers along with a
scrap strip of Gold Foil paper with the Big Shot™ and the Square Lattice Textured
Impressions™ Embossing Folder.
Adhere the embossed Gold
Foil paper strips to the sides of the card front (I used Tombow Multipurpose
Adhesive) and mount the tree image panel using Stampin’ Dimensionals®. Add the 5/8” Basic Black Satin Ribbon bow to
the lower left hand corner of the image.
Punch a circle from Basic
Black cardstock using the ¾” Circle Punch and adhere a Frosted Finishes
Embellishment to the center.
Add the embossed Gold Foil
numbers to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals® overlapping a bit and
adhere the Frosted Finishes Embellishment in the center of the zero.
Mount the entire card
panel to the Whisper White card base.
Stamp Sets: Lovely As A
Tree, Word Play (both MDS)
Ink: Printer Ink- Black,
Smoky Slate
Paper/Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Silver and Gold
Foil
Accessories: Big Shot™, Stylish
Stripes and Square Lattice Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Frosted
Finishes Embellishment, Sponge Dauber, 5/8” Basic Black Satin Ribbon
Thanks again for stopping
by- I hope you will find the time to visit us and enter your project into the
SU-Only SUO87 “January Colors” Challenge.
Have a Happy New Year!!