"Love is in the Air" - Two Challenges in One

Hi Stampers! 

This week’s DD86 “Subtly Yours” Dynamic Duo Challenge combines Pool Party with Pink Pirouette.  

This color combination reminded me of "romance" and with Valentine’s Day approaching, I decided to create a vintage “shabby Chic” card using the Stampin’ RoyaltySR210 Challenge Photo for inspiration.  

I hope that you will stop by and check out the rest of the Dynamic Duos Design Team projects and create a project of your own using this week’s colors - we would love to have you join us!!

The Dynamic Duos Challenge Blog

Anne Marie Hile

Annette Elliott

Angel Johns

Caroline Bredeson

Cindy Brumbaugh

Holly Endress

JoAnn Burnham

Julie Gearinger

Michelle Bala

Sarah Fleming 

Tenia Nelson

To create this card:

Ink the background stamp, En Francais using Crumb Cake Classic Ink and stamp onto a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock. Add additional accents using the Best of Shelli stamp set inked with Pool Party Classic Ink and distress with the Distressing Tool.   Apply Crumb Cake Classic Ink using a Sponge Dauber and adhere to a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock.

On a piece of Etcetera Designer Series Paper (DSP), stamp the splatter stamp, Off the Grid background and the line stamp from Gorgeous Grunge using Pink Pirouette Classic Ink.  Distress the edges using the Distressing Tool and apply Crumb Cake Classic Ink to the edges. Tear the edge diagonally and adhere to the distressed Very Vanilla background.

Distress the piece of Fan Fair DSP (the pink advertisement with the lacy edge) and sponge Crumb Cake Classic Ink over the edges.  Adhere to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals®. 

Punch the scalloped circles from Pink Pirouette cardstock using Scallop Circle Punches- the two larger flowers are created with the 2 3/8” Scallop Circle Punch and three smaller flowers with the 1 ¾”,  Scallop Circle Punch. 

Use the retired Crimper Tool to crimp the paper (or you can just scrunch it up by hand to break up the fibers) and use the Bone Folder to curve the scalloped edge a bit before proceeding to the next step. 

Once you feel the flower is “distressed” enough, manually spiral cut from the outside edge of the scallop toward the center.   Start to roll the flower from the outside and roll the spiral tightly toward the center.  Apply Multi-Purpose Adhesive to the center piece to hold the flower in shape or you can use a Hot Glue Gun- here is a writtentutorial at Splitcoaststampers to show the basic idea.   Once all of your flowers are created, lightly sponge Crumb Cake Classic Ink onto the edges to distress a bit more.

Use the Bird Builder Punch to punch out the leaves from Crumb Cake Cardstock and create a triple bow using the ½” Pool Party Seam Binding Ribbon.

Adhere the flowers, leaves and ribbon bow to the card front (I continued to use the Hot Glue Gun but you could use Mini Glue Dots).   Add the Antique Brad to the center of the bow.

Adhere a piece of lace scrap to the back of the Love tag (both were from the retired Artisan Embellishment Kit).   Stamp the With Love sentiment from Field Flowers using Crumb Cake Classic Ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock, trim and punch the banner points using the Hexagon Punch.  Lightly sponge Crumb Cake Classic Ink along the edges.

Add the sentiment banner and embellished Love Tag to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals®.   Add the Pearls to the tag, banner and lower corner to finish off the card.   

Stamp Sets: Best of Shelli, En Francais, Field Flowers, Gorgeous Grunge, Off the Grid

Ink: Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Crumb Cake

Paper/Cardstock:  Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Designer Series Paper- Etcetera, retired Fan Fair

Accessories: Punches- Scallop Circle 2 ¾” and  1 ¾”, Bird Builder, Hexagon; Sponge Dauber, ½” Pool Party Seam Binding Ribbon, Antique Brad, Stampin’ Dimensionals™, Hot Glue Gun (optional)

Since the flowers are dimensional on this card, I would most likely recommend hand delivery or mailing in a padded envelope with tissue paper wrapped around the card to protect the flowers.   

Thanks again for visiting- I hope you will find the time to join us at the Dynamic Duos this week! 

Happy Birthday Anne Marie!!

Hi Stampers! 

This past week, Anne Marie Hile celebrated a milestone birthday and I wanted to create a card in her honor for the  Dynamic Duos Happy Birthday Surprise Linky Party for Anne Marie!   

 I met Anne Marie a few years ago through my Guest Designer spot on The Paper Players and have always admired her artwork!  Now I get to interact with her weekly again through the Dynamic Duos Design Team- I am so thrilled!

Anne Marie loves pink so I decided to incorporate some shades of pink in the card and use the CCMC277Sketch for the layout.   I hope you will have the time to visit the Dynamic Duos site (scroll down a bit past the new challenge to see all of the other cards for Anne Marie) as well as the Create with Connie and Mary site! 

 

To create this card:

Use an AquaPainter™ to apply a light coat of Pool Party Classic Ink onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock.  

Allow to dry and stamp the Notable Notions script image over the background as well as the stem from Field Flowers using Early Espresso Classic Ink.  

Punch out with the 2 ½” XL Circle Punch and adhere another 2 ½” Circle from Early Espresso cardstock behind the stamped images. 

  

Stamp the flowers from Field Flowers onto a separate piece of Whisper White using Early Espresso Classic Ink.  Color using Stampin’ Write Markers- Blush Blossom, Primrose Petals and Sahara Sand. Add a few highlights with the Chalk Marker and “fussy-cut” the flowers mounting onto the stems using Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

Use the Big Shot™ to emboss a piece of Blushing Bride Designer Series Paper (DSP) with the Woodgrain Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder.  Trim and mount onto a card base of Early Espresso cardstock.

Ink the interior of the Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder using Raspberry Ripple Classic Ink and emboss a piece of Raspberry Ripple cardstock.  Trim for the vertical panels of the sketch (rounding the outside corners of the smallest panel using the Envelope Punch Board). 

Create the banner from I Am Me DSP and mount onto a piece of Early Espresso cardstock.  Add the scrap trim of the embossed Raspberry Ripple cardstock. 

Add the vertical panels, the banner to the card front and the focal image (using Stampin’ Dimensionals®).   

Stamp the sentiment using Early Espresso cardstock, punch out using the Word Window Punch and adhere to a piece of Early Espresso cardstock (punched with the Modern Label punch). 

Stamp Sets: Field Flowers, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Notable Notions

Ink: Early Espresso, Pool Party, Stampin’ Write markers- Old Olive, Blushing Bride, Primrose Petals, Sahara Sand

Paper/Cardstock:  Whisper White, Early Espresso, Raspberry Ripple, Designer Series Paper- I Am Me, retired Blushing Bride

Accessories: Big Shot™, Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folders- Vintage Wallpaper (retired), Woodgrain;   AquaPainter™, Punches- 2 ½” XL Circle, Word Window, Modern Label, Hexagon (for banner), Pearls

Thanks again for stopping by- Happy Birthday Anne Marie!! 

Thinking of You- Two Challenges in One!

Hi Stampers!!

I just love the creative CCMC263 Sketch at Create with Connie and Mary and the gorgeous CQC201 Challenge at this week’s ColourQ. 

 If you have not had a chance to check out these sites yet, I encourage you to do so- wonderful examples by all!

To create this card:

Ink the line art images from Field Flowers using Basic Gray Classic Ink and stamp the flowers and bud onto  piece of Calypso Coral Designer Series Paper  (I used a piece from the This and That Epic Day DSP pack).  Carefully cut out the images and using a Calypso Coral Stampin’ Write marker, highlight the petals and centers.

Stamp the stems of the flowers using Basic Gray onto a piece of Soft Sky cardstock.  Ink the En Francais background stamp using Night of Navy Classic Ink and stamp off twice before stamping onto the piece of Soft Sky cardstock (over stamping the stem images).  . 

Ink the line art image of the large floral stamp from Field Flowers (of course, clean before inking :-)) using Calypso Coral Classic Ink and stamp off before stamping randomly onto the Soft Sky background. 

Cut the images to the sketch and mount onto Night of Navy cardstock (*** Note ***  I used a 1 3/8" Cirlce Punch to round the corners of the lower piece but it did not work well on the Night of Navy layer since I tried to round off after I adhered the stamped panel, so I cut by hand...should have rounded the piece before adheriing the stamped panel :-)). 

Use the Big Shot™ with the Herringbone Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder to emboss a piece of Whisper White cardstock, trim to size and adhere to a piece of Night of Navy cardstock. 

Adhere the entire panel to the Soft Sky card base, add the sentiment layer, pearls, paper bow and Antique Brad to finish off the card. 

  ***NOTE***- The Paper Bow is very easy to make- 1).Punch out two Large Ovals from the retired Travel Log DSP and gently roll these two ovals in half and secure with a Mini Glue Dot at the end to hold together, 2). Cut a small rectangular strip of DSP and adhere the two "folded" ovals toward one another to form the "bow" leaving a small space in between, 3). Cut two additional strips approx. the width of the bow- in this case approx 3/4" wide and use the 1" Square Punch to create the banner points on one end and hand cut to a point on the other end, 4). Addhere these two strips behind the small rectangular strip under the bow to form the tails and 5). Add the Antique Brad to the center to finihs off the bow.   Add to the card using Mini Glue Dots- easy and you can enlarge your bow by using a larger oval punch :-) 

Add the hand cut flowers using Stampin’ Dimensionals® and add highlights using the White Gel Pen ( I just followed the lines in the center of the flower and along the edges with the Gel Pen :-)). 

Stamp Sets: Field Flowers, Wetlands, En Francais

Ink: Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, White Gel Pen

Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Soft Sky, This and That Epic Day DSP, retired Travel Log DSP 

Accessories:  Big Shot™,  Herringbone Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Punches- Large Oval, 1” Square, 1 3/8" Circle; Pearls, Antique Brad

Thanks again for stopping by!   Have a great weekend and God Bless!

SUO75 Wishing You Well

Hi Stampers! 

The Stampin’ Up! Only Challenges theme for the SUO75 Challengeis Get Well Cards.  It seems as though I never have enough of these on hand so it was a perfect time for me to create one for my stash :-).

I hope you have a chance to stop by to visit SUO-OnlyChallenges to see all of the details and the other Design Team creations and play along with us!  

To create this card:

Original card without butterflies 

Use an AquaPainter™ to add Pool Party paint onto two pieces of Whisper White cardstock.  

Once dried (I use a Heat Tool to speed up the drying process), ink the background stamp from Notable Notions using Early Espresso Classic Ink, stamp off and repeatedly stamp over the watercolored area.   

Ink the solid floral image stamp from Field Flowers using Calypso Coral Classic Ink and stamp off before stamping on the script watercolor background (may need to stamp off a few times to lighten the ink).  Stamp the stem image from Field Flowers using Early Espresso Classic Ink and color with the Stampin' Write Gumball Green marker. 

Use the Big Shot™ with the Window Frames Framelits™ to cut out the watercolored focal frame and cut another piece the same size Framelit™ from Early Espresso Cardstock.  Cut the Early Espresso cardstock frame in half to layer behind the focal panel with the layer showing at the top and bottom of the frame.

On the remaining watercolored background piece of Whisper White cardstock, stamp the sentiment from Thoughts and Prayers and use the Big Shot™ with the Chalk Talk Framelits™ to cut out the sentiment and cut another one from Early Espresso cardstock to create the frame. 

****  REVISION ****   Thanks Jamie for noticing that I totally omitted the flower instructions- so sorry everyone!!      

Stamp the line image flower from Field Flowers using Early Espresso Classic Ink onto Whisper White cardstock. 

Revised with butterflies ;-)

Watercolor using the AquaPainter™  and picking up ink from the Crisp Cantaloupe and Calypso Coral Classic Ink pad.   Once dried, carefully cut out the flowers by hand and highlight the center of the flowers and the top of the leaves a bit using the White Gel Pen.   Adhere the flowers to the focal image using Stampin' Dimensionals® (curling a bit before adhering).  

Stamp the butterflies using Early Espresso Classic Ink onto Vellum and flip the image over and place on top of the Pierce Mat.  Carefully run the Stylus Tool over the entire image as if you were embossing by hand to bring out the white of the vellum and punch out using the corresponding Bitty Butterfly and Elegant Butterfly Punches.  Bend the wings up a bit before adhering to the card using Mini Glue Dots.  

Add the Antique Brad and adhere the sentiment to the card on an angle using Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

Adhere the Pearls to the corners of the sentiment layer, the butterflies and focal image frame to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  Field Flowers, Notable Notions, Papillon Potpourri,Thoughts & Prayers

Ink: Pool Party, Cantaloupe Crisp, Calypso Coral, Early Espresso

Paper/Cardstock: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Epic Day This and That Designer Series Paper

Accessories:  Big Shot™, Square Lattice Textured Impression ™ Embossing Folders, Window Frames and Chalk Talk Framelits™, AquaPainter™, Pierce Mat, Stylus, Punches- Bitty Butterfly, Elegant Butterfly, Antique Brad, White Gel Pen, Pearls

Thanks again for stopping by- hopefully you can come join us for our Get Well Card Challenge at SUO Challenges!!  If you have the time, let me know which one you prefer- with or without butterflies?

CAS Sympathy- Two Challenges in One!

Hi Stampers! 

What a whirlwind of a week for me!!   I had the opportunity to meet and make a new stamping friend, spaghetti dinner at a very nice restaurant with our 5^th and 6^th grade Awana book award winners and of course, my full-time accounting job but I managed to squeeze in a few moments to stamp (thanks to a very understanding hubby!)!!

This week my good friends at The PaperPlayers have the PP96 Challenge to use "Polka Dots in a Clean and Simple (CAS)" project.  CAS is not my normal style since I tend to “overwork” things but I do like the style and will keep trying!!  I decided to combine the PP96 Challenge with the Splitcoaststampers SC386 Sketch.

I thought that since we are headed into Memorial Day weekend that a sympathy card would be appropriate.  I know that many of us celebrate this weekend with family and friends and pray that we will remember those who lost their lives serving our country! 

This card is very quick and easy to create- stamp the image with Basic Black onto Whisper White cardstock (I love the new SU! pads- such a clean crisp image!!).  HINT- With this image I masked the flowers so the stem would not overlap the petals. 

Layer onto Basic Black cardstock.  Assemble the layers using Designer Series Paper (DSP), add the paper doily, bow and pearls- you are done!!  

Stamp Sets:  Field Flowers, Teeny Tiny Wishes

 Ink: Basic Black

Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Designer Series Packs- Neutrals, Flirtatious DSP (retired)

Accessories:  Word Window and Modern Label Punch, Pearls, 5/8” Black Satin Ribbon

There you go- my version of CAS- I hope you like it!!  Have a great weekend honoring the men and women who have died for our freedom- may the Lord richly bless their families and continue to bless our country!!