TCC208 Hello Summer

 

Hi Friends!

Welcome to our #208 {Hello Summer} Challenge at the The Card Concept!

This will be our last challenge before our summer break and we are looking forward to seeing what inspires your card from our inspiration photo!

Will it be the overall theme, the colors, textures, stripes, pillows, patterns or something else?

I was inspired by the theme, colors and textures and decided to pull out the Stamp Simply set, Scripture for Graduation and Beyond for the verse sentiment and pair it with the retired Stampin’ Up! set, Nature’s Wonder.

It has been a goal of mine to try to ink up some of my many retired stamp sets and I have always loved this sand dollar image.  It reminded me of the starfish and of course, the seashore and thought it would work well for this challenge.

I also enjoy participating with online challenges and will be playing along with one of my favorite challenges, the Word Art Wednesday #651-#652 “Anything Goes” Challenge.  

I hope you will take a moment to visit our challenge blog and see how the rest of the Design Team were inspired- they are so creative!!

 

To create this card:

On a piece of white cardstock, de-static with an embossing powder tool, ink the retired Nature’s Wonder image with Versafine Black Onyx ink, stamp onto the prepared panel, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, watercolor with distress oxide inks and trimming the image close to the edge.

Mount the image onto black cardstock, trim and mount onto white cardstock, trim and mount onto black cardstock, before trimming one last time and mounting onto aqua cardstock.

Emboss a piece of white cardstock with the retired Mosaic embossing folder. Trim to approx. 4” x 5 ¼”, distress the edges, mount onto black cardstock.

Add a piece of burlap ribbon on a diagonal, wrapping the ends behind a panel.  Add a piece of aqua grosgrain ribbon and a ¼” black grosgrain ribbon (wrapping the ends of both behind the panel).

Mount the entire panel onto a piece of aqua cardstock and adhere to a white card base.

De-static a piece of black cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the sentiment from Scripture for Graduation and Beyond with Versamark and stamp onto the prepared panel, apply white embossing powder, heat set with a heat tool.

Die cut the sentiment with a stitched oval die.  Die cut an additional oval from aqua cardstock, cut the aqua oval in half and adhere behind the embossed sentiment oval (allowing a bit of the aqua cardstock to show on each side).

Mount the sentiment directly onto the front of the card, tucking the top under the ribbon strips.

Add the layered sand dollar image onto the card front with dimensional foam.

Loop silver cording and tuck under the sand dollar image.

Add Frost White Shimmer Paint with a water brush to add shimmer to the sand dollar image along with a few rhinestones to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Scripture from Graduation and BeyondScripture from Graduation and Beyond (Stamp Simply), retired Nature’s Wonder (Stampin’ Up!)

Inks/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black,  Versamark. Tim Holtz™ Distress Oxide Ink- Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Hickory Smoke, Frost White Shimmer Paint

Cardstock/Paper: White, Black, Bermuda Bay

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Mosaic Embossing Folder (retired SU!), Embossing Powder Tool, Clear and White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Distressing Tool, AquaPainter™, Bermuda Bay Grosgrain Ribbon, ¼” Black Grosgrain Ribbon, Silver Elastic Cording, Burlap Ribbon (from my stash), Silver Rhinestones

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by! I hope you are inspired to create a card and join us for our #208 {Hello Summer} Challenge at The Card Concept!  The deadline to play along is Monday, July 8^th  at noon EST. 

             Also, I hope you have a chance to check out the specials at Stamp Simply!

Hope and a Future

 Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing a graduation card using the new Craft Consortium Patina 6x6 Paper Pad along with stamps, dies and twine from Stamp Simply.

The Craft Consortium Patina 6x6 paper pad has such deep, rich colors, texture and patterns- wonderful for masculine and feminine cards!

Also, Jeremiah 29:11 is one of my favorite verses and I love the font in the Scripture for Graduation and Beyond stamp set, don’t you ? It pairs perfectly with the Graduation Sentiments and also comes as a bundle. 

I am linking this card to the Watercooler Wednesday #335 “Anything Goes “Celebrating the End” (FYI- this is their final challenge).

If you have not already had a chance to do so, I hope you visit the Stamp Simply blog to see all of the inspiration from the rest of the SS Design Team as well as the final Watercooler Wednesday Challenge- beautiful galleries from all!

To create this card:

Using ground espresso distress ink, repeatedly stamp the subway style background stamp from the Graduation Sentiments (part of the Graduation Bundle) onto a panel from the Craft Consortium Patina designer paper.

Distress the edges, mount onto a piece of rust cardstock and mount onto a white card base.

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the A Godly Man buck image and the verse sentiment with archival black ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Die cut the verse sentiment using the outer die from the medium pierced rectangle die, mount onto a piece of rust cardstock and trim close to the edge.

Add the knotted kraft baker’s twine  to three of the corners, add to the card front using dimensional foam or chipboard.

Die cut the buck image with the Buck Die, die cut two additional bucks from white cardstock to layer behind the stamped die cut buck.

Mount the buck image with dimensional foam (or chipboard) and add a few black rhinestones to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Scripture for Graduation and Beyond, Graduation Sentiments (both included in the Graduation Bundle), A Godly Man (part of A Godly Man Bundle)- all from Stamp Simply

Ink/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress

Cardstock/Paper: White, Rust; Craft Consortium Patina 6x6 Paper

 Accessories/Tools:  Gemini. Jr., Stamp Simply Dies- Buck Die single or part of A Godly Man Bundle, Spellbinders Celebrations - Pierced Rectangle Dies , May Arts Baker’s Twine- 110 Yard Spool- Kraft, Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Rhinestones- Black, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Thanks again for stopping by- I hope you will check out the February sale at Stamp Simply!

Nothing Will Be Impossible

 

Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing an encouragement card designed with the new Craft Consortium Ocean Ink Drops 6x6 Paper Pad along with the Ocean Seam Binding Bundle, Scripture for Graduation & Beyond as well as a few other supplies, all from Stamp Simply.  

Since the new Ocean Ink Drops Paper is so gorgeous, I chose not to cover up too much of the design :-)  I love all of the colors and the Ocean Seam Binding bundle matches perfectly!  Look at all of those scrumptious colors- 30 yards total! 

And the  sentiments and verses in the Scripture for Graduation & Beyond are perfect for graduation, retirement and encouragement- one of my favorite stamp sets for sure!

Also, as many of you who follow my blog know, I have a personal goal to create a card with each of Splitcoaststampers sketches and decided to use the Splitcoaststampers SC886 Sketch for the design on this card (I did modify slightly with the ribbon).  

I am also playing along with the Word Art Wednesday #529-#530 “Anything Goes”Challenge.

If, you have not already done so, I hope you have a chance to visit the Stamp Simply blog to see all of the inspiration from the rest of the SS Design Team!  Also, Splitcoaststampers and Word Art Wednesday are fabulous sites for inspiration as well!

To create this card:

Trim a piece of the Ocean Ink Drops 6x6 paper to approx. 4” x 5”, cut into five panels in various widths.

Mount onto a piece of light green cardstock, trim and mount again onto a piece of teal cardstock.

Add a strip of the light blue/green seam binding from the Ocean Seam BindingBundle, wrap the ends behind the panel.

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, stamp the scripture sentiment from Scripture for Graduation & Beyond with archival black ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, die cut with the medium Hemstitch Rectangle Die, mount onto light green cardstock and trim close to the edge.

Adhere the sentiment to the card front with dimensional foam and mount onto a white card base.

Add a strip of the same pattern paper Ocean Ink Drops paper to the inside lower edge of the card- first mount the strip onto light green, then teal cardstock). FYI- I used part of the 2” scrap remaining from the Ocean Ink Drops panel used on the front of the card (hard to see in the photos).  

Add the seam binding bow along with a few black rhinestones to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  Scripture for Graduation & Beyond (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock/Paper:  White, Pistachio Pudding, Taken with Teal (all retired Stampin’ Up!); Craft Consortium Ocean Ink Drops 6x6 Paper Pad

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Spellbinders Amazing Paper Grace- Hemstitch Rectangle Dies, Ocean Seam Binding Ribbon Bundle, Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Black Round Rhinestones, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Thanks again for taking the time to visit and don’t forget the fabulous February sale at Stamp Simply- use code LOVE15.

TCC145 Festive Celebration

 

Hi Friends!

Welcome to the #145 {Festive Celebration} Challenge at The Card Concept!

I was inspired by the overall elegance as well as the black and golds in our inspiration photo to create a Clean and Layered card using Stamp Simply stamps (along with retired papers and embellishments from my massive stash :-)).

I am also participating with the Double Trouble #72 “Something, Anything and Everything” Challenge and the WordArt Wednesday #468-#469 “Anything Goes” Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to visit The Card Concept or the other challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- fabulous inspiration from all! 

To create this card:

For the background panel- die cut the stitched white rectangle from a 4” x 5 1/4” piece of white cardstock and set aside.). 

Layer a piece of brown/gold metallic designer paper (approx. 3.75” x 5” ) onto the 4” x 5 ¼” white panel (this will cover your die cut area from above) and mount onto a piece of 4 ¼” x 5 ½” piece of black cardstock.  FYI- All the designer papers used for this card were from the retired Mocha Morning DSP from Stampin’ Up!

Layer a piece of 7/8” black satin ribbon over the background panel, wrap the ends behind the panel and mount the panel onto a white card front.

De-static the upper right hand corner of the stitched rectangle die cut (from the step above) with an embossing powder tool, stamp the sentiment from Scripture for Graduation & Beyond using Versafine Onyx Black ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.  Mount the panel onto black cardstock, trim close to the edge.

Layer a piece of black flocked designer paper onto black cardstock (both of these were in my stash), mount onto the white stitched die cut (from the step above), trim off the ends flush with the white layered panel.

Mount the layered stamped panel directly onto the card front.

Die cut the numbers from gold metallic paper and die cut two additional numbers of each from black cardstock (to build up the thickness of each number).

Add the numbers to the card front using chipboard (or dimensional foam).

Use a clear glitter marker to add shimmer to the gold metallic numbers and add the rhinestone embellishments to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Scripture for Graduation & Beyond (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Wink of Stella- Clear Glitter Marker

Paper/Cardstock: White, Black; Gold Metallic (from my stash- not sure of manufacturer), retired Mocha Morning Designer Series Paper (Stampin’ Up!)

Tools/Accessories: Gemini, Jr., Dies- My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle A2 STAX- Set 1, Numbers (retired Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps),  Heat Tool, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Silver Rhinestones, retired Rhinestone Embellishment (Stampin’ Up!), 7/8” Black Satin Ribbon (Offray)

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by!  We would love for you to create a card based on our {Festive Celebration} photo and and join us at The Card Concept! The challenge is open until December 14th at noon EST.