Thank You- A Clean and Layered Card for Two Challenges :-)

Hi Again Stampers!

I wanted to create another card this weekend and decided to play along with the CMCC46 Colour Me! Challenge along with the CCC49 Catherine and Cathy Thankful Challenge.

Again, I hope you will find the time to visit both sites to see the wonderful Design Team cards as well as their fantastic galleries! 

I used quite a few of my scraps to create this Clean and Layered (CAL) card:

Ink the sentiment from the retired set, Short & Sweet using Night of Navy Classic Ink and stamp onto Whisper White cardstock.  Create the banner ends using a Hexagon Punch and mount onto Night of Navy cardstock, creating banners as well with the Hexagon Punch.

Use the Big Shot™ with the Wplus9 Studio Maple Leaf Die to cut the maple leaf from the retired Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper (DSP). Set the leaf aside for future use and punch out the negative using the 2 ½” Circle Punch.

Punch another 2 ½” circle punch from Night of Navy DSP and two circles from Night of Navy cardstock.  Layer the Night of Navy DSP behind the maple leaf die cut.

Layer the two Night of Navy cardstock circles together to create a frame and mount the maple die cut image onto the layered circles. 

Use the Big Shot™ with the Adorning Accents Edgelit™ to cut a piece of Whisper White and Tangerine Tangelo Twist cardstock. 

Use the Big Shot™ to emboss both pieces along the cut edge with the Adorning Accents Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder.

Begin the layering process- layer the two embossed pieces onto a piece of Night of Navy DSP, trim and mount onto a piece of Night of Navy cardstock, trim and mount onto a piece of Tangelo Twist cardstock, trim and mount onto a piece of Night of Navy cardstock, trim and mount onto the Whisper White card base.

Add a small strip of Night of Navy across the top of the embossed/die cut Whisper White layer and a larger strip of Night of Navy cardstock to the center of the panel. 

Add the Retro Fresh Washi Tape over the larger strip in the center.

Mount the focal image using Stampin’ Dimensionals® and add the retired Sycamore Street Designer Button to the center of the leaf (with a small strip of Night of Navy to mimic thread).

Add the sentiment with Stampin’ Dimensionals® to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Short & Sweet

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Tangelo Twist; retired Night of Navy, Sweater Weather DSP

Accessories: Big Shot™, Adorning Accents Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Adorning Accents Edgelit™, retired Sycamore Street Designer Button, Punches- 2 ½” Circle, Hexagon; Retro Fresh Washi Tape

Thanks again for stopping by- I hope you have a marvelous Monday!!

Retro Fresh Thank You- Two Challenges in One!

Hi Stampers!

I had another chance to stamp and decided to create a Clean and Layered (CAL) card using the HSSC185 HandStamped Sentiments Color Combination and the Mojo334 Sketch Challenge. 

I hope you have a chance to check out both of the challenge sites- so much inspiration from the Design Teams and the numerous entries!!

To create this card:

Use the Big Shot™ with the Woodgrain Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder to emboss a piece of Baked Brown Sugar cardstock and adhere to the Coastal Cabana layer and onto the Tangerine Tango card base.

Cut the Coastal Cabana striped panel from the Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper (DSP) and mount onto a piece of Coastal Cabana cardstock.  

Mount onto the card front and add the banners using the Banner Punch along the lower edge.

Create the quilt portion of the tag using the Big Shot™ along with the WPlus9 Design Studio Quilt cutting out three quilts- one from Coastal Cabana cardstock and two from the Retro Fresh DSP.  Layout the arrangement, adhere the quilt pieces to a piece of Baked Brown Sugar cardstock, trim and add the Baked Brown Sugar heart along with the small Tangerine Tango heart and Pearl.

Create a tag using the Scallop Tag Punch from a 2” piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and layer onto another tag created with the same punch from Coastal Cabana cardstock.   Add the scrap pieces of Retro Fresh DSP and adhere the quilt panel to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

Add the sentiment banner and strands of Pearls to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Short and Sweet

Ink: Coastal Cabana

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana, Tangerine Tango, Very Vanilla, Retro Fresh DSP

Accessories: Big Shot™, Woodgrain Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Wplus9 Design Studio Quilt Cuts 2 Die, Punches; Banner, Hexagon, Scallop Tag, Pearls

Thanks again for visiting- I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend!

CAS Enjoy The Journey- "Stretching It"!!

Hi Stampers!

I wanted to create a card for the WPlus9 Design Studio’s 4^th Birthday and the "Stretch It" challenge was to create something or use a product that takes you out of your “comfort zone” and utilize at least one of their stamps or dies.

I know I have said it before, but I totally struggle with Clean and Simple (CAS) cards so I decided to try a CAS card using the WPlus9 Clear Cut Stacker stars (small star) and the Nautical Notions Die Set (the sailboat) along with the CAS(E) This Sketch! #66 and the Color Throwdown CTD281 Colors as well as qualifying for the LOVEFEST2014I Challenge at Splitcoaststampers to use a die :-)

All three sites have wonderful inspiration and hope you will take a chance to check them out!

So here is the card- a few die cuts, emboss a few pieces of cardstock and punch out a few items and you are done, right?  Not for me- took over 3 hours to come up with this one...pitiful, I know :-)

 Stamp Sets: Pedaling Past (MDS version) 

Ink:  Printer Ink- Black

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron

Accessories: Big Shot™, Woodgrain Textured Impressions™  Embossing Folder, WPlus9 Nautical Notions Die and Clear Cut Stacker Stars Die, Punches- 2 ½” Circle, Hexagon Punch (for banner points), Fiskars Star, Rhinestone

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- I hope those of you in the path of the storem stay safe and warm- have a great week!