This week, we’ve been looking through our crafty stash at products to pair together to make cards for our special Valentines, creating everything from more traditional to very whimsical designs. And to me, that’s the beauty of paper crafting – having the ability to adapt each design to the intended recipient.
Today, we’re closing out our Valentines series with a very whimsical design that pairs together some unexpected products. Our plane from Adventurous Sky is flying in with a very special message across a lovely afternoon sky from the Everyday Skies designer series paper pack over a sleepy little town from the Yuletide Village. While this design requires some fussy cutting with our paper snips, none of the images are terribly difficult to cut around and the detailed cutting is what really makes this design soar!
We get started with a base of Gray Granite cardstock. Our background panel is a sheet of the Everyday Skies paper. I stamped 3 of the 4 buildings from the Yuletide Village stamp set onto white cardstock, colored each with Stampin’ Blends, and then cut around the scene and adhered to the background with dimensionals. I stamped the medium-sized plane from the Adventurous Sky set onto white cardstock using the transfer method, colored with Stampin’ Blends, and then cut around it with my paper snips. I added a circle of some older luster vellum to give the illusion that the propeller is moving, using a navy regal dot as the hub. The sentiment from Saying Hey is stamped on white cardstock cut using the Mixed Labels banner die. The plane and banner are adhered in the sky above the village using varying layers of dimensionals. Some riverside irregular pearls finish off our scene with just a small pop of sparkle.
I really loved the unconventional combination of products as we often forget that our sets that we might consider to be holiday can be used across different times of the year if we make small modifications here and there. The beauty of Yuletide Village is that there are so many areas that remain snow-covered for Valentine’s Day, so how perfect is that?!
Next week is all about sentiments & texture. I hope you’ll come along for the inspiration!
Products used in today’s card:
Gray Granite, Basic White cardstock
Everyday Skies DSP
Adventurous Sky, Yuletide Village, Saying Hey stamps
Spotlight on Nature, Mixed Labels dies
Stampin’ Blends
Riverside irregular pearls, Regal foiled dots
Dimensionals
Adhesives
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 