Category: Clean and Simple

Clean and Simple

Day Filled with Joy

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I recently received a big box of happy mail (AKA new supplies), which included a lovely set of retired designer paper called Country Floral Lane. I love how the floral designs remind me of my grandmother’s house. She had a thing for floral wallpaper, and I remember many a summer where we changed out wallpaper to the latest and greatest design.

The card base of Lost Lagoon does a nice job of pulling the leaves and smaller greenery elements of the designer paper forward so they’re not lost in the floral pattern. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold on vellum and mounted on a Calypso Coral mat. The entire sentiment panel is diecut using two of the Deckled Rectangle dies. The sparkle gems and metallic ribbon add some visual interest to the design and walk the eye across the card design. This card just makes me happy with its light and bright color palette and fun patterned paper.

Products used:
Lost Lagoon, Calypso Coral, vellum cardstock
Country Floral Lane DSP
Heartfelt Hexagon stamps
Deckled Rectangles
Gold embossing powder
Metallic Flirty Flamingo ribbon
Fine sparkle gems
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Christmas · Clean and Simple

Joy to the World

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I love making designs that are out of my comfort zone, particularly when I know a design is going to require a bit of “winging it” when I don’t have the materials to copy it exactly. When I saw the inspiration design for this card, originally posted by Linda Dalke on Instagram, I was immediately struck by it. It was so simple and not my usual style.

The base is a simple piece of white cardstock. I loved the natural look of the gold woodgrain pattern from the Joyful designer paper pack, which is a substitute for the more streaky gold pattern of the card base from the inspiration card. The beautiful starry night sky is diecut from a sheet of Shining Brightly DSP using the Nested Essentials dies. I wanted the star element to be more ethereal so I chose to diecut each layer from a sheet of gold shimmer vellum using the Stars at Night dies. As I was arranging the layers, I felt like the dimensionals behind the middle layer added more visual interest and depth to the panel, particularly when paired with the star trinkets. The sentiment is stamped directly on the card base below the star panel with the blue and gold glittered ribbon completing the visual triangle.

I just love how this turned out and the gold elements really shimmer in the light in person!

Products used:
Basic White cardstock
Shining Brightly, Joyful DSP
Gold shimmer vellum (retired)
Stars at Night, Nested Essentials dies
Papertrey Ink Christmas Blessings stamps (sentiment) (retired)
Night of Navy & Gold glittered ribbon
Star trinkets
Gold pearls
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Clean and Simple · Trucking Along

Sunny Thoughts

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Now it’s my turn to play with the new Trucking Along stamp set. You just might get tired of seeing this little truck, but I sure hope not because I have LOADS of ideas. (Get it?)

I actually built this little scene with the intention of using a diecut to snip just a portion of it, but as I was placing the diecut, my son walked by and said, “you’re not going to cut that up, are you?” I told you I might just have to hire him to help out in the studio! And so I kept the whole scene, which has way better balance anyway.

This is a very simple design that came together in less than 30 minutes from start to finish. The design sits atop a white card base. The image panel is on a single layer of dimensionals atop a piece of Hello Irresistible designer paper. I made a mask of the truck using the punch and plain paper in order to stamp the trees and grass around the truck without covering it in any way. The load of flowers in the back of the truck has been fussy cut and is popped up. And that’s only because I forgot about them and stamped a tree in that space, but it turned out to be a happy little accident.

Products used:
Basic White cardstock
Hello Irresistible DSP
Trucking Along stamps
Wink of Stella
Adhesive-backed sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Clean and Simple · Trucking Along

Out for a Test Drive

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It was super fun to take the new Trucking Along bundle by Stampin’ Up! out for a spin. I think my son was as excited as I was about this new set, and HE actually got to christen the stamps by making the very first card design with them. And I’m thinking that I might have to hire him to help out from time to time because he came up with this entire card by himself!

Is this not the cutest card you’ve ever seen? He played around with his design on a piece of scratch paper. He got about halfway done and said, “I’m ready for the real thing now” and proceeded to make this little masterpiece. I love how the trucks look like they’re stopped on the shoulder of a roadway and how he was so careful to stamp all of the little details, like the grass and fence and trees. He had fun digging through ALL of the ink choices to find just the right colors …. and there are a LOT of choices because I have all of the retired colors.

What do you think of his test drive of the new Trucking Along stamp set? I’d say he passed for sure!

Here’s his card recipe:
Basic White cardstock (base)
Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Early Espresso, Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Garden Green, Bashful Blue, Fresh Freesia inks
Nested Essentials die
Dimensionals

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Clean and Simple · Creating Connections

Simple Stamping

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I love a good clean and simple (CAS) card design. For me, I typically like to let a beautiful piece of designer paper take center stage when I’m making a CAS card. Just add a simple sentiment and maybe an embellishment or two and you have a lovely card. Right now, SU! has a stunning DSP called Delightfully Eclectic that makes show-stopping designs, like these.

Each card design consists of Night of Navy as the card base. A different pattern of the Delightfully Eclectic designer paper is mounted on each base. The sentiments are stamped in Night of Navy on Basic White cardstock using the Pansy Patch stamp set. And each card is embellished with ribbon.

Products used:
Night of Navy, Basic White cardstock
Delightfully Eclectic DSP
Pansy Patch stamps
Lemon Lime Twist ribbon
Petal Pink ribbon
Circle punch
Dimensionals
Adhesive