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Clean and Simple

Riding in With Thanks

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Today’s design features another pattern from the Country Floral Lane designer series paper. All of the designs in this paper pack are fun and happy and lend themselves well to all sorts of occasions — even thinking of you or encouragement cards. In this case, I designed a thank-you card to send to my upline for all of her help with a recent craft fair.

The bicycle design works great for this cute peek-a-boo fun fold design. I started with a base of Blushing Bride cardstock and cut 1″ from the bottom of the front panel to give the peek-through to the bottom of the base panel. To achieve the peek-through with the paper, I separated the designer paper between the bicycle and floral patterns and then adhered the strip of floral pattern to the bottom of the message panel inside the card so that it shows through when the card is closed. The sentiment is stamped on white using the Heartfelt Hexagon and Circle Sayings stamp sets. The sentiment panel is popped up on dimensionsals and is the visual center of the card front. A few sequins add some sparkle and draw the eye to the sentiment. Simple but so cute! Don’t you think?

This is such a fun design and can easily be adapted to use any product you have on hand. If you wanna give a peek-through card a try, feel free to download the PDF tutorial here.

Products used:
Blushing Bride (retired), white cardstock
Country Floral Lane DSP (retired)
Circle Sayings, Heartfelt Hexagon stamps
Heartfelt Hexagon punch
Adhesive-backed sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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World Card Making Day

Bushel of Thanks

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Did any of you attend the World Card Making Day event sponsored by Stampin’ Up!? The virtual event was a lot of fun, and if you didn’t catch it live when it aired several weeks ago, you can go back and watch it and craft along on the replay. I highly recommend it!

Even when you don’t have all of the supplies for a craft-along, you can still turn out gorgeous cards by using some of the techniques showcased during a crafting event. That’s the case with today’s card. This design is based on one of the card designs made during the WCMD event. I didn’t have the bundle of stamps and dies that were used in the demo design, so I elected to substitute some similar-looking dies and stamps that I already had on hand. This design was fun because it incorporated some ink smearing and watercoloring techniques that I’ve seen before but never think of when I’m looking for that “something different” look.

Blueberry Bushel cardstock serves as the base for this card design. On a sheet of watercolor paper, I swiped my Blueberry Bushel inkpad across one portion. It doesn’t have to be even and, in fact, looks better if it’s not. Dry the ink using a heat gun. Diecut three elongated hexagons from watercolor paper using the Nested Essentials dies. Two of those should be from the section of inked paper once it’s dry. The plain hexagon will serve as the sentiment panel. I chose a sentiment from the Charming Sentiments stamp set and stamped it in Blueberry Bushel in the center. I stamped two of the larger and less-detailed greenery images from the Magical Meadow stamp set in Old Olive onto watercolor paper. With a watercolor blending brush, I went over the image to give it a smudged, watercolored look and then diecut using the coordinating dies. I went over the shapes again with Wink of Stella to add sparkle. I adhered the hexagons in a staggered pattern across the card front using dimensionals, ensuring that the sentiment panel would be higher than the blue hexagons to help it stand out and allow the greenery tucked behind the sentiment panel to hover above the blue accents. The tinsel gems help the eye move across the design and give another layer of sparkle.

Products used:
Blueberry Bushel cardstock
Watercolor paper
Charming Sentiments, Magical Meadow stamps
Nested Essentials, Magical Meadow dies
Tinsel gems
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Fall

Thankful

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Are you a paper scrap saver or chunker? I just can’t bring myself to throw away perfectly good scraps of (expensive) paper. When I need to diecut smaller elements, I prefer to dig through and use my paper scraps rather than cutting a new sheet, unless that’s my only option. And today’s design is a perfect showcase of paper scraps.

I had two scraps of foiled All About Autumn designer paper that I wanted to use — one Pretty Peacock and one Moody Mauve. I thumbed through the All About Autumn pack and found the foiled mosaic that coordinated perfectly. So I started the design with a base of Pretty Peacock to provide a solid, earthy anchor for the busy foiled patterns of the selected designer papers. I wanted to pull the gold elements from the mosaic sheet and decided to diecut gold glimmer paper using the Nested Essentials dies. Rather than stamping a sentiment on this panel, I opted to diecut the word THANKS using the Alphabet a la Mode dies from a scrap of Pretty Peacock to tie all of the card elements together. The sentiment panel is adhered using dimensionals. The twist of copper twine and scatter of copper sequins add additional visual interest and sparkle and tie all of the card elements together for a more cohesive look throughout the design.

Products used:
Pretty Peacock, glimmer gold cardstock
All About Autumn DSP
Nested Essential, Alphabet a la Mode dies
Adhesive-backed sequins
Copper twine (retired)
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Fall

Fall-ever Grateful

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We recently had a virtual team stamping event. It was so fun to get to stamp together with team members who are scattered across North America. The beauty of that event was getting to play with some product that I don’t currently have in my own stash of products. After working with the Autumn Leaves dies, I just might have to change that though!

This design helps showcase the beauty of the autumn products on page 43 of the current Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog. This card sits atop a base of Very Vanilla. The card face sits atop a sheet of Copper Clay foiled designer paper from the All About Autumn paper pack. The focal image is mounted on a panel diecut from Copper Clay using the Deckled Rectangles dies. The iridescent ribbon is mounted between the Copper Clay mat and focal image sheet and tied using gold cord. The sentiment panel is diecut from Very Vanilla cardstock using the Autumn Leaves dies. The sentiment is stamped with Charming Sentiments in the center using Old Olive. The leaves are diecut from Oxidized Copper designer paper using the Autumn Leaves dies. (Check out the details in those leaves! Even more stunning in person!) The entire center panel sits atop dimensionals which really allows it to shine.

Products used:
Very Vanilla, Copper Clay cardstock
All About Autumn, Oxidized Copper DSP
Charming Sentiments stamps
Autumn Leaves dies
Adhesive-backed speckled dots
Iridescent ribbon
Gold cord
Dimensionals
Adhesives

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Dies · No Stamp Design · Wink of Stella

For the Love of Art

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Today’s design was crafted with a friend in mind. My friend is an artist and shared her talents with my family by painting my son a portrait of our kitties, who both totally think my son hung the moon and even tuck him into bed almost every night.

The Zoo Crew designer paper had the perfect character for the thank-you card my son is going to send. I mounted a sheet of the Delightfully Eclectic paper to the card base, punched the cute hedgehog artiste from the Zoo Crew paper, and mounted it on some glimmer vellum. Some ribbon and flags diecut from glimmer vellum accent the design and really make the focal image pop. I added a few adhesive-backed sequins and Wink of Stella for a little extra punch of sparkle.

Products used:
Basic White cardstock
Zoo Crew, Delightfully Eclectic DSP
Glimmer vellum (retired)
Circle, Scallop punch
All That dies
Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon
Wink of Stella
Pastel adhesive-backed sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesive

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