Creating Pretty Cards Sketch Challenge #9

 

I designed this "mouthwatering" Creating Pretty Cards Sketch Challenge #9 for Craft Project Central using Stampin' Up's My Digital Studio. I hope this will inspire you. The popsicles are embossed with Cherry and Melon Scented Embossing Powders available for purchase out of the Occasions Mini Catalog until the end of the month. The inspiration card is an easel card.

 

Here's a FREE Mini Tutorial that has information about how the inspiration card (using the sketch) was created, supplies used, and basic measurements. You should play along too. Each week the project designers will pick their top two favorite entries. At the end of the month five random winners are chosen from the eight favorites, and the winners will receive a FREE subscription to the month of their choice on Craft Project Central.  Instead of just one winner every month, there are going to be five winners!

Grow with the Poppin' Pastel Technique

This technique is an oldie but a goodie. I used this Grow stamp that I got as a souvenir from  the Stampin' Up! Convention last year. Every year they feature a new stamp for Convention attendees featuring the theme of that year's Convention. My color combination for this card is Certainly Celery and Wild Wasabi. I used Very Vanilla for the sentiment base. To do the Poppin' Pastel technique, just ink your stamp with Whisper White Craft ink or Versamark. I used Whisper White Craft ink. Then using a Sponge Dauber and Stampin' Pastels, color over the ink. I used the Certainly Celery Pastel toward the top of the sentiment and blended down with Wild Wasabi. For our next Stamp Club we will make a creativity journal and write a letter to ourselves using this card. Start out the letter with, "Dear (your name), You are capable of so many remarkable things!" Then compliment yourself and have a friend mail it to you at a later date. When it arrives, add it to your creativity journal. 

A Valentine Easel Card for my Gnomie

 

This is the easel card I created after being inspired by the video below. It's a Valentine for my sweetie that says, "to gnome you is to love you." I stamped the gnomes on watercolor paper and used Stampin' Write Markers and a blender pen to color them  in. My feature colors are So Saffron, Real Red and Pacific Point. Happy Valentine's Day to all of my stampin' Gnomies!

Create an Easel Card by Stampin' Up!

Learn how to create a simple easel card. I'm working on one now, so check back tomorrow for my new post. I'll be featuring the Gnome Sweet Gnome stamp set.

Happy Birthday Scrappy Card

 

Here's another take on the butterfly card I previously made using torn scraps and a negative die image as the focal point. This time I used Fun Flowers Bigz L Die (121812) and scraps of Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. The flower die frame is made with Pool Party Card Stock stamped with the SAB Fresh Vintage Stamp Set in Versamark. The edges are inked with a sponge dauber and Pool Party Classic Ink. The Happy Birthday Dear You sentiment is from the Happiest Birthday Wishes Hostess set and the Hand Crafted sentiment is from the Tiny Tags stamp set. The card base is Soft Suede Card Stock. If you look at the listing of your designer series paper in one of the Stampin' Up! catalogs you will see a color key below the description. These are the colors of the paper pack which helps you choose coordinating card stock and accessories, like brads.

Creating Pretty Cards Sketch Challenge #8

This month I designed the card sketch for Craft Project Central using Stampin' Up's My Digital Studio. I hope this will inspire you. Here's a FREE Sketch Mini Tutorial that has information about how the inspiration card (using the sketch) was created, supplies used, and basic measurements. You should play along too. Each week the project designers will pick their top two favorite entries. At the end of the month five random winners are chosen from the eight favorites, and the winners will receive a FREE subscription to the month of their choice on Craft Project Central.  Instead of just one winner every month, there are going to be five!

 

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Bigz Butterfly and Scraps of Spice Cake

The inspiration for this card came from the December 2011 issue of Stampin' Success magazine which is only available to demonstrators. For more information on becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator click HERE.  To make this card I used Soft Suede and Pool Party as my main colors. Then, I used scraps of retired Spice Cake Designer Series Paper and First Edition DSP.  I layered these behind the negative image from the Bigz Beautiful Butterflies Die. The little Thinking of You sentiment is from the set, Teeny Tiny Wishes. I added an Antique Brad to the center. For the inside of the card I just cut out a rectangle of Soft Suede Card Stock and cut out a half circle using the circle punch. Then I punched out a Large Tag and added a ribbon. The sentiment and card can be reused and forwarded to the next person. I have my scraps in a bin, organized by color or DSP pack. How do you organize your scraps?

Everyday Enchantment Ghirardelli Chocolate Purses

Aren't these just the cutest! It's a little Ghirardelli chocolate holder that looks like a little purse.  It holds two chocolates and it stands up on it's own. I got this idea last April from Brenda Quintana at Qbee's Quest. If you haven't checked out her blog you are in for a treat! She has a full color free tutorial on her blog. These are so easy to make and with our new Simply Scored it's a breeze. I used the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper available free on January 24th with a $50 purchase as a Sale-A-Bration incentive. The enclosure is a Designer Printed brad in Pool Party (page 199 IB&C). The sentiments are from the Perfect Words Hostess stamp set.

Take It to Heart this Valentine's Day

 

Here are a couple of cute 3" x 3" Valentine cards that we are making at Stamp Club. My inspiration for the card on the left came from the featured project on my Stampin' Up! online store.  I just changed the color scheme from Calypso Coral to Poppy Parade. It's coordinated  with the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper available January 24th as a free Sale-A-Bration gift with a $50 purchase.  I stamped the heart on the Very Vanilla tag in Versamark, using the new Take It to Heart stamp set featured in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I did the emboss resist technique by rubbing a sponge dauber with Poppy Parade Classic Ink over the image and sponging around the edge of the heart. The little "love" sentiment is from the Tiny Tags stamp set. The background hearts are stamped with Versamark which makes a nice watermark image on any color of card stock. The card on the right is made with Pool Party card stock and another piece of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper.

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