Three Challenges Card

Today's card challenged me to incorporate three different aspects: color combination, sketch, and retiring products. Actually the card was made for June's Stamp Club HW. Our instructor challenged us to the color combination and I added the sketch and retiring products.

Card #1

Color combination

Retiring product

Eastern Elegance DSP
Express Yourself Stamp Set

My version

Description: I'm still on a mission to use my retired DSP in some great and creative ways. When I started to make this card, I realized that I don't really have So Saffron, but my upline said we could use the closest. So, I went with Crushed Curry as featured in the Eastern Elegance DSP. The DSP also features Coastal Cabana instead of Pool Party, but in just the little bit that you see, it's not a big difference. I kept the card base in Pool Party. I then added some random stamping to the base to give some visual interest. Simple card, but great use of color.

Stamps: Mosaic Madness; Express Yourself (retired)
Inks: Pool Party; Basic Gray
Cardstock: Eastern Elegance DSP (retired); Pool Party; Smoky Slate
Accessories:
Tools: Hexagon Punch (banner ends)

Card #2

Color combination

Sketch

Retiring product

Eastern Elegance DSP
Express Yourself Stamp Set

My version

Description: My second card is again using the Pool Party, Smoky Slate, and Crushed Curry (instead of So Saffron) color combination. I also aimed to again use my Eastern Elegance DSP. But for this one, I added a Mojo Monday sketch. I love how the circle patterns blended into each other. However, I probably should have stuck to a Crushed Curry sentiment instead of adding the Pool Party. Oh well...

Stamps: Express Yourself (retired)
Inks: Pool Party
Cardstock: Eastern Elegance DSP (retired); Pool Party; Smoky Slate
Accessories:
Tools: 2" Circle Punch; Hexagon Punch (banner ends)

Card #3

Color combination

Sketch

Retiring product:

Eastern Elegance DSP
Banner Greetings Stamp Set

My version

Description: I think this is my favorite of the three cards I love the combination of patterns and colors. I think this design really does balance itself out.

Stamps: Banner Greetings (retired)
Inks: Pool Party
Cardstock: Eastern Elegance DSP (retired); Smoky Slate; Pool Party
Accessories:
Tools: Hexagon Punch (banner ends); 2" Circle Punch; 1 3/8" Circle Punch; 1 1/4" Circle Punch

Archives: Crafting Time

Originally published on February 2nd, 2014

I spent some time Sunday afternoon making some cards. I had a few leftover kits from crop night, so I thought I would focus on those. I took a few ideas from Pinterest and put my own spin on them.

For my versions, i used a ton of random paper from my stacks and a few Stampin' Up products. I left off the ribbon in favor of a more streamlined one-layer (but not really) look. My only complaint is that I don't own a circle punch between 1 1/4" and 2". I really need to add that to my Stamp Club order for February.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up Wacky Wishes
Inks: SU Primrose Petals, SU Garden Green
Cardstock: SU Primrose Petals, various scraps
Tools: Cuttlebug Swiss Dot Embossing Folder; 2" Circle Punch; 1 1/4" Circle Punch; 1" Circle Punch; SNAIL; Big Shot

I found an interestingly designed card on Pinterest, but couldn't find the original source. Of course, this was after I had already made my own version of the card. Oh well! At least I can showcase my cards. I played around with layering and shades of pink.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up Morning Meadow; SU Flower Shop
Inks: SU Primrose Petals; SU Regal Rose; SU Garden Green; SU Certainly Celery
Cardstock: SU Primrose Petals, various scraps
Accessories: Rhinestone jewels
Tools: SU Pansy Punch; SNAIL; Dimensionals

I love the graduated colors of the original design and wanted to make my own interpretation. I made a near copy of the original and then decided to play up with the placement of the butterflies for the second card. I also used a ton of scraps for these. The dimensions of the strips are 3/4" by 3 3/4", 3 1/2", and 3 1/4".

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' Up Banner Greetings
Inks: SU Primrose Petals
Cardstock: Scraps
Accessories: SU 2012-2014 In Color Dahlias
Tools: SU Elegant Butterfly Punch; SNAIL; Glue dots

Hope you enjoyed the cards. I definitely enjoyed making them.

Archives: Cards #29

Originally published on January 19th, 2014 Before getting to the actual crafting, I wasn't able to get my SU order for December before leaving for Indiana. I completely forget what I even ordered. I was able to collect it at January stamp club. Oh yeah, and December was my hostess month. Lots and lots of goodies.

At stamp club, we made some cute cards. It was also the start of our new 6 month round. We drew hostess months and I got February. Just in time for Sale-a-bration. Now what should I order?

On the PL front, I finally got everything organized to put together the weekly spreads for the holidays. I also got some great ideas from my Studio Calico class I joined for January. Can't wait to put some of them into my spreads. And I decided to do a monthly wrap-up page with my books read, life goals and progress, and photo a day pics. I didn't want to have to include every photo a day pic, so I thought to combine some of my features into a monthly wrap up page. Each month has one side (two months per page protector) using design F. I have room for eight photo a day choice pics. I went through and picked title, books read, and life goals inserts for each month. I tried to play with some color schemes. I plan on adding embellishments as I do the months. In the meantime, here's a sneak peek of January's page:

Shopping Scores: Lots of new things! I picked up some Project Life supplies online: G and H page protectors (for inserts), Seasons Mini Kit (had Holiday, wanted general seasons), a WRMK 3x4 and 4x6 kit (Tangerine), and some random cards from a fellow PLer (from Honey and Kraft kits). And then I went to Michael's for snail and ended up buying a corner rounder punch (mine is horrid!) and a 2in circle punch.