SSINKCS25: Schoolhouse Banners

Today’s card is featured over at Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration and features a fun card sketch challenge today.

I started with this great Mint Macaron DSP and started building a great new baby card. I had fun coloring the Hey There Buds card. Blushing Bride, Pink Pirouette, and Mint Macaron are the perfect combination. I finished this card off with a sentiment from Crazy About You. I finished the card and realized that the Hey There Buds stamp is retired. Ugh! I can't use retired cards for the SSINK blog. What to do? It's a cute card so I had to feature it on my blog, but I went back to the sketch to find current items to make my design team card...

I started this card with the beautiful polka dot DSP from the Schoolhouse pack. I layered the polka dot print over the opposite side featuring numbers. Beautiful combo! To finish out the card, I added a simple sentiment, some washi tape, and a punched banner. Very cute!

• Stamps: Hello Life; Crazy About You; Hey There Buds
• Inks: Mint Macaron; Blushing Bride; Pink Pirouette; Staz-on Black
• Cardstock: 2015-2017 In Colors DSP; Crumb Cake; Schoolhouse DSP; Pacific Point
• Accessories: Seasons of Cheer Washi Tape
• Tools: Banner Punch

Floral Cards #2

The second half of my All About Florals class focused on simple yet beautiful cards.

Card #1

I saw a great card on Pinterest using hexagons to make flowers. I definitely needed to try this idea. This is a great card design to play with patterns and colors. I pulled a few patterns from the All Abloom DSP stack that spoke to me and played with the combinations until I settled on these. I love how the patterns don't match but do coordinate. For something extra I embossed the white piece and DSP with my Decorative Dots Embossing folder. Just a little bit to make the card more special.

• Stamps: Simply Wonderful
• Inks: Strawberry Slush
• Cardstock: Blushing Bride; All Abloom DSP; Whisper White
• Accessories: Dots Embossing Folder
• Tools: Hexagon Punch

Card #2

My last card also had an inspiration from Pinterest. I love using washi tape and this design is the perfect excuse to use a ton! I pulled similarly colored washi tape (from two different SU collections) and created a pattern of colors as a background. For the stamp, I masked out the "hey there" greeting and just stamped the flower. I love how easy it is to masked out parts of stamps that you don't want! I do not have the Crisp Cantaloupe marker otherwise coloring the stamp would have been just as easy. I added a different greeting layered over the flower. The white piece was feeling very plain so I mounted it to a piece of Basic Gray to give some dimensional. Finally I threw on some silver sequins to liven up the card a bit.

• Stamps: Hey There Buds; Simple Wonderful
• Inks: Crisp Cantaloupe; Basic Gray
• Cardstock: Basic Gray; Smoky Slate; Whisper White
• Accessories: Silver Sequins; Sweet Sadie washi tape; Sweet Dreams washi tape
• Tools: