Today's card is a great example of how to use scraps to create a beautiful card. I took a ton of 1 inch strips from my Dear Lizzy Documented stack and pulled my favorite patterns. From there I just created a scattered pattern on a piece of white cardstock. I finished off the card with a simple sentiment.
Today's card is being featured at my Patterned Paper Extravaganza class. I love finding new ways to use up paper scraps laying around. For this card, I created a variety of banners from the dsp and adhered them to an embossed piece of cardstock. From there, it was just a matter of adding some coordinating ribbon and a sentiment.
Today's card is being featured at my birthday cards class. I loved the idea of repeating shapes and so I modified the idea for a birthday card. I die cut a ton of small coffee cups from the awesomely bright Picture Perfect Party DSP stack and created my focal grid. From there it was just a matter of adding some texture via embossing folder and a nice birthday sentiment.
Today's card is being featured at my Pattern Paper class this season. I wanted to make a masculine card and the new True Gentleman DSP is perfect! I kept the card simple deciding to focus on layering the fun patterns and finishing off with a simple sentiment. As a last minute addition, I added the metallic doily to add a bit more shine.
Today's card is being featured at my Birthday Cards class. I stamped the bee and sentiment onto a piece of vellum using Basic Black Ink. From there, I layered the vellum on top of a piece of pretty pattern paper. For the final touch, I added some gorgeous crinkly ribbon. A simple but striking card!
Today's card is an awesome CASE from Martha Inchley @ Inch of Creativity. I loved the idea of the layered foil pieces on a clean white base. I changed up the sentiment and shapes, but the rest I kept the same. Such a great colorful card.
Detail of the shiny foil
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using our favorite Occasions Catalog DSP item. I love the bright colors and images in the Picture Perfect Party DSP stack! For today's card, I decided to keep it simple to highlight this fun piece of DSP! I added a simple strip of stamped Whisper White with a coordinating layer. As a final touch, I added some of the new awesome adhesive backed Tutti-Frutti Sequins.
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using our favorite Sale-a-Bration item. For my card, I used two! As soon as I saw the SAB brochure, I knew that I needed to own the Amazing You Stamp Set and Celebrate You Thinlits immediately. They are cute on their own, but together they create such a lovely card. I started with my small piece of Whisper White and stamped some fun candles and sprinkles. I die the "celebrate" and then stamped the "let's" to to my placement correct. I layered the piece onto some Melon Mambo cardstock before layering onto some truly gorgeous paper from the Painted with Love Specialty Designer Series Paper pack. It's a little hard to tell in the photo, but the paper features strips of gold foil. This card is super shiny!
Our demo group does a card swap for each new catalog. I always look forward to the amazing designs I receive in the mail.
Carla Branton
Susan Schultz
Jennifer Blomquist @ Northwest Stamper
Christine Szekeres @ Artful Musings
Merit Brown @ MB Squared Designs
Pamela Wu @ Stinky Tofu
Shirley Griffith
Stacey Lane @ A Work of Carte
Hand's down, my favorite item from the Occasions Catalog is the Brusho Crystal Colour! I have had so much fun playing with them this past month. For today's card, I used Versamark and white embossing powder to create my butterfly image. I then layered on green and blue Brusho Crystals until I was happy with the coverage. From there, I layered on some paper.
Detail of the embossing and color:
I liked the card, but something was missing a bit... Turns out I was missing sequins to really make this card pop!
