Showing posts with label Itty Bitty Greetings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Itty Bitty Greetings. Show all posts

Saturday, April 03, 2021

Prized Peony - GDP 285

 Well hello and welcome crafters! It is time for yet another Global Design Project card, and this week is a colour challenge. We are going to be playing with these colours for today’s project...

. These three colours are so soft looking, I wasn’t quite sure what to create with these at first. I thought about creating a seascape at first for the very obvious reasons...yellow for the sun, blue for the water and gray for the sand. But for my project I decided to go with floral instead...just because why not!? And this is what I came up with...

To create this card I stamped the large peony stamp from the Prized Peony set twice...once in So Saffron and once more in Versamark then copper heat-embossed. I used my aquapainter to spread the So Saffron ink on the flowers, then die cut them using the coordinating dies from the Peony Dies. I then trimmed the yellow flowers and adhered them on top of the copper embossed stem.

Next I stamped the background diamond stamp randomly onto a piece of white cardstock using Seaside Spray, then used my ink blending brush to blend some ink onto the edges as well. I wanted a distressed look so I ran my scissors along the edges of my cardstock to ‘roughen up’ my edges. I then adhered this to a mat piece of Seaside Spray cardstock before adding my flower stem onto it and adding a linen thread bow.

For the background piece I used white cardstock and my Painted Texture embossing folder, then softly inked it with Sahara Sand using my ink blending brush again. This piece was then added to a mat piece of Sahara Sand cardstock. I also used half of a square vellum doily which I inked with Sahara Sand and then clear heat-embossed so that the ink won’t smear, and added this onto the side of my art panel. I added my sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings and some champagne rhinestones and Wink of Stella onto the flowers since I can’t make a card with no bling!

And that is my card for today as inspired by this week’s GDP challenge. These weekly challenges are a great exercise for ones creativity and is a great source of inspiration! Looking forward to the next one. Anyway thank you again for stopping by and hope to see you next time! Happy crafting!

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Memories & More

I am in love with our new Memories & More card packs! I just spent an hour and a half playing with my Big Plans card pack, prepping for a planned card class in July, and boy did I have lots of fun. I made all of these cards in less than two hours...how sweet is that?!
If you're not familiar with the Memories & More card packs, let me give you the simple low-down. It is a pack of 50 double-sided cards (kinda like little Designer Series Papers in 3x4" and 4x6"), 6 single-sided specialty cards (can be foiled, acetate, laser cut, etc.), and 4 sticker sheets (sentiments & embellishments). So as you can see, you have everything you'll ever need to make your projects, be it cards, scrapbooking or other papercrafting! The packs are super affordable and gorgeous, an absolute must-have!

Here are the current Memories & More card packs in our catalogue:
Big Plans

Best Route

Delightfully Detailed

Tea Room
How fun are they?!

As I have previously mentioned, I am planning a card class in July, and so what better product to use than these card packs right? For my sample cards, I challenged myself to use very minimal products to make it easy for my class. I took out my Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set, my adhesive-backed sequins, the SAB shimmer ribbons in Calypso Coral & Basic Gray (I know they're retired, but I have them in abundance so why not use them?), and then gave myself a 3x12" piece of silver foil sheet. These items, plus my adhesive and Basic Black ink pad is all I used, and I'm quite happy with the cards I made! There's very minimal stamping, and they're super easy to do. Hopefully my class attendees will be happy with them too!