Showing posts with label Pals Paper Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pals Paper Arts. Show all posts

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Something Old, Something New...for the Challenges

My card today melds two card challenges into one. 

Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch 126 #stampinup #papercraftcrew #papercrafts #cardchallenge 
This one is from the Paper Craft Crew, and is a great, slightly stepped up basic card sketch, good for any type of card.

And then I saw this color challenge from Pals Paper Arts, and my card just came together:
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 Something New
I remembered the new (FREE) choice from Sale-A-Bration, Irresistibly Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper and thought it would be really cool to play with that.  The entire sheet of DSP is embossed, white on white (there are 6 different designs); you can use it as is, or color it using a brayer, sponges, sponge daubers, and even Blendabilities!  How fun is that?

So here is my card, with the Irresistibly Yours background:



 Something Blue
In keeping with the color challenge, I first brayered the entire embossed DSP with Soft Sky.  I then sponged Pool Party ink over the center part of the card, and finished by sponging Island Indigo from the bottom towards the center, blending all the shades nicely.  The card base is Soft Sky, with a slim layer of Island Indigo.

Since January is "birthday month" in my house (we celebrate FIVE!) I chose Big News for my stamp set.  The big sentiment is stamped with Island Indigo ink on Whisper White cardstock.  It's mounted on a two-tone layer (to highlight the two tones of the background paper), using Island Indigo and Soft Sky. 

The little sentiment is heat embossed on Island Indigo cardstock, using Pool Party Embossing Powder.

The candle, stamped in Soft Sky, is fussy-cut and glittered with Dazzling Diamonds, then popped up with Dimensionals.
Something Old
It's all finished off with some vintage Island Indigo ribbon and a Pool Party brad, and I punched some stars, using the Star Border Punch, which are placed randomly on my sentiment.

And there you have it; a "something old, something new, and something blue" card.  Won't you leave me a comment and tell me what your favorite new Sale-A-Bration item is?

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Friday, January 2, 2015

You Make Me Smile!

Happy New Year!
One of my resolutions this year is to participate in more stamping challenges.  I continually see wonderful sketch, color or stamp challenges, and have never played along.  I thought it would be fun, and help me build my "artistic eye" if I got involved and made some cards according to the "plans".

Today, after a little time relaxing and scouring the blogs for ideas, I came across TWO challenges that I thought I could meet.  First up was this sketch by Paper Craft Crew:

Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch 125 #papercraftcrew #stampinup #cardsketch #papercrafts  



Then I saw a color challenge by Pals Paper Arts:
PPA234 

And decided to roll both into one project.  Take a look:

I took a little liberty and made this a 5-1/4" square card due to the size of my stamps.  And instead of a primarily white background, I chose Wisteria Wonder (with Gorgeous Grunge splatters in Night of Navy ink, stamped off once).  But other than that, I stuck to the sketch.

I stamped "smile" from So You (coming on January 6th in the new Occasions Catalog) using Wisteria Wonder ink.   Snapshot is a single stamp of a camera--it was stamped on Brushed Silver cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and fussy-cut with my trusty Paper Snips.  I added Night of Navy Candy Dots to the front.

The frame is cut using the On Film Framelits and Night of Navy Cardstock.  This is popped up over my Whisper White layer using Dimensionals. And the camera is also popped up.

 The sketch called for some kind of  embellishment/starburst/circle in the lower right hand corner, and I chose a piece from the Essentials Wooden Elements, covering it with Versamark ink and heat embossing it with Silver Embossing Powder (I embossed it twice).  Then the sentiment is stamped on Whisper White (with Night of Navy ink) and cut out with the included arrow from On Film Framelits.

So what do you think?  Did I meet both challenges?  Won't you leave me a comment and let me know?

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