Today I am holding true to my name — No Time To Stamp — I shouldn’t have even done this, but I just could NOT resist the fabulous colors in today’s Color Challenge at SCS — Black, White and River Rock — three neutrals, but so striking when used together. They create a lot of drama and contrast, which is what I so often strive for! And this truly was a 10 minute card, now lets hope I can post this in the next 10 minutes and get back to the required tasks at hand — LOL!!! Here it is:
I wanted to use a new stamp set from the Occasions Mini to have a sample on hand, and I know I did use the retired organdy, but gee, it just really needed it. My loyalties always lie towards making the end product the best it can be, rather than trying to stick with the currently available product. And this needed organdy, so I used it. I stamped those pretty flowers (I’ve heard some call them weeds — LOL!) in black on a scrap, I thought the piece would work well for a long and low format, which I am really loving more and more all the time, so I went with it. This card is 9 x 4 and fits a business envelope. Added the black layer for contrast, the organdy and pearls for something pretty, and the butterfly embossed in Iridescent Ice for some glitz — done!!! I like this stamp set, I like this card, I LOVE these colors, and I like this layout. I’ll do more with it sometime when I have more time. And I do want to add, the photo appears a bit washed out — the blacks, both ink and paper, are VERY black IRL — they look faded here, but no time to fuss with photos today — sorry.
- Stamps: Essence of Love
- Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, River Rock
- Ink: Versa Fine Onyx Black, Versa Mark
- Accessories: Organdy, Pretties Kit, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, 1 1/4″ and 1 3/8″ Punches, Mini Glue Dots.
OK, back to cleaning and prepping for a class tomorrow!!! Thanks much for stopping in!!! I hope to have a little something to post tonight.
The Technique Lover’s Challenge yesterday at SCS was to combine and mix patterns — oh, how I love to do that! It was actually on my list to use as one of my Stamp Simply Challenges, but the girls at SCS beat me to the punch!!! I was involved in other things and couldn’t participate when the challenge was posted, so I’m a day late, but that’s OK. I had fun!!! I have 2 samples to show you — one is an SU sample where I get my pattern from DP, and the second in a Flourishes sample where I created my own pattern. I’ll start with the SU sample:
Here I combined 3 different paper patterns from a new paper pack in the Occasions Mini, called Summer Picnic — fun paper! It’s a pretty simple card that doesn’t need a lot of explaining. Check out my orange slice — can you see the *juicy-ness* of it? I got that by applying Crystal Effects to the slices. The set is also in the Occasions Mini, called Tart and Tangy — fun little set. The colors here are Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Bashful Blue.
I mixed flourishes and stripes on this card, but here I made my pattern rather than using patterned paper. The stamped image is Damask Positive by Flourishes and the sentiment is from Many Sentiments, also by Flourishes. My stripes are simply made with paper. I cut strips of black 1/4″ wide. Then, working on my gridded surface, and using a pencil and ruler, drew on the stripe locations. Then I applied red stick tape over each penciled stripe line. Now, I can just very easily lay down my 1/4″ stripe of black — how quick and easy can that get!!! The orange paper is Desert Coral Medium by Prism and the black scalloped satin is by May Arts, also availalbe at Flourishes. The sentiment is punched with the large oval by SU, and the background label is the Designer Label Punch by SU. I love the drama to this card, but I did intend to do another, exactly the same, only in soft pastel colors, just to show you how drastically different two identical cards can be — color can change so much!!! And I LOVE to play with color!! LOL!!! But, I didn’t get it done — need to get a bit of sleep — maybe tomorrow.
Also, I did a SU swap today and I can’t wait to share that project with you, but I can’t until they are mailed out and received by all. But I will tell you it makes an adorable little card with just a little something special added, and it needs a mini tutorial — so that’ll be fun. Look for that the 1st week of March!!!
That’s it for tonight — again, thanks so much for stopping in to check!!!! Truly appreciate it –more than you know!