Claire's gorgeous sketch gave us such wonderful entries last week at The Paper Players. Thank you to everyone who joined in with us. I'm interested to see what everyone makes with Joanne's theme challenge this week.
All of us manage to find new bits and bobs for our craft room. If you're a Stampin' Up! demonstrator you might well have added some new things in the last month as it's been the pre-order period for the 2025-6 Annual Catalogue. I certainly have!
One of the great pleasures of new things, I think, is mixing and matching them with the existing things in your stash.
I thought I'd share something easy with you this week, that mixes some fun new DSP with an old set of dies and an old sentiment set.
I've been playing around a lot with the Celebratory Sips DSP because the suite is the featured product for the Creativity Abounds Stamp Camp. If you're interested in joining in, the details are here.
Anyway, the playing around has lead to some strips of off-cut pieces and some scraps, so I decided to use them up with a strippy background.
I took my scraps and cut them into trapezoid shapes, then adhered them in a pleasing pattern on to a piece of Blackberry Bliss card. After trimming off the excess, I adhered that onto a piece of Lemon-Lime Twist.
Before adhering the panel to the Blackberry Bliss card base, I added a piece of the lovely Gold Mesh ribbon that's part of the suite.
Since the background is quite busy, I wanted to keep the sentiment simple. So I chose a sentiment from Simply Said, stamped it in Blackberry Bliss and cut it out with one of the dies from Nested Essentials.
I finished off by adding a trio of Holographic Resin Dots, another great part of the Celebratory Sips suite.
You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at The Paper Players page.
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
Anne Marie Hile (on leave)
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Jan, this is such a fun challenge. I enjoyed going back through my stamps and finding one to ink that needed some love. Your card is so eye catching! I love all the patterns and the fun design you created! The BB and LL make such a gorgeous background!
ReplyDeleteI love that you put all those scrappy pieces to good use! The colors and patterns complement each other so nicely! Made me smile!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun way to use up scraps, Jan! The shapes pf the pieces, as well as the colors and patterns, look fabulous together, especially when matted onto Blackberry Bliss and Lemon Lime Twist. I love the simple sentiment and embellies. Perfect! Thank you for the fun challenge. I enjoyed using some of my old faves!
ReplyDeleteThis scrappy technique is a great way to highlight and share new patterns (and encourage the rest of us to buy this paper!!) And that label is a definite keeper!
ReplyDeleteSuch a colorful card. What a fun way to use up scraps.
ReplyDeleteJan, what a fabulous background, and I love the pairing of the DSP. I also love the unexpected shapes. The angles on your sentiment layer help to reinforce the fabulous shapes in the background.
ReplyDeletehugs
jaydee