The Paper Players 38 - Design Team Card

Joanne has a great colour challenge for us this week at The Paper Players. This is a challenge with many possibilities: soft and romantic, bold and bright, a little bit sassy or something else altogether?

Although I started out with visions of soft, romantic pastels and florals, somehow I ended up in the 'something else altogether' camp!

My Lovely Inside and Out stamp set, which bundles with the Lovely Words dies, has been sadly under utilised. I have someone in the family going through some tough times who lives a long way away, so I was thinking of sending a card to her. This set fits the bill perfectly for that. 

I had out on my desk several shades of pink, trying to make one of them speak to me, when I had an 'aha' moment. Why not use them all?!

I used the stitched circle framelit to cut out the 'Hugs' so I could back it with a plain circle. The Flirty Flamingo enamel shapes have sadly retired now.

We'd love to see what you do with this colour challenge. Here's a reminder of the rules of the challenge.

1. Create a NEW paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, total. Entries linked to more than 4 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
5. Have fun!

Pop over to The Paper Players to see the creations of the rest of the Design Team.

If you live anywhere in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I'd love to help you with ideas and Stampin' Up products. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. Please message me through my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar of this blog or leave a comment below. 

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Product List

Lovely Inside & Out Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[144011]

$42.00

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

[141397]

$14.00

Powder Pink Classic Stampin' Pad

[144084]

$14.00

Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad

[144083]

$14.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

$60.00

Lovely Words Thinlits Dies

[143733]

$54.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$17.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$19.25

Berry Burst A4 Cardstock

[144249]

$17.00

Just Add Ink 380

Since today is World Card Making Day, I found a bit of time to get into my craft room today. I used this sketch from Just Add Ink for inspiration.

I don't often use patterned paper when I make cards but I was seduced into buying the Fresh Florals DSP because it was just so jolly pretty! Today's task was to actually use some of - there's a lot in a pack, so even after using it for an Extravaganza project, I've still got a heap!

The sweet little flower from Bloomin' Love just seemed to fit in with this Fresh Florals paper so I used it to balance out the oval cut out 'friend'. Copper worked nicely as an accent to the Tranquil Tide too. Usually, I'm a big fan of lots of white space but it looked a bit too empty. I repeat stamped the 'thanks' but stamped it off first so that it's just a bit less bold than the main sentiment.

It was a quick card and  a bit of sketch flipping happened but I like how it turned out.

Ingredients

Card: Tranquil Tide, Whisper White, Fresh Florals DSP, copper foil

Stamps: Lovely Inside and Out, Bloomin' Love

Inks: Tranquil Tide

Other: Lovely Words thinlits, Layering Oval framelits, Stylish Stems thinlits, dimensionals, rhinestone, Year of Cheer washi tape.

The Paper Players 357 - DT card

Last week, I was stunned by the wonderful entries in our Great Outdoors Challenge. It was very hard to pick a winner! This week, we have a bright and cheery colour challenge for you and I'm keen to see what everyone does with it.

During the week, I got a box of goodies from Stampin' Up, so I was really keen to start playing with some of my new things. First out of the box was Lovely Inside and Out, bundled with the Lovely Words thinlits. The summery colours got me thinking of the beach and the stylised floral images in the stamp set got me thinking of the flowers on the pohutukawa tree, so often seen on the coast around Christmas time.

It's great the way that the thinlits co-ordinate with the Layering Oval framelits. I cut the word out of the white card base, then an oval out of the card front that had been stamped with the Hardwood background stamp. On a separate piece of Bermuda Bay, I cut the word 'friend' out again and this time used the oval framelit to cut it out with a border. I've layered those three pieces together, which gave some extra strength to the cut out and gave a wee white outline shadow to the Bermuda Bay 'friend'.

When it's shut, it looks like this:

If you'd like to join us at The Paper Players, there are a few simple rules to keep in mind.

1. Create a NEW paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL. Entries linked to more than 4 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
5. Have fun!

Pop over to The Paper Players and see the inspiration from other members of the design team to help get your ideas flowing.

Ingredients

Card: Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Calypso Coral

Stamps: Harwood, Lovely Inside and Out

Inks: Bermuda Bay, Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzazz

Other: Lovely Words thinlits,  Layering Oval framelits, dimensionals

CAS(E) This Sketch 234

I love this sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch.

I'm certainly going to file it for future reference, although I think that anyone who knows me would be hard pressed to believe that I made this card. Very seldom do I use so much designer paper as I much prefer unadulterated space or backgrounds that I've stamped or sponged, or created in some other way, myself. In this case though, the ingredients seemed to call each other in that mystical way that craft ingredients sometimes do.

The Lovely Inside and Out set and matching thinlits only arrived at my house earlier this week. I almost didn't get them but I've now made two things with them. After the second date with them, I think I'm falling in love! 

The Berry Burst has played nicely with Copper. I toyed with adding more touches of copper such as metallic thread or copper embossing, or some Berry Burst ribbon, into the sentiment but decided not to as I like the starkness of it contrasting with the busy background.

Ingredients

Card: Berry Burst, Whisper White, Copper foil, Fresh Florals DSP

Stamps: Lovely Inside and Out

Ink: Berry Burst

Other: Lovely Words thinlit dies, Layering Circles framelits, Glitter enamel dots, dimensionals