I'm an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in Wilmington, Delaware. I've been stampin' under the supervision of my cat Onyx since 2008.
Browsing online yesterday, I ran across the Louisa Settee from Anthropologie. It reminded me so much of the scrap aftermath from one of my ripped up distressed cards. I thought it would be fun to reinterpret this as a card. Using my Color Coach I decided that Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Night of Navy, and Whisper White would be a good combination. I really love the large swatches of color in the Color Coach – it makes working with colors so much easier than whole pieces of card stock!
I used Bashful Blue as the card base, and cut 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ pieces of the other colors. Then I just started ripping away, trying to make something that looked like the settee. Once I had a pattern I liked I glued them with Tombow Multi and stamped a sentiment. It is a fantastically easy card to make, and being precise doesn’t matter. Gotta love that! Here is the end result:
Like the background of the photo? Lucy, my bad cat, decided that this was HER photo shoot and after much wrestling, we compromised on her being behind the card.
Leave a comment if you are inspired to create anything based on the settee. I’d love to see what you come up with!
I love the Moxie Fab World blog and Cath picks the most fantastic pictures for the Tuesday Triggers. This week I was really drawn to the bright colors in the Light and Bright challenge. I decided to pair it up with Clean and Simple sketch #98 since the room in the picture has such clean lines and crisp colors. I typically don’t use sketches, but the clean and simple style does not come easily to me and I didn’t want to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what I wanted to do.
Having picked the sketch, I focused on the colors, deciding on More Mustard, Tempting Turquoise and Rich Razzleberry on Shimmery White paper. But as I worked with the sketch I realized that it needed some other colors, so I added Pear Pizzazz and So Saffron (see the vase on the table). I decided to use a stamp from the Circle Circus stamp set because there is a roundness to the couch, table, and centerpiece in the picture.
The more I look at this card, the more I love it!
Recipe:
When I saw the most recent Cards Challenge asking for handmade flowers I decided to revisit my Artisan Award entry that used the punch art flower. I’d already made the flower for the tutorial that I plan on writing, so I just needed to come up with a new idea for the base.
Sticking with the Tea Party DSP, I decided to weave strips of the paper and then cut with the Top Note Die. After I finished weaving the paper, I glued it onto my card base, making sure that the weave hung over the fold at the top of the card. I then ran the whole card through the Big Shot using the Top Note die, being careful to position the paper so that the fold of the base would stay intact, but the ragged edges of the DSP basket weave would be cut off.
Since the Top Note is a good bit smaller than a standard card, I had less room to work with for the sentiment. Because of the spring like pastel colors, I decided to make this a baby card by using the Small Wonder sentiment from the retired Whimsical Words set.
Continuing with my obsession with crumpling and distressing paper, I stamped the sentiment on Crumb Cake using Elegant Eggplant, ripped the edges and crumpled. Then I ripped the edges of some retired Almost Amethyst paper and crumpled again. I paper pierced the edges of the bottom layer and inserted some silver brads. I then glued the top layer on using Mini Glue Dots.
Finallytied some linen thread around the bottom of the card and adhered the sentiment over top using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I’ll be working on the detailed tutorial for the flower this weekend. You can find the “short” version of how to make this punch art flower in my earlier post.
Another of my Artisan Award entry cards. I’m going to write up a detailed tutorial on how I made the flower but here is the short version:
Use the Scallop Oval punch for the flower petals. Punch at least 7 ovals. Cut them in half at the shortest point of the oval and then glue them into cone shapes. Then glue the cones together.
Use the Heart to Heart punch for the center of the flower. Punch at least 10 of the smallest heart. Fold in half and glue them together.
Use the Five Petal punch for the leaves. Punch at least 3 petals. Use one whole punched petal for the base of the flower. Cut the other punched petals into individual petals and glue to base to extend the leaves outward.
Glue the flower petals to the base. Then put a big glob of Tombow Multi in the middle of the flower and press the center of the flower into the glob. Push a rhinestone brad into the center. Let sit until the glue dries. I added some more bling by using Crystal Effects and Dazzling Diamonds on the edges of the flower.
Recipe:
This is a crazy fun card that popped into my head a few weeks ago. I’d never tried the emboss resist technique and I thought it would be fun to do it with the Woodgrain background stamp. I tend to be someone who is a bit layer happy, so I also gave myself the challenge to keep layers at a minimum.
I started by stamping the giraffe from the It’s the Thought Level 1 Hostess set on Whisper White card stock using black StazOn. I then colored it with Watercolor Wonder crayons.
To protect the image during all the emboss resisting I had planned, I created a mask from scrap paper and an Oval Punch. The mask covers all of the card except the area around the giraffe. I then smooshed Versamark over the oval area, applied clear embossing powder and heated it up.
My next step was to apply VersaMark to the Woodgrain stamp, stamp it on the card, and emboss using clear embossing powder. Before I did this, I should have created another mask using the Scallop Oval Punch, to protect the area around my white oval from the woodgrainy-ness, but I didn’t (see the wood grain in the yellow scallop oval? Ooops.) So…be sure to mask that area too.
I then applied Daffodil Delight ink all over the card using a Stamping Sponge. That left me with a yellow card with a white woodgrain pattern. I then created another mask, this time using the Scallop Oval punch and placed it so it surrounded the white oval. I clear embossed that area, and stamped and embossed the Woodgrain stamp a second time on the card.
After wiping the sweat off my brow from all of that heat embossing, I rubbed Pacific Point ink over the whole card. That created a greenish/blue card with areas of white and yellow wood grain. I then grabbed a paper towel and rubbed the card so that the ink came off of the embossed areas, brightening everything up.
Finally, I stamped the sentiment that goes with the giraffe on Ivory Naturals paper, cut it into a small rectangle and mounted it with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I really love how this card came out and now I want to make a whole set of them using that same stamp set.
Recipe
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