Wonderful Mother: Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge

Good evening!  What a fabulous weekend.  I was able to attend Stampin' Up's regional seminar in Baltimore on Saturday and it was so fun to see my favorite stamping friends, swap, and be inspired by lots of creative techniques and ideas, awesome!  Then today I completed by first 10K race, and the best part was I finished!!!  So with everything going on, and spending some quality family time I actually only made it down to my studio for about 20 minutes the whole weekend, but it was long enough for me to make a card for this weeks Paper Craft Crew Sketch Challenge.  This sketch is so fun since you can make it as simple or as detailed as you want.  I choose to use the Tea for Two designer series paper as my focal panels and since there is so much detail in the paper itself I kept the stamping really simple. 

 

The cardbase is So Saffron and I added a Crumb Cake panel that was embossed with the Big Shot and the Hexagon embossing folder.  Next I sponged all over the cardstock with Crumb Cake ink so the detail really pops off the page.  I cut three panels from the DSP and then matted each of them on Bashful Blue cardstock before cutting the flag tails on the bottom. 

The greeting is from the Wonderful Mother stamp set and is such a perfect little stamp set for upcoming Mother's Day projects as well as birthdays!  The greeting is stamped in Early Espresso ink and punched out with the large oval punch before being sponged with Crumb Cake ink. This piece is then matted on a piece of Lucky Limeade cardstock punched with the decorative label punch and once again, sponged with Crumb Cake ink before being adhered to the card with dimensionals.  The final touch was to add some Pretty in Pink 1/4" stitched grosgrain ribbon to the card, including a simple bow that has a small button brad from the Vintage Trinkets.

 

While this card is nice and simple it's so soft and lovely, I love it!  I'm sure you can have a lot of fun with this sketch challenge, give it a try. 

 

Have a great week and happy stamping,

 

Diana

Wonderful Mother: Paper Player's Challenge

Good evening!  We’ve made it half way through the week and I’m excited since this is a short week for me, I’m heading out to a scrapbooking retreat on Friday and looking forward to three blissful days of uninterrupted crafting and creativity (LOVE IT!!!)  Today I’m sharing the card I made for this weeks Paper Player’s challenge.  This is one crazy challenge, it’s tic-tac-toe so there are all these squares and you pick three in a row to serve as the basis of your creation, I chose 1) ribbon, 2) pink and green; and 3) Mother’s Day.  This is perfect since Mother’s Day is just around the corner and I’ll definitely be needing cards.  This card is lots of fun and easy due to the Big Shot, framelits and embossing folders.  The cardbase is Wild Wasabi and I added a strip of Pretty in Pink Designer Series paper and a piece of Whisper White cardstock.  Now the Whisper White piece is scalloped along the bottom with the Large Scallop Edgelits and then embossed with the Delicate Designs folder (very important to do it in that order, otherwise when you use the framelits it flattens your embossing, trust me!)  Then I added a piece of Wild Wasabi ¼” Stiched Grosgrain Ribbon and tied a knot with pieces of the Wild Wasabi and Pretty in Pink ¼” Stiched Grosgrain Ribbon.

For the accent piece I cut out another piece of Whisper White with the Big Shot and Labels Collection Framelits, sponged around the edge with Pretty in Pink ink and then stamped the greeting from the Wonderful Mother stamp set (this is an awesome set for Mother’s Day!!!!).  The finishing touch was to add a flower that I stamped with the Secret Garden stamp set and cut out with the matching Secret Garden Framelits.  I used a blender pen to color in the flower to it was softer than the stamped outline and then added lots of tiny pearls to the center.

I love how soft and lovely this card is.  The great thing is with this stamp set you could easily change it for birthdays by just changing the lower words which are separate stamps, so fun.  Hope you enjoyed this weeks card and it’s definitely time to start thinking about how to honor the special women in your lives!

Take care!

Diana