For the second week of my Card Creations Series featuring the To the Point punch, I created a beachy card. The coastal colours and relaxed theme make it a perfect choice for a masculine card.
I love that the To the Point Label Punch coordinates with two different stamp sets, giving even more creative possibilities. It’s always a win when tools can be used in multiple ways!
Since my Live class fell right on Valentine’s Day, my original design naturally included a Valentine’s sentiment. But for the class itself, I swapped it out for another sentiment from the Bright Borders stamp set, showing just how versatile this design can be!
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The Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic challenge featured colour this week is Calypso Coral. An old favourite and part of our Subtles range, Calypso Coral is a good all-rounder colour that blends really well with other colours whether it be same tones or some brighter colours for fun looks. I surprised myself by ending up with the Trusty Tools stamp set in front of me for this particular colour.
Why? you may ask. My go to for Calypso Coral would probably have been flowers but in these challenges I try to use different stamp sets and I as far as I could remember, Trusty Tools had yet to be used. So, we were painting the town, Calypso Coral!
I went for a clean look with lots of white space, choosing patterns and texture to add depth to my card.
The stamp set is a two-step set however I chose to colour my paint brush in Stampin’ Blends, even adding some paint stains down the brush.
Industrial Trinkets (the masculine bling!) completes this rather quick card which is perfect for the handyman in your life.
I just love the blend of this colour palette and went in a rather unusual direction by using the colours to blend this tree from the Frosted Forest bundle.
This bundle includes a stamp set, dies and a set of layering stencils which makes the colouring of the images so quick and easy.
The leaves on the tree were blended in all 4 colours, Partial shading through the masks enabled me to create a beautiful autumnal colour. The tree trunk was blended with Pecan Pie and Petal Pink. Mixing colours in this way gives beautiful shading and creates alternate colours.
I blended Pecan Pie ink on the bottom of the Basic White panel to ground the tree while adding some shading against the sentiment. I used a blender pen and the Pecan Pie ink refill to colour in the birds to add as a simple embellishment.
The Country Lace Designer Series Paper adds a subtle background which adds texture while still letting the beauty of the tree stand out. A bow tied from the thick Very Vanill Satin ribbon creates a lovely feature to pull this card together and adds elegance to this card.
This card is great as a masculine card and although I’ve created this for a birthday, I think this would be suitable as a Father’s Day card, retirement card or sympathy card.
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I’ve got some midweek inspiration for you using the Adventurous Journey bundle from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue. This card has been created with lots of texture and colour with a rather vibrant yet vintage style.
Pleae check out my video for all details on how to recreate this card. Until 31st August you can get the Take to the Sky Designer Series Paper along with others at a 15% discount during our Designer Series Paper sale. Shop the sale HERE
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Hi friends, Welcome to our Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop where on the second Wednesday of each month we share creative inspiration using Stampin’ Up! products. This month we have a sketch challenge – my favourite type to work with.
Sketches offer a great starting point for a project. Today you will see the different looks you can get with just 1 sketch and I hope you give it a try.
Each week on my Facebook Page, I feature a product and this week it’s the Home & Garden Bundle. So I’ve incorporated it with this layout to create a card for Dad. Great for a birthday card or for Father’s Day this has been combined with the He’s the Man suite from our new Catalogue.
The sentiment was inked in Versamark and Early Espresso and heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder. I felt that it needed to be a little bit darker so I coloured over the embossing with SU100 Stampin’ Blend which made it stand out. The oval was coloured with some Natural Tones Stampin’ Blends and I added the texture stamp from the Nature’s Harvest stamp set which gave it an old leather look which I loved.
I hope you have enjoyed my take on this sketch and stop by my Facebook Page to see me make it on my Creative Escape FB Live tonight.
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