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Clean & Simple Class – Day 1

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I’m already a day behind! BUT I was able to do all 3 sketches today – yay! So maybe I’ll stay only a day behind 🙂

This is my first card. I did cheat a bit. I stamped the background over the entire card base – no masking. Then after I punched out the flowers, I backed that corner with some plain card stock. I had to add the bling – the card just didn’t feel done without it.


 

The second card is my favorite of the three. One day I’ll figure out how to take better pictures!

I started by picking the colors. I knew I needed a good poppin’ combo with this simple layout.

I like to keep my cards somewhat flat – since 95% of my cards go in the mail – so instead of a real button, I die-cut the button.


I’m actually pretty happy with how this final card turned out. I’m normally not really good at picking out a color scheme that involves more than a couple colors, lol. I picked out paper first and then just did my best to match it.

I bought this stamp set just for this image – it is my favorite cupcake image. It was actually quite fun piecing it all together.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Musical Score background (SU); Birthday Basics (PTI);
Colors: Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush (PTI); Cameo Coral marker (SU);
Other: flower punch (EK Success); rhinestones (Hero Arts);
Hello Friend
Stamps: Think Big Favorites 3 (PTI);
Colors: White, Hawaiian Shores (PTI); Regal Rose (SU);
Other: Damask DSP, button die, Hawaiian twill (PTI);
happy biRthDay
Stamps: Baby Button Bits, Birthday Bash Sentiments (PTI);
Colors: Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush, Chartreuse (PTI); Suede, Bermuda (SU); Black (Memento);
Other: button die (PTI); DSP (Basic Grey);

Pink Bubbly Birthday

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I created this card for the Clean & Simple Cards challenge at SCS (cas151). The theme for this challenge was “beverages”.

For some reason the champagne glasses image came to my mind first, but I wanted a birthday card. I decided that if I kept the layout fun and the colors bright it would work. And besides we can “cheers” for a birthday!

I’m not sure my final card is quite simple enough, but I’m happy with it all the same!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Cheers to You
Stamps: Cheers to You (SU); Tags Its 5 (PTI); Polka Dot Basics 2 (PTI);
Colors: Pink Pirouette (SU); Lemon Tart, White (PTI); Black (Memento);
Other: R20 marker (Copic); Blush ribbon (PTI); Scallop border punch (SU); various circle punches;

Happy Day Birdie

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I created this card for two challenges. First, the colors are from the Play Date Cafe – a challenge blog I’ve been stalking for awhile but this is my first entrance (pdcc113). The layout is a Fall-to-Layout from Clean & Simple Stamping (ftl172).

I really loved the soothing colors and felt that the birdie could only be relaxed if free from the cage. 🙂

The scallop border is done by overlapping a couple square die cuts.

Thanks for taking a peek!

happy day
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Aviary, Friendly Phrases;
Colors: Celery, Pool, White, Black;
Other: Victorian embossing folder, white twine, white embossing; Scallop die (Spellbinders);

Black & White Ties

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I created this card for the Runway Inspiration Challenge (ric3).

This one was a tough one for me – all black & white. I wasn’t sure what to do at first, so I searched through my stamp index. When I saw the ties I knew that would be perfect!

I stamped the ties and cut them out so they would be popped-up (to give dimension – since I didn’t have any color for pop). Also, I added the line next to the sentiment to help balance out the card.

As a final touch I added little gold bead gems as tie pins.

Thanks for stopping by!

happy birthday
Stamps: Best Dad Ever (SU); Faux Ribbon-line (PTI);
Colors: Black, White (PTI);
Other: Gold bead jewels (Mark Richards); dimensionals (SU);

Glad Tidings

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I was pretty stumped about the latest sketch challenge (wmsc78). I didn’t want to do a Christmas card (so done with those), but I don’t have a star in my WMS stash. But finally (just 12 hours before the deadline) I finally figured out what to do!

Teeny Trees to the rescue! I used one of the tree foliage images to create flower petals – and the center is from that set too! I must say it took a very long time to figure out how to arrange the silly petals, but I finally figured that out too.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Glad Tidings
Stamps: Teeny Trees (WMS);
Colors: Limeade, Suede, Curry, White (SU);
Other: Kiwi DSP (SU); Rectangle die & Label die (Spellbinder); Rhinestones (Hero Arts); Button (PTI); Woodgrain Impression Plate (PTI);

Joyful Flower

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I created this card for the Less is More challenge – Just One Word (challenge #47). The idea being to use only 1 word on the card.

Once I saw this stamp with the word as part of the image, I knew I wanted to use it. I decided to incorporate a Fall-to-Layout as well (ftl171).

I picked the DSP first and then looked for a flower color to compliment. I settled on Calypso – a very pretty melonish color (and I had coordinating ribbon – always a bonus!).

Thanks for taking a peek!

Joy
Stamps: Signature Series: Flower (PTI);
Colors: Vanilla, Chocolate, Calypso, Wasabi (SU);
Other: Woodland Walk DSP (SU); Calypso ribbon (SU); TANL die (PTI);

Um, I have the die for the flower, but cut it out by hand before I remembered *doh*

Cozy Mug

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I created this card for the CAS-ual Friday challenge and I used the free digi stamp from Market Street Stamps. The challenge (cfc33) was to use Kraft and Twine.

I don’t do it often because I’m lazy (my printer is downstairs from my craft area), but I do like using digi stamps – you can size them however you want!

I really wanted the mug to to take all the focus, so the card is very simple. The sentiment is popped over the heart and the mug is popped from the card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

thanks so much
Stamps: Cozy Cup (Market Street Stamps – digi); Happy Thoughts (SU); Dotted Flourishes (WMS);
Colors: Kraft, White (PTI); Crumb ink (SU);
Other: markers (Copic); twine; circle dies (Spellbinders);

Hoppy Snapshot

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I got into Copic markers after Unfrogettable retired, but I still don’t know why it took me so long to put these two favorites together! I love this little froggie – he makes me smile every time!

This is a very simple card. I wanted a Polariod look, so I used a square die to cut a window from a piece of white cardstock. I stamped my image onto light yellow cardstock and colored with green Copics. The marker didn’t blend as well as on white cardstock, but it worked well enough.

Thanks for taking a peek!

hoppy birthday
Stamps: Unfrogettable (SU);
Colors: Kraft, White, Lemon Tart (PTI); Black (Memento);
Other: markers (Copic), Square die (Spellbinders), white colored pencil;

Hey Chickie

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I created this card a few weeks ago, but haven’t had a chance to post it – so now I am!

When I first decided to pair these two cuties together, I wasn’t sure what to do with them, but the “hey chickie” sentiment got my brain rolling. I was so happy that the little flower pot from Friendly Flowers was sized perfectly to be a telephone cup!

This was a lot of fun to put together! Thanks for taking a peek!

Hey Chickie
Stamps: Chubby Chums, Chubby Chum Pals, Friendly Flowers (Paper Smooches);
Colors: White, Kraft, DSP (PTI);
Other: markers (Copic); twine, label dies (PTI);

You’re the Bird

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I created this card for the latest Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge (rainbow text poster).

I love rainbows, so I knew I would definitely use that from the inspiration photo. The poster included text to encourage a person, so I used that concept when picking my image and sentiment.

I stamped the body and feathers onto white paper and colored them. Then I cut them out and arranged them as I wanted. As a finishing touch I added colored bling to the feather centers.

The inspiration photo included sub text in grey, so my sentiment is stamped onto grey paper. Finally the card base is embossed with a wood grain pattern.

Thanks for taking a peek!

You’re Special
Stamps: My Peeps, Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches);
Colors: Kraft, White, Soft Stone, Lemon Tart (PTI); Black (Memento);
Other: Wood grain impression plate (PTI); markers (Copics); Rhinestones (Hero Arts);