May 20, 2012
My card for this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC39) uses Blueberry Crisp Designer Series Paper and the Bliss Stamp Brush Set (part of the original software installation). Here’s this week’s original sketch:
And here’s my version of the card:
Here are the details on how I made it:
- Paper Layers (bottom to top, all layers with default drop shadow):
- Circle:
- Very Vanilla with Cajun Craze Mat, with default drop shadow
- Stamps:
- Bliss—Butterfly, in Not Quite Navy
- Bliss—Flourish, in Cajun Craze
- Butterfly Shape 2 and Oval Punches in Cajun Craze pieced behind the Butterfly stamp
- Sentiment: Bliss—Bliss, in Not Quite Navy
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May 17, 2012
Last fall, I created a Thanksgiving card using a watercolor technique that Julie Ann Davidse shared on the My Digital Studio (MDS) site. She credited the technique to Patty Bennett’s watercolor card, also on the MDS site, and I ultimately found the instructions on Cindy Schuster’s Watercoloring Technique video and her MDS Watercolor Technique Tutorial blog post.
Tonight, I finally got around to creating a spring version of the card, using the same technique with different colors:
Here are the details on the card:
- Background: Baja Breeze Grid Designer Series Paper, at 38% Opacity
- Tree:
- Lower Band:
- Square Punch in Certainly Celery, with default drop shadow
- Flowers are Flowers from A Good Egg Stamp Brush Set, in Pink Pirouette, at 39% Opacity
- Sentiment: Sending Springtime from Easter Blossoms Stamp Brush Set, in Early Espresso
- Embellishment: Grosgrain Ribbon and Bow, in Always Artichoke, with default drop shadow
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May 14, 2012
After playing around with several options, I ultimately rotated this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC38) and then modified the design elements slightly. Here’s this week’s original sketch:
And here’s my version of the card:
I substituted the tree branch for the vertical, rectangle punch in the original, and I’ve substituted the owl for the focal circle punch element. It’s not quite the same as the original, but I think it’s close enough. Here are the details on how I made it:
- Background Layer: On the Go—Pattern 11
- Middle Layer: Soft Suede
- Top Layer:On the Go—Pattern 12
- Owl: Two Step Owl in More Mustard, Tangerine Tango, and Whisper White
- Stamps:
- Punch Bunch—Owl (on top of punch pieces, from the 2011 SAB)
- Cheep Talk—Branch (part of the original install)
- Sentiment: So Typefelt—Wisdom Is Better Than Knowledge, on an Pool Party Rectangle Punch
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March 25, 2012
For this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC31), I made a card using the Simple Snapshots CD from the Occasions Mini catalog. Here’s this week’s original sketch:
And here’s my version of the card:
Nearly everything in the card from Simple Snapshots. Here is the breakdown :
- Background Layer: Simple Snapshots—Paper 9
- Middle Layer: Rectangle Punch, filled with Early Espresso
- Middle Band:
- Top Layer: Circle Punch filled with White and Pink 6 pt mat, both picked from the background layer
- Embellishment:
- Sentiment: Simple Snapshots—You Make Me Smile, in River Rock
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March 11, 2012
My card for this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC29) plays with the idea of searching for a lucky four leaf clover. Here’s this week’s original sketch:
And here’s my version of the card:
Here are the details on what went into the card:
- Background Layer: Garden Green with Christmas Jingle—Stitched Square
- Top Layer: Domestic Goddess—Paper 3
- Stamps, all in Garden Green with default drop shadow:
- Embellishment: Basic Pearls and Rhinestones—Pearl Small, in the center of each clover, with default drop shadow
- Sentiment: Text typed in Harrington, 20 pt, bold, in Garden Green, with default drop shadow
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February 22, 2012
This is my swap for the Columbus regional this weekend. If you’ll be at the event, come find me! I was inspired by the many Christmas cards that featured hanging ornaments and the idea of an Easter egg tree. In particular, I wanted to create something similar to the Something for Christmas—All Together stamp.
I printed the cards on 5½ x 4¼ Avery InkJet Postcards/Index Cards (8577). They could be used as postcards, but the image is the same size as a 5½ x 4¼ card as well. Because my printer required a margin (in other words, it can’t print to the edge of the paper), I set the card with a white background. With that margin, the image printed on the cards properly. Essentially I let the bleed area function as the background.
Once the cards were printed, I let them dry a few hours (so the ink didn’t smear) and added some accents with Dazzling Details. They needed to dry again after that before they could be stacked, of course.
Here are the details on the card:
- Background:
- Back: Whisper White
- Middle: Everything Easter—Pattern 5, with a 2 pt Island Indigo mat and default drop shadow
- Top: Whisper White, with a 2 pt Island Indigo mat and default drop shadow
- Sentiment: A Good Egg—Happy Easter in Island Indigo, with default drop shadow
- Embellishments taken from Everything Easter (left to right), all with default drop shadow
- Basket color
- Flower color
- Scallop circle 2
- Egg color
- Balloon color
- String: Tree Trimmings—String, in Island Indigo, with default drop shadow
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February 20, 2012
My card for this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC26) uses the Everything Easter Ensemble. Here’s this week’s original sketch:
And here’s my version of the card:
Here are the details on what went into the card:
- Background Layer: Blushing Bride on Certainly Celery on Daffodil Delight
- Flag punches: Everything Easter—Paper 3, 4, 5, and 6
- Embellishments on Whisper White rectangle, all with default drop shadows:
- Everything Easter—bunny chick egg color (with added Basic Black brads for eyes)
- Everything Easter—bunny egg color
- Everything Easter—bunny color
- Grosgrain Ribbon and Bows in Blushing Bride, all with default drop shadows
- Sentiment: A Good Egg—Happy Easter in Whisper White with default drop shadow, on a rectangle of Certainly Celery
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February 18, 2012
My sister (who is a Stampin’ Up demonstrator) told me about the “My Way” theme for 2012, I realized that I knew exactly how to make a card for a potential recruit. All you need to do is add a personal note on the inside. The minor problem is that I’m not a demonstrator and have no need for this card, but once inspiration hit, I had to make it.
- Background:
- Travel Log—Pattern 4, 2 square punches, resized and pieced to cover the card
- Covered with a rectangle punch of So Saffron with a Marina Mist mat
- Rectangular strip (like a ribbon) at the bottom of the card is Travel Log—Pattern 12
- Speech Bubble:
- Rounded Corner punch and Petite Pennant punch, both in Very Vanilla
- Text in Bernard MT Condensed, 36 pt, in Baja Breeze
- Embellishments taken from Tickets & Tokens II and from Travel Log
- I covered the suitcase center with Very Vanilla and added the word Success!
- I covered the word Vacation in the street sign with the “Are You Packed” embellishment
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February 13, 2012
My card for this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC25) uses the Beau Château series. Here’s this week’s original sketch:
And here’s my version of the card:
Here are the details on what went into the card:
- Background Layer: Beau Château—Paper 12
- Curly Label Tag Punch filled with Beau Château—Paper 1, upper left corner
- Embellishments: Small and Medium Pearls
- Grosgrain Ribbon and Bows in Very Vanilla
- Sentiment: Baroque Motifs—Cherish, in Soft Suede
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February 6, 2012
My card for this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC24) is fairly simple. I downloaded a few new sets in preparation for my trip to the Regional in Columbus later this month and decided to just play with the colors from two of them, The Write Stuff II and Travel Log.
Here’s this week’s original sketch:
And here’s my version of the card:
Here are the details on what went into the card:
- Background Layer: Travel Log—Paper 2
- Central Image (top to bottom):
- Circle punch in Whisper White
- Circle punch in Whisper White, set to 50% opacity
- Circle punch in So Saffron, with 2 pt mat in Whisper White
- Scalloped Circle punch in Real Rust, with default drop shadow
- Center Band: Square punch in Old Olive Small Polka Dot
- Embellishments: The Write Stuff II—flower 6, flower 2, and flower 3, all with default drop shadow
- Sentiment: Upsy Daisy—sentiment 3, in Old Olive
Updated 2/8: Just occurred to me that you could easily use this as a Valentine’s card. On the inside, just write: “And in my heart.” What a nice sentiment that makes with the front: You’re on my mind….. And in my heart.
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