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Freshly Made Sketches 336 – Die-cuts and Patterned Paper

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS, summer-themed, friendship card which I am entering into the Freshly Made Sketches 336 challenge.

This card combines my fondness for die-cuts and for patterned paper.

It took awhile to come up with a combination of papers that would allow the white chair to stand out and support the theme. I cut the chair and flip flops with the Impression Obsession Single Beach Chair die. The sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink Flipping Out stamp set.

Winter Wonderland

Hello! Today, I’m sharing a holiday card which showcases the Elizabeth Craft Designs Build a Snowman die set.

I applied embossing paste to the background ( Stampin’ Up Dapper Denim) through the Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil (I use this stencil so often during the holidays that I just leave it out). I placed the snowman and broom against a landscape cut with the Memory Box Fresh Pine Curved Border to which I added a few Memory Box Fresh Pine Trees. The sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink Two Feet Deep set.

Supplies:

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Heavyweight, Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb, 25 pk

Elizabeth Craft Designs Dies, CountryScapes – Build a Snowman by Susan Tierney-Cockburn

Taylored Expressions Cardstock, Poppy Seed, 5 pk (Retiring)

Taylored Expressions Cardstock, Oreo, 5 pk (Retiring)

Dreamweaver Embossing Paste, White, 4 oz.

Taylored Expressions Cardstock, Lemon Meringue, 5 pk (Retiring)

Die-cut Summer Chairs

This past weekend, my husband and I visited Gig Harbor, just about an hour away from Seattle. It is a picturesque town whose harbor is graced with a magnificent view of Mount Rainier. Many of the houses on the main street had Adirondack chairs on their porches. One house, of which I wasn’t able to take a photo, had three colorful chairs, and it is that which I have tried to capture with my card.

I cut the Impression Obsession Single Beach Chair from Stampin’ Up cardstock in Lucky Limeade (retired), Pumpkin Pie, and Bermuda Bay. The PTI Flipping Out sentiment was heat-embossed on SU Basic Gray. I dry-embossed the white background with the SU Pinewood Planks Dynamic Textured Impressions embossing folder. The card base is SU Crumb Cake.

Beach Dog

A lot of my paper crafting focuses on holidays and events, such as Halloween and Christmas or birthdays and weddings (as I’m sure yours does as well). You know the adage “write what you know”? Between holidays and events, I like to create cards in the season I’m experiencing that relate to my world.

This card, created with a variety of die cuts, is inspired by our Golden Retriever Ginger’s love of the beach. Ginger died two years ago (and we still miss her every day!).

During the last year of her life (in which she battled cancer) we took her to the beach as much as possible, as it was truly one of her favorite places to be.