With spring on my mind, I fashioned a card for the current Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge “Anything Goes” with things associated with spring — bunnies, chicks, and sunny skies!
Hope you’re having a “bright” day!
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Category: die cuts
Retrosketches #102
I’m sharing a card I created for the latest Retrosketches Challenge. I flipped the sketch horizontally because I thought it worked better with the orientation of the umbrella.
Using the Crafter’s Workshop blank stencil material, I created a rain drop stencil with the Memory Box die. I also created an umbrella stencil using the Up and Away umbrella die cut. I added Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink to the stamped umbrella through the stencil, swiping from the top down. It’s raining here (pouring!) in the Pacific Northwest, so some cheery colors were in order!!
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Penny Black Thank You
Today I’m sharing a card that combines an image from a Crafter’s Workshop stencil with a new stamp and die from Penny Black’s “Happy Everything” release.
I stamped the Penny Black Decadence stamp [#40-254] for the background. For the focal image, I used silver embossing paste on a portion of the Crafter’s Workshop Birds of a Feather stencil. The sentiment is from the new Penny Black stamp set Kind Words [#30-226] that I die cut with one of the dies in the Triple Banner set [#51-027].
Poppystamps Valentine
Today I’m sharing a card created with the Poppystamps Heart Lattice Background from the new Poppystamps release.
Cut in white and overlaid on blue cardstock, the heart lattice resembles clouds on a sunny day. I tried out a number of different colors for the bird and the birdhouse, settling on something hinting at Valentine’s Day (the red) and something cheery (the yellow). I created the sentiment on my computer.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Penny Black Hugs
Today I’m sharing two projects featuring the Penny Black “Hugs” die from Love Expressions [#51-025].
On the card, I stamped and fussy-cut hearts from Heart Swatches [#30-204]. I added the “Hugs” sentiment and dragonfly from Flutters [#51-006], both cut out of silver cardstock, to a dry-embossed card base. I wanted to use non-traditional Valentine’s Day colors for a spring-themed friendship card.
For my second project, I added the die cut “Hugs” to a tag cut with the largest tag in the Tagged [#51-007] die cut set. I created the ombré heart pattern using a stamp from the My Type [#40-189] set. I attached the tag to a bag of chocolates for Valentine’s Day.
